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Why do we have tolls roads in the DMV? [Video]

To find out why the price is so high, we had to look into what brought the DMV toll roads in the first place.

ARLINGTON, Va. — As Northern Virginia expands, so does the use of toll roads. You might be wondering why we see so many in the DMV area?

The whole idea started when a woman in Arlington wanted to know more about the travel situation in Northern Virginia.

“I want to know why the tolls are so expensive!” Mary Ellis asked.  “Because they are bothering my bank account.”

To get Mary’s question answered, the first thing we have to do is find out why Northern Virginia has toll roads in the first place. To answer that we found a DMV transportation policy expert.

“This all just revolves around one issue,” said Terry Clower, the Director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University. “Government doesn’t …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine