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Getting Credit for Good Credit in Alexandria

Annual report indicates city government’s strong fiscal health, especially debt health.

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Keeping Options Open in Alexandria?

Board approves high school network plan, contingent on more analysis.

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Alexandria School Finances: Affirmation and Caution

Report indicates decreasing expenditure per student, and widening deficits.

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How To Define — and Provide — Affordable Housing in Alexandria?

Revised Resolution 830 won’t require maintaining affordability levels for public housing redevelopments.

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‘Fait Accompli’ in Alexandria?

School Board approves swing space plan over community objections.

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Alexandria: ‘Fiscal Slam Dunk for City’?

City leaders promise significant, but unspecified, economic growth from new Virginia Tech campus.

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‘Potentially a Disaster’ in Alexandria?

Council fears extended Metro shutdown economic impact.

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Diversity in Elected Bodies in Alexandria

A look at council, School Board members’ economic interests.

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What’s in a Name in Alexandria?

Naming of city’s Waterfront Park smells sweeter to some than to others.

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‘Somebody Else’s Money’ in Alexandria

Chamber panel encourages public-private partnerships, particularly for schools.

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‘Transportation Renaissance’ in Alexandria?

Panelists weigh costs and benefits of electric scooters.

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At Budget Finish Line in Alexandria

Council negotiates final budget nickels and dimes.

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Jinks Proposes No Tax Rate Hike for Alexandria

But higher property assessments would mean higher taxes.

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Alexandria Council Inches Up Max Tax Rates

Tax rate ceilings bumped up one-half cent for real estate, 56 cents for cars.

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Know Your City: Family and Marriage in Alexandria

A look at some changes, challenges faced by parents, marriages, youth.

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Weighing Public Priorities in Alexandria: Art and Science

Mixed responses to new method of grading public services, prioritizing budget cuts.

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Cut-Through Traffic Called Dangerous in Alexandria

Petitioners oppose narrowing Seminary Road.

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Final Alexandria Budget Tweaking

Council finalizes proposed adjustments for May 1 final budget vote.

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How Much Green to Go Green in Alexandria?

New studies weigh costs, tradeoffs of boosting city’s environmental standards for buildings.

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Right to Organize in Alexandria

DASH bus drivers to begin collective bargaining, following clashes over unionization.

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