Alexandria: Jinks Presents Budget Plan
2017 proposed budget focuses on funding schools, but sets aside pre-k programs.
With Fairfax County looking at raising its real estate tax rate by 3 cents and Arlington County lowering it by a half cent, the main theme of City Manager Mark Jinks’ FY 2017 budget was surviving somewhere in the middle while providing funding to enhance schools, the fire department, and parking.
Fairfax County Schools to Close March 1 for Super Tuesday
Concerns about parking and traffic, as well as new guidance from the Virginia Department of Education caused the Fairfax County School Board to reconsider closing schools for the March 1 Presidential primaries.
Editorial: Bad Bills
General Assembly has potential to do lots of damage in a short period.
From pressing for use of a barbaric form of execution, the electric chair, to codifying discrimination, to stripping localities of the major tool for ensuring infrastructure is in place for new development, to hiding more and more critical public information from the public, the Virginia General Assembly is poised to do harm to the Commonwealth.
Alexandria: T.C. Williams Girls Win Conference 7 Championship
Titans, down to five players, win in double overtime.
The T.C. Williams girls' basketball team won the Conference 7 championship.
Alexandria Letter: Examining ARHA Proposal
Letter to the Editor
We are writing in regards to the recent Alexandria City Council decision to deny rezoning [editor’s note: since rescinded] for the Ramsey Homes, owned by the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA).
Alexandria Appetite: Three Coffee Shops to Get the Chill Out
Beat the wintertime blues with some hot coffee around town.
The faces of Alexandrians across the city display their query plainly: Will this snowy winter ever end? While waiting for warmer climes to make their appearance this spring, here are three venues to warm up with a hot cup of joe in the meantime.
Alexandria: Port City Playhouse Stages ‘Fool for Love’
Play is an exploration of pleasures, perils and consequences of sexual chemistry.
Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" will be staged by Port City Playhouse from Feb. 26 to March 12 in Alexandria.
County Budget Presented, About $300 More per Household
County Executive: Revenue growth is insufficient to fund all priorities. Schools still $68 million short.
County Executive Ed Long recommended a four-cent increase to the real estate tax rate.
FCPS Open Enrollment for Two-Way and World Languages Immersion Programs
Fairfax County Public Schools' online registration for the countywide lottery for two-way and world language immersion programs will open on Monday, Feb. 22.
FCPS Students Win Awards in 2016 Scholastic Writing Competition
Fairfax County Public Schools students at 22 schools won regional awards in the 2016 Scholastic Writing Awards Competition.
Alexandria Home Sales: January, 2016
In January, 2016, 97 Alexandria homes sold between $2,785,000-$135,000.
Alexandria Home Sales: January, 2016
Alexandria Letter: We Are All Americans
Letter to the Editor
If George Washington was alive today, and someone asked him if he was a Democrat or a Republican, what would he say?
Alexandria Letter: Skepticism Warranted
Letter to the Editor
Councilmembers Lovain and Smedberg are right to be skeptical of the proposal for a City Ethics Commission.
Alexandria Letter: ARHA Proposals Flaunt Regulations
Letter to the Editor
I would like to share my opinion on disturbing development proposal of Ramsey homes in City of Alexandria.
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