Washington Nationals Mascot Delivers Meals on Wheels
Abe Lincoln, the Washington Nationals mascot helps out Meals on Wheels.
Letter to the Editor: Encourage Visitors to Alexandria
Instead of spending its energy figuring out how to attract shoppers from the new MGM casino, the city should expend more effort considering how to keep people coming to what is perhaps its biggest annual attraction, the Scottish Walk.
Letter to the Editor: Give Alexandria Police More Support
It appears that almost every day the headlines in local papers indicate that a violent crime has been committed in Alexandria.
Letter to the Editor: Missed Opportunity at Jefferson-Houston in Alexandria
During its redistricting process the school board has neglected Jefferson-Houston — the city’s only non-accredited school and by some measures the third worst school in the entire state.
Letter to the Editor: Balancing Capital Improvement Projects in Alexandria
Last Thursday the Alexandria School Board approved a capital budget for $611.1 million over the next 10 years.
Commentary: Quality Education at a Wise Cost
Winter break is good time for our high school seniors to focus on college.
Holiday Grief
Workshop helps others deal with loss.
The holiday season is bittersweet for Jeanne Rorke.
Letter to the Editor: Protect the Consumer Protection Bureau
Consumer protection groups have grown increasingly concerned about Republican promises to cut back on financial regulations next year.
Commentary: Fairfax Police Reform Is Well Underway
I endorse the Connection Newspaper’s recent editorial on the progress Fairfax County has made implementing the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission, on which I had the honor of serving as chairman of the Use of Force Subcommittee.
Commentary: Congress Coming Together to Find and Fund Faster Cures
On Dec. 8, I joined with a bipartisan group of House and Senate members, and the Speaker of the House, as the Speaker signed the 21st Century Cures Act.
Editorial: History in Police Reform Part 2
Civilian Review Panel — and they said it couldn’t be done ….
Last week, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to establish a Civilian Review Panel, part of a two-pronged concept of independent oversight of law enforcement recommended unanimously by the Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission.
Letter to the Editor: A Money-Losing Program in Alexandria
The Gazette Packet article about Alexandria’s money-losing bike share program is emblematic of our anti-entrepreneurial, tax-and-spend City Council.
Letter to the Editor: Alexandria Ignoring Own Advisory Groups?
A great number of Alexandria’s citizens have already voiced their concerns as to the City Council’s decision to move the Appomattox statue from its current position at the intersection at Washington and Prince to a little grass patch fronting the Lyceum.