Alexandria Letter: Deal on Guns Falls Short
Letter to the Editor
I considered Gov. Terry McAuliffe one of the nation’s best governors on gun safety.
Alexandria Letter: Look to the Future
Letter to the Editor
As a born, raised and very proud Alexandrian, I watch with a heavy heart, the results of society trying to tear down and dispose of our American history in all respects. When America was being born, and it went through growing pains, people named towns, cities, streets, buildings, etc., after those who made impacts to this country.
Alexandria Letter: Church Expansion Deserves Support
Letter to the Editor
We feel very privileged to live here in Alexandria amongst neighbors so willing to "put community first."
Alexandria Column: The Pillars and the Princess
Commentary–Rebuilding Together Alexandria
Homeownership is often equated with success and the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Editorial: Freedom of Information on Life Support in General Assembly?
Last week, the Assembly passed SB 202, which undid a major push eight years ago to ensure that all of our public spending was ‘online’ and searchable by ordinary citizens. This, of course, meant disclosing the salaries of public employees over a certain income level.
Editorial: Fairfax Presses Ahead with Diversion First
When police encounter someone in mental health crisis, they can transport them to Merrifield Crisis Response Center instead of jail.
Natasha McKenna died a little more than a year ago on Feb. 7, 2015.
Column: Out-of-State Animals Find the Good Life in Alexandria
Commentary–AWLA
About once a week, Chestina Merriner loads four or five dogs into a white van and makes the 150-mile trip from Wardensville, W.Va., to Alexandria. Destination: the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria (AWLA).
Alexandria Letter: City Deserves Ethics Commission
Letter to the Editor
There are several issues that are not addressed that are really at the center of the ethics controversy. Although the City Council unanimously approved its Transparency Resolution on Jan. 30, there are a number of shortcomings in its creation, inception and implementation.
Alexandria Letter: Washington’s Wider View
Letter to the Editor
Although George Washington traveled widely in what became the United States, he left the mainland only once, when he sailed to Barbados with his older half-brother Lawrence in 1751.
Alexandria Letter: Empathy, Please
Letter to the Editor
Enough. With regard to the recent letters that strongly support the installation of lights at the T. C. Williams football field, I ask you this: would you subject your spouse, your kids, your parents and grandparents to a loud speaker so obnoxiously loud that you have to give your kids earplugs to sleep?
Alexandria Letter: Advance City Ethics Code
Letter to the Editor
Mayor Silberberg and City Council may be commended for starting an effort to write the city’s elected officials an ethics pledge and code to present in about nine weeks.
Alexandria Column: Building Strong Children at Community Lodgings
Commentary–Community Lodgings
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Alexandria Column: Three-Part Gun Deal Passes State Senate
Commentary
As the fourth week of our legislative session drew to a close, all three pieces of legislation comprising Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s gun deal passed the Senate. The first component of the deal – SB610, introduced by Senator Bryce Reeves (R-Spotsylvania) – restores and expands interstate reciprocity for the concealed carry of firearms, reversing Attorney General Mark Herring’s December decision that severed agreements to honor concealed handgun permits (CHPs) from 25 states with weaker restrictions than the Commonwealth.
Editorial: Limiting Local Authority
Assembly rushes bill limiting proffers without addressing who will pay for infrastructure.
In Virginia, a Dillon Rule state, local governments have only the powers explicitly granted by the General Assembly. And what the assembly gives, the assembly can take away.
Alexandria Letter: Clear Those Handicap Spaces
Letter to the Editor
As a long time disabled resident of Alexandria, I have seen that when we have a significant snowfall, the snow in parking lots is often pushed into the handicap parking spaces.