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Climate Forum Highlights Sharp Differences

Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions hosts public forum featuring Kaine and Stewart.

At the Crossroads

Lawmakers to slash the state budget and consider criminal-justice reforms.

The threadbare Franklin and Armfield office on Duke Street stands at the crossroads between racial injustice and economic crisis. It’s a ramshackle building now, but it was once the headquarters for the largest domestic slave trading firm in the United States, present at the creation of the systemic racism that plagues Virginia cops and courts. It’s also the city’s latest acquisition, and the state budget was to include $2.5 million to help transform it into the Freedom House Museum. But then the pandemic hit, and the governor hit the pause button on that line item as well as all the other spending priorities of the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.

Affordable Housing-Talk Not Action in Fairfax, Reston

The shortage of affordable housing in Fairfax County and Reston rarely gets the analytical attention that the Connection’s edition of August 16-22 delivered in Mercia Hobson’s “3rd Wealthiest County in U.S. Fails to Provide Affordable Housing.” The article is based on conversations with several knowledgeable staff members of one excellent Reston’s charitable organization, Cornerstones, people serving the homeless and those in danger of becoming homeless.

Real Estate Notes

Bulletin Board, Feb. 18-24

Business Notes, July 30-Aug. 5

Loudoun Still in Running?

Washington, D.C. may appear to be the new venue for the Montreal Expos, but it’s not over until it’s over.

Loudoun Still in Running?

Reston's Needy Have Own Accountants

ECHO Steps Up Holiday Giving in Burke and Springfield

Duane Carlson and his wife Alice are sorting canned goods into a long row of evenly spaced paper bags, each representing a family. On the Monday before Thanksgiving, there’s a vibrant energy among volunteers buzzing around the Ecumenical Community Helping Others (ECHO) building in Springfield. The nonprofit basic need for assistance organization is open year-round, and now it has the feeling of Santa’s workshop.

Greater Springfield Chamber Honors First Responders

A Sheriff’s deputy who flies terminally ill patients to treatment facilities and a firefighter who builds boards that teach autistic children to type were two of the four first responders honored by the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce at its fourth Annual Above & Beyond Luncheon on Monday.

Classes and Workshops

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Opens in Arlington

Sit back, relax and enjoy your cocktail and truffle popcorn

Cinema Drafthouse

Health Notes

Learning History Firsthand

Veterans tell Rocky Run students about WWII.

Each year, WWII comes alive for seventh-graders at Rocky Run Middle School. That’s because, besides what they learn about it from their textbooks, they get to hear firsthand from those who lived through it.

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Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions hosts public forum featuring Kaine and Stewart.

Lawmakers to slash the state budget and consider criminal-justice reforms.

Washington, D.C. may appear to be the new venue for the Montreal Expos, but it’s not over until it’s over.

Sit back, relax and enjoy your cocktail and truffle popcorn

Veterans tell Rocky Run students about WWII.

A roundup of entertaining things to do this weekend.

Immigrants - both legal and illegal - are paying billions in taxes