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United Way Audit: No Misappropriation
Audit in answer to allegations of mismanagement made last summer.
United Way Audit: No Misappropriation
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Community Goes to Hearing
The Gatherings at Cascades will come before the Planning Commission next week.
Community Goes to Hearing
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Seeking Site for Covered Tennis
RA’s tennis advisory committee looks for answers to the covered tennis riddle.
Seeking Site for Covered Tennis
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Daffodils are Bursting Out all Over in Arlington
Things may be different this year, but 28,000 daffodils are waiting to poke their tendrils above ground and burst into bloom at Culpepper Garden this spring.
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Week in McLean
Local Nonprofit Hosting Kentucky Derby Benefit PRS Inc. will host their 19th Annual Kentucky Derby Benefit on Saturday. This year, state First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe is serving as the benefit’s honorary chair. “We are honored to have Mrs. McAuliffe as our Honorary Chair for our 2014 Kentucky Derby Benefit,” said PRS President and CEO, Wendy Gradison, in a press release. “She understands PRS’ important role in helping local community members in need live independently, maintain housing, remain in the community and out of the psychiatric hospital, and engage in community activities.”
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Covert Matters
Alexandria’s Dave Johnson for President
I’m absenting myself from the national political conventions this year.
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Real Estate Notes
Real Estate Notes
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Breaking La Banque
French high school students come to Arlington to learn about banking.
Breaking La Banque
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Business Notes
Business Notes
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Business Notes
Business Notes
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Oakton Baseball Trying to Regain its Footing
Since 6-1 start, Cougars have struggled in Concorde District play.
A tough stretch of the season has hit the Oakton High baseball team since the start up of play within the Concorde District schedule a few weeks ago. The Cougars, who were 6-1 at one point this spring, entered this week in the midst of a tough five-game losing streak.
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Inaction May Cause Federal Officials to Create Health-Care Exchange for Virginia
January 2013 is the deadline for the commonwealth to create authority for exchange.
Virginia is suffering from deadline fever, although Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell is calling for a second opinion.
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Four Seek Democratic Nod for Mount Vernon Supervisor: Jack Dobbyn
It is easy to say that FCPS and/or the county must cut trim operating size, or learn to operate with less. Like most individuals around Fairfax County and in the Mt. Vernon District, I recognize that FCPS and the county both have needs, and that we need revenue diversification to ensure our high quality of life is maintained.
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Byrne Campaigns at Lyceum
Candidate for lieutenant governor speaks to the Urban League.
Byrne Campaigns at Lyceum
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Week in McLean
United Bank Robbed
Officers were called to 7787 Leesburg Pike on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 11 a.m. for a robbery. A man entered the bank and demanded money from the teller. The suspect fled with cash. There were no injuries.
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Richmond Diary
Governor McAuliffe Sets the Stage
Each year the Governor of Virginia addresses a joint assembly of the House of Delegates and the State Senate in a speech not unlike the President’s State of the Union address except that the Governor provides a “State of the Commonwealth” as well as his recommendations for legislative action. Last week I heard the 35th such speech since I have been a member of the House of Delegates. I think Gov. Terry McAuliffe made the best of any of the speeches I have heard over my career in the legislature.