Assessments Up Despite Inability to Sell Home Editor, Why is the City not being honest about their recent property reassessments? Have bricks and mortar really increased in value by 20-30 percent? I think not.

Issue May Be Not About Water, But Kool Aid Editor, I am constantly amazed at how and why this newspaper’s editorial page has become an unabashed apologist for a City and its water utility that has knowingly pilfered millions of dollars (over $50 million) from its water customers located outside [...]

Says Decision on Church Not Civil, But Property Rights Editor, Your editorial concerning the recent court ruling clarifying the status of properties of The Falls Church flatly misstates the import of that decision. It was not a “civil rights” decision “affirming the right of a qualified priest to serve his [...]

Large Capacity Accounts for Low Farifax Water Rates Editor, In his guest commentary of January 5, “Falls Church Should Let the Water Business Go,” Mr. Maller uses incorrect assumptions to reach flawed conclusions regarding Fairfax Water’s wholesale customer contracts. As a non-profit public water authority, Fairfax Water is mandated by [...]

Selling F.C. Water System to Private Entity ‘Unlikely’ Editor, In the article “Falls Church Officials Lash Out at ‘Illegal’ Fairfax County Water Move”, City Council members present their oft-repeated threat to sell the City’s water system (presumably to a for-profit privately owned utility) if the water ordinance that the Fairfax [...]

Biggest ‘Watch Night’ Actually Was the First Editor, In last week’s Guest Commentary, Barb Cram left out a sentence in which I honored her work in managing Watch Night for these past 6 years. And isn’t that just like Barb to defer the compliments and get on with the work? [...]

When F.C. Revved Up to Ignore Info on Football Dangers Editor, I appreciated your column about football injuries. In the mid 80′s when my wife was school board chairman a child from Winchester ruptured his spleen during a Mustang game and died on the way home.

If ‘George’ Bus Failed, Why Not Light Rail? Editor, From those wonderful folks who brought us George, we now have a proposal for light rail.

‘What I do on My Property is My Business’ Editor, After reading Charlie Clark’s Our Man in Arlington column about me and my property at 23rd and Quantico St. in Arlington and thinking about it for a few weeks, I have no choice but to respond to correct the inaccuracies [...]

Trolley Problem: Rt. 7 Canyon, Not Boulevard Editor, Your article on the possible imposition of a trolley line along Route 7 raises terrible memories of my youth in London where there were both trolley (tram) lines and overhead wires for electric buses. The trolleys were the worst.