The federal shutdown is over, for now, but the ramifications of a 35-day furlough for hundreds of thousands of employees still are being measured by local and state governments. The metro region stands to lose the most, since we are home to a majority of the furloughed employees. The Office […]

This week, our Commonwealth’s legacy of racism reared its ugly head. Governor Northam’s outrageous photo is an important reminder that the past is not as distant as we often think.

‘Let he who is without sin be the first to cast a stone at her.’ How little else than this Biblical injunction are Virginia Democrats left with after the incredible developments of these recent days. First Governor Ralph Northam, then Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, then Attorney General Mark Herring, like […]

The Senate Finance Committee unanimously adopted its spending plan. It will be taken up by the full committee this week. Highlights of the Senate proposed budget include: Funding to secure a long-overdue 5-percent raise for our K-12 teachers; $10 million for school counselors; $15.5 million for undergraduate need-based financial aid; […]

In Arlington, we’re lucky to be home to 10 of “the oldest federal monuments.”

We can only presume that harping on this matter as relentlessly as we have in this space over the many years has contributed in some way to what’s unfolding around the West Falls Church Metro station at F.C.’s west end. We’ve taken recourse to the oft-repeated (by us) phrase that […]

By Robert F. Dodge The past weeks witnessed two significant and connected events. We remembered and celebrated the visionary champion of civil rights, social and economic justice and nuclear disarmament, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr at the outset and finished the week with the unveiling of the Nuclear Doomsday Clock. […]

Pedestrians and vehicles don’t mix — especially at night. That is the lesson repeated at least twice in the past week, when a 93-year-old pedestrian, Pericles Apostolou, was struck and killed by a hit and run driver on Arlington Boulevard. Just days later, 53-year-old Josef Holzer, walking along Seminary Road […]

When teen drivers cruised Arlington in the 1960s, we had to stay on the lookout for a special danger. Shout an obscenity from your shotgun seat, or tap your bumper into the wrong car, and you could be staring in terror at perhaps the biggest, toughest streetfighter our county ever […]

By Andy Parker  In 2015 my life and the lives of my family were forever changed. My daughter, Alison Parker, was reporting on live television for WBDJ7 in Roanoke when she was shot and killed. Her murder set me on a new course to do whatever I can to rid […]