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 Paying Their Own Piper
Average City Council tax bill could be $7,845.
ALEXANDRIA CITY COUNCIL members are faced with the responsibility of setting a tax rate, a task that will be the culmination of the budget season on May 3. But they’ll also have to pay their own personal property taxes. Read more...
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Taking Land
Property owners prepare for court battle.
 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN the Alexandria Sanitation Authority determines it needs property but the owners won’t sell? The answer to that question is an eminent domain case now making its way through the Alexandria Circuit Court. A jury will determine the actual price even though the public authority has already seized the property. Read more...
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Pride and Shame
Remembering the days of segregation.
 A NATIVE OF Alexandria, James Henson is an attorney who graduated from Parker Gray High School in 1954. As a member of the now-defunct all-black high school’s alumni association, he worked with city officials to create a dedication ceremony last weekend for the gymnasium and the pool at the new Charles Houston Recreation Center, which opened last year. Read more...
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