Employment Creates Dignity, Self-Worth, Hope for Future in Fairfax
City Jobs becomes international model against homelessness.
Jobs in Fairfax
Improving Parent-Teen Relationships
Adolescence can be challenging, but living with constant discord is not the only option.
Teens
ALIVE! Walkathon
ALIVE! Walkathon
New Location for Some Behavioral Health Services in Potomac
Behavioral Health Services
Why I’m Walking to End Alzheimer’s
Walk to End Alzheimer's
Contaminated Legacy
From slave plantation to industrial pollution, a hidden history of North Old Town.
The shuttered power plant dominating the landscape in North Old Town has layers of industrial pollution, a hidden history buried under the contaminated soil of the Potomac River Generating Station. Even before the coal-fired power plant was constructed in 1949, the property was home to the American Chlorophyll Company and Potomac River Clay Works. That means the long and complicated task known as "remediating" the property could mean removing everything from coal ash and mercury to industrial fertilizer and hazardous metals.
Down with Plastic Bags
plastic bags
Can Mentally Challenging Games Prevent Cognitive Decline?
Consistent brain fitness connected to improved memory, reasoning and processing.
Can Mentally Challenging Games Prevent Cognitive Decline?
#CallTextLive is for Everyone
September is suicide prevention month.
September is suicide prevention month.
Reform Is in the Bag
City Council to consider new five-cent tax for each plastic bag.
Alexandria started pressing for a plastic bag tax when George W. Bush was in the White House and Virginia was a red state. Now the years of advocacy have finally paid off, and state Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-30) has been able to pass a bill giving City Hall authority to impose a five-cent tax on each and every plastic bag that's used in grocery stores and convenience stores.