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Alexandria Column: Providing Some Tips for Back-To-School Shopping
From The Old Town Boutique District
It just about time for those school bells to start ringing once again. To get you and your family ready for the new school year, here are some tricks and trends to help guide you through back-to-school clothing shopping.
Alexandria Column: Why Mentors Matter
Commentary–The Urban Alliance
Think back to that first “real” job you had.
Alexandria Letter: Solve Tour Bus Issue
Letter to the Editor
Isn’t it about time that our great city solve its current tour bus crisis by banning tour buses on our old and narrow streets in the Old and Historic District?
Alexandria Letter: Time for Hard Choices
Letter to the Editor
What will it take to get Council to understand — and act — on the fact that their cycle of spending more money than we have — to pay for discretionary services we cannot afford — and then raising taxes — is killing our city?
Alexandria Letter: Importance of Neighborhoods
Letter to the Editor
At present Alexandria is going through a process to develop a set of “Strategic Plan Goals” for 2016-2022.
Alexandria Letter: Planting Trees Too Closely?
Letter to the Editor
There has been much new construction around the city in the past few years.
Alexandria Letter: Evaluate Each Felon
Letter to the Editor
I am disappointed in the Alexandria Gazette Packet’s editorial stance [“Voting for Former Felons and Others,” July 21], joining our current governor’s campaign to restore voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons.
Alexandria Letter: Attend Irish Festival
Letter to the Editor
The Ballyshaners are thrilled to be hosting the Irish Festival on Saturday, Aug. 13 at Waterfront Park.
Alexandria Letter: Another Hotel?
Letter to the Editor
A proposed 6- or 7- story 124-room hotel Plan 1 has been submitted to Planning and Zoning on June of this year by developers to be built at 1617 and 1711 King Street in the Upper King street area, a few blocks from the King Street Metro station.
Alexandria Letter: Support Local Police
Letter to the Editor
Recently an Alexandria Police Department (APD) officer was denied service at a local restaurant in Alexandria solely because she was in uniform and the restaurant’s chef took umbrage with that fact and refused to cook her order.
Alexandria Letter: Council Needs Discipline
Letter to the Editor
Each time I pick up the newspaper I become more depressed. This city is poorly managed. Council is hugely committed to the affordable housing cause.
Alexandria Letter: Abuse of Power
Letter to the Editor
I commend the Alexandria Gazette Packet for drawing so cogent a nexus between tax and rent increases, complete with charts which scare off many a local weekly.
Alexandria Poetry Conversations: ‘The Peace of Wild Things’
Hello Alexandria! I am thrilled to have been appointed as the Poet Laureate of Alexandria.
Reston Column: Clinging to the Past
Commentary
At the same time that the Nation is moving forward with a major political party nominating a woman as candidate for the presidency of the United States, Virginia institutions are clinging to past traditions that should have been abandoned decades ago.