Alexandria Column: This Memorial Day, Let's Build a WWI Memorial
Commentary
As many Americans around the country take a moment to relax with friends and family this Memorial Day, I hope they take a moment to pause over their grills and swimming pools to ponder what the holiday really represents.
Mount Vernon Letter: More Action Needed Against Litter
Letter to the Editor
Thanks to all of the volunteers who participated in this year’s Little Hunting Creek cleanup, and to the workers of Fairfax County's Solid Waste Management Division, who every year promptly pick up and haul away the trash we collect.
Alexandria Column: Be a Hometown Tourist
Commentary–Senior Services of Alexandria
Do you wait until you have visitors to check out the local sites? Most of us do — whether it is going into Washington, D.C. to visit the monuments and museums, or staying in Alexandria to walk around Old Town and Mt. Vernon.
Alexandria Column: Sheltered vs Unsheltered
Homeless In Alexandria
The Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness in the City of Alexandria is a coalition of nonprofit service providers, affordable housing developers, faith communities and government agencies who collaborate daily to serve those who are homeless in our city.
Alexandria Letter: Rubber Stamping
Letter to the Editor
The Planning Commission should make a grand statement and resign en masse.
Alexandria Letter: Debate Ethics
Letter to the Editor
For the second time since the recent local election, Vice Mayor Justin Wilson abetted by his five council mates and the city attorney, have all together hijacked the mayor’s ethics program, thus essentially destroying totally any real meaningful progress toward making Alexandria an ethical model.
Alexandria Letter: Paving Over Green Space
Letter to the Editor
I found out May 11 that the City of Alexandria intends to place a 52-foot-long-by-6-foot-wide Capital Bikeshare Station holding 19 bike slots, a pay center and a large sign at the corner of Powhatan and Second streets, cementing over hundreds of square feet that is currently green space.
Alexandria Letter: Pending Betrayal
Letter to the Editor
Alexandria City Public Schools’ (ACPS) pending betrayal of its students and parents: ACPS is planning on redistricting to deal with the ACPS and the City Council's poor management of the schools and failure to get developers to contribute fairly to building new schools for building their new housing units.
Alexandria Letter: Totalitarian Response
Letter to the Editor
The interaction between the city government and citizens who choose to participate in public debate has never been more debased than it has become since our last local election.
Alexandria Letter: Scorched Earth Foreseen
Letter to the Editor
Ah, the sun and warmth did burst into Alexandria today, and gave fresh illumination to the disastrous clearing of trees on the riverfront below Windmill Hill Park.
Commentary: Legal Meaning of Sex Discrimination
Recently Attorney General Mark Herring issued an official opinion at my request and the requests of others as to the meaning of sex discrimination under Virginia law.
Letter: The Price of Littering
To the Editor
Did you know $11.5 billion is spent every year to clean up litter.
Commentary: Up Close and Personal with Marie, On Her Own Terms
Using an approach called Trauma-informed Care, Cornerstones helps clients create strategies and find solutions that offer them control, choice and hope.
Letter: Meals Tax, Where Will This End?
To the Editor
"Diversified revenue," Supervisor McKay hails the tax, as though it were some kind of blessing. Hunter Mill's Hudgins describes it as a "tool" -- a hammer?