Editorial: Readers Respond on TJ Admissions
"Stop making smart 8th graders feel inferior because they are not admitted."
Readers responded to last week's editorial, which cited a civil rights complaint about the apparent lack of access to gifted and talented programs and admission to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Letter: Government-Controlled Healthcare
Letter to the Editor
"Leaving Millions on the Table" and "Making Care Affordable" in this week’s Connection [July 19-25, 2012] do not include important facts about government-controlled healthcare.
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Letters to the Editor
Letter: Expansion of Medicaid
Letter to the Editor
One of the key issues in the Affordable Care Act is the multi-billion dollar expansion of Medicaid. It’s going to cost individual states billions of dollars to enroll all the potential recipients and Virginia will be responsible for at least an additional $1.18 billion.
Column: A Life Worth Living, Still
It might be my age (as in getting older), or it might be the fact that I have cancer (you think?), but my brain and the related physical and mental tasks it coordinates are not exactly working at peak efficiency.
Column: Affordable Health Care
A friend of mine of moderate political persuasion said to me recently that while he felt that details of managing the federal Affordable Health Care Act were issues of governance that should continue to be debated and improved, he also felt that passage of the Act was a moral issue that should not be reversed.
Column: Lake Anne in the Crosshairs
This seems like our hottest and driest July in living memory. That is a deadly combination around normally idyllic Lake Anne.
Editorial: Separate and Unequal?
If we don't believe that poor students are less innately talented, then the disparities in Northern Virginia are truly unfair.
The numbers are eye-popping. Latino students are 22 percent of Fairfax County Public Schools students, but 2.7 percent of the incoming Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology freshman class, the class of 2016. Of the 480 students, seven are black. That's 1.4 percent, while black students are 10 percent of the county school system.
Letter: Rejecting a Fairy Tale
Letter to the Editor
I am writing in response to the letter titled "Making Care Affordable" from the July 18-24 edition of The Connection. This opinion article says that we should all celebrate now that Obamacare has been upheld by the Supreme Court as a tax.
Letter: Turn-around Expert Needed
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Letter: Boards, Commissions and Power Politics
To the Editor: The city’s boards and commissions have grown to total 76 and were mostly established in the 1980s.
Letter: Hold off Review of Hotel Proposal
The following letter was addressed to the Board of Architectural Review for the Old and Historic Alexandria District.
Letter: Carrying of Firearms
Letter to the Editor
The editorial "New Laws, Assault on Freedom?" in the July 4-10 edition of the Reston Connection raises a serious concern for public safety in this election year. I have served as an election officer at my precinct for a decade without incident.