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Closing Arguments for Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney
Commonwealth’s Attorney candidates meet for final debate before June 11 Primary.
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Leadership Fairfax Hits a Home Run
Breakfast with the Board of Supervisors honors community service.
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Trafficking in Our Backyard
Citizens Advisory Group learns more about human trafficking and how to fight it.
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Advocating for Immigrant Protection
Fairfax for All Coalition demands more immigrant protection from County supervisors.
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Herring Calls for Criminal Justice Reform at Summit
Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement gather.
Police Practices Improve, Citizens Demand More
Board cites progress on Police Practices improvements, but some citizens demand more.
Fairfax County Board Approves Budget Mark-Up with 8-2 Vote
Final adoption of the county budget takes place on May 2.
Diversion First in Wait-and-See Mode
Handcuffed by budget constraints in proposed budget, Diversion First may see some relief.
Leadership Fairfax Hosts Breakfast with Supervisors
On Friday, March 10, Leadership Fairfax (LFI) held its annual Breakfast with the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for the 26th time.
Know Your Rights – ADAMS Hosts Travel Ban Legal Forum
In the wake of President Trump’s executive orders cancelling or suspending visas and banning – at least temporarily - entry into United States by travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations, leaders at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) quickly organized a legal forum to inform people of their rights under the new regulations.
State of the County Presented Over Breakfast
Leadership Fairfax hosts 25th Annual Board of Supervisors State of the County Breakfast and presents Hanley Award to Bill Bouie for Public Service.
With the number and types of commitments made on their daily schedules, it takes a special occasion to gather the entire roster of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in one place at one time outside the walls of their meeting chambers.
Herndon’s ‘Coffee with a Cop’
Virginia Attorney General highlights the event at Amphora.
No doubt the safest place you could have been anywhere near Herndon on Friday morning was in the private dining room at Amphora’s Diner Deluxe on Elden Street.
First-hand Lesson on Holocaust in Fairfax
Expressions of the Holocaust: GMU group gathers survivors to share memories.
“On the seventy-seventh anniversary of when supposedly civilized nations lost their collective minds, we are here to learn the lesson – first hand - of what can happen when people just stand by and do nothing.”
Holocaust Survivors Honored at Mason
Jewish Student Association hosts ‘Expressions of the Holocaust: a Dinner Honoring Survivors.’
On Nov. 13, George Mason University’s Jewish student association, Mason Hillel, organized and hosted “Expressions of the Holocaust: a Dinner Honoring Survivors.” The date for the event was chosen with care – just days after the 75th anniversary of the Nov. 9 -10 Kristallnacht – “Night of Broken Glass.”
Celebrating Women’s Equality
Women’s Equality Day celebrated at Workhouse Arts Center.
Did you know that the Commonwealth of Virginia did not ratify the 19th Amendment—giving women the right to vote—until Feb. 21, 1952? Or that American suffragists were the first people to ever picket in front of the White House? Are the names of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as familiar as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony?