A resolution the Falls Church City Council will consider Monday calls for a charter change to establish that candidates for local offices can qualify for the ballot by petition, only, and not as the result of being nominated by a recognized political party in the state. F.C. City Attorney John Foster advised the Council at its work session Monday that doing more in an effort to ensure local elections are non-partisan would infringe on First Amendment rights.

“No One Wants to Play Us”: George Mason Picked Fourth in A-10 Preseason Poll
Picked fourth in the A-10 preseason poll and done waiting their turn. Tony Skinn and Brayden O’Connor talk about Baraka Okojie’s return, Villanova, a 76-team NCAA field, and why Mason still believes it got robbed of March. “No one wants to play us,” Skinn says. “I’ll play anybody in America.”



