A spokesman for the City of Falls Church’s Employee Advisory Council addressed the F.C. City Council tonight as just City Manager Wyatt Shields prepared to outline his budget for Fiscal Year 2013, correlating the last three years’ wage freezes to a 40 percent turnover in the City’s staff since 2009. Jason Wistrom said that salaries for F.C. City employees are now 15 percent below the average in surrounding jurisdictions, and City employees also pay considerably higher costs for pension and health care coverage.

Otakon Convention, a Major Cultural Event in Washington
The annual Otakon Convention held this past weekend was overwhelmingly magnificent! Indeed, the four-day-long event broke the convention’s prior attendance record, surpassing the 46,000 who attended the 2024 celebration of



