Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Monday, May 29, 2023
A comprehensive opinion survey commissioned by the F.C. City Council has found the City of Falls Church is appreciated by its residents in virtually every aspect of its life. The president of a Newport Beach, Calif., firm that has done similar surveys for hundreds of communities across the U.S., presented […]
Is Trump just the beginning? Is the worst four years in U.S. history since the Civil War, that period when Trump was actually president, only a foretaste of what is to come? Are people going to look back 100 years from now and wonder why this educated, well-off population of […]
The headline on the front page of this edition is big news, indeed. Nothing is forever, and things can change quickly, but the comprehensive results from the opinion survey commissioned by the F.C. City Council are in, and they find that folks living in The Little City are, well, on […]
Attendees at Tuesday’s monthly luncheon of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce at the Italian Cafe may have come away a little queasy this time, but they can rest assured that it had nothing to do with the always tasty and reliable food. A message of self-described “doom and […]
“With so many things coming back in style, I can’t wait until morals, respect and intelligence become a trend again.” – Actor Denzel Washington. I have commented more than once about the decline in these traits among the American people defining the period between Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have […]
Four-Term Mayor Says It’s Time; Filing Deadline Looms Following the blockbuster announcement last week that four-term City of Falls Church Mayor David Tarter will not seek re-election this fall, the pace has quickened among candidates filing before a June 20 deadline to make it onto the November ballot for City […]
U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax) released a statement Monday afternoon after two staffers were sent to the hospital following an attack on his district office in the City of Fairfax. “This morning, an individual entered my District Office armed with a baseball bat and asked for me before committing an […]
The Falls Church School Board unanimously voted Tuesday to approve the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, complying again this year with the F.C.City Council’s guidance of 5.3 percent revenue growth. The approved budget shows an increase of $2,476,749 in local funding, representing 80.4 percent of the total budget. With the addition […]
In one of the more copasetic annual budget deliberations in memory, the Falls Church City Council Monday unanimously adopted its Fiscal Year 2024 budget with no real estate tax increase and no new general government debt. The $119 million budget was almost identical to what City Manager Wyatt Shields initially […]
This weekend marks two events that pay homage to the power of women. There is Mothers Day on Sunday. Everybody in the restaurant business shares in honoring the wonderful occasion, as do all of us, maybe their biggest day of the year. The other is a more personal remembrance for […]
