Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Thursday, February 2, 2023
The first day back at work at the Falls Church City Hall this week began with a conference call among division leaders that focused on the City’s monumental achievements in the last year. City Manager Wyatt Shields outlined a detailed summary of the achievements of 2022 as the City government […]
As I sit writing this on Wednesday night, January 4, this week, after an unprecedented six full rounds of balloting in the House failed to deliver the majority needed by Rep. Kevin McCarthy to become the Speaker of the House, alternative scenarios for what might happen next are swirling around […]
Readers are advised to study the report on Page 13 of this edition that delineates the impressive, if not stunning, long list of achievements by the City of Falls Church government over the year of 2022. Coming into the new budget season, some citizens may be focusing their attention on […]
As mild temperatures are promised for the onset of the New Year at this Saturday night’s Watch Night festivities in downtown Falls Church, expectations for the 2023 year remain ones of cautious optimism. For the City of Falls Church, rising residential real estate values and a pause in the receipts […]
I am not a Roman Catholic except in the most universal sense, but that includes almost every time the current Pope Francis speaks. The televised homily he delivered on Christmas Eve from Rome this year struck me for its relevance to the world in which we find ourselves today. here […]
With a primetime slot on NBC last Christmas Eve, millions of Americans were exposed to possibly the best holiday season film of all time, Frank Capra’s 1946 classic “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Jimmy Stewart won the Oscar for his role which he performed so passionately, so it was reported, at […]
For almost all of us, there is no need to dwell further beyond the detailed and dense 154-page executive summary that the House January 6 Committee presented earlier this week along with its formal referral to the Justice Department for criminal behavior of former president Trump. Some complained that the […]
According to News-Press sources, the U.S. Congressional 2022 Omnibus spending bill expected to be passed and signed this Friday includes substantial funding for two programs in the City of Falls Church championed by U.S. Rep. Don Beyer. Beyer’s office confirmed this with Falls Church Deputy City Manager Cindy Mester this […]
As we navigate through another winter holiday season, let us all be reminded that it is going to be cold outside, even if not severe in the manner of points north and west even this week. So, everyone who is involved in being out there serving the people’s interest deserves […]
The combination of the pandemic and historic global inflation is expected to hit local governments and their taxpayers particularly hard in the coming year, and the City of Falls Church is no exception. So the F.C. Council was cautioned at its last official meeting of 2022 this week. Sharp rises […]
