Another step in the annual county budget process was completed last week, as the Board of Supervisors held three sessions of public hearings about the proposed FY 2023 budget. At the end of the third night of testimony, slightly more than 200 residents and groups had made their thoughts known, via in-person, phone call-in, and video submissions. The last two formats were attributable to the pandemic emergency of the past two years, but worked so well that the Board extended them to all public hearings.

Might handing cash to struggling neighbors pay for itself in later prosperity?

Postponed from the July 2020 time of his death due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a special ceremony honoring the late Falls Church City Councilman Dan Sze was held at the F.C. City Hall Monday featuring remarks by Mayor David Tarter, City Manager Wyatt Shields and others.

Readers, you may well be aware that the 2022 General Assembly session has been divisive, hugely partisan and accomplished very little. All true and will continue to be true for the foreseeable future.

Once again, persistent police work and technology combined to find, and arrest, the suspects in a tragic and senseless murder in our community.

Perhaps the most under-reported land dispute in Arlington’s history involved what we now know as the Air Force Memorial.

Once again, the work of the part-time General Assembly will stretch into spring as legislators were called back to Richmond for a Special Session that gaveled in on April 4. Nearly 50 bills remain in conference and the biennial budget must be resolved.

neighborhoods in the past decade. Videos posted on NextDoor and other platforms capture activities, sometimes amusing but often nefarious, all hours of the day and night. Visitors, delivery persons, and the occasional animal, wild or domestic, are standard fare.

Residents in one Ballston high-rise complained recently about a rise in petty crimes (bicycle theft in the parking garage among others). Alerts to the police, some bemoaned, were met with a resigned response to the effect the police currently lack the time to prioritize low-level investigations.

The news reported on Page 1 of this edition about the action of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors to “green light” moving ahead with ambitious and exciting plans for the school’s space in the larger 40 acre vision for the West Falls Church Metro Station plan is a big deal. It is a major step to realize what will become one of the wider region’s most important and impactful mega projects that will be of powerful benefit to the citizens of the Little City but also far more.