Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Sunday, November 27, 2022
Virginians now celebrate three Holidays in November. Election Day (a State Holiday since 2021), Veterans Day, and next week, Thanksgiving. First, a couple of quick takeaways from last week’s election. The modern electorate is nearly impossible to poll accurately, so it’s time we all spent less energy focusing on data […]
With the crucial midterm election outcome last week, the MAGA fever over the land has broken. Despite the last couple of days’ developments – that is, the likelihood that the GOP will still wind up in control of the House if only by a couple seats and the regrettable Trump […]
Later this month, the Falls Church City Council will make a final decision on how to spend a huge budget surplus that includes millions in federal relief funds designed to offset the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Council at a work session and at this week’s regular business meeting […]
Democracy didn’t die last week, as millions of voters rejected the politics of division and hatred. The widely projected “red wave” proved to be barely a trickle, although it appears that control of the House of Representatives will change from a slim Democratic majority to an even slimmer Republican majority. […]
Mansion on a hill for sale. With a storied history. The old M.T. Broyhill Place, looming at 2561 N. Vermont overlooking the Washington Golf and Country Club, is empty and on the market for $3.6 million. When owner Helena Metzger died this February at 88, her beneficiary—the Catholic Prelature […]
Today is Wednesday, Nov.9th, the day after midterm election day, and I cannot ignore the elephant in the room — no partisan reference intended! So, let’s talk about the elephant: There were 6,037,832 Virginians registered to vote as of 9/1/22. That number is almost 60,000 more voters registered than in […]
By Charles M. Blow of the New York Times One of the most sobering statements from President Joe Biden’s speech last week on protecting democracy was one that might well have gone unnoticed by many who heard it or read about it. In the speech, Biden pointed out, “The remarkable […]
OK, Putin, your jig is up! There is a direct link between the decisive rejection of a promised “red tsunami” in this week’s elections in the U.S. and Moscow’s decision to withdraw from the Kherson region. Alison Quinn’s latest in the Daily Beast confirms what its headline says, that Putin […]
At about 3:30 a.m. yesterday, our esteemed editor posted the following brief comment on social media: “On Tuesday’s election: Disaster averted. Damage assessment due. Let’s press on, lovers of life!”Truly, much has yet to be sorted out from Tuesday’s midterm, arguably the most important election in the recent history of […]
What do Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Mahsa Amini have in common? Both are female, and both were targets of fierce physical attacks, apparently for their political views. For Speaker Pelosi, a physical attack severely injured her husband, Paul. Ms. Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, was beaten, and […]
