It has been one of the best seasons in Washington Mystics history. Playing with enthusiasm and intensity, they’re headed for the WNBA playoffs for only the fourth time in the team’s nine-year history.
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N. Va. Home Sales Down 39% in July; Virginia in Top 5 of U.S. Sales Decline
Falls Church should not take its declining residential home value situation personally. The dramatic cooling of the housing market that portends serious budget problems for the City of Falls Church next year is hardly a local phenomenon.
Falls Church Area Crime Report
Crime for the weeek of August 8-14.
Editorial: Back to the Drawing Board
Frankly, we are impressed by the willingness of the new Falls Church City Council to pull back from a bad idea and head back to the drawing board. That’s what it did Monday night, when it decided to pull off the table a component of sweeping residential zoning changes that […]
Northern Virginia Art Beat
Artistic happenings in the greater Falls Church Area.
Technobuddy: Sometimes, On/Off Button Is Your Best Friend
There are some secret weapons that can destroy even the ugliest computer messes. The best thing about them are that you don’t need a degree in electrical engineering, or a screwdriver, to show your computer who is in charge.
Senator Allen: Dumb & Dumber
The behavior of Virginia Senator George Allen last week can only leave folks shaking their heads. Singling out a person of non-Anglo appearance for a derogatory, if not racial, slur and the suggestion that he, apparently by virtue of his appearance alone, cannot be familiar with Virginia, was about the […]
Helen Thomas: Bush Should Stop Tamering With War Prisoner Rights
Why does the Bush administration insist on tinkering with the long-established laws on military conduct and treaties of this land?
Community News & Notes
CADET JOAB “JOEY” COHE poses with Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry after graduating from the U. S. Military Academy and being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. For more News & Notes, look inside!
Anything But Straight: Bye Bye Bipartisanship
I have long endorsed the political strategy of supporting both GLBT friendly Democrats and Republicans. For pragmatic reasons, it made sense not to put all of our eggs in one basket. However, that was before the GOP leadership was hijacked by right wing basket cases. Sadly, I think it is […]
