While the City of Falls Church joins jurisdictions of all shapes and sizes across the U.S., and globally, in tackling with its current budget deliberations the worst fiscal conditions since the Great Depression, lines need to be drawn in a uniquely stark fashion in key areas to define the most […]
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Nicholas F. Benton: ‘Mark to Market’ & Hocus Pocus
It is sheer madness that Wall Street types insist some changes in the rules of accounting can turn around the global economy.
Jim Moran’s News Commentary
The pain at the pump continues as gas prices spike to record highs, surpassing $4 a gallon in parts of the country and heading towards becoming the national average by the summer driving season.
Paul Krugman: Responding To Recession
Suddenly, the economic consensus seems to be that the implosion of the housing market will indeed push the U.S. economy into a recession, and that it’s quite possible that we’re already in one.
Jim Moran’s News Commentary
The following is Congressman Moran’s statement for the record on fiscally responsible efforts to the repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Rep. Davis Calls for
U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, speaking to a standing room only gathering of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and Merrifield Business Association at Falls Church’s Italian Café Tuesday, conceded that oil “was a big part” of why the U.S. invaded Iraq.
Peterson
Who knew that George Mason High School was on its first stepping stone to going green? Thanks to rising senior Jamie Peterson, the school is planning to install solar panels on the roof of the school. While the panels will only produce approximately 2.2 Kilowatts of energy — enough to […]
New Detour Plans Being Drawn for F.C.
Falls Church’s City Hall “doesn’t have a tin ear,” an official told the News-Press yesterday, revealing that planning is underway to use an orderly detour system to ease traffic congestion on West Broad Street when two of its lanes will be closed for construction for up to two months, beginning […]