This week, I joined San Francisco organizer Michael Petrelis and Box Turtle Bulletin editor Jim Burroway in launching an international boycott against Jamaica (www.boycottJamaica.org). While the island appears laid back, gays are under attack.
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Business News & Notes
News Falls Church-based CSC has named Bryan Brady vice president of Investor Relations, reporting to Mike Mancuso, chief financial officer.
Anything But Straight: The Pro-Family Scheme
The last few weeks have shown that so-called pro-family organizations are some of the most useless, money-sucking scams in the world. With real families suffering from economic hardship in America, a declining birthrate in Europe and Google doubling the price of daycare for employees, the only thing right wing family […]
Picking Splinters: Harvard’s Headache and Snip City
What do Cinderella, vasectomies and Tommy Amaker have in common? They all appear in Mike Hume’s monthly magical mail bag.
A Penny For Your Thoughts: The News of Greater Falls Church
Our Mason District residents are known far and wide, apparently. Imagine my surprise when I made a quick trip to my Oregon hometown this past weekend, and my sister pointed out a front page article in the Sunday edition of the Eugene Register-Guard, the local paper. The article, a reprint […]
Anything But Straight: Crazies For Christ
The Washington Post had a fascinating series last weekend discussing the rise of a movement representing “nonbelievers.” The trend is worldwide, but is also taking root in America, one of the most religious western nations. As radical fundamentalism has spiraled out of control, many people are standing up and loudly […]
Corrections
The News-Press reported incorrectly in last week’s edition, in an article entitled “Young Dancer Points to the Top,” that Zarina Stahnke recently finished a School of American Ballet summer course in Washington, D.C. that was actually in New York City. She attended a Suzanne Farrell workshop in D.C. The News-Press […]
Four Falls Church Police Employees Sue City for Discrimination
Four City of Falls Church police employees filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria last week alleging employment discrimination and seeking over $10 million in compensation and damages. Officers Markus Bristol, Frank D. Hicks, Derrica N. Wilson and civilian employee Carolyn Pendleton, all identified in the suit as […]
CACI Official Blasts News-Press for Reporting on
An article by News-Press reporter Nathan Hamme describing the contents of a film, “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” published in last week’s News-Press drew an angry letter from an executive vice president of the Arlington, Virginia-based CACI International, Inc., received at the News-Press this week. CACI is mentioned in […]
