Editorial: The Budget & F.C.’s Future

Having heard the recommendations of City Manager Wyatt Shields Monday to address the current economic crisis with a combination of layoffs, program cuts and a small tax increase, the Falls Church City Council must now wrestle with how to play the annual budget balancing act game in the context of shrinking resources.

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Editorial: The Budget & F.C.’s Future

Having heard the recommendations of City Manager Wyatt Shields Monday to address the current economic crisis with a combination of…

Letters to the Editor for the Week of March 12 - 18, 2009

Vice Mayor Assails Remarks By Snyder Editor, As the City of Falls Church enters into what is perhaps the most…

Editorial: Explaining the Low Turnout

A major effort on the part of the City of Falls Church professional staff and elected officials to convene a…

Moran Convenes Extraordinary Meeting with Local Officials to Prepare for Stimulus Bill

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 16 – At an urgency-called meeting with local government officials in his eighth district of Northern Virginia,…
Merrifield Post Office New Early Closing Brings Grief

Merrifield Post Office New Early Closing Brings Grief

In a move ending more than three decades of midnight-postmark service at the Merrifield Post Office branch, the U.S. Postal…

Letters to the Editor for October 23 - 29, 2008

Says F.C. ‘Blessed’ With City Manager Editor, The recent fron-page article on the City Manager’s citywide staff meeting in the…

Falls Church City News Briefs

Gardner Poised for Re-Election as F.C. Mayor Tuesday Robin Gardner is poised to be re-elected by her City Council colleagues…

Resolute F.C. Council Moves Ahead on Affordable Housing

Preliminary OK Given for 174-Unit Building The Falls Church City Council Tuesday gave a preliminary approval for one of the…

New Development to Bail Out F.C. Taxpayers in

  Average Net Tax Drop Proposed By City Manager While the residential real estate crisis had led some surrounding Northern…

Mayor Gardner to Run Again, Promises Free Citywide WiFi

While promising the City of Falls Church will provide free wireless Internet access over all its 2.2 square miles by…

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