Events are moving faster all the time. Some are highly visible such as the falling stock markets, the steadily rising unemployment numbers and the drumbeat of global gloom and doom emanating from the media.
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Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
President Obama has signed an Executive Order shuttering the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year.
Letters to the Editor for the Week of February 26 – March 4, 2009
Didn’t Attend Because Nothing Will Change Editor, In response to your comment that the low turnout to the City Council’s town meeting was probably due to Falls Church City residents “fundamentally trust their elected officials and paid staff to do the right thing”; I couldn’t disagree with you more.
Falls Church City Crime Report for February 26 – Marcg 4, 2009
Larceny, Shoplifting, 7Eleven, 804 S Washington St., February 17, 8:53 p.m., unknown person(s) entered the establishment and stole a 12-pack of Heineken Beer.
Nicholas F. Benton: Zeroing in On Middle America
The unfathomable gulf between Washington-think and sentiments in the rest of the land, and globe, has never been clearer than in the first month of the new Obama presidency.
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 town meeting about the City’s fiscal crunch, held at the Community Center last week, left at least one City Councilman sorely disappointed, and the rest searching for explanations about why […]
Daniel Negreanu on Poker: Betting Strategies in Small Ball Poker
The secret behind playing small ball poker isn’t so much in the hands you choose to play. It’s more about the amount you choose to bet with the hands you end up playing.
Dowd on Drinks: It’s Vodka ‘Cause They Say It Is
Two years ago, in a private tasting lunch in New York with Plymouth Gin master distiller Sean Harrison, we were discussing the popularity of vodka compared to gin.
PHOTO: Dawn of a New Day
LONG-TIME FALLS CHURCH residents Steve and Annette Spector are responsible for this photograph of President and Mrs. Obama walking a portion of the Inaugural Parade route Tuesday afternoon. The Spectors also attended the “Busboys and Poets Inaugural Peace Ball,” where Falls Church florist Carol Beales of the Gallaria Florist provided […]
N. Va. Scrambles to Bid on Flood of Fed Stimulus $’s
Moran Convenes Urgent Meeting Of Area Leaders Facing the loss of over 1,000 Northern Virginia county and local government jobs in the coming budget cycle, area officials are scrambling to prepare a response to the federal government’s massive stimulus package that will swiftly infuse a combination of funds and tax […]
