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Editorial: What the Council Is Missing
In our observations of the Falls Church City Council’s deliberations on the most extraordinary budget in the City’s 60-year history, two critical components have been absent from the discussions.
Nicholas F. Benton: Can the GOP Re-Brand?
A growing, concerted effort from within high-level party ranks to oust the arch conservative chairman of the Virginia GOP is evidence of what promises to be an unsavory spectacle akin to watching a snake wriggle its way out of an old, dead skin.
A Penny For Your Thoughts: The News of Greater Falls Church
Rail to Dulles moved one step closer to reality Monday when the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, by a vote of 8 to 2, approved the Local Funding Agreement and a Cooperative Agreement with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) for construction of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. There has […]
Nicholas F. Benton: Hip Hop Hell
News of the death at age 77 of Haywood “Little Sonny” Warner, a legendary, if relatively obscure, Gold Record singer and protégé of blues legend Lloyd Price, served as a poignant reference point for the heated debate that blew up last week over degrading “hip hop” lyrics in the wake […]
Nicholas F. Benton: Hip Hop Hell
News of the death at age 77 of Haywood “Little Sonny” Warner, a legendary, if relatively obscure, Gold Record singer and protégé of blues legend Lloyd Price, served as a poignant reference point for the heated debate that blew up last week over degrading “hip hop” lyrics in the wake […]
Editorial: By Right, Not Gifts
The good news is that there is going to be another major round of commercial development along the West Broad Street corridor, the two office buildings and hotel being planned for the north side of the 700 and 800 blocks. You can read all about it on page one of […]
Anything But Straight: A Return to Reality
In the very week Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, George W. Bush has found his presidency in the gallows. Hussein now awaits his fate as a dead duck, while Bush will usher in his final two years as a lame duck. How bitterly ironic it must be that the […]
DOWD ON DRINKS: Wine Notes From Near And Far
Keeping up with the worldwide wine scene can be a fulltime occupation in these days of the global marketplace.
