After a two-and-a-half hours of a public hearing, questions and comments, at City Hall tonight, Falls Church City Council members left with no clear final consensus on how they will vote when finally adopting the FY10 budget this coming Monday.
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Letters to the Editor: April 9 – 15, 2009
3 F.C. Council Members Reply to Snyder Views Editor, In his recent remarks published on the Falls Church Times blog, our friend and colleague David Snyder fired a broadside at Mayor Gardner, Vice Mayor Lippman and the City Manager as being “ingrown and isolated” and “diverging more and more from […]
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 difficult budget cycle in its history, what is needed is a deliberative process that is fully responsive to the unique challenges presented by the current economic downturn.

‘Watchmen” Deserves to be Watched
“Watchmen” director Zack Snyder (300) was faced with a difficult task – condensing a 12-issue comic book epic, considered by many as the greatest ever written, into a feature length motion picture.
2 N.Va. GOP Leaders: ‘I’ve Had Enough With My Party’
Rep. Davis in NY Times, Snyder In Letter to N-P Two prominent Northern Virginia Republican politicians publicly criticized their party this week, one attributing his disdain as contributing to his decision to opt out of politics, and the other angrily disassociating with the Virginia GOP.



Gardner Re-Elected Mayor, 2 Dissent on F.C. Council
Lippman Gets Vice-Mayor Job, Also in 5-2 Vote There were smiles all the way around among the over 60 in attendance during a City Hall reception and during formal swearing in ceremonies, but they quickly dissipated when the newly-configured Falls Church City Council cast its first vote Tuesday, and dissent […]
Picking Splinters: The Monthly Mail
Sports Editor Mike Hume dips into his Magic Mail Bag to answer questions about the Super Bowl and the Redskin’s latest coaching candidate.
News Briefs
December 27, 2007 – January 2, 2008
Housing Crisis Shows Up as Sudden Fiscal Deficit for F.C.
Council Learns of $640,000 Deficit; Still Spends More The harsh fiscal reality associated with the residential real estate market decline throughout the region broke in on the Falls Church City Council at its meeting Tuesday night.
Editoral: Welcome to Fiscal Reality
We knew it was coming sometime, but the fiscal reality of the so-called housing crisis suddenly rose up and popped the Falls Church City Council on the nose Tuesday night, and it’s clear it will take them all awhile to get used to it. Suffice it to say, their handling […]