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Editorial: Drawing Lines on The F.C. Budget
While the City of Falls Church joins jurisdictions of all shapes and sizes across the U.S., and globally, in tackling with its current budget deliberations the worst fiscal conditions since the Great Depression, lines need to be drawn in a uniquely stark fashion in key areas to define the most […]
Northern Virginia Art Beat
Intense Sketching “Kate McGraw + Ann Tarantino: Workbook,” at Flashpoint (916 G St. NW, Washington, D.C.). The exhibit runs through April 17. Gallery hours are noon – 6 p.m., Tuesday – Saturday, or by appointment. For further information, call 202-315-1310 or visit www.flashpointdc.org.
Nicholas F. Benton: Trains, Water & Clean Nuclear
Three interesting headlines lately point to the new direction that the Obama administration’s economic fundamentals will be taking the nation and the world.
Anything But Straight: Obama’s Parent In The Pulpit Complex
George W. Bush longed to escape his daddy’s shadow, while Barack Obama has turned to shadowy preachers in his long search for a father figure.
Harlem Magic Charms Falls Church
ONCE AGAIN, THE FALLS CHURCH Celebrity All-Stars came within a hair’s breadth of upsetting the Harlem Magic Masters entertainment basketball team at the F.C. Community Center last Friday night. As part of the celebration of Black History Month, F.C.’s Tinner Hill Foundation, led by Nikki and Ed Henderson organized the […]
Anything But Straight: Do Tell, Live in Hell
Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) introduced a bill this week to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a law that prohibits gay and lesbian military personnel from serving openly.
Daniel Negreanu on Poker: Playing Against a Reraise in Small Ball Poker
If you’re playing small ball poker, you’ll be entering a lot of pots, and in most of them, you’ll be coming in for a 2 ½ times the big blind raise.
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.
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.
