Archive for 'Our View'

Editorial: Ready or not, food trucks may be wheeling into town

Editorial: Ready or not, food trucks may be wheeling into town

Alexandria may soon be invaded. Not by mosquitos or cicadas (though they’re coming as well), but by trucks bearing convenient, cheap and sometimes even tasty food options. Opinion on allowing food trucks into Alexandria is mixed [...]

Editorial: Developers could — and should — do more for Alexandria

Editorial: Developers could — and should — do more for Alexandria

Residents and officials concerned with Alexandria’s dwindling supply of affordable housing saw two major developments recently: the sale of Hunting Point and the planning commission’s approval of rezoning in the Beauregard corridor. The apartment complex and [...]

Editorial: It’s time for a pair of fresh eyes

Editorial: It’s time for a pair of fresh eyes

Leaders of a grassroots organization dedicated to holding police accountable for their actions have asked city authorities to let outside law enforcement officials investigate the February shooting death of Taft Sellers — to little avail. While [...]

Editorial: Old Town must be protected from 
consequences of redevelopment

Editorial: Old Town must be protected from 
consequences of redevelopment

The city council meeting Saturday was, as expected, anti-climactic. Councilors reapproved the waterfront redevelopment plan and also moved to disallow future petitions against zoning text amendments by identical, supermajority 6-1 votes. In both instances, Vice Mayor [...]

Editorial: Saving the Carver Nursery School the right way

Editorial: Saving the Carver Nursery School the right way

Should the former Carver Nursery School be preserved for posterity? Residents with longstanding ties to the traditionally black Parker-Gray neighborhood certainly think so, and they have — finally — started taking steps in the right direction. [...]

Editorial: It’s time to massage the law

Editorial: It’s time to massage the law

Residents who stayed up long enough to catch the tail end of last week’s city council meeting got a refresher on Alexandria’s less-than-upstanding past. What sparked the history lesson? The answer is a decades-old law that [...]

Editorial: Post-election tax hike: predictable and lamentable

Editorial: Post-election tax hike: predictable and lamentable

It should come as no great surprise to anyone in Alexandria that the city manager and city council are proposing an enormous property tax hike this year. The reasons are straightforward. Council members don’t have to [...]

Editorial: Police must provide information on troubling deaths

Editorial: Police must provide information on troubling deaths

Tragedy struck Alexandria twice in the past week. Two local men died unexpectedly: one at the hands of a murderer and the other gunned down after an armed confrontation with police officers. Both incidents shook the [...]

Editorial: Right message, wrong venue

Editorial: Right message, wrong venue

Beauregard corridor residents, rightfully upset with plans to redevelop their neighborhood, converged on a town hall meeting — hosted by the city’s housing department — over the weekend to make their frustration known. It was the [...]

Editorial: The writing is on the wall 
for the Carver Nursery School

Editorial: The writing is on the wall 
for the Carver Nursery School

Passions about potential redevelopment of the waterfront, Beauregard corridor and Arlandria have been boiling over in Alexandria these past couple of years. Meanwhile, a smaller — but still significant — redevelopment battle has been simmering all [...]