Tag: city council
Your Views: Budget decisions not zero-sum
To the editor:
A letter writer in this past week’s issue of the Times criticized the claim that affordable housing and environmental interests are...
Your Views: Council’s actions belie ‘climate emergency’
To the editor:
City Council recently deferred its decision for the proposed Landmark Overlook development across from the Landmark Redevelopment project. Council had many...
Your Views: Governing requires tough choices
To the editor:
A plea to our newly sworn in City Council members: please govern with a relentlessly clear-eyed view toward costs and tradeoffs.
The...
Our View: ‘Resilience’ is the word for 2022
The swearing in of Alexandria’s incoming elected team on Monday night was the perfect metaphor for what it will continue to take to survive...
Mayor, council sworn in
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
Monday night was filled with pivots as the incoming Alexandria City Council took office in a virtual ceremony prompted by the...
About Alexandria with Mark Eaton: Rethinking SROs
School resource officers became a flashpoint this year in Alexandria. Last May, City Council voted 5-1 to redirect funding for uniformed Alexandria Police Department...
Your Views: Don’t destroy the Torpedo Factory
To the editor:
City Council is again trying to significantly alter the Torpedo Factory’s character. Unlike previous attempts, they might just succeed this time,...
Florence King, civic activist, dies in her 70s
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
Florence King, an Alexandria Living Legend and 2021 Civil Council candidate, died in her home on the morning of Dec. 9...
Florence King, council candidate and civic activist, dies
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Florence King, a civic activist, 2021 City Council candidate and Alexandria Living Legend, died at home on Thursday morning after...
City hires labor relations staff
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
The city announced the appointment of two labor relations positions, Chief Labor Relations Officer Kevin Stokes and Labor Relations Administrator Sean...
