Tag: city hall
Your Views: Leaf piles are a hazard
To the editor:
It is that wonderful time of the year when leaves begin to change color and then fall on our Old Town streets....
Outcasts Brass Band jazzes up Old Town with creative fusion of...
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
If you have walked through Market Square on a weekend over the past two years, chances are you have heard...
Meetings on Juvenile Detention Center’s future
By Denise Dunbar | [email protected]
The City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church and Arlington County will host community meetings in November to obtain public...
Your Views: City staffers do council’s bidding
To the editor:
Letter writers may try to blame staff for city hall's egregious policy decisions, but staff is only recommending what it has been...
Your Views: Development agenda threatens open space, affordable housing
To the editor:
Your editorial from June 6 asks, “Is development a net positive?” For those of us saddled with the tax burden higher density...
Your Views: City should challenge federal overreach
To the editor:
The issue of the halal slaughterhouse was a real test of how committed city hall is to the previous city council’s Nov....
Our View: September storms in Alexandria
Hurricane Florence’s menacing approach toward the coast in South and North Carolina is a reminder that we are never as in control as we...
Our View: One BAR for all
It’s much easier to grow government than to shrink it.
Functions, staff positions, committees and departments are all added over time and are seldom eliminated....
Council discusses salary increases, affordable housing at legislative meeting
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
Council passed the ordinance on first reading to increase annual compensation for mayor to $41,600 and for other members of...
Potomac Yard Metro station scaled back, Dominion transmission line revisited at...
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
The Potomac Yard Metrorail Station project will be scaled back to lower costs to an affordable range, City Manager Mark...
