Tag: climate change
Your Views: Lets be loud about climate change
To the editor:
Recently our local government sent out an email announcing the creation of an office on climate change. When I read the first...
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: Address climate change head on in Alexandria
To the editor:
This summer we learned without a doubt that the world is facing a climate disaster. There have been droughts and fires across...
Your Views: Conservation is an equity issue
To the editor:
As the president and CEO of America’s oldest forest conservation organization, I spend my days trying to help cities across America...
Your Views: Use science, not politics
To the editor:
Alexandria is a small town that is controlled by an ancient natural watershed. Today’s city programs to address biodiversity loss and...
Your Views: A great project that can be greater
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Members of the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions Alexandria Group are excited about the plan for redevelopment of the Landmark Mall site...
Council approves stormwater fee increase
By Will Schick | [email protected]
City council unanimously passed an ordinance doubling the stormwater utility fee from $140 to $280 during Saturday’s public hearing.
The increased...
Our View: Listen to the scientists
While in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” a clue to the antagonist’s identity was to “follow the spiders,” generally following the flow...
Our View: A flood of poor policies
“It’s a one time thing – it just happens a lot,” Suzanne Vega wrote in the song “Cracking.”
Vega’s line seems to have been co-opted...
Your Views: A healthy, prosperous post COVID-19 Alexandria
To the editor:
The primary concern and focus now for Alexandria, indeed each of us, must be for the health and financial welfare for all...
