Tag: opinion
Times launches ‘Photo of the week’
By Denise Dunbar | [email protected]
A new element makes its debut on the first page in this week’s Alexandria Times Opinion section: photo of the...
Your Views: City hall is playing games with our money
To the editor:
With all the debate about flooding in Rosemont, Del Ray and elsewhere, the city continues to maintain that their stormwater fee will...
Our View: ‘Tis the season
It’s difficult to know what to make of the holiday season this year.
It’s a period with religious significance for many, and in a normal...
Your Views: City’s environmentalism is greenwash
To the editor:
Greenwashing is expensive, whether it’s Taylor Run or DASH’s new electric buses, but may be less expensive than fixing the actual environmental...
Your Views: School shutdown is harming children
To the editor:
I grew up with an absent father and an abusive mother. The abuse was so bad that if this pandemic had happened...
Our View: Back to the classroom
A perceived lack of progress by Alexandria City Public Schools on returning students to classrooms is frustrating an increasing number of parents in the...
Your Views: Old Town is not New York
To the editor:
City Council, please stop approving high rises in Old Town. The almost finished Robinson Landing is so high it has blocked the...
Our View: T.C. lights agreement is illuminating
We’ve contended on these pages for the last three years that no lights should be built at the T.C. Williams Parker-Gray stadium because of...
Your Views: Vote ‘no’ on Amendment 1
To the editor:
Both sides, for and against the constitutional amendment, that would change the way legislative district boundaries are drawn, believe gerrymandering is bad....
Our View: A once-in-a-lifetime chance
Two lengthy letters on page 24 in this week’s Alexandria Times opinion section make the case for and against Amendment 1, the redistricting amendment...