Tag: opinion
Your Views: Don’t bulldoze Taylor Run
To the editor:
The City of Alexandria wants to re-engineer 1,900 feet of the Taylor Run stream channel in Chinquapin Park between T.C. Williams High...
Your Views: The morals of governing
To the editor:
In Old Town’s southwest quadrant, New York real estate developer Asland Capital Management and their Arlington-based legal representative Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley &...
Our View: Hutchings’ double standard
Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory Hutchings, Ed.D., confirmed last week that one of his two children is attending Bishop Ireton High School,...
Your Views: Will our libraries erase history?
To the editor:
Columbus Day will continue to be commemorated in many cities across our land, but not in Alexandria. It is Indigenous Peoples’ Day,...
My View | Allison Silberberg: When “restoration” means destruction
The first rule in medicine is “do no harm.” The same rule should apply to government at any level. But governments can and do...
Your Views: Alexandria is overpopulated
To the editor:
It’s the obvious, yet uncomfortable culprit no one talks about. However, its footprints appear in several articles of the Sept. 3 issue...
Your Views: Kudos to Alexandria’s BAR
To the editor:
The Board of Architectural Review met on Sept. 2 for a concept review of the Heritage Project proposal, which was to include...
Your Views: The death of a tree
To the editor:
On Sept. 2, an “Eco City” that has been designated a “Tree City,” along with Alexandria City Public Schools, had a beautiful...
Your Views: I support redistricting reform
To the editor:
My experience in redistricting matters includes being the appointed authority for two commissions, sitting on another commission of which I was the...
My View | Andrew Macdonald: Obituary for a pin oak (quercus...
I was the stately, towering pin oak that was cut down to make room for a concession stand for the new sports stadium at...
