Tag: your views

Your Views: Police officers need therapeutic support

To the editor: With the likely adoption of some form of public police review board, I want to address that while abuses of the laws...

Your Views: Hutchings should limit self-congratulation

To the editor: In his March 11 column in the Alexandria Times, “#Reunited2021,” Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory Hutchings, Ed.D takes a victory...

Your Views: Classical Movements masks something ugly

To the editor: Thank you for your story on the approval of the Classical Movements special use permit, “Classical Movements permit approved,” in the March...

Your Views: A waste of public funds

To the editor: It has become clear that the Taylor Run stream “restoration” project is an unjustified waste of public funds. The intellectual dishonesty of...

Your Views: Traffic control needed at foot of King Street

To the editor: As usual, on most weekends, especially during this period of the pandemic, I’ve encountered massive traffic jams driving north on Union Street...

Your Views: Public employee bargaining rights

To the editor: As City Council prepares to enact its new ordinance extending collective bargaining rights to our dedicated public servants, it is important to...

Your Views: Towne Motel site changes

To the editor: Until recently, hundreds of cars have passed by the Towne Motel address, at 802-808 N. Washington St., each day without giving the...

Your Views: Halt the Taylor Run project

To the editor: On March 5, the city sent us a letter stating why it intends to pursue its proposed Taylor Run reconstruction project, despite...

Your Views: Findings from a citizen FOIA about Seminary Road

To the editor: In the aftermath of the stunning story, “Times analysis: Seminary Road FOIA docs” the Alexandria Times published on Jan. 23, 2020 showing...

Your Views: Taylor Run and Vietnam analogies

To the editor: To while away the hours hibernating during COVID-19, my wife and I have watched Ken Burns’ award-winning documentary “Vietnam.” I have noticed...