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Falls Church was a very different place when I was going to school here. I started public school in 1944. At that time Falls ...
A “right wing media meltdown” has resulted from the fact that director James Gunn’s claim that his latest Superman, in ...
In an email to alums this afternoon, Gregory Washington, president of George Mason University, reported the school is now under investigation by the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil ...
Highlights of the 28-page 2024 Annual Report of the City of Falls Church’s Police Department were provided in person by Chief Shahram Fard at Monday’s F.C. City Council meeting. The Council had ...
A director of George Mason University’s Fuller Institute in its Center for Regional Analysis gave a surprisingly upbeat talk ...
I was born in early 1938, and started first grade during World War Two. At that time the town of Falls Church had only three schools: Madison (a grade school), Falls Church High School, and a third ...
For my “Front-Page History” series, today we are looking at headlines from July 2, 1977, just one day after the new Virginia laws passed by the General Assembly went into effect. In 1977, the most ...
Hope may be a theological virtue, an inspiration or an aspiration, even a town in Arkansas, but hope is not a strategy. Hope is not a plan. General Colin Powell knew that; Coach Vince Lombardi knew ...
“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God” Proverbs 14:31. That’s in the Bible. It follows that there are prominent figures in the MAGA ...
This November’s election in Virginia and in Falls Church, in particular, are already turning hot. The statewide races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, with the primaries behind ...
July 11, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today led 74 U.S. Representatives in pressing the Trump Administration to halt plans to conduct further mass firings of federal workers ...
The prospect of massive cost increases has led the Falls Church public works staff to recommend a phased approach to fixing up one of the Little City’s most traveled public streets, a project known as ...