With the June 8 Democratic primary now receding into the history books, it’s worth taking a look back to see if there were any surprises.
Were there? Generally, not so much:
• Governor’s race? This one was over before it began,...
Editor: I am an 11th-grader at Washington-Liberty High School and a technical-animal-science student at the Arlington Career Center.
The animal-science program is at risk. The number of animals in the program has been dwindling for years. The program has not...
Friday afternoons in summertime are the traditional dumping ground for the type of news politicians and other leaders want to see disappear by Monday, so one can only surmise that Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz was not expecting a...
In the 1980s, marketers spent about $100 million on television advertising targeted at children. Today, that figure has increased by at least 150 times across the variety of mediums available for advertisers to target children.
Editor: The Arlington County government has posted yet another survey to guide the residents to its next phase of upzoning and density goals as part of its Missing Middle housing initiative.
These intricate surveys ostensibly are taking the pulse of...
Editor: As an eighth-grader in Arlington Public Schools, I have a request.
Throughout the past year, COVID has seriously affected the school system. In the beginning, we all started full-time “virtual” and then, when people became more comfortable, they changed...
Editor: With respect to the Gazette’s May 27 endorsement of Takis Karantonis vs. Chanda Choun for County Board in the Democratic Party primary, it’s hard to disagree with this statement:
“lected officials for the most part have tended to be...
Saturdays were busy for kids in the 1950s, but different kinds of busy, depending upon your age.
As a grade-schooler, Saturday almost always involved an afternoon movie. First I’d get up, make my bed and do whatever jobs Mom expected...
