As the Arlington County Board convenes for its first working session of the new year, its members may want to reflect that it was 19 Januaries ago that Charles Monroe died after suffering a seizure while chairing his first...
Arlington homeowners will pick up an increasing percentage of the county government’s $1.4 billion budget tab over the coming year, as home-value assessments saw another significant increase while assessments on the commercial side were flat.
The end result? Unless Arlington...
Editor: Arlington County Board members did, indeed, leave many questions unanswered in their recent discussion with Civic Federation delegates on the financing plan for the Barcroft Apartments .
Case in point: Why did Arlington, Amazon and the mystery “senior lender”...
Arlington County Board members on Jan. 22 are slated to approve $50,000 to be split among local arts groups, another effort to assist their efforts in rebounding from the COVID crisis.
The funding amounts were proposed by the county government’s...
Coming soon to a thoroughfare near you – Arlington aims to install speed-monitoring cameras that will spit out $50 citations to offenders.
During their brief majority in the General Assembly, Democrats in 2020 amended state law to allow localities to...
Every little bit helps, and as the Arlington government attempts to cobble together the $140 million needed to support a construction of a second entrance to the Ballston-MU Metro station, it is again asking the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission...
Arlington County Board members on Jan. 22 are expected to approve placement of a memorial plaque honoring the life of Larry Finch at Zachary Taylor Park.
The proposal emanated from the Donaldson Run Civic Association to honor Finch (1933-2020), who...
Arlington County Board members probably hoped that their Jan. 4 meeting with the Arlington County Civic Federation would have been a forward-looking affair.
But a good chunk of the meeting was spent on a complex – and in some quarters,...
Arlington County Board members used their Jan. 4 organizational meting to designate chairs and vice chairs for a host of advisory bodies.
Joshua Folb was named chair and Elizabeth Kiker vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Transportation Choices. Elizabeth...
As expected, Arlington County Board members opted not to appoint a member of the community to cast a bonus vote on the off chance the board ends up in a tie on any specific issue.
State law allows the Arlington...
