The 2023 session of the General Assembly is likely to come and go this winter without considering changes to Arlington’s governance structure proposed by the Arlington County Civic Federation.
Federation delegates last fall adopted a resolution suggesting a series of...
The contentious internal battle over an Arlington County Civic Federation resolution will play out at the organization’s Feb. 21 meeting.
Civic Federation delegates on Dec. 13 agreed to devote virtually the entire February meeting to the critique of Arlington governance...
Despite a surprising number of “no” votes that seemed to catch proponents by surprise, delegates to the Arlington County Civic Federation on Nov. 15 capped three years of discussion by approving a package of proposed changes to county governance.
The...
The Arlington County Civic Federation’s rank-and-file this week was slated to get a first look at the draft of a proposed resolution calling on county-government leaders to return to a more open, responsive county government where everyone has the...
Whether it’s a good idea to change Arlington’s 90-year-old governance structure – and if so, how to do it right – could end up becoming a key issue in the 2022 County Board race.
And two challengers for the seat...
In the immortal words of the 1970s Carolina beach band Chairman of the Board: “Give me just a little more time.”
The leadership of the Arlington County Civic Federation on June 14 announced a delay in consideration of a slew...
Perhaps the best Arlington government officials can hope for out of Richmond in the next few years is the status of “frenemies” with the Youngkin administration and Republicans controlling the House of Delegates.
And if those same local officials desire...
The Arlington County government had high hopes of spending 2020 celebrating the 100th anniversary of the renaming of the community from its previous “Alexandria County.” COVID had other ideas, however, and the events surrounding the centennial were downscaled, delayed...
We’re not going to say we’re enraptured by the proposal to change how Arlington County Board and School Board members are elected, as promulgated by the Civic Federation’s Task Force in Governance and Election Reform (or “TiGER”) last week.
But...
Arlington County Board members on May 14 gave another unmistakable, albeit indirect, signal of their intent to move forward on housing-policy changes that could end, forever, long-sacrosanct single-family zoning in many local neighborhoods.
County Board member Matt de Ferranti perhaps...