For those not old enough to remember the extended family of Jimmy Carter, trust me that they were a wacky bunch. Miss Lillian, the mother of the brood, once remarked that if she'd known in advance how much trouble...
It served its purpose, and the Arlington County government has announced plans to shut down its COVID-vaccination clinic at the Department of Human Services (2100 Washington Blvd.)
Until mid-December, appointments and walk-ins are available for COVID vaccinations and boosters for...
Despite outreach in the last school year that brought back a few thousand students who left Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) during the pandemic, the school system’s enrollment in September still was down nearly 9,000 pupils from pre-COVID times.
According...
Editor's Notebook: If Dr. Fauci can admit it, how about local school districts?
Type in the phrase cover-your-"patootie” (AKA "backside" AKA "tushie" AKA "vertical smile" AKA "the place where the good Lord split ya") on Al Gore's fabulous Internet and...
Two-and-a-half years after COVID upended the international landscape and forced many American students to try and learn from home, Arlington Public Schools is still playing catchup.
The school system’s official start-of-the-year count of 26,439 students in kindergarten through 12th grade...
Northern Virginia’s two major airports have just a little more ground to make up before they surpass pre-COVID travel figures.
The 4,373,369 passengers moving through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport in July compared to 4,539,322...
t’s all guesstimating at this point, but Virginia Railway Express (VRE) officials are aiming to be able to recoup about a quarter of annual operating expenses through slowly returning passenger totals in the fiscal year that starts next July.
The...
For an agency whose success depends in large part on convincing the public that it’s safe to congregate and move about the nation and world, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority does seem, from the outside looking in, to be...
Arlington Economic Development has earned a Gold Award for its “ReLaunch” program from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), the largest association for professional economic developers in the world.
ReLaunch was honored in the category of Resiliency, Recovery and Mitigation...
Arlington’s first-day-of-school count, while up from a year ago, remains below the pre-pandemic high of 2019, suggesting some students whose families pulled them out of the public-school system will not be coming back.
Superintendent Francisco Durán on Sept. 8 reported...
