Granted that a lot of news that is reported is a bummer, but it's always doubly sad when it's a case of a drowning during the summer months.
We reported on such a case yesterday. A 29-year-old Sterling man died...
"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" would be one way to describe the now concluded 8th District Democratic congressional primary.
Except of course that there was no real fury, as contenders Don Beyer and Victoria Virasingh were perfectly cordial...
The recent news that Arlington homeowners were seeing their garbage piling up because of staffing shortages and other woes with the contractor used by the county government brings two things to mind.
First, the old saying, which I may have...
Today’s topic is “things that were perceived as perfectly harmless in the 1950s-’60s but probably would get a certain segment of the populace outraged today.”
We take the wayback machine to this coming week in 1966, as one of our...
Perhaps the other, lesser members of the Arlington press corps were Zooming in while wearing their jammies and sipping cocoa at home, but yours truly was on the case in person during a busy – nay, “bizzz-ay”! – meeting...
Quite the eye-opener from the Virginia Realtors trade group, which recently released the results of a late-May "flash poll" of its members.
Remember how just a few months (weeks?) ago the real-estate market was tilted heavily toward sellers? Not anymore,...
Yipes: After earlier this year hiking the price of Fancy Feast (the gravy-laden kind) from 70 cents per can to 79 cents, Giant over the weekend upped it again to 89 cents. Or 27 percent in total, if my...
Back in the days of the Journal Newspapers (R.I.P.) we had a young reporter who, among his multiple talents, was able to, despite being a little too young to have lived through the glory days of George Carlin, repeat,...
What’s not to love about U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th)?
I mean, heck, we’re not exactly on the same page on many issues, yet he’s a good guy and represents the bulk of his constituents well.
But I’m wondering if the...
We've segued from college commencements to high-school graduations here in the, sigh, "deeee-emmmm-veeeeeeeee," and yesterday had me observing the Bishop O'Connell High School ceremony, held at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(If memory serves, O'Connell did have an...
