After seeing their daughter Jill undergo frequent grand-mal seizures and feeling the impact of her condition on their family, Lon and Brenda Solomon in 2010 founded Jill’s House to provide short-term, overnight respite care for children with intellectual disabilities...
Why cue the theme to "The Jeffersons," as the headline notes? Because it looks like somebody is aiming to be "Movin' on Up."
Was it unfettered sense of self or unbridled political ambition – or a combination of both –...
The long and winding saga of a piece of legislation patroned by Del. Alfonso Lopez ended with the sound of the governor’s veto pen making contact with paper.
Gov. Youngkin on May 27 vetoed the measure – HB 891 –...
Arlington leaders probably were not expecting a last-minute reprieve, and they most assuredly didn’t get one.
The House of Delegates on April 27 by a party-line vote sustained Gov. Youngkin’s veto of a measure that would have allowed the Arlington...
Freshman Gov. Youngkin whipped out the ol’ veto pen recently, nixing some bills patroned by local legislators and in the process drawing the ire of Democrats and Virginia’s punditocracy, who have not clutched their pearls and fallen victim to...
Arlington County Board members will be a little late to the party this weekend as they start the ball rolling on assisting local cab drivers with meeting the increasingly high cost of doing business.
Board members are slated to set...
Editor: From the great American songbook, “Say It Ain’t So.”
For about 18 months now, on your editorial page, gallons of ink have been used to pontificate about what is disliked in Fairfax County.
Fairfax County is one of the best...
Perhaps he’ll wear it as an unusual badge of honor, but it certainly is a distinction for Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington): Gov. Youngkin vetoed four of his bills that had passed both houses of the legislature during the 2022...
It took a long and somewhat winding road to get to his desk, but Gov. Youngkin has signed a measure related to licensure of teachers from outside the U.S., patroned by state Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Arlington-Fairfax-Loudoun).
The measure requires the...
Remember the old truism: The penis mightier than the sword. Nope, that's not right. Should be "the pen is mightier than the sword." Oh, if there were only copy editors left in the news biz!
But anyway.
Freshman Gov. Youngkin whipped...
