It’s possible Fairfax County will not be following Arlington’s lead in renaming its stretch of U.S. Route 29 as “Langston Boulevard.”
Fairfax County supervisors wish to rename Lee and Lee-Jackson Memorial highways because of their associations with Confederate Gens. Robert...
Sometimes, change is logical and makes too much sense. That’s when you have to worry that it will never be put into place.
Such is the case with the renaming of a number of Fairfax County roadways, where the most...
Fairfax County supervisors wish to rename Lee and Lee-Jackson Memorial highways because of their associations with Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, but a county survey – with an admittedly small sample size – found the...
As the Arlington County government’s efforts to “reimagine” the future of Langston Boulevard (née Lee Highway) along its 5-mile length from Rosslyn to East Falls Church roll ahead, suspicions in the public about the motivations behind the effort continue.
At...
The mother-daughter team of Arrington and Nadia Conyers recently penned and released a new children’s book – “From Lee Highway to Langston Boulevard” – which chronicles the name change of an Arlington roadway and the reasons behind it.
“Written in...
Editor: The Arlington County Board plans to spend $300,000 to rename just five miles of Lee Highway “Langston Boulevard.” But Lee Highway runs for dozens of miles across Northern Virginia. Giving each segment of Lee Highway a different name...
Editor: For those complaining about changing the name of Lee Highway and the costs associated with it, consider the city of St. Petersburg in Russia.
Some 200 years after its founding by Peter the Great, it was re-christened “Petrograd” during...
Having seen the “it’s just a work in progress” ruse pulled on others in the past, those concerned about the prospect of major zoning increases in the Lee Highway corridor are getting their objections in front of elected leaders...
Arlington County Board members on July 17 voted unanimously to rename “Lee Highway” as “Langston Boulevard” along its 5.2-mile journey from Rosslyn west to East Falls Church.
The matter was effectively a foregone conclusion after the General Assembly gave the...
A new Confederate Names Task Force, established July 13 by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, will review the names of Lee Highway (U.S. Route 29) and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway (U.S. Route 50) within the county, recommend whether the...
