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Helping the Earth and Having Fun
Visitors flock to Vienna’s sixth annual Green Expo.
The Vienna Community Center recently hosted the sixth annual Green Expo, in which some three dozen, earth-friendly exhibitors showed those attending how to achieve a green lifestyle. There were spiffy cars that use alternative fuel, plus people providing information about everything from water conservation to ways to protect the environment, how to recycle and even opportunities to go on eco-adventures.
Holding Fast to the Tree of Life
Reston, Herndon communities of faith respond to deadly anti-semitic attack in Pittsburgh.
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Exciting Week at Lake Anne Elementary
Lake Anne Elementary had an exciting week as several employees from the Smithsonian Zoo Migratory Bird Center came to the school to work with first and second graders. The ladies captured birds, held them, tagged them (while students watched) and then released them back into the wild. In addition, the students were taken down a trial and shown how to lift logs and leaves to locate possible food that the birds might eat off of (worms, snails, etc.).
Magic Happens Here
Magic Happens Here
Growing Your Business in Springfield
Community Business Partnership coaches entrepreneurs.
Juli Monroe, author of The Enthusiastic Networker—Growing a Successful Business, told a group of 20 people last Friday, Aug. 2, how to get their books published at the monthly networking breakfast of The Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia, located in Springfield.
Getting To Know... Robert Slater
A federal employee is honored for working to close the language gap.
Getting To Know... Robert Slater
Letter: Mockery of Government
The Alexandria City Council has voted on and passed the waterfront plan that has been opposed by the majority of the residents this council supposedly represents. Why has this majority body of Democrats even gone through the motions of public hearings and spend unknown amounts of taxpayers’ money while all along they have known how they would vote on the issue.
How Tall Is Too Tall?
How Tall Is Too Tall?
Letter: Focus On Education
To the Editor
Potomac Brief: Mosquito Control Truck-based Spraying
The Maryland Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, has expanded mosquito control services in areas of Montgomery County due to a public health concern over the potential for mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile virus and Zika virus.
So You Think You Know?
So You Think You Know?
How Safe is the Water
How Safe is the Water
Letter: Explain ‘Worst’
To the Editor: As a property owner and taxpayer on the West End, I continue to hear about the impending doom and gloom of the FY14 budget on city services. Many of us are concerned about the city’s tax rate, what services will be cut and how this will impact future projects to improve traffic, safety and education.
Editorial: Who Will Be Hurt?
Innovations, changes and cuts designed to help the budget should be subject to analysis of how they will affect those on the short end of the economic and digital divide.
As Fairfax County faces a tight budget year and Fairfax County Public Schools consider significant cuts, clearly some changes are going to affect services on the ground. As various proposals emerge, there should be some specific analysis of how changes, innovations and cuts would affect the poorest one-third or so of the county’s residents specifically.
The Small Town of Fairfax County
I was at the beach this summer with my dad’s side of the family who live in a small, close-knit rural town. They were talking about how even in their close community a man lost several teeth because they couldn’t find a doctor who was willing to come in on a Sunday. At that point I realized how Fairfax actually is a close community even if it isn’t small or rural, and that we not only have some of the best doctors in the world, but also some of the most caring.
Commentary: From Polarization to Compromise
The outcome of the most recent elections demonstrates once again how divided we are as a nation and as a state. The clearest winner is gridlock as it is hard to see how progress can be made by Congress on important issues that await resolution.