After this week’s historic moments and collective sigh of relief, I know there is still some anxiety around, especially over the prospects of vaccinations to finally end COVID-19. Thanks for all the good questions about vaccines from my post last week. We are continuing to advocate for our residents, and […]
After a dark start to 2021, this week’s post will be more uplifting. I’ll share the latest good news on vaccines, an event that is a bright spot for me every year, and regular City Council business. First, vaccines: I’ve been fielding a lot of questions. I know we’re all […]
Happy new year, friends – While I’ve been privately metering my expectations for 2021, I had hoped my first post of the year would start on a more positive note. Before getting to city business – which there is much to share (the latest on COVID, vaccinations, changes to the West Falls […]
After this week’s school renaming decision that has left some proud and some disappointed, I’ll offer an observation that comforted me and may help unify our divided community. As I listened and read the many thoughtful perspectives, I noticed that except for a few outliers, most people believe that we have […]
With the approaching holiday, my update is hitting your inboxes early and will be short and sweet. We did cover important business, so I hope you take a few minutes to read and take action in between your modified holiday plans. We received a briefing from the health department on COVID-19, an […]
It’s hard to ignore the weighty topic of the moment is our community debate over school renaming. I have deliberately kept the topic out of my posts until now. There is so much passion, pain, and division over the decision, exacerbated by the results of the survey that was shared this week […]
Since my last post in October and what has felt like the longest weeks ever – our community successfully pulled off a pandemic Halloween, led the state with a high voter turnout of 82.5% on November 3rd, and returned another phase of kids to hybrid learning in school this week. […]
We’re in the home stretch. Your final opportunities to vote early are today and tomorrow. (If you still have a mail-in ballot to return, use the drop box outside of City Hall.) We currently lead the state with the highest turnout at 65%. Be like this civic-minded Daisy Troop and […]
Today is the last day to request a mail-in absentee ballot. (Over half of Falls Church has already voted!) If you plan to vote early before November 3rd, your best bet is to take advantage of the in-person voting option at City Hall, open weekdays and the next two Saturdays. Speaking […]
After much deliberation over the past month, we voted to refer the Broad and Washington (aka Whole Foods) project out to boards and commissions, with a 5-0 unanimous vote. Typically, unanimous votes imply that a decision was straightforward, but this was not the case (as evident by the volume of calls […]
This week’s City Council work session was a potpourri of civic business, something for everyone: Year end financial results, with the obvious punchline that many revenues in the 4th quarter of FY20 were severely impacted by COVID…with one exception; Two of the top community priorities – traffic calming and stormwater […]
One week into early voting and 40 days before November 3rd – we already have over 14% turnout in Falls Church! A plea from the registrar: if you requested a mail in ballot, please vote using that ballot (and return by USPS or the drop box outside City Hall). It’s […]