Opinion: Commentary: Collective Bargaining Means a Seat at the Table so Fairfax County Employees Can Improve Services, Jobs
The pandemic is showing just how much we depend on each other -- no matter who we are, where we’re from or the color of our skin.
Opinion: Commentary: Reform at America’s #1 High School Is Good for All, Including Asian Americans
As part of the proposed 2020 budget for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Northam charged all academic year governor’s schools to set diversity goals and develop a plan to meet them.
Opinion: Column: And So It Continues
Two-plus weeks into my thyroid cancer treatment, all is as I anticipated.
Opinion: Commentary: Vote No on Question 1 in Virginia
The proposed process makes meaningful citizen input virtually impossible.
The rhetoric around Question 1 on the Virginia ballot is miles away from the actual redistricting process that would be frozen into constitutional language.
Opinion: Commentary: We Need to Work Together to Avoid a Housing Crisis
On Sept. 1, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a sweeping federal eviction moratorium for tenants who are unable to pay their rent due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opinion: Column: “Canceritis”
There are two generic types of cancer: the cancer that you have, and the cancer that has you.
Opinion: Letter to the Editor: Marmota Farm: Improving Inevitable
Good site planning is something nobody notices because things look as if they had always been there; bad planning is apparent, ugly and, unfortunately, permanent.
‘My Season Was Over the Day It Began’
Mookie Betts recently signed a $365 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers (which is actually an extension that will pay him over $400 million over a 13-year period).
Opinion: Column: And So It Begins
Eleven years, six months and two weeks, approximately, after being diagnosed with "terminal" cancer: stage IV non small cell lung cancer, I have begun my treatment for stage IV papillary thyroid cancer.
Opinion: Commentary: Facilitating Voting, Adjusting the Budget and Tackling Criminal Justice
Over the last month, the Virginia General Assembly has been in what’s called a “special session” to address voting in the forthcoming election, the budget and criminal justice.
Opinion: Letter to the Editor: What Problem is Ban Solving?
To the members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors who recently voted to move forward on a public hearing for a total ban on firearms in public places within Fairfax County, I ask a simple question: what problem is this solving?
Opinion: Letter to the Editor: For Some Workers, Nothing Leisurely About This Labor Day
Workers lucky enough to have a job face the double bind of fearing the risk of COVID-19 and being laid off.
There will be nothing leisurely about this Labor Day for many working families, not least for essential workers.
Opinion: Column: Cancer For Dummies: Me
As I was telling my long-time friend, Rita, over the phone on Saturday afternoon, as a cancer patient – and I know this is going to sound ridiculous, short-sighted and stupid, I am not always forthcoming and honest when it comes to sharing new symptoms with my doctors, particularly my oncologist.
Opinion: Letter to the Editor: A Word About Sign-Stealing
Complaints about Biden signs disappearing across Great Falls have been on the rise.