Nicholas Benton

New businesses opening in Founders Row 1 in the past year have led to a surprising outcome. The interior plaza of Mill Creek’s four-acre project at the corner of N. West and W. Broad Street has evolved quickly into a mini-town center surrounded by major elements of a colorful urban life led by top-drawer restaurants,

In what some political insiders are calling a “harbinger of things to come” in 2025 and beyond, special elections in Virginia this week saw Democrats winning two critical races in Loudoun County to retain their majorities in both the Virginia State Senate and House of Delegates for the coming legislative session in Richmond, which began

The one remaining eyesore along W. Broad Street between the N. Washington intersection and Founders Row in the otherwise lovely downtown Falls Church will be disappearing not a minute too soon. One of the two buildings of the vacated and fenced in old Stratford Motor Lodge site in the 300 block of West Broad is

It was discussed as a matter of the difference between the evangelist Billy Graham and his son, Franklin. Was it merely a generational thing, Billy the dad being born in 1918 and Franklin, the son born in 1952? One was a member of what’s been called the Greatest Generation and the other a Baby Boomer.

As many others are saying, it is hard for us to actually believe what is about to happen with the inauguration of the U.S.’s next president just a week away. During the last four years of the truly commendable leadership provided by Joe Biden, thinking back to what it was like with Donald Trump in

In the 2025 version of the annual budget process, the City of Falls Church is in a stronger position than almost any other jurisdiction in the wider region thanks to revenues being contributed out of the ongoing explosive commercial growth here. Yet whether or not the costs of running the independent jurisdiction and its prized

The baseball diamond on the campus of the new Meridian High School in Falls Church will not be ready for the start of the Mustangs’ baseball season. In an extensive report to the Falls Church School Board Tuesday night, Falls Church Public Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan went to great painstaking lengths to explain how

We commend the Washington Post for its in-depth coverage last week of the events at the Falls Church Episcopal during the 1990s involving allegations of sexual abuse by a youth minister. To clarify, the minister involved served the congregation that chose to leave the Episcopal denomination because of its election of an openly-gay bishop. That

The first days of the new Trump administration have been dizzying. As he now rules with almost nothing constraining him, Donald Trump could wreak more havoc in the U.S. and the world than even the most pessimistic forecasts could have foreseen. His administration is now a seasoned and well prepared battering ram that could bring

The City of Falls Church had the distinct honor of being host to an energetic party of White House staffers assembled at the State Theater this Monday to celebrate the imminent departure from the U.S. presidency of their boss, U.S. President Joe Biden. A distinct honor, indeed. It was a short visit, but so what.