Nicholas F. Benton

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

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

The long-awaited groundbreaking of a uniquely designed 270,000 square foot building adjacent to the City of Falls Church is scheduled to happen today (Thursday, Jan. 23). The building will house the 40,000 square foot Virginia Tech “Coalition for Smart Construction” on its ground floor, as well as a new headquarters for the HITT Contracting. U.S.

The iconic Brown’s Hardware Store at the intersection of W. Broad and N. Washington in downtown Falls Church will close its door for good on March 30 and its sale is slated to be completed April 1, according to a local website report. An ongoing business in Falls Church for 142 years, Brown’s Hardware has

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

Thursday, Jan. 23 -- Ground was broken this morning for an innovative, new state of the art building on the fringes of the City of Falls Church by the HITT Construction Company that will become its new world headquarters as well as the site of Virginia Tech's Coalition for Smart Growth. The ceremonial shovel and

“I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For