Nicholas F. Benton is an Editor at the Falls Church News-Press. He covers a wide range of topics including regional interest and world news, with a focus on government and politics, urban development, and the housing market. His work has been featured in The Business Herald and the Falls Church News-Press.
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By: Nicholas F. Benton
Folks had better be well prepared to grab away the football, and I don’t mean from Y.A. Tiddle or Charlie Brown’s Lucy. Nobody can be sure what is going on inside the president’s brain right now. It is a truly bizarre situation for us all. There are those who speculate that Trump’s erratic behavior is
By: Nicholas F. Benton
The next 50 years? I am old enough to vividly recall 50 years ago when the U.S. celebrated its 200th anniversary. It was 1976 and I was living in San Francisco. A group of us were gathered on the big night to go to the rooftop of an apartment building and watch a huge fireworks
By: Nicholas F. Benton
As we celebrate our first 250 years, here are some thoughts on what the next 250 years for the U.S. may bring: The next 250 years will likely transform the U.S. from an aging, politically fractured nation into a post-scarcity, technologically integrated superpower. 1. Demographic Transformation – The U.S. demographic landscape will be entirely reshaped.
By: Nicholas F. Benton
Up at the crack of dawn. Get the kids up, fed and out the door on time, making sure they know you love them. That’s a daily routine for hundreds of Falls Church residents for most of the year, and if that isn’t enough (with all that goes with it) to constitute a full time
By: Nicholas F. Benton
Monday’s Falls Church City Council meeting was opened with a moving presentation by the manager Alex Kuczkowski of the Falls Church Little League team which had won for the first time in memory the championship of the District 4 region. The team showed up en masse and was applauded strongly by the audience in the
By: Nicholas F. Benton
The TV series “Foyle’s War” is one of the most engaging the relevant programming in this era, even though the series originally appeared via PBS over two decades ago. One of the most compelling aspects of the show was its historical accuracy owing to writer Anthony Horowitz’ deep research into the events of the days
By: Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church-raised author and longtime News-Press copy editor Theodore Edwin “Ted” White died May 24, 2026, at age 88. Born Feb. 4, 1938, in Washington, D.C., White was a prominent American science-fiction writer, editor and fan, as well as a music critic. He wrote and edited professionally as Ted White. In addition to books and
By: Nicholas F. Benton
The biggest news out of this week’s primary elections in five states across the U.S., including Virginia, came from Falls Church’s own rep, Don Beyer, who told the News-Press in an exclusive interview yesterday that, based on Tuesday’s primary results, the list of potential gains for Democrats in the upcoming midterm election has grown to
The biggest news out of this week’s primary elections in five states across the U.S., including Virginia, came from Falls Church’s own rep, Don Beyer, who
Falls Church-raised author and longtime News-Press copy editor Theodore Edwin “Ted” White died May 24, 2026, at age 88. Born Feb. 4, 1938, in Washington, D
