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Obama draws crowd to Fairfax for speech
- Nearly 3,000 people packed the Robinson Secondary School gymnasium in Fairfax on Thursday afternoon to hear Sen. Barack Obama’s speech on economic security for women.
Fairfax's dream of full-day kindergarten creeps forward
- Fairfax County public schools took a small step forward Thursday in its expansion of full-day kindergarten, but remains lagging some surrounding districts that have made the program universal.
Fairfax County teacher charged with assault in scuffle with student
- A Fairfax County teacher was charged with assault Thursday following a struggle with one of her students a day before at Cameron Elementary School.
Low incomes, low rent at affordable complex sparks alarm, financial questions
- An unexpected concentration of poor tenants at Fairfax County’s largest affordable-housing property has sparked worries that lower-than-expected rent revenue will force the county to pump more money into the apartment complex.
Fairfax expected to approve lease renewal for Saudi school
- Fairfax County supervisors are expected Monday to extend the lease of a Saudi prep school whose curriculum came under fire from a federal panel last year.
3-minute interview: Linda Wimpey
- Linda Wimpey, chair of the Fairfax County Community Council on Homelessness, has long pushed for greater care and awareness of a largely invisible population in the nation's most affluent county. There are about 1,800 homeless people in Fairfax, a number that has been slowly but steadily increasing in recent years. How did you get involved in advocacy for the homeless?
Economic parallels emerge in Connolly, Davis ascendancy
- Fairfax County was suffering through a sharp real estate downturn and county revenues were bleeding. The county chairman - and eventual 11th District congressional hopeful - advocated raising taxes a few cents to maintain millions of dollars worth of services.That situation is playing out for a second time in less than two decades. Now, it's Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly at the helm, considering a 3-cent property tax increase. In 1992, it was Chairman Tom Davis, under whom the board approved a 5 cent increase two years before he won a seat in the U.S. House.
Stemler works to curb drunk drivers
- As DWI coordinator for the Fairfax County Police Department, Jerry Stemler has worked for 23 years to take drunken drivers off the roads. The department recently wrapped up its "Safe December" enforcement program, which netted 54 arrests on charges of driving while intoxicated.
63 percent increase in density approved for Fairfax Corner
- Fairfax Corner, the popular 1.1 million-square-foot, mixed-use development that opened in central Fairfax in 2003, is about to get a whole lot denser.
County has 4,500 illegal immigrants in jail, most of any in M.Va., report says
- Fairfax County has about 4,500 illegal immigrants in its jail, the most of any Northern Virginia locality, according to state crime commission findings released Tuesday.
Early figures may show larger gang-crime drop
- Northern Virginia may be seeing a significant drop in gang crime, if early figures released by Fairfax County on Monday are any indication.
Cuccinelli’s coffers get biggest infusion
- State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli amassed substantially more campaign cash in the past two months than any other of Northern Virginia’s candidates for the state legislature, gathering more than $200,000 to outraise his opponent by more than 2-to-1, campaign finance records show.
Fairfax Co. strengthens strike team
- Fairfax County supervisors pledged $1.2 million Monday in support of a cross-agency strike team that has for months toiled to rid neighborhoods of eyesores, overcrowding and safety violations.