Editorial: Award-Winning Connection Newspapers
Still striving to be the Connection to your community.
Connection Newspapers won dozens of awards from the Virginia Press Association for work done in 2015.
Letter: Help Prevent Child Abuse
If you see a blue pinwheel dotting the landscape in April, we hope you will pause and think about what it represents--National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Letter: Limiting Health Care Choices
To the Editor
Recently it was announced that Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna are planning to merge, which would severely limit the choices residents of the Commonwealth have when picking their healthcare provider.
Editorial: Move Forward with Independent Oversight
While FCPD has embraced many critical changes, supervisors need to move forward with oversight.
Last week, the Fairfax County Police Department posted a list and progress report of 202 recommendations made by the Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Commission, each currently labeled as one of: implemented, in progress or under review.
Oak Hill Letter: Outrageous Budget Requests
Letter to the Editor
The following statement was addressed to the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education.
Centreville Letter: Countering Terrorism With Interfaith Prayer
Letter to the Editor
We often see Muslims in the media creating terrorism, but the Muslims of the Ahmadiyya Community are fighting against it.
Editorial: Money to Treat Addiction, Mental Health Issues
Affordable Care Act could pay for help, better health for 100,000 uninsured people in Virginia with mental illness or addiction issues.
Poor people without health insurance in Virginia are being unnecessarily tortured, in some cases to death, by a General Assembly that refuses to expand Medicaid.
Commentary: Congress Must Act on the Growing Opioid Epidemic
Our nation is in the midst of an exploding opioid epidemic.
Commentary: Progress on Ad Hoc Commission Recommendations
Thoughtfulness and deliberation should not be construed as resistance or foot dragging.
A tremendous amount of progress has already taken place to implement many of these recommendations.
Centreville Letter: Work in Harmony
Letter to the Editor
The Centreville Immigration Forum Board of Directors mourns the loss of life through violent acts in cities and towns around the world, and we particularly condemn violence aimed at religious and ethnic groups. The CIF mission calls us to "build strong community" and to "build community recognition of the strength in our diversity."
Centreville Letter: A Gift to Acknowledge Veterans
Letter to the Editor
I remember him walking through the front door with his dark blue uniform, adorned with medals and his perfectly formed hat, an imposing figure to a 6 year old. My father was part of the greatest generation of WWII vets that served their country with honor and with unyielding patriotism inherent in them from a very early age. I have that patriotism, too, because of him.
Chantilly Letter: Against Terrorism
Letter to the Editor
On Feb. 22, two coordinated attacks in Belgium's capital took the lives of nearly 30 individuals.
Editorial: Purple State
Nonpartisan redistricting could support the best interests of the population, not the politicians.
Letter: Time to Speak Out for Quality of Life in Fairfax County
To the Editor
Fairfax County is a composite of many things that make the quality of life rich for people living here.
Centreville Letter: Everyone’s Job
Letter to the Editor
I am a Boy Scout from unit 1826 and I am writing to express my opinion on an article I have recently read [“State of the Station,” March 2]. You wrote that the Sully district is a safe place to live.