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This weekend in the annual Tinner Hill Blues Festival in Falls Church.  When people ask what I love so much about living & working in Falls Church, this is one of my go-to examples.  Andy and I did our part to support the event by selecting the Tinner Hill web site as one of Viget’s [...]

When I told Matt Smith that I wanted to get involved in the community, he gave me a few ideas — including joining the cable access board — and said something to the effect of “if you really want to get involved, you need to look into the CBC.”  I won’t try to explain what [...]

Yesterday, over lunch, we had a special EDA meeting to discuss the GEORGE bus situation.  Normally the EDA meets just once per month but we didn’t get to talk about GEORGE in our March meeting and with our April meeting pushed back by a week to accommodate Spring Break we wouldn’t have had time to get any [...]

My plan was to have two more posts in this series on GEORGE.  This post was going to be a fun one kicking around various grand ideas for a modern solution.  But I’m starting to burn myself out on the GEORGE issue and the City Council is moving through the process quickly (they had a [...]

We’re told that if the GEORGE bus is “defunded” (which I assume means “shut down”) the City can save about $450,000 each year.  I think I read somewhere that the annual operating costs of the bus is along the lines of $580,000 - so I’m not sure where the discrepancy is.  We’d obviously lose the [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, the current GEORGE configuration seems geared toward taking residents to the Metrorail stations to commute out of the City.  What other purposes could GEORGE serve?
The bus could allow non-residents to commute to their jobs in the City via Metrorail.  The City has been working for years to increase [...]

Last week George Southern (no relation to GEORGE bus) wrote over at the Falls Church Times that the City of Falls Church GEORGE bus system was potentially on the chopping block.  At last night’s City Council meeting, City Manager Wyatt Shields did in fact recommend ending the GEORGE bus service.  The bus service is expensive [...]

We had our monthly FCC-TV board meeting tonight.  A lot of the discussion was about typical stuff — budget approval to buy lights, recruiting volunteers, and planning for the memorial day parade.  The fun part of the meeting was when Matt Smith presented a new logo and branding concept for the station.  It’s great having [...]

Even with all the economic doom-and-gloom in the news, Falls Church City seems to be chugging along.  Mike provides a bunch of good examples here.
There is an article in the FCNP about the proposed Palatium Building at 120 N. Lee Street, which was discussed at last week’s Planning Commission meeting.  Builder Pirouz Khanmalek says he’s been [...]

Along with two other new members, I received a warm welcome at the Economic Development Meeting this evening.  Our primary topic was Transwestern’s request to allow non-retail businesses to lease space at Pearson Square.  Bob Ruffatto from Transwestern gave us some background on the building and what they’ve been doing to try and lease the [...]