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Our friends at the CBC asked us to share the announcements of two candidates for the upcoming May elections, Patrick Riccards (school board) and Barry Bushow (city council).  Here they are in full:

I found the recent discussion surrounding the EDA Member Challenges Housing Project’s Value to City post on Falls Church Times to be really interesting.  As I’ve learned more about the City, a few things have become clear:

There has long been a segment of residents opposed to any significant commercial or mixed-use building in the City. Lots [...]

When I started this blog in 2008, I planned to blog about my experiences getting to know the way Falls Church operates.  Pretty soon, I invited my brother / business partner, Andy Rankin, to also blog here.  Like me, Andy lives and works in the City of Falls Church.  Like me, Andy volunteers on a [...]

As I mentioned the other day the City Council is considering an ordinance that would move the City elections from May to November.  It seems like the main reason to make this change is because more people would vote.  Many more people in the City vote in November elections than in May elections.  Most people [...]

The City of Falls Church holds local elections every other May.  During these elections half of the City Council and School Board members are elected to 4 year terms.  The next election is currently scheduled for May, 2010.  Apparently it has been this way for a long, long time (I think the elections used to [...]

Note: our friends at the CBC asked us to share this information & spread the word about this event …
CBC to Hold City Council and School Board Candidate Forum
Falls Church, VA —  October 28, 2009 – Citizens for a Better City (CBC) will hold a public forum to provide information to anyone interested in becoming [...]

I have been a member of the City of Falls Church Economic Development Authority since earlier this year and I keep meaning to post recaps of our monthly meetings.  In an effort to actually do that I’m going to keep them kind of short.
This month our chairman, David Tarter, once again pulled together and interesting [...]

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 [...]