Merrick Appointed to Airports Board

There's a silver lining for Caren Merrick, the one-time Republican candidate for state Senate who was soundly defeated by Democratic Arlington County Board member Barbara Favola. Virginia Governor...

Anti-Gun Group Calls on Merrick to Release NRA Survey

Update at 6:30 p.m. -- Merrick's survey has been released. A group of gun control advocates is calling on Republican state Senate candidate Caren Merrick to make good on her pledge to release the...

Absentee Voting on Pace to Break Records

(Updated at 11:10 a.m.) Absentee voting for Tuesday's election has been higher than expected, and is on pace to exceed the numbers from previous off-year elections. So far, 1,227 votes have been...

Candidate Essay: Caren Merrick

This week we asked the two candidates for the 31st District state Senate seat to write a sub-750 word essay on why the district’s residents should vote for them on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Caren Merrick's...

Social Issues Dominate State Senate Debate

Republican state Senate candidate Caren Merrick is running on jobs, jobs, jobs. But questions from the audience at last night's candidate forum in Cherrydale focused on abortion, guns and more...

Favola Wins Endorsement of WaPo, Sun Gazette

Democratic state Senate candidate Barbara Favola has scored two notable newspaper endorsements. The Washington Post and the Arlington Sun Gazette both endorsed Favola yesterday, passing over her...

Morning Notes

Merrick Mailer Goes Negative -- Republican state Senate candidate Caren Merrick is railing against mudslinging by her Democratic opponent, Barbara Favola, by sending out a mailer that does some...

Favola Mailers Focus on Abortion

Campaign mailers authorized by Arlington County Board member Barbara Favola's state Senate campaign have increasingly focused on one central theme: abortion. While the 31st District state Senate...

Morning Notes

Steve Jobs Memorial Grows -- The Post-it-Note memorial to Steve Jobs at the Clarendon Apple Store is getting bigger. Since we arrived at the Apple Store yesterday morning, the memorial has grown...

Morning Poll: Local Political Debates

On his blog yesterday, Sun Gazette editor Scott McCaffrey reported that some residents have taken note of Republican state Senate candidate Caren Merrick's propensity for skipping local candidate...

Morning Notes

Car Runs Into Apartment Building -- A car ran into an apartment building on Lee Highway over the weekend. The impact punched a big hole in the side of the brick building, located at 4343 Lee...

Primary Mud-Slinging Not Repeated in Debate Between Favola, Merrick

If you were hoping for fireworks in the closely-watched state Senate race between Arlington County Board member Barbara Favola (D) and McLean businesswoman Caren Merrick (R), you would have been...

Democrats Talk Unity After Bruising Primary

Local Democrats are putting the unprecedented mud-slinging leading up to Tuesday's primary behind them as they press forward to November's general election with a slate of four candidates and two...