Arlington Lawyer Moonlights as Award-Winning Filmmaker

If you were to create a list of professions least likely to count an award-winning creator of abstract and experimental films among their ranks, lawyers would probably rank just below...

California Tortilla Makes the Same Mistake as the Young Dems?

Last week we told you about a seemingly innocuous event held by the Arlington Young Democrats: a happy hour to give free beer to anyone who showed up at a bar with a sticker indicating they voted...

Young Democrats Beer Giveaway May Have Been Illegal

Politico is reporting that an Arlington Young Democrats-sponsored "absentee voting happy hour" last week may have broken federal election laws. The event, at Velocity Five in Courthouse, promised...

Morning Notes

Will Capital Bikeshare Experience Distribution Problems? -- Due to the one-way flow of commuters, bike share programs tend to experience some degree of distribution problems. At any given time,...

Arlington PD Not Planning on Changing Immigration Policy After Cuccinelli Opinion

The Arlington County Police Department does not plan on changing its hands-off immigration policies after Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ruled that law enforcement can ask about the...

Arlington Losing Millions Due to Restrictive Va. Lawyer Rules

Arlington is missing out on millions of dollars worth of annual tax revenue because of overly restrictive rules governing how lawyers are admitted to the Virginia Bar, according to a new report by...

Volunteer Opp: Lawyers and Law Students Needed

The National Alliance on Mental Illness is looking for a few good barristers.  Here's the listing from Volunteer Arlington: NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the nation's largest...

HuffPo Blogger Offers Kudos to Va.’s Teen Licensing Law

It's not every day you hear someone complementing the way things are done at the Department of Motor Vehicles. It's also fairly rare these days to hear a progressive Huffington Post blogger saying...

Bike Law Being Considered in Richmond

Update: The bill has narrowly passed the House Transportation Committee. The Virginia Bicycling Federation is calling on supporters to call their local delegate in advance of an upcoming vote before...