A Northern Virginia native, Scott McCaffrey has four decades of reporting, editing and newsroom experience in the local area plus Florida, South Carolina and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. He spent 26 years as editor of the Sun Gazette newspaper chain. For Local News Now, he covers government and civic issues in Arlington, Fairfax County and Falls Church.
The primaries earlier this month took place with a new Virginia law in effect: a wider radius around polling places where it’s illegal to carry a gun.
The expansion of the radius from 40 feet to 100 feet went smoothly in Arlington, election officials say.
