In keeping with longstanding tradition, the Bishop O’Connell Knights are enjoying a strong winter season in girls and boys swimming and diving.
In the busy high-school squad’s past three meets, the girls and boys each won a significant championship, with solid finishes in the other two.
Arlington is home to numerous skilled OBGYNs who provide compassionate, comprehensive care to meet each patient’s specific needs.
Here are the nominees for “Best OBGYN in Arlington” as part of our ARLnow Readers’ Choice awards.
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Voting will close in two weeks.
Voting for Best Summer Camp is still taking place. Be sure to cast your vote before voting closes next Friday at 8:30 a.m.
Two weeks ago, we voted on our Favorite Visual Arts Organization in Arlington. The results are now official:
This regularly scheduled column is written by Eli Tucker, Arlington-based Realtor and Arlington resident. If you would like to work with Eli and his team in Northern Virginia and the greater D.C. Metro area, you can reach him directly at [email protected].
Question: How much of an impact do you think the ROAD to Housing Act will have on housing affordability in Arlington?
Answer: The Road to Housing Act became law ten days ago, with the stated goal of improving housing affordability in the United States.
I don’t see many policies in the Act that will improve affordability in the Arlington/Northern VA/DC Metro markets, outside of incentives for more affordable multi-family housing, but there are policies that should improve affordability in other markets that are more saturated with institutional investors that own swaths of single-family homes (e.g. Atlanta and Phoenix) and for manufactured/mobile homes.
The Local Conversation Needs to Change
If we are going to improve affordability in our market, most of the change has to be done locally/regionally, not nationally, but it requires a paradigm shift in how we discuss and solve for housing affordability.
Affordability Disconnect: Near Term Expectations Not Realistic
A disconnect between housing affordability expectations and reality prevents the right community and political conversations from happening. We expect/demand housing affordability immediately, ignoring the difficulty, and consequences, of achieving it that quickly.
Stable and healthy housing affordability is a long-term process requiring gradual change over a 10-15+ year period.
Demand-Side Solutions Won’t Work
Demand-side solutions, such as lower interest rates or easier financing, artificially inflate home values, as seen during the COVID-era housing boom and early 2000s. They are not a good long-term solution to affordability because they push values even higher (along with your property taxes) and affordability gets worse when rates/lending normalize and no longer provide artificially low monthly payments.
Supply-Side Solutions Are Not Immediate
Most policy discussions focus on supply-side solutions: building more/faster and denser housing (e.g. Arlington’s Missing Middle/Expanded Housing Option), incentivizing more existing home sales, or disincentivizing concentrated ownership by companies and individuals. Econ 101 tells us that more supply = lower prices = affordable housing (winner winner!).
This is the only path to stable, long-term housing affordability…BUT, at current interest rates, prices must drop 30-35% in the United States to become affordable, at current income levels. A 30-35% drop in home values would devastate the economy, so a supply-side solution won’t (shouldn’t) provide immediate affordability. (more…)
A small mountain of snow and ice has risen over one block of 14th Street N. in Courthouse as large-scale clearing efforts continue around Arlington.
County crews have hauled over 2,500 truckloads of icy debris, which some are calling “snowcrete” because of its density and how difficult it is to remove it, since this weekend’s storm.
The cost of rent in Arlington appeared to continue a slight decline in January after decreasing in 2025.
The median price of a two-bedroom apartment, $3,120, was down 0.6% month-over-month and 4.9% year-over-year in data reported Jan. 27 by Zumper. The median cost of a one-bedroom apartment, $2,330, was flat month-over-month but down 4.1% from this time last year.
Live standup comedy in Arlington on Friday July 31 starring Jim Bryan, Kim Villamera, and Greg Billet.
Friday, July 31, 2026
The Falls Church City Council is preparing to vote on a region-wide proposal to increase annual spending for Metro by $460 million every year.
On Monday, Feb. 2, Council members are slated to discuss a request from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) and Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) to formally support the DMV Moves funding proposal to augment Metro service.
Senator Loves Arlington Outback — “Sen. Jim Justice’s favorite place to eat steak in the DMV isn’t one of the many swanky restaurants scattered across Washington… It’s an unassuming Outback Steakhouse tucked in a strip mall in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia, where he and his constant canine companion, Babydog, a very plump English bulldog, have a regular table.” [NOTUS]
New Development Proposal — “Caruthers Properties wants to add a 15-story building at its Potomac Towers apartment complex in Arlington, just the latest example of infill development at midcentury mutltifamily projects across the county. The company’s land use attorney, Venable LLP, filed a conceptual site plan on Friday proposing the 310-unit building at 2001 N. Adams St., a massive property sitting between Interstate 66 and Langston Boulevard.” [WBJ]
Trash Collection Update — “Due to post-snow storm conditions, regular Friday residential curbside collection service will operate in a limited capacity on Jan. 30. Crews will ONLY collect trash and recycling carts. Please have carts placed at the curb by 6:30 a.m. Friday; we recognize that space may be challenging due to sidewalk conditions… If your carts are not collected by late afternoon, do not report it as a missed collection. Carts that are not collected will be serviced next Friday.” [Arlington County]
Midair Crash, One Year Later — “On the evening of January 29, 2025, an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided over the Potomac River. The crash killed 67 people – everyone aboard both aircraft. The grief for the dozens of lives lost in the disaster reverberated around the D.C. region, and up and down the East Coast.” [WAMU]
Victims’ Belongings Recovered — “The brown teddy bear smelled like oil and jet fuel. It was tucked inside the pink backpack of 11-year-old Alydia Livingston, along with her headphones, journal and a pencil topped with a rubber unicorn. The backpack and its contents came home to her grandparents in Richmond. Alydia didn’t.” [Washington Post]
Alexandria Memorial Planned — “A new memorial in Alexandria will honor the lives of the 67 people killed in last year’s midair collision over the Potomac River, which happened one year ago today. A bench, newly planted trees and plaque bearing the names of the 67 victims will be installed on the Potomac waterfront on the northeastern portion of Rivergate Park, Mayor Alyia Gaskins announced.” [ALXnow]
Robbery Near Columbia Pike — “The female victim was in the area when the male suspect approached her from behind, implied a weapon, stole her bag and subsequently fled the scene. The victim suffered minor injuries and was transported to an area hospital for evaluation.” [ACPD]
Poll on Va. Amendments — “A slim majority of Virginia voters supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would let Democratic lawmakers draw new, blue-leaning congressional districts ahead of this fall’s midterm elections, according to a new poll… The poll shows even stronger support for two other proposed amendments to the state constitution that are priorities of Democratic lawmakers.” [Washington Post]
Little Snow, Lots of Wind — “While the snow probably misses the DMV, gusty winds generated by the storm — gusts near 25 to 50 mph — will likely drop our wind chills into the single digits to near or bit below zero for much of the period from Saturday evening through Monday morning.” [CWG/X]
It’s Friday — Expect mostly sunny skies and a high of around 21 degrees during the day, with wind chill values dropping as low as -1 due to a 6 mph northwest wind. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of around 9 degrees. [NWS]
Good Thursday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.
The following articles were published earlier today — Jan 29, 2026.
Here is what’s going on Friday in Arlington, from our event calendar.
Expect mostly sunny skies and a high of around 21 degrees during the day, with wind chill values dropping as low as -1 due to a 6 mph northwest wind. The night will be mostly cloudy, seeing a low of around 9 degrees, identical wind chill values, and a calm wind that will shift to north at around 6 mph after midnight. See more from Weather.gov.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For some, it was the children’s luggage and small ice skates that became indelible memories of the night a passenger plane and a helicopter collided over the murky Potomac River. Others remember boats navigating debris and shallow water to bring victims’ bodies ashore. And there was the suddenness: people seconds from landing, gone.
Families of those on board American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter are marking Thursday as the one-year anniversary of the deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil in more than 20 years. Another group is reliving that night and the days, weeks and months that followed: the emergency responders who dove repeatedly into the river with nearly zero visibility, braving cold water, jet fuel and jagged wreckage in the hope of rescuing survivors.
A coalition of progressive prosecutors including Arlington’s commonwealth’s attorney is promising to share strategies and pursue accountability for any illegal actions by federal agents.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti — alongside Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and prosecutors from Minneapolis, Philadelphia and other jurisdictions — announced the Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO) project yesterday (Wednesday). The initiative aims to “rein in unlawful conduct” amid a growing presence of federal immigration and law enforcement in communities across the country.
