The Yorktown Patriots’ undefeated season through seven matches is extra-notable due to the difficult schedule the girls high-school lacrosse team has played so far.
The defending Virginia High School League Class 6 state champion has faced and defeated perennial powers like the Langley Saxons, Oakton Cougars, Robinson Rams, Battlefield Bobcats and C.G. Woodson Cavaliers.
Gabriela Netwall winning multiple girls events and Ian Crowley doing the same for the boys helped the two host Washington-Liberty Generals teams win the annual Arlington County outdoor track-and-field meets.
The girls won with 200 points and the boys with 191. Both Wakefield Warriors squads placed second in the high-school meet.
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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…)
Not only is the Marymount University Saints’ flag football team undefeated this spring — the second-year squad has not allowed a point through nine games.
The Division III squad has outscored its opponents, 310-0, with its most recent win a 39-0 victory over Holy Family University in Philadelphia. Marymount’s closest game was a 12-0 road win over Eastern University.
With a 6-2 record through eight boys lacrosse matches, the Washington-Liberty Generals are enjoying one of their best starts in program history.
Among the high-school team’s victories were a 11-7 win over private-school Sidwell Friends along with triumphs over Northern Virginia public-school squads West Springfield, 13-8, Marshall, 16-3, Falls Church, 16-5, and South County, 6-3.
Live standup comedy in Arlington on Friday July 31 starring Jim Bryan, Kim Villamera, and Greg Billet.
Friday, July 31, 2026
The Overlee Flying Fish will be led by one of their own and a very familiar face when the Northern Virginia Swimming League begins its summer season in June.
The team’s new head coach will be Ryan York, who swam for Overlee from age 6 to 18, with the 2021 season his last, then was an assistant with the team the past two summers. He set team records for Overlee and also was a lifeguard at the pool.
A number of members of the Yorktown High School girls swimming and diving team recently were rewarded as Class 6 all-state selections from their performances during the 2024-25 season.
They helped Yorktown win a third straight Virginia High School League state championship this past season.
A number of seniors who played for Arlington high-school football teams this past fall have made college commitments.
Among them is Yorktown Patriots’ quarterback Drew Morgan. He will play at Division III Kenyon College.
Good Friday 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 — Apr 11, 2025.
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
Here is what’s going on Saturday in Arlington, from our event calendar.
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
Expect cloudy skies with a 50% chance of showers and a high near 49, accompanied by a north wind at 11 mph and gusts up to 20 mph. Saturday night, there’s a 20% chance of showers before 2am, with mostly cloudy conditions and a low of 42, as the north wind decreases to 7 mph. See more from Weather.gov.
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden
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We hope you have a great weekend, Arlington! Feel free to discuss the most-read stories of the week, the upcoming weekend events or anything else of local interest in the comments. 👋
A former Arlington School Board member has published a new memoir about her work in education, politics and activism.
“Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant’s Journey” recounts Emma Violand-Sánchez’s extensive career in Arlington Public Schools after traveling from Bolivia to the United States. From reliving the loss of her first husband to exploring her advocacy for immigrant students in Arlington, the 336-page book, co-written with David Bearinger, is full of both triumph and tragedy.
