A new Southwestern-style restaurant in Virginia Square is on track to open in the next few weeks.
The only items left on the to-do list for Anita’s, which has been serving New Mexican cuisine at other Northern Virginia locations for about 50 years, are minor cosmetic updates.
Thieves damaged a number of cars in a condominium parking lot near Pentagon City earlier this week.
The break-ins happened overnight Monday into Tuesday, at the Cavendish condos. The cars targeted were Hondas, Arlington County police say.
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USCIS administers immigration benefits. In the time-honored tradition of government agencies since the days of Ur and Uruk, USCIS uses forms to collect, store, and interpret information. Immigrants complete these forms in order to obtain benefits. Most U.S. citizens have no idea what reams of paperwork these forms require. An ordinary green card application is comprised of ninety-seven pages of bare forms, which typically are supported by several hundred pages of supporting documents.
In better times, forms are a necessary evil. In the times we actually live in, forms are just another weapon with which to thwack your political opponents.
In the second iteration of the Trump Administration, USCIS has discovered a new, extremely petty way to make immigrants’ lives more difficult – by releasing new form versions which make utterly minute changes, and then decrees that yesterday’s official version is obsolete as of today.
The Office of Management and Budget, by the way, requires that all government forms have an ‘edition date’ and an ‘expiration date.’ USCIS evades this neatly by making the expiration date purely notional – the form can be valid after the expiration date, and it can be decreed obsolete at any time before or after the expiration date. (The edition date is notional, too – in the first months of the Trump Administration, USCIS persistently released forms backdated to January 20, 2025, seemingly just for the inaugural vibes.) The forms altered in the last two weeks are highlighted below.
Local Real Estate Still In Demand — “The median time from listing to ratified sales contract across the Washington region for the week ending Aug. 4 was 23 days, according to new figures… Among major jurisdictions in Northern Virginia, Arlington had the lowest median trajectory from listing to ratified contract at 16 days (down from 22 a year before).” [Gazette Leader]
Layoffs for Clarendon Media Firm — “Arlington, Virginia-based Axios is the latest media company to slash jobs — its first significant cuts since Axios was founded in 2016. Axios is laying off 10% of its staff, or around 50 employees, according to an employee memo from CEO Jim VandeHei, who cited a rapidly changing media landscape as reason for the cuts.” [WTOP, New York Times]
Trespassers Atop Rosslyn Tower — From Alan Henney: “This evening at the new Hilton construction site in Rosslyn.” [Twitter]
Local Senior Program is Growing — “As it continues celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV) program is seeing sustained growth on a number of fronts… Membership has grown from 393 members at the end of 2023 to 426 members as of July 1, an 8-percent increase.” [Gazette Leader]
Controversy Involving F.C. Official — “The deputy director of the D.C. Department of Buildings resigned after being fined $25,000 when she was found to have been secretly holding a second job and serving as an elected official in Falls Church, Virginia, while on D.C. government time.” [NBC 4, Washington Post]
Watching Debby — “Tropical Storm Debby — which has drenched areas from Florida to southeast North Carolina — is readying for its final act. Its remnants are poised to sweep through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast between Thursday and Saturday morning, bringing potential for considerable flooding.” [Capital Weather Gang, Twitter]
VDOT Ready for Storm — “VDOT crews stand ready to respond to road hazards and any damage resulting from the storm. Ahead of the storm, crews have been inspecting drainage facilities and clearing them where necessary, readying trucks and equipment, and coordinating debris and tree removal crews to be on standby.” [Press Release]
It’s Thursday — Expect showers and potential thunderstorms, with a high near 80 and east winds at 10-13 mph, gusting up to 20 mph. There’s an 80% chance of rain, with half to three-quarters of an inch expected. Thursday night, anticipate similar conditions with a low around 75, southeast winds at 11 mph, and three-quarters to one inch of rainfall. [NWS]
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Good Wednesday 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 — Aug 7, 2024.
Here is what’s going on Thursday in Arlington, from our event calendar.
Expect showers and potential thunderstorms, with a high near 80 and east winds at 10-13 mph, gusting up to 20 mph. There’s an 80% chance of rain, with half to three-quarters of an inch expected. Thursday night, anticipate similar conditions with a low around 75, southeast winds at 11 mph, and three-quarters to one inch of rainfall. See more from Weather.gov.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Event location
Bluemont Park
329 N Manchester St.
arlington, Virginia 22203
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Arlington County police are investigating an incident that resulted in a theft suspect discharging a round from the gun of a responding officer.
The incident happened just after 4:30 p.m. when a person began to load up a backpack with merchandise from the Target at 740 N. Glebe Road, according to scanner traffic.
While Fairfax County recently rolled out a new prosecution dashboard with detailed breakdowns of the county’s criminal caseload, Arlington data tracking lags behind.
The new Case Overview Dashboard from the Office of the Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney contains a wealth of information on the county’s criminal cases, with data on the age, race and gender of defendants as well as stats on specific charges.
A 63-year-old Florida man has been arrested following the robbery of a Crystal City bank Monday morning.
Police say the man, who’s accused of passing a note to a teller and fleeing with stolen cash, was “identified and subsequently taken into custody in Washington, DC on [Tuesday] with the assistance of Metro Transit Police Department.”
Arlington County is one of the most accessible places in the county.
That’s according to a new set of rankings from Forbes, which looked at a variety of factors from wheelchair-friendly rentals to a place’s Walk Score.
There’s a new sheriff’s dog in town.
Hope, a yellow Labrador retriever puppy, will serve as a “wellness dog” in the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office’s K9 unit.
Pentagon MMA has brought a special honor home to Arlington from the birthplace of Muay Thai.
The Arlington Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu Academy is now officially a certified and registered Muay Thai Gym Partner through the Sports Authority of Thailand and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, making Pentagon MMA the only Muay Thai academy on the East Coast to have earned this distinction.
