With early and caucus voting underway, some candidates for local office are getting boosts from prominent Arlington Democrats. Arlington is a Democratic stronghold for state and national politics. On the local level, that ethos has fueled intense focus on who will get the official support of the local party even for non-partisan positions on
(Updated at 11:00 a.m.) Should the Arlington School Board have a sixth, non-voting student representative? One candidate for School Board thinks so. Angelo Cocchiaro argues it would give students a stronger voice and align Arlington with neighboring jurisdictions, including the cities of Falls Church, Fairfax and Alexandria, Prince George's County in Maryland and D.C. "So
A fundraiser for Commonwealth's Attorney candidate Josh Katcher has drawn some notable local names. Katcher is running in June's Democratic primary to unseat his former boss, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, as Arlington's top prosecutor. Both bill themselves as justice reformers, though Katcher is associating a local rise in crime albeit one in line with national trends
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012). We used the Knowledge Networks (KN) internet panel for the sample (besides me, the authors are Andrew Ropicki, John Loomis, Sherry Larkin, Tim Haab, and Sergio Alvarez). At one point.
(Updated at 12:55 p.m.) The Chair of the Arlington School Board just announced that he will not be running for reelection. Reid Goldstein was first elected in 2015, after winning a two-way Democratic endorsement caucus. An Arlington resident for nearly 40 years, Goldstein participated in various local committees and civic groups prior to his election