(Updated 11:20 a.m.) Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria!
⛈️ Today’s weather: Expect scattered showers and possible thunderstorms after 11am, with a partly sunny sky and a high near 89. The light variable wind will shift to the north around 5 mph in the morning, bringing a 40% chance of rainfall. During Wednesday night, showers and storm potential continues, mainly before 2am, with a low around 71. The east wind of about 5mph will become light and variable later in the evening, carrying a 30% chance of precipitation.
🚨 You need to know
At long last, the Fairfax County Police Department will start using community names rather than referring to parts of Fairfax as “Alexandria”.
Mislabeling areas like Fort Belvoir or Mount Vernon as Alexandria has long been the White Whale of blogger Dave Statter.
(1) NEW: My battle of 40 years is over. 2 weeks ago @ChiefKDavis committed to having @FairfaxCountyPD stop using phrases like "Alexandria/Falls Church section of Fairfax County". Instead, they'll use community names within the county. As you can see it has already begun. (more) pic.twitter.com/wCy4tTeTHP
— Dave Statter (@STATter911) July 12, 2023
The change has already won some gratitude from Alexandria leadership.
“I think having a commitment by the Fairfax County police and other elements of the Fairfax County government to be more accurate in how they communicate to the media particularly, but also to the public, is really, really important,” Wilson told FFXnow. “I think [the change] will go a long way because there’s so many times where you’ll turn on the TV, and you’ll hear NBC or Fox…saying this incident, this stabbing, this whatever has occurred in Alexandria, and we’ll get a call from people saying, ‘Wait, where did this happen?’ And we’ll say, ‘No, it was actually in the county, it wasn’t in the city.’”
📈 Tuesday’s most read
The following are the most-read ALXnow articles for Jul 18, 2023.
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- Notes: Construction on major new affordable housing project in Arlandria starting next month (534 views)
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