ALXnow has never done more local news reporting than we’re doing now.
In March, we published 220 stories (the most stories ever published in one month on the website) and reached 430,316 visitors (38% more traffic year over year). Just ten days into April, and we’re averaging nine new stories per day.
It’s only taken Virginia 400-plus years to get around to it, but a fairly routine political event last weekend made it nearly an absolute certainty that next January, the commonwealth will inaugurate its first woman governor.
The Republican Party of Virginia announced on Saturday that former state Sen. Amanda Chase, a right-wing lightning rod who described herself as “Trump in heels,” had failed to gather enough signatures on qualifying petitions by that day’s deadline to appear on the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot.
ALXnow is launching its new Readers’ Choice Awards this week. This new resource will allow our community to vote for their local favorites across a range of categories.
Starting today (April 7), ALXnow will release weekly polls asking readers to vote for their top picks in various areas, including the best pizza, coffee shops, nonprofits, and home service providers. The initiative will always feature carefully chosen nominees in each category, with a write-in option to ensure no hidden gems are missed.
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Since launching in 2019, ALXnow has become a trusted news source, rapidly growing to reach over 250,000 engaged monthly visitors (as of our 2024 data). This readership isn’t just passing through; they are the people who live, work, and invest in Alexandria and its surrounding areas, actively seeking local information – making ALXnow the premier digital platform to place your message for maximum local impact.
Think the decades-old food stamps program deserves to be in the callous, capricious cross hairs of Elon Musk, President Donald Trump and the latter’s spineless sycophants in Congress? Then you don’t know someone like Ndaneh Luseni.
The 34-year-old Alexandria woman, a single mother with three children, depends on the nourishment that food stamps provide. Luseni receives only $83 a month in benefits from what’s formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Yet, that money allows her to help make ends meet on a regular basis. SNAP pays for essentials like eggs, milk, bread and juice in her household.
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At a City Council meeting last week, City Council member Abdel Elnoubi and Vice Mayor Sarah Bagley introduced a proposal that could change the way Alexandria City High School students get to school.
Elnoubi and Bagley, with the unanimous backing of the City Council, asked staff to explore the utilization of the DASH bus network to transport for high school students, eliminating the need for school buses at the high school level.
Alright! Last snow post: for now.
Snow stopped falling a few days ago, but it’s still all around the city and is still having some residual impacts.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) says Virginia workers shouldn’t pay state tax on tips they get from customers.
Adopting the policy — supported on a federal level by both president-elect Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris during the recent election — would let tipped workers keep an extra $70 million each year throughout the Commonwealth, the governor’s office said in a press release Monday.
This weekend, Alexandria will light its annual tree lighting in Market Square (301 King Street), but the timing of the lighting has spurred some consternation about Christmas decorations going up before Thanksgiving.
The lighting is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23, almost a week before Thanksgiving on Nov. 28. The event is free to attend and will include an introduction from town crier Ben Fiore-Walker, caroling, along with a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus to meet families.
From the 100 block down to the waterfront, King Street is a pedestrian zone. Now, that zone could be expanding a little further west to the 200 block of King Street.
The pedestrian-zones are closed to car traffic except where King Street intersects with perpendicular roads like S. Union Street. The closure, which started out in 2020, has since become a permanent feature of the Old Town blocks.
