Trump’s election made politics essential for this middle-schooler

By Billy Bates: The author is a rising senior at Fairfax High School and president of the school’s Young Democrats chapter  The year was 2016. I had just woken up and was preparing to leave for school when my mom told me that Donald Trump had won the election. A lump started forming in my throat. How had this happened?…

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Renoir’s boaters raise a blue wave in Fairfax County

By Kimberly Davis: A curious alteration of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s famed Impressionist painting “Luncheon of the Boating Party” has captured attention at recent events. Wait, isn’t that state delegate candidate Dan Helmer (dist. 40) in white? And there’s some other familiar faces there… Many of these faces and close to 200 more showed up for a real-life boating party on Sunday,…

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