TRICK, NO TREAT: KIDS’ PARTIES AS SUPERSPREADER EVENTS According to Loudoun’s Health Department director, COVID cases in the county continue to climb, and the department is now tracking at least three outbreaks resulting from kids’ Halloween parties. He said these… Read More ›
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Listen to the Opposition
By Frank Blechman I am going to begin this column with a confession. I had a really hard time deciding how to frame this conversation. In this blog, I have tried to present myself as a grumpy old guy who… Read More ›
Jim Crow Medical Ethics in Virginia
The Hippocratic oath continues to this day as a model of ethical conduct for medical professionals. It has come, generally, to be regarded as a precept that no harm be done in the practice of medicine and remains to the… Read More ›
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FAIRFAX POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. will step down in February, capping a nearly 8-year run that brought major reforms to Virginia’s largest police department during an era of change in policing. It was… Read More ›
Ethics and Governance
That “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion” is a well-known, often spoken proverb. It means simply that an individual in the public forum must avoid attracting negative attention or scrutiny. This saw is employed as a criterion of ethical behavior or conduct above and beyond that… Read More ›
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LOUDOUN INVITES UNIONS In the footsteps of Portsmouth (see last week’s VoxFairfax, Brief Cases), the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has invited unions to speak with county employees as a first step toward unionizing. Prior state law prohibited union organizing… Read More ›
On Being Boring, 2020
By Frank Blechman Fairfax County may have a vibrant economy, historic sites, cultural & ethnic diversity, yet it still manages to be boring. It appears that we like it that way. So little noteworthy happens here that the Washington Post… Read More ›
Private Militias Are a Threat to All
Editors’ Note: Crossposted from The New York Times, October 8, 2020. By Mary B. McCord VoxFairfax has commented upon this issue on several occasions. Across the nation, local sheriffs have offered sympathetic comments about private militias often encouraging their activities. Sometimes… Read More ›
Invisible No Longer
By Margo Khosravi Many people who are familiar with Clifton, Virginia, know that the picturesque little railroad town owes its existence to a northerner from New York who arrived on the scene shortly after the Civil War ended. Much has… Read More ›