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(Possible candidate list updated at 8:10 p.m.) Mary Margaret Whipple, who represents Arlington in the Virginia Senate, announced her retirement today. Whipple has represented Virginia's 31st Senate district since 1996. Before being elected to the state Senate, Whipple served on the Arlington School Board, the Arlington County Board and the Metro Transit Board. News of

There are more than a dozen other cities and towns named Alexandria in the United States.

By Olivia Anderson | oanderson@alextimes.com Del Pepper first ran for City Council in 1985, when the role of women was widely viewed differently than it is

To the editor: Virginia House of Delegates bill 2262, which permits bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs, is emblematic of how governance goes wrong when one party takes total control. On Feb. 21, all of Alexandria’s House of Delegates members voted for this bill, which contains the following provision which, thankfully, the almost evenly divided Senate sidetracked: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the operator of a bicycle may treat a stop sign as a yield sign if the operat...