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Inside This Week Creative Cauldron Wins 2 Helen Hayes Awards Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron theater troupe scored two wins at the annual Washington D.C.area wide Helen Hayes awards Monday. See News Briefs, page 9
Founder’s Row Restaurant Deal Near
A Mill Creek vice president told the News-Press last week that a deal is near to land a 9,600-square foot, high-end restaurant for the 4.3-acre Founder’s Row development at the northeast corner of W. Broad and West St.
Constitutional Safeguards Will Prevail, Kaine Says on Visit to Falls Church
Will Survive ‘Stress Test’ He Says in FCNP Interview
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
of 72 women at the Lorton Prison that previously functioned on the museum’s site. The location of the museum is particularly poignant, on the grounds of the Workhouse Arts Center, location of the former Lorton Prison, where the 72 women were imprisoned for up to seven months with beatings and
“Our Constitutional democracy is currently being subjected to a stress test,” U.S. Senator and recent Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine told the News-Press in an exclusive interview at the Rare Bird coffee shop in downtown Falls Church Monday morning, “and I am confident our institutions will be vindicated.” Kaine immediately jumped to a history lesson. “In September 1787, our founding fathers crafted a Constitution with a system of checks and balances, and the overwhelming motivation behind it was to keep an executive from running wild.” He said the guarantees of the First Amendment, the establishment that Supreme Court justices and judges cannot be fired and other measures were set up to limit the impact of an executive who doesn’t care about limits. “Now there is a tremendous energy being exercised to minimize the risks of an overreaching executive,” Kaine said, citing four components addressing President Trump’s “insecurity” about the evidence of Russian involvement in the 2016 election and his “extreme nervousness” about the allegations that his campaign cooperated with that foreign intrusion. Before the issue of impeachment arises, he said, the four components currently active are: 1. the Senate intelligence committee moving ahead in a bipartisan way with Kaine’s Virginia Senate colleague Mark Warner as the vicechair; 2. the criminal investigation that is ongoing at the Justice
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See News Briefs, page 9
David Brooks: When the World Is Led by a Child
At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. See page 15
Westergard Debuts 1st Solo Exhibit
Artist on the rise and Falls Church native Nils Westergard is currently displaying his distinctive stencil-driven style at a solo exhibit, “A Tender Risk,” at The Fridge in D.C. through the end of May. See page 8
VIRGINIA U.S. SENATOR and former Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine (left) made a special stop in the City of Falls Church Monday morning to provide a half-hour exclusive interview to News-Press editor-in-chief Nicholas Benton. The complete interview will soon be available on Falls Church Cable TV and at FCNP.com. (Photo: News-Press)
Falls Church Developers Donate Big $ to New Suffrage Museum by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
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The Falls Church-based Kiddar Capital announced this week that its CEO Todd Hitt has donated $250,000 to the Workhouse Arts Center to support a new museum honoring the women who fought for suffrage, the woman’s vote, that culminated in the ratification of 19th amendment in August,
1920. Hitt and his friend, Falls Church’s Rick Hausler, CEO of Insight Properties, are major benefactors of the museum and the Workhouse Arts Center. With the help of their contributions, the Lucy Burns Museum, named for the American suffragist and women’s rights advocate, is expected to be completed by the end of 2017, on the 100th anniversary of the historic imprisonment