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■ FCTA Summer Party: 2025-06-07, 5:00pm
-- Back yard of Rod and Joyce Dyck - 10613 Fiesta Rd / Fairfax, VA 22032
-- For FCTA members and their spouses
-- No cost to attend. Food and drink provided.
-- Opportunity to mix with your fellow FCTA members.
-- Get more engaged with FCTA activities.
-- RSVP/Contact: Rod Dyck at 703-328-1660 or rd2222@aol.com.
■ Jan 4 General Assy hearing at Gov't Center
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FCTA Testimonies -- The Fx Co delegation
to the Va General Assy held its annual pre-session public hearing at the
Gov't Center on Saturday, Jan 4, 2025. FCTA was there.
FCPS ACTrp: FCPS ACT Reports for 2011,2016,2017,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024 ... Note: FCTA had to FOIA these reports and provide hosting, as FCPS does not post them on its web site.
■ FCTA provides full text of
Classics in Western Literature
... The Great Books provide valuable lessons in life, but unfortunately
are not emphasized these days. Here are 90+ local HTML copies of books
that every educated person should make an effort to read and be able to
discuss intelligently.
Recent Posts: Local, Virginia, and Perspective FCTA Wonders:
(1) Is it worse to not learn because gov't schools are closed, or to not learn reading, math, and 1776 history when gov't schools are open? (2) Will Va. adopt destructive and expensive green energy policies like California? (3) Can U.S. citizens' trust be restored in government, corporate, and educational institutions? (4) Will the U.S. return to equal justice under the law?
2025-05-26 (Sch) Examiner: Why Do Fx Dems Keep Fighting for Racism in Schools, by Jeff Leach Last week Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was slayed with three lawsuits charging racial discrimination, due to its woke One Fairfax policy of cultural Marxism. Fairfax Democrat leaders continue to support these racist policies, which jeopardizes $168M in federal funding and costs undisclosed sums in fighting lawsuits.
2025-05-21 (Msc) FXX Now: Fx Co gov't workers (just 22%) vote to unionize, by Angela Woolsey Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on May 16 that county government workers have elected it as their exclusive bargaining unit for future contract negotiations after the largest organizing push among general government employees in Virginia history. However, only 22% of county employees voted.
2025-05-21 (Msc) Fx GOP: Fx Co Dems Pushing to Socialize Trash Collection The Democrat-controlled Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is pushing forward with a plan to establish Unified Sanitation Districts that would eliminate your freedom to choose your own trash service, impose mandatory recycling and composting requirements, and create yet another tax on county residents.
2025-05-20 (Sch) The Federalist: Feds Charge FCPS with Race Discrimination, by Breccan Thies Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), one of the largest school districts in the country, has been slapped with a federal civil rights complaint over its relentless racial discrimination regime. The 2017 "One Fairfax" policy was cited as the main driver of these offenses.
2025-05-18 (Sch) FCTA: Democracy dies in darkness in Fairfax County, by FCTA's Jeff Leach Put on your gas masks and headlamps for a short tour of just a few ways in which Fairfax County, Virginia, once the home of the general and first president who led the revolution for American freedoms, has become a miasma of poisoned darkness in which democracy is gasping for breath.
2025-05-16 (Tax) WMAL: Fairfax County's Recipe for a Tax Hike -- Op-Ed, by FCTA's Jeff Leach This year, I watched the Fairfax County budget process closely and even participated in public and private hearings. Then, on May 13, I watched the nine Democrat Supervisors of Fairfax County vote to approve yet another tax increase. Here's what they taught me.
2025-05-14 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax Co Democrats embrace higher taxes and waste, by FCTA's Jeff Leach On Tuesday, despite an outpouring of taxpayer protest, all nine Democrat supervisors voted to enact numerous tax hikes, with only Republican Pat Herrity opposing. This bloated budget demanding yet more money from taxpayers comes at a time when federal employees around the county are losing their jobs, Virginia has the highest car tax in the nation, and taxpaying households continue to vote with their feet every year by moving out of Fairfax County for greener pastures.
2025-04-29 (Tax) Fx GOP: Fx Co Residents Rally Against Record-Breaking Tax Hikes Fairfax County residents gathered in front of the Fairfax County Government Center on April 22 to protest proposed tax increases at a rally organized by the Fairfax County Taxpayers' Alliance.
2025-04-29 (Sch) Fx GOP: Fx Co Doubles Down on "Transition Life Education", by Laura Hanford Recent votes to continue secret gender "transitions" in schools and to remove public access to the Fairfax County, Virginia, sex education committee cap years of deceit by Fairfax elected officials.
