Nicholas F. Benton

Washington, D.C.

Owner and Editor at Falls Church News-Press

Owner, Falls Church News-Press, Author, Extraordinary Hearts, Reclaiming Gay Sensibility's Central Role in the Progress of Civilization.

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Cult Century: 1970s Roots Of Trumpism, Part 2 of 25

1 week ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

I will start this series with the first look after World War I when humanity suffered its first ever effort at coping with a world driven by a massive conflagration that ripped asunder the end of the capitalist world as we knew it far sooner than we expected and threw humanity into the utter latest phase of what we are now beginning to better appreciate as the end of an epoch that could last eons.
Prepare for The worst

1 week ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

The City of Falls Church may soon be facing the most serious crisis in its history. At a City Council work session Monday night, residents spent three tense hours debating a single penny on the tax rate—an ominous sign of the financial pressure already mounting. By October, a range of Covid-era relief funds will run out, reserves will be depleted, and many taxpayers could find themselves with little to fall back on besides their own savings—however long those might last.
Cult Century: 1970s Roots Of Trumpism, Part 1 of 25

2 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

The U.S. population as a whole is now finding out what it’s like to be in a cult. Every move that the new Trump administration has been taking, especially since his re-election in 2024, corresponds to what has been a cookie cutter script for the myriad authoritarian anti-science cults that exploded across the land in the late 1960s and 1970s.
N-P Proposes Push For ‘Restaurant Row’

2 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

As the Falls Church City Council comes down to its final two weeks before a May 12 vote that will set the real estate tax rate for the coming fiscal year, there is little doubt that a great deal of uncertainty looms over this region. We face, with the draconian cuts in the federal workforce and federal consultants, an impact that, actually, is impossible to predict right now.
Region Reeling as Connolly Won’t Seek Re-Election

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Nicholas F. Benton

Share The entire Northern Virginia region was shaken this week by the news from long-time U.S. Rep Gerry Connolly that his cancer has returned and he will not seek re-election to another term in 2026. In a statement to constituents Monday, Connolly wrote, “When I announced my diagnosis six months ago, I promised transparency. After grueling treatments, we’ve learned that the cancer, while initially beaten back, has now returned.
Tonight in F.C., How To Run for City Council

2 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

Two major new developments have arisen so far for this coming period in Falls Church. The first is the announcement in Wednesday’s daily schools update that the proposed new Superintendent, who the school board has selected to replace departing Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan, will be unveiled this Monday at 5 p.m.The second is more immediate, as in tonight (Thursday, May 1) at the American Legion Hall on N.
Region Reeling as Connolly Won’t Seek Re-Election

2 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

The entire Northern Virginia region was shaken this week by the news from long-time U.S. Rep Gerry Connolly that his cancer has returned and he will not seek re-election to another term in 2026. In a statement to constituents Monday, Connolly wrote, “When I announced my diagnosis six months ago, I promised transparency. After grueling treatments, we’ve learned that the cancer, while initially beaten back, has now returned.
Why We Keep On Printing

3 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

Everybody please take extra caution when on our roadways in these parts. Among the collateral consequences of the Trump slash-and-burn approach to federal worker and contractor layoffs that are disproportionately hitting this Northern Virginia region now are manifestations of rage and frustration that probably are leading to erratic and dangerous behavior. Arlington County experienced a 100 percent increase in DUI deaths, and Fairfax County averages a DUI crash every 13 hours.
Pope Francis, An Epochal Leader of Humanity

3 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

“Communication should be at the service of an authentic culture of encounter.” Pope Francis said, World Communications Day, 2014. For those of us in the news business, this stands as the late beloved Pope Francis’ affirmation of and challenge to our work. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” Pope Francis wrote last year.
New Wave of West Falls Retailers, Homes Announced

3 weeks ago | fcnp.com | Nicholas F. Benton

As Falls Church’s stunning new 10-acre development speeds toward construction completion, new retailers and housing options are opening up with the prospect of inviting countless new dollars to the Little City from not only its current residents, but from the surrounding region with its estimated $14 billion in annual disposable income. It is the largest of a remarkable four major retail hubs in the 2.2 square miles of the Little City.