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Golden Opportunity for Students
Sherman uses ties to Goldie Hawn to implement mindfulness program at Jefferson-Houston.
 WHAT DO YOU GET when you mix Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn, Alexandria Superintendent Morton Sherman and a nonprofit foundation that offers an educational product using research from neuroscientists? The answer: MindUp, a mindfulness program crafted by a California-based nonprofit organization known as the Hawn Foundation. Sherman is the chairman of the nonprofit foundation. Read more...
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Presidential Park
Jack Ford talks about his early life in Alexandria.
 JACK FORD grew up in Alexandria, attending MacArthur Elementary School and graduating from T.C. Williams High School in 1970. He was a summer park ranger at Yellowstone National Park between terms as a forestry student at Utah State University when his father became president. Read more...
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Rearranging Government
Cllaborative realignment to offset growth in spending.
 IN THE LAST decade, city spending mushroomed from $288 million to $530 million — almost doubling during a time when revenues from residential property values were streaming into City Hall almost faster than City Council members could spend them. Now things have changed. Expansion of city services has ceased, and City Manager Jim Hartmann has started a new initiative to determine which services are appropriate and which employees should be delivering them. Read more...
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