Nov. 7 was polling day in Falls Church City, offering numerous opportunities for AP Government students at Meridian to get involved in local government. Students volunteered to make sure the day ran...

On July 12, 2023, Citizens for a Better City (CBC) held the first ever signing ceremony for the Falls Church Candidate Integrity Pledge. All candidates campaigning in the 2023 election cycle have signed...

9:32 pm With all results but provisional ballots, these are the expected results of local Falls Church Elections for School Board and City Council. Provisional ballots, which are expected to be less...

Anyone who registered to vote by the Oct. 12 at and is 18 years old by Tuesday, Nov. 2 is eligible to vote in today's election. Voters in Falls Church will be able to cast their votes for the statewide...

On October 15, City Council and School Board candidates gathered on Zoom to answer questions from Meridian students. You can watch a video of the forum below. Click here for an article about the forum.

The Lasso hosted a virtual candidate forum during Block 8 on October 15 for School Board and City Council candidates to address Falls Church City’s youngest voters. A recording of the forum is available...

On Friday, October 15, The Lasso will host a candidates forum for students during Block 8 in the auditorium. Candidates will be on Zoom but broadcast on a projector screen so students can see it. Due...

Right now, the news cycle is consumed with the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Joe Biden entered the third presidential race of his career after much anticipation. Bernie Sanders entered...

The recurrent laryngeal nerve, which supplies motor function to the larynx, is one of the strangest fixtures of human anatomy. Instead of connecting the brain directly to the larynx, it first takes an...

With School Board elections set to take place on November 7, The Lasso reached out to all six candidates. We asked them to identify two of the following seven issues facing FCCPS which they find to be...

Now that the initial shock of Donald Trump winning the election has more or less subsided, outrage, protest and rallying seems to have been replaced by complacency and the phrase repeated by so many...

After six days of polling, the 176 GM students who responded to The Lasso’s Mock Election survey selected Hillary Clinton as their choice as the President of the United States. The Lasso released...