Email: andre.taylor@patch.com
Phone: 703-439-4933
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Birthday: May 3
Bio: I was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa. and recently moved to Virginia in October. I received my BA in Mass Communications from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the nation's first Historically Black College and University. Before attending Cheyney, I attended Temple University in Philadelphia where I was a member of the Owls football team as a scholar-athlete. After a little more than a season of football at Cheyney, I left the game because of an injury. I then focused my attention solely on journalism and quickly rose from a sports reporter to editor-in-chief of our campus newspaper, The Record.
I love to cook and you will get a chance to follow my recipes on this website in my Andre Taylor's Tasty Tidbits column.
Your Beliefs: I live by the old journalistic rule of get it first, but get it right. I believe great, solid journalism is a lost art form. I promise to be fair in all of my reporting and I welcome criticism, good and bad, as that is the only way I feel we can preserve one of our most precious freedoms as Americans: freedom of press. I believe input from the public is needed to make sure the real news is being reported on. I promise to always keep an open ear to anyone willing to speak.
Politics: I have been a registered voter since I turned 18. Since becoming eligible to vote, I have moved around a lot and I have been registered to vote in: Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Delaware, Texas, Maryland and now Virginia. Voting is something I take very serious and a privilege I partake in whenever I can.
Religion: I was raised in a mostly African Methodist Episcopal family. My wife and I are currently looking for a church home.
Local Hot-Button Issues: As a new resident of Fairfax County, I can't say enough how much I dislike the heavy traffic surrounding Interstate-495 near and around Tyson's Corner. As a person who has lived in Philadelphia and New York, I understand traffic, but never have I seen such massive traffic jams during the weekends, late evenings and during the times of day when people should be at work and school and not in a three mile backup.
Falls Church resident Robert Foster—like many of his co-workers—is cutting back on spending as the March 1 deadline for sequestration approaches.
The department’s new 2013 Ford Police Inceptor will be the only car in the city’s fleet with a traditional black and white paint job.
Smith, who has cut hair in Falls Church for almost 50 years, said barbershops have always been a meeting spot in black communities.
The full service mobile DMV office will make five more visits to the City of Falls Church in 2013.
The Falls Church police department supplied the following incident and arrest information. It does not indicate a conviction.
Mustangs head into Region B Semi Finals with win over William Monroe.
Grocery store, six-story building would included 282 apartments and bring an estimated $22 million to the City of Falls Church over 20 years.
Chantilly High knocks Marshall out of playoffs in a 66-45 win.
The most recent available restaurant health inspections provided by the Virginia Department of Health.
More than 40 girls attend first day of Mustang softball tryouts.
Chantilly High knocks Marshall out of playoffs in a 66-45 win.
Chantilly High knocks Marshall out of playoffs in a 66-45 win.
The community center is open; several government offices will be closed in observance of Presidents Day 2013.
Siblings Rebecca and David Tax started the parade 15 years ago before moving to Falls Church.
Restaurant had been closed since Jan. 21 for renovations.
Check out some of the top headlines from Falls Church last week.
Northern Virginia NORML chapter would like to see marijuana laws handled on the state level, not the Federal level.
Northern Virginia NORML chapter would like to see marijuana laws handled on the state level, not the Federal level.
Northern Virginia NORML chapter would like to see marijuana laws handled on the state level, not the Federal level.
Brother and sister David and Rebecca Tax started the parade 15 years ago before moving to Falls Church.
