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  • In Ukraine, much panic and politicking over H1N1 virus

    Philip P. Pan
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    KIEV, UKRAINE -- One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it...

  • Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric

    Carrie Johnson, Spencer S. Hsu and Ellen Nakashima
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources brie...

  • As deployment nears, nerves fray

    Greg Jaffe
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Even before the shootings at this sprawling military post, Pfc. Nicolas Woodworth was wary of shipping out for Afghanistan in early January. As a combat engineer, he is supposed to serve on a route-clearance team, creeping down Afghan roads at 5 mph looking for bombs.

  • Health bill opponents make most of mammogram advisory

    Michael D. Shear and Dan Eggen
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average...

  • Fatal shooting of student splits community known for love of the outdoors

    Brigid Schulte
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the woods.
 
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    Topix: Washington, D.C. News

  • CakeLove fulfills lifelong dream of former Washington attorney

    21 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am
    Brown says CakeLove has received lots of love from customers during the recession.

  • Wilkie hopes to find doors opening in Washington

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:51 am
    Josh Wilkie hopes one day to ride the Metro to work, just like you and me. He'd like to hop on the Orange Line at Foggy Bottom, head to L'Enfant Plaza and then take the Green Line straight to his office. There's where his commute would differ from ours. His office would be the pitching mound at Nationals Park.He's so close. If anything, Wilkie, 25, has overachieved. The right-handed pitcher was an undrafted free agent out of George Washington University, signed by the Nats in 2006. He worked his way through every stop in their minor league system until reaching Class AAA Syracuse, just one…

  • Stimulus watchdog: Job creation data flawed

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:40 pm
    Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. Read more: National , Economy , Politics , Government Watchdog , Economic Stimulus , White House , Job , Unemployment WASHINGTON a ' The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending says the White House was too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs.

  • Terra Cotta Warriors quarter at Washington

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:20 pm
    China's Terra Cotta army is invading a Washington DC museum. The ancient warriors are entrenched at the National Geographic Museum and are ready for local visitors who've long wanted to marvel at the two thousand year old tomb guardians.

  • U.S. Health Plans Have History of Cost Overruns

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    As President Obama and Congress craft the largest national health insurance program since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, they insist that the final product will add "not one dime" to the federal deficit.
 
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    RollCall.com: Breaking News

  • Greg Ball Drops Out of New York Race

    New York Assemblyman Greg Ball (R), the controversial conservative who had been waging an aggressive campaign against Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.), announced Saturday that he would abandon his bid for Congress and run for state Senate instead.

  • Democrats Line Up 60 Votes to Start Debate

    Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced Saturday afternoon that she would provide the 60th vote Democrats need to start debate on a major health care reform measure.

  • Landrieu to Vote to Begin Debate

    Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) announced on the floor Saturday that she would vote to kill a GOP-led filibuster designed to prevent a major health care overhaul from coming up for debate.

  • Democrats Confident as Marathon Saturday Session Begins

    The epic battle for health care reform gets its first big test on the Senate floor tonight, with Democratic leaders feeling confident, though not yet assured, of getting the 60 votes necessary to beat back a GOP-led filibuster.

  • Obama Reports on Asia Trip as GOP Hits Health Bill Effort

    President Barack Obama used his Saturday radio address to defend his just-completed trip to Asia, arguing the visit will help "open a new era of American engagement" that will boost domestic efforts to right the economy. But Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho), in the GOP response, continued the Republican assault on Democratic health care reform plans, charging that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) legislation "will result in higher premiums and higher health care costs for Americans — period."
 
 
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    Washington City Paper

  • Pershing Park Case: The Games Peter Nickles Plays

    Jason Cherkis
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pm
    Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan warned AG Peter Nickles: "You're playing games with the wrong judge." Sullivan was referring to the AG's near endless stall tactics in the Pershing Park cases. These tactics include attempting to preventing depositions from being taken, and fighting the release of documents to the public. But what about Sullivan's characterization that Nickles is playing games? In an effort to answer that question, City Desk offers a play-by-play concerning the testimony of Det. Paul Hustler. Last Friday, Det. Hustler was set to give a deposition in…

  • Photo: Friday, Gumballs

    Darrow Montgomery
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pm
    1400 Block of Swann Street NW

  • DPW to City Paper: Recycling Violation Not Retribution

    Erika Niedowski
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:36 pm
    Nancee Lyons, a spokesperson for the D.C. Department of Public Works, just returned my call in the matter of the $50 fine Washington City Paper received this week for "failure to separate recycling from other solid waste" at 2390 Champlain St. NW, the location of the paper's newsroom. The timing seemed curious to some at the newspaper because, just a few weeks earlier, City Paper had published a cover story in which it criticized DPW for failing to crack down on private trash haulers who mix recycling and trash during their rounds. I asked Lyons if there was any connection—was this meant as…

  • Washingtonpost.com Dismissals: Layoffs?

    Erik Wemple
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:24 pm
    Heads are rolling in the Arlington offices of Washingtonpost.com, the longtime WaPo Web lab that is now undergoing a merger with the Post newsroom in downtown D.C. According to a knowledgeable source, the ranks of the RIFed number around ten so far. City Desk is working on compiling a list of the dismissed, which reportedly includes at least one big industry name. Meanwhile, one question looms: Are these layoffs? Or just strategic reductions aimed at redundant positions, as Post management would have us believe? Consider the case of one dismissed employee. This individual was told that the…

  • Fenty’s 39th Birthday Bash Set for Old Mayoral Mansion Site

    Mike DeBonis
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pm
    The time has almost come for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's annual birthday spectacle. Two years ago, Fenty threw a grand, open-door party at the Washington Convention Center. A year ago, Fenty kicked off his re-election campaign with a massive fete at the Forest Hills home of local developer Chris Donatelli. This year, for Hizzoner's 39th, the birthday bash/campaign fundraiser will also take place at a tony, oversized residence. This one, however, isn't occupied by any developer. In fact, it's vacant. The Dec. 5 event will be held at 1821 Hoban Road NW, a 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom model home…
 
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    TheHill.com: K Street Insiders

  • Promoting a cause through YouTube

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
    Earlier this year, following the rapidly escalating post-election events in Iran, the State Department made a request to the two-year-old company that has made Twitter Read more...

  • Let the facts speak for themselves

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    Good public policy has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. My early days in Congress were framed by my Read more...

  • Next year’s legislative agenda

    4 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    While Washington is focused on the final push, or “endgame,” there are many K Street strategists trying to figure out what legislative agenda the Democratic Read more...

  • Main Street lessons for K Street

    27 Oct 2009 | 3:04 pm
    The old adage “you can’t fight City Hall” has been turned on its head. Read more...
 
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    WashingtonPost: Politics

  • Prison holds promise for job-strapped town

    Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    CHICAGO -- On the edge of a cornfield 150 miles from Chicago lies a prison, all but vacant, that could become the new Guantanamo.

  • Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric

    Carrie Johnson, Spencer S. Hsu and Ellen Nakashima
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed...

  • Burris reproved by Senate ethics panel

    Paul Kane
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his controversial appointment to the seat previously held by President Obama.

  • Storm of criticism said to buoy Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner

    Brady Dennis
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has been a lightning rod for the Obama administration even longer than he's formally held his position. This week, the storm clouds returned.

  • Business Digest

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    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    CREDIT J.P. Morgan Chase said it is dropping a clause from its credit-card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could open the door to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits.
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    RollCall.com: Around the Hill

  • 'Disappeared' Not Forgotten

    The memories of the tens of thousands of "disappeared" Latin Americans have made their way to Washington.

  • Photo of the Week: Crypt Crowd

    White House chiefs of staff are not often treated like rock stars, but that appears to be changing with President-elect Barack Obama tapping Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) for the job.

  • A Kamikaze Pilot's Tale of Terrorism

    On May 11, 1945, a 22-year-old Japanese pilot flew his plane into one of America's largest and most complex aircraft carriers. His nosedive into the USS Bunker Hill killed nearly 400 Americans and devastated a symbol of the nation's grandeur and naval prowess.

  • Gladwell Tackles Success

    Malcolm Gladwell, a former business reporter at the Washington Post and now a staff writer at the New Yorker, made his reputation as a social science popularizer in 2000 with the publication of "The Tipping Point" and in 2005 with "Blink."

  • Mug Shots: An Expert's Adept Pour

    As the holiday party season gets underway, the bartender may be the most popular person in town.
 
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    WashingtonPost: Elections

  • U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...

  • To survive, the GOP needs a good in-house fight

    David S. Broder
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    She has a strong point -- GOP primaries are the best way to test leaders and ideas.

  • Book Review: 'The Battle for America' by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

    Ted Widmer
    7 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    "The Battle for America" boldly asserts its own importance in its title, and unlike many such pronouncements, it largely delivers. Through a judicious blend of facts, anecdotes, close-ups and wide-angle shots, it retells the story of the rise of a politician who was by no means foreordained to win the presidency, but is now so ubiquitous that he has nearly trademarked the letter O.

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    7 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm

  • As GOP celebrates victories, ideological battles between moderates and conservatives remain

    Philip Rucker and Perry Bacon Jr.
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    A rebounding Republican Party is savoring victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Chairman Michael S. Steele called a "Republican renaissance," it faces troubling ideological fissures within its ranks over how best to reclaim p...
 
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    WashingtonPost.com: Congress

  • Health bill opponents make most of mammogram advisory

    Michael D. Shear and Dan Eggen
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average...

  • Burris reproved by Senate ethics panel

    Paul Kane
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his controversial appointment to the seat previously held by President Obama.

  • Rep. Reyes not under investigation, House panel says

    Robert O'Harrow Jr.
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:53 am
    The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has said it is not investigating Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was the subject of a complaint last year involving contact between his office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...

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  • Lieberman opens Hill's first public hearing on Fort Hood

    Ben Pershing
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman gaveled into session Capitol Hill's first public hearing on the Fort Hood attack, promising Thursday to run his investigation from exactly where he sat on the dais -- the center.
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    WashingtonPost.com: Bush Administration

  • As Singh's visit nears, perceived U.S. missteps worry India

    John Pomfret
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian...

  • Holder's decision on Mohammed trial defended

    Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Some of the prominent criticisms are exaggerated.

  • U.S. to attend conference held by war crimes court

    Colum Lynch
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    For the first time in nearly eight years, the United States will participate in a conference with members of the International Criminal Court, a decision that signals growing U.S. support for a war crimes tribunal the Bush administration once shunned.

  • For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena

    Peter Finn
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the t...

  • Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York

    Peter Finn and Carrie Johnson
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in Manhattan federal courthouse less than a mile from Ground Zero, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete demonstration yet of the Obama administration'...
 
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    WashingtonPost.com: The Fix

  • Live Fix Chat: Palin, health care and Bill Simmons!

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    We chatted live on Friday with Fixistas from around the country about politics, the universe and everything. Among the hot topics: more analysis of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (if that's possible), a look at some of the best Senate races of 2010, and an update on the Fix's quest to become the "homeless man's Bill Simmons". A few of our favorite questions are below. The full transcript is here. Have a great weekend and drink a gingerbread latte for us! Gainesville, Va.: Hello Chris, Thank you for taking my question. Do you think that Sarah Palin is sacrificing a Presidential run in 2012 for…

  • Friday Line: Ranking Republican leaders

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:14 am
    The Republican Governors Association held its annual meeting earlier this week in Austin, Texas, a gathering where -- for the first time in recent memory -- the GOP had something to celebrate: the twin victories of Govs.-elect Chris Christie (N.J.) and Bob McDonnell (Va.) earlier this month. Of the gathering, the Post's Dan Balz wrote: "Republican governors wrapped up a two-day pep rally on Thursday with an expression of confidence that the political winds have begun to shift in their direction, thanks to what they called a backlash among many voters against the policies of the Obama…

  • Morning Fix: GOP leaders hesitate to embrace Palin

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:45 am
    1. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's (R) repeated refusal to say that Sarah Palin is "qualified" to be president of the United States during an interview Thursday night with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews is illustrative of the problems the former Alaskan governor can -- and likely will -- cause the party. Asked by Matthews whether Palin was qualified -- in the wake of a Washington Post/ABC poll that showed more than six in ten Americans didn't believe she was -- Barbour responded: "Well, constitutionally, she sure is." Despite repeated proddings from Matthews, Barbour would go no further.

  • Senator Giuliani?

    19 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm
    Is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani weighing a Senate bid? Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount of the Washington Post After months of relative quiet regarding the political future of former mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), the New York newspapers have exploded this afternoon with reports that not only has he decided not to run for governor in 2010 but that he plans to enter the Senate race against Kirsten Gillibrand instead. Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for Giuliani, released a statement insisting that no decisions -- about the Senate or governors races -- have been made; "When Mayor Giuliani makes a…

  • The most important number in politics today

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:30 am
    10 That's the number of points separating Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in their Republican primary fight for the seat of retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R), according to anew survey conducted by Research 2000 for the liberal Daily Kos blog. Crist leads Rubio 47 percent to 37 percent in the survey, a huge change from January when Crist held a wide 57 percent to 4 percent edge over Rubio (state Attorney General Bill McCollum took 11 percent) in a similar Research 2000 poll. A Quinnipiac University poll released in late October showed a similarly rapid…
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    WashingtonPost.com: Al Kamen

  • A respectfully respectful greeting in Japan

    Al Kamen
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    There was much media chatter about President Obama's deep bow to Emperor Akihito in Japan over the weekend. Critics, especially the overwrought on the Web, even likened it to treason.

  • In the Loop: C Street house no longer fully tax-exempt

    Al Kamen
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    The famous rowhouse on C Street SE where disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought counseling after his affair -- as did Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) after his affair -- has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes, according to city officials.

  • In the Loop: Commerce Secretary Locke critical of visa process

    Al Kamen
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is off to Asia this week, stopping in Singapore to join Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for some regional meetings and then head off with her and President Obama to Beijing. That should give her plenty of time to chat with him about his repeated -- and unusually public -- criticisms of the visa-issuance process. He has said that the procedures needlessly block foreign businessmen. Last we checked, visas were Clinton's domain, not Locke's.

  • No monkey business around Ms. Goodall

    Al Kamen
    12 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Don't forget! Today's the day to see famous primate expert Jane Goodall, speaking at 3 p.m. at the Interior Department's headquarters auditorium.

  • Just what we need: A FEMA for Afghanistan

    Al Kamen
    10 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Now that the U.S. military presence in Iraq looks to be winding down, the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), set up to oversee the $50 billion reconstruction effort, is also due to be phasing out. But that doesn't necessarily mean the SIGIR himself, Stuart W. Bowen, is disappearing from the scene.
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    The Hill's Pundits Blog

  • The SAD Study

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm
    With all the reports coming out that recommend we scale back on life-saving medical exams there is one we might soon see from still another group of experts. This one concerns depression. It concludes that diagnosis, medication and counseling won’t work anyway, so why bother trying? After all, the best we can expect from dealing with negative feelings are false positives.

  • Professional incompetence and the making of a terrorist

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:35 am
    As with most things, the path that led Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to allegedly stage an attack on his fellow servicemen and -women at Fort Hood was complex. No doubt his minority status had something to do with it, although an awful lot of adherents of minority religions get along just fine in the U.S. military. Heck, these days, anybody who professes any religious belief at all is going to find himself a target for somebody's criticism. Still, it's highly plausible that a practicing Muslim in the post-9/11 military would run up against more than his share. Beyond all this identity stuff,…

  • Big news from Washington that everyone misses

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    Beth Noveck is working at the White House, getting really serious about giving all Americans a serious voice in running our federal government. She talks about how this is happening at city and state levels in Open Government Laboratories of Democracy:

  • Allow me to retort ...

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:40 am
    Tom from Illinois, a conservative who is one of my best-informed readers, wrote me yesterday to alert me to the storm I had kicked up with my column on Sarah Palin. Very few of the comments that follow my columns are useful — most are angry, accusatory and partisan, written by wingers on the left and right who will never be happy with anything they see under my byline. I credit and criticize both parties, respect people and ideas in both parties, and value bipartisanship and independence. It's lonely in the middle.

  • The absurdity of trying 9/11 terrorists in New York City

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who blithely admits to planning the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in downtown New York, deserves to be put to death. Less clear is Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement last week that New York City was the best venue to pursue the case against them. This is plainly absurd. Holding the trial in New York puts a big bull’s-eye on the downtown area. It is common sense that holding the trial in the twice-attacked lower Manhattan community makes it more likely New York will be attacked again. Moreover, the cost of providing security for the trial…
 
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    The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

  • Lincoln's full floor statement

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:02 pm
    Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) on Saturday became the final Democratic holdout vote to say she would support tonight's first procedural vote on healthcare reform. With Lincoln's support, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) now has all the votes he needs to clear the bill over its first major legislative hurdle. Reid headed into today's session two votes short of the 60 needed to pass the vote but Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) earlier today became the 59th vote when she said she would support the motion to proceed. Both Landieu and Lincoln said their votes today do not represent a final…

  • Shaheen, Udall, McCain in Canada as Senate debates healthcare

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:07 pm
    Two Democratic senators and one Republican are spending the day at a conference in Canada while their chamber debates healthcare reform. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) attended an international security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Meanwhile, senators in Washington D.C. debated healthcare reform legisation on a day when the upper chamber is scheduled to hold its fisr procedural vote on the bill. McCain tweeted a photo of the Udall and him from the conference. They have been north of the border since yesterday: Great trip Halifax…

  • GOP hits Landrieu for $100 million 'new Louisiana Purchase'

    21 Nov 2009 | 11:41 am
    Almost immediately after Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) declared she would vote for the Senate's first procedural motion on healthcare reform, Republicans criticized her vote as the "new Louisiana Purchase."The GOP referred to a provision inserted into the bill that provides for $100 million in extra Medicare subsidies for "certain states recovering from a major disaster." Landrieu's state of Louisiana, of course, was hit by Hurrianes Katrina and Rita in 2005. "Senator Landrieu has announced she will vote for a $2.5 trillion health care bill that raises premiums, hikes taxes, and cuts Medicare in…

  • Lincoln about to speak; Senate GOP anticipates she will support Reid

    21 Nov 2009 | 11:13 am
    Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, the last Democratic holdout to announce her intentions in Saturday's healthcare vote, will speak at 2:20 p.m. on the Senate floor.A senior Senate GOP aide, anticipating Lincoln will support the 8 p.m. procedural vote, has begun to describe the vote as a "party-line vote."Democrats are expected to have 60 votes for the procedural vote, with Lincoln's vote. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (La.), the only other wavering senator, announced earlier Saturday she would vote yes.

  • New York Assemblyman Ball drops Hall challenge to pursue state Senate bid

    21 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
    Republicans could be getting a break in upstate New York, where state Assemblyman Greg Ball (R) says he will run for state Senate rather than against Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.).Ball announced Saturday that he would make the switch. His exit clears the primary for ophthalmologist Nan Hayworth, who recently got in the race and has caught the eye of the national party.Ball, meanwhile, has a flamboyant personal style and political history that rubbed some the wrong way. At the same time, he was raising more money than Hall and looked to be a formidable obstacle to Hayworth.The timing is interesting,…
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    TheHill.com: Ben Goddard

  • Obama triumph ahead

    11 Nov 2009 | 4:03 pm
    Much of the political chatter about healthcare reform in the past week has been of the glass-half-empty variety. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had to make Read more...

  • Going viral

    28 Oct 2009 | 1:48 pm
    Nothing beats word of mouth. Advertisers lust after the buzz that creates a “tipping point” of desire for their products. Political strategists crave the “chatter” Read more...

  • Storm flags in California

    21 Oct 2009 | 3:39 pm
    Maybe it comes from nearly three decades of political involvement in the Golden State, but I’ve always considered California something of a bellwether — the Read more...

  • Bob and Hillary’s escalation

    14 Oct 2009 | 2:12 pm
    As the White House debates how to respond to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s call for additional troops in Afghanistan, two powerful allies are said to be Read more...

  • Obama moving along

    7 Oct 2009 | 2:45 pm
    Like a lot of others who opine on politics, I was concerned about President Barack Obama’s hasty trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, to try to close Read more...
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    TheHill.com: David Keene

  • Another look at Stupak-Pitts

    18 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pm
    Last week I argued in my column that, even though I strongly oppose the Stupak amendment because I am pro-choice, if things come down to Read more...

  • China hand

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pm
    Jim Lilley died over the weekend and will be missed by all who knew him. More importantly, his wise counsel on Asia and China will Read more...

  • Stupak-Pitts is not worth killing healthcare bill over

    11 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    I am a pro-choice liberal Democrat. I believe the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1977, which forbids the expenditure of federal tax dollars to fund abortions, Read more...

  • What it takes to win

    9 Nov 2009 | 3:45 pm
    The Democratic win in New York’s 23rd congressional district last Tuesday was seen by more than a few observers as a sign that even on Read more...

  • New York’s 23rd district race: Democrats, beware — your children may be next

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:45 pm
    With Tuesday night’s results in, and Democratic candidate Bill Owens defeating Conservative-Republican candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd congressional district, I thought about the Read more...
 
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    TheHill.com: Dick Morris

  • Another look at Stupak-Pitts

    18 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pm
    Last week I argued in my column that, even though I strongly oppose the Stupak amendment because I am pro-choice, if things come down to Read more...

  • Doctor shortage

    17 Nov 2009 | 2:28 pm
    Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just Read more...

  • Stupak-Pitts is not worth killing healthcare bill over

    11 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    I am a pro-choice liberal Democrat. I believe the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1977, which forbids the expenditure of federal tax dollars to fund abortions, Read more...

  • The myth of the moderate Dem

    10 Nov 2009 | 2:20 pm
    Don’t assume that the 38 Democrats who voted against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) extremist version of healthcare reform wouldn’t have supported it if their Read more...

  • New York’s 23rd district race: Democrats, beware — your children may be next

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:45 pm
    With Tuesday night’s results in, and Democratic candidate Bill Owens defeating Conservative-Republican candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd congressional district, I thought about the Read more...
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    WashingtonPost.com: High School Sports

  • Magruder to face two-time defending champion Broadneck

    Katie Carrera
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Broadneck needs four sets to advance to the state finals where the Bruins, in search of their third straight title, will face Magruder.

  • Loudoun County emerges as a high school volleyball hotbed

    Matt Brooks
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    From 2000 to 2004, Loudoun Valley dominated the AA volleyball landscape, winning four of five Region II titles and claiming three state championships. But soaring enrollment landed the Vikings in AAA for the 2005 season and since the move, success at the state level has been elusive.

  • Mountain View's run screeches to a halt

    Jason Mackey
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    VIRGINIA BEACH -- Mountain View's Heather Hartman had just about lost the ability to talk. What was left of her voice was helped when she was handed a package of throat lozenges. Her voice barely above a whisper, the Delaware-bound midfielder put the Wildcats' 5-0 loss to Frank W. Cox in the AAA...

  • Northern, River Hill reach final

    Katie Carrera
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Northern's most common trait of the volleyball season has become something of a standing joke for the Patriots. It seems that to win a match, they must first find themselves trailing. Tuesday night in the Maryland 3A semifinals, the lull came in the third game as Damascus stood two points away fr...

  • Osbourn Park's Terrell makes up for mistake with 271-yard game

    Mark Gianotto
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    In a span of four minutes during Monday night's AAA Northwest Region semifinal against Riverbend, Osbourn Park junior Dominique Terrell showed why he's one of Virginia's most sought after recruits and why he sometimes drives his coaches crazy.
 
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  • Washington Redskins Will Use Revamped Offensive Line Against Dallas Cowboys

    Rick Maese
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pm
    Asked this week whether he intended to use the same five offensive linemen in Dallas that helped the Redskins end a four-game losing streak against Denver, Redskins Coach Jim Zorn offered a smile. In a season that has presented few easy answers, the head coach was finally lobbed an easy question.

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    Post
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    After word emerged about the locker-room altercation earlier this season between running back Clinton Portis and fullback Mike Sellers, some Redskins fans criticized Sellers's blocking on Internet message boards and sports-talk radio shows.

  • Redskins great John Riggins makes sure his voice is heard

    Leonard Shapiro
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Not long after John Riggins retired from football following the 1985 season, I asked a network sports television executive why a colorful, quote machine of a player I'd covered since the day he came to town in 1976 hadn't been signed up immediately by a single broadcasting entity televising pro f...

  • Off to a good start

    Post
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Brian Orakpo, the rookie from Texas, has had a productive season so far:

  • Redskins' Orakpo finds success at two positions

    Rick Maese
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Redskins rookie Brian Orakpo plays about two-thirds of his snaps as a strong-side linebacker, but five of his seven sacks have come from his natural position, defensive end.
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  • Annual Thanksgiving Parade in Downtown Silver Spring

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:24 pm
    We love this parade! We've attended every year since Silver Spring sprung and we've never been disappointed. It's happening Saturday at 9:30am - Noon.  We usually grab a seat half an hour before the start.   The route's in downtown Silver Spring on Georgia Avenue from Sligo to Silver Plaza on Ellsworth Drive to Fenton Street. More info here! Photo shamelessly stolen from the Silver Spring Downtown website.    Thanks for reading A Parent in Silver Spring via feed. You…

  • National Children's Museum Family Volunteer Day Events This Weekend

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:08 pm
    This Saturday you and your kids will have two opportunities to help others and help yourselves have a good time, thanks to the National Children's Museum's Family Volunteer Day activities. FVD is an annual day of service (started by the HandsOn Network) with the goal of starting kids on the room to public service. This Saturday November 21 (and next Saturday too November 28,) come on down to the Launch Zone in National Harbor and lend a hand crafting gifts and holiday decorations to benefit sick children of The Children's Inn at National Institutes of Health. Stay and play with…

  • Washington DC Area School Open House Calendar

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:33 am
    'Tis the season...for preschool and private school open houses! There's so many for us all to keep track of, so I hope this feature will help you guys out: The APISS School Open House Calendar This calendar is dedicated to all of the area's open houses that I find through my research or receive notice of via email, and it will be located on the left-hand sidebar of A Parent in Silver Spring, directly below the daily events calendar.  It's not completely inclusive of EVERY school open house (this is a one woman operation after all,) but if you send me your school's open house or have a…

  • The Great Zucchini & Rocknoceros Play Family Show at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue

    17 Nov 2009 | 7:56 pm
     Interior view of the dome of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. This Sunday in DC The Great Zucchini and Rocknoceros are teaming up for a fantasticly funny family show at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue. At the APISS homestead, we're stoked.  Our favorite wacked-out-to-the-max kids' comedian (his show this past weekend at the St. John the Evangelist Christmas Bazaar?  Phenomenal!), our ultimate family rock band and the most beautiful concert venue in the area are all together in one event. And tickets to this Sunday's show are only $8 if you buy them in advance. …

  • Giveaway: Tickets to The Enchanted Forest

    16 Nov 2009 | 12:53 pm
    This coming weekend on November 21 and 22, the Junior League of Northern Virginia (JLNV) will host The 9th Annual Enchanted Forest at the Reston Sheraton.  And this event for families is truly enchanted - it's a fantasyland of decorated trees and special activities for kids.  But best of all, the proceeds from the event go to help kids in Northern Virginia that need a hand in school through education programs and community partnerships.  Fun things you can experience with your kids with a General Admission ticket to the Enchanted Forest include: a Museum Without Walls room…
 
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  • To Be Continued

    Amanda
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:56 pm
    Photo by New Yorkled on Flickr Goodbye? No. I’ll keep writing. But this is it for Creative DC. My boxes are packed; the movers are coming tomorrow. Tomorrow night, I’ll go to bed in the city that never sleeps. And then – ? What’s next? Probably Creative NYC. I’ll be taking some time to figure that out, and once I do, I’ll post a link here. In the meantime, this site will exist as an archive, and I’ll be curating links and ideas about creative living 140 characters at a time, over on Twitter. And you? What will you be doing? Keep in touch: write to me…

  • Moving Diary: 3 Days Left

    Amanda
    31 Oct 2009 | 1:06 pm
    Today’s theme is gratitude. Last night I attended Tranquil Space Yoga’s 10 year birthday party. I saw a lot of familiar faces, and said goodbye (or, “see ya later”) to a place that’s been a true oasis since I found it back in 2004. It got me thinking about all the people and places in DC that have helped make me who I am, these past 10 years. So with apologies in advance for a list that’s by no means comprehensive….thank you: …Kimberly, for providing a tranquil space, and for showing me it’s possible to live your dream; …WIT, for…

  • Spend Halloween with the DC Rollergirls

    Amanda
    28 Oct 2009 | 1:13 pm
    I’ve never been to a roller derby match, or bout, or whatever they’re called… but this event jumped out from my inbox as one of the more interesting Halloween themed events happening around town (gi-normous parties at bars are not my style). Click here for event details. If a roller derby too rowdy for your tastes – check out the Brit Noir film series at the National Gallery of Art. Or, stay home, gorge yourself on candy, and watch some of Jordan’s favorite Halloween flicks. More on Halloween: Costume ideas Pumpkin-carving inspiration

  • Yes yes yes

    Amanda
    23 Oct 2009 | 7:12 am
    Photo by hubertk on Flickr “I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance.” - Joan Didion

  • Patient

    Amanda
    22 Oct 2009 | 4:32 pm
    Photo by laurenatclemson on Flickr “I keep coming out to the beach to remember how patient the earth is. The universe makes space you just gotta wait for it.” - Al Letson, on Twitter
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  • DC Blogs Noted

    WashWords
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    Spotted: Michelle Obama and Desiree Rogers Dining Out. Thanks DC Fab. Until now, the Homeland Security Video at Ballston Mall was looking like the closest I’d get to a celeb sighting DCstyle this week. We Love DC explains when it IS worth it to spend $300 on something that’s going to disappear - poof! $300, thy name is truffles! That Time I Ate My Words (And Then Got Truffles at 1789) Beyond Bread reminds us about the Help the Homeless Walk — 2 Days Away! Off the Cuff takes you Behind The Scenes: Terra Cotta Warriors at National Geographic. Pamela’s Punch (and friends)…

  • DC Blogs Noted

    Foilwoman
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    While Cosmopolitan Conservative is still waiting for her copy of Sarah Palin’s book, she questions the Katie Couric strategy.  Life in the Village describes three WTF moments that its author had in one day and says three WTF moments is a record.  This contributing editor applauds that optimistic spirit and would like to run a contest for how many WTF moments any of us have had on any given day.  Kudos to the blog author for not cutting and running but continuing to fight the good fight. The Passenger, a new bar, is opening (or opened the evening of November 18, but this is written…

  • DC Blogs Noted

    RestaurantRefugee
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:40 pm
    The Change I Wish to See’s latest post, Our Promise to You, embodies the title of his blog while reminding us that there are bad people in this world and those who abuse animals are pretty high on the list. Diatribes by Joah offers “5 Things You Won’t Hear (But Must Know) When Starting a Retail Business.”  Having had some experience with the matter, I can tell you that most of the tips apply to restaurants too. Normally we don’t make a habit of highlighting blog recaps of small events to which you weren’t invited (at least, this contributing editor doesn’t.) The Hill is Home…

  • DC Blogs Noted

    dcblogs
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    When it comes to hiring, HR departments are ill-treating job applicants, writes Sarah-er Than You. This blogger speaks from experience and offers a code of conduct for HR employees, in the post, If I Ran HR. Fort Totten Transfer Station, how do I love thee? Farm Fresh Meat. Advice on how to get rid of everything with nothing more than a DC driver’s license. The making of a new dance event at the Wonderland told, in part, through some clever and amusing photo work that includes disco ball in a laundromat. BYT and the blog, Pink Sock. Observing life in Dupont Circle, The 42 is moved by its…

  • DC Blogs Noted

    dcblogs
    15 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm
    Fifteen minutes, U Street/Adams Morgan corridor, 3 am, Saturday night. Observed. Momentum. One DC’s older blogs, Throwing Håmmers, has ended his blog. Hammer also leaves with a big damn list of acknowledgements, but it is Hammer, who also edits a post every now then at DCBlogs, who deserves thanks for some six years of entertaining and often heartfelt posts. The unofficial list of Metro rider do’s and don’ts. Both Sides of the Fence. An old silk blouse, at least a decade old, continues to get compliments. In the eye of the superpower. A blogger who is eating on a food stamp budget…
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  • Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress

    Rachael Brown
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    Photo by David Clow - Maryland A congressional report issued yesterday by two ranking Republicans suggests that schools chancellor Michelle Rhee performed "damage control" for her now-fiance Kevin Johnson during investigations into Johnson's alleged sexual misconduct and misuse of Americorps funds at the St. Hope charter school he founded in Sacramento. Johnson, an ex-NBA player, is currently mayor of Sacramento. Rhee confirmed that the couple is engaged earlier this month. According to the New York Times, "The report does not accuse Ms. Rhee, who was on the board of the school, of any…

  • You Think You've Got Problems

    Aaron Morrissey
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:22 pm
    Even between the DPW fiasco, the WTOP/biking police escort kerfuffle, not being Superman, facing vital questions about crime, handling a significant legal tussle regarding policing strategies, dealing with his "all-purpose scandal-in-a-box" Sinclair Skinner, recognizing his struggles with the D.C. lottery contract, trying to rebuild OCTO after its bribery scandal, navigating the significant labor strife among teachers in our public schools, and drawing the general ire of the entire D.C. Council, it could always be worse for Adrian Fenty. After all, he could be Baltimore's Sheila Dixon, who…

  • D.C. United Icon Ben Olsen To Retire

    Aaron Morrissey
    21 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    Ben Olsen, seen here holding off Real Madrid's Kaka in an August 2009friendly, will reportedly announce his retirement next week.Photo by Kyle Gustafson / http://www.photokyle.com Steve Goff had the big soccer news from RFK Stadium yesterday: D.C. United midfielder Ben Olsen will announce his retirement next week. Olsen, a tenacious midfielder who played in the World Cup for the United States men's national team in 2006, is about as Washingtonian an athlete as you'll ever find. After leaving the University of Virginia in 1998 for MLS, Olsen led United to a championship in his first season and…

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  • Saturday Last Child of Ungoliant Photo: November 21, 2009

    Kriston Capps
    21 Nov 2009 | 11:15 am
    New Moon? Yeah -- new spider moon. Death Eater philliefan99 captures this balls-out scary picture of Shelob-in-the-Sky. It's more terrifying than even the prospect of watching all seven million youtube responses to that New Moon rom-com, the movie all my girlfriends are seeing today, about the guy who can't stop sparkling and his goth girlfriend and I think a Teen Wolf. No, there isn't anything happening this weekend that's going to shake this picture from my head. Health-care reform? Blanche Lincoln's vote can't save you from a giant cosmic arachnid. Holy hell, but this picture is horrible.
 
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  • Convention Center Suit Proceeds

    dcmetrocentric
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:50 am
    It sounds like the new convention center hotel isn’t going to be happening any time soon, a judge has given JBG the go ahead to proceed with its suit to block construction of the Marriott hotel complex next to the new convention center. The judge issued a decision denying the motion to dismiss but interestingly didn’t rule on if the city’s conduct violated D.C.’s contracting law. We have a feeling this is going to be a long legal drama! [Rendering: Cooper Carry]

  • City Center Lost Potential?

    dcmetrocentric
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:49 am
    Ok take a look at this rendering of the view along H Street of what the new City Center Development on the old convention center plot is going to look like. It is striking how much this looks just like any other block in the city. Having a plot of land to develop that is this large in the middle of such an urban area is a once in a life time opportunity to create a focal point that draws people in and this clearly from the street isn’t going to have that effect. What do you think? [Rendering: Shalom Baranes Associates]

  • Latest From UrbanTurf

    dcmetrocentric
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:48 am
    A bi-weekly take on the area from our friends at UrbanTurf.com Best Open Houses: The Logan Circle Edition In anticipation of UrbanTurf’s article on Logan Circle in this Saturday’s Washington Post, we focus our open house picks this week on the varying price points for two-bedroom condos in the Logan Circle neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry on UrbanTurf.com »

  • Allegro Goes for $77.5 M

    dcmetrocentric
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    Once the dust settled from the furious bidding, Federal Capital Partners has walked away with the winning bid on the new Allegro Apartments in Columbia Heights. The building, which is currently 60% leased, couldn’t continue to operate because the debt holder needed liquidity, thus forcing the auction this week. Interestingly we heard that almost no one who is currently living in the building even knew a sale was taking place, but it shouldn’t have an effect on residents. We expect to see some major deals in the near future as the new owners try to get the building completely…

  • Penrose Square Update

    dcmetrocentric
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:47 am
    As you can see, the dirt is now starting to move at the site of the old Adams Square Shopping Center in Arlington. The new higher density development is being call Penrose Square and will bring almost 300 new residential units along with a Giant grocery store and additional retail space all around the nice looking central plaza we talked about last year. [Photo: Seton Droppers]
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  • Emotional Roller Coaster

    Sue @ Laundry for Six
    21 Nov 2009 | 2:30 am
    I remember a conversation 10 years ago, when I was pregnant with my second child and planned to stop working once she was born. An older, wiser cousin warned me about the roller coaster of emotions his wife experienced while staying home with their young children. Meh. "I'm a pretty even-keeled person," I thought.  I knew there would be an adjustment period. I'd been working in a fast-paced business for many years. But I'd have a 2-year old and a baby. I'd be busy. And no more dragging a sleeping kid out of his crib to get him to daycare early in the morning. He could sleep in. I could sleep…

  • My 5-Year-Old Needs a Secretary

    Justice Fergie
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Ok, so you warned me. Before Chatterbox started kindergarten, I was put on notice by all of you primary school aficionados that the paperwork and homework involved was no joke. I laughed. I scoffed. I did not take heed. Well. The joke's on me! Let me introduce you to the Daily Folder. It's brightly colored and is adorned with a lovable little frog sporting the motto: "Fully Responsible Organized and Growing." But do not be fooled. This Daily Folder and me? We have a love-hate relationship. Each day Hubby or I have to initial the Behavior Chart and return it back to the teacher. Then,…

  • Cooking Up Chaos: The Conundrum of Creativity

    J.J.
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    It is a rare moment in my house when the kitchen counters are completely clear, nary a dirty dish in site, the floors gleaming.  And usually if they are, it is due to a heroic attempt on my husband's part over the weekend or an evening when I am out at a volunteer meeting.  Oh, I try to get it close, but I never quite seal the deal -- there is always a stack of school papers on the corner of the counter, or some unfinished art project nearby, or a small child insisting on yet another meal or snack, dirtying up yet another set of dishes faster than I can manage to keep them all clean.  It…

  • Turkey and Stuffing and Cranberry Sauce: Oh My

    jodifur
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    This will be my ninth year hosting Thanksgiving for a large crowd.  Ninth year.  Every year I promise myself I will not stress.  I will plan better.  I will start earlier.  I will, something..... Ha! This year we moved, twice, and now my son is having significant problems in preschool, and I work part-time, and all of a sudden I turn around and Thanksgiving is a week and a half away.  A week and a half away.  I have ordered a very large turkey and discovered that I have no idea where my recipe folder is.  Good times! Look, I know the holidays are supposed to be filled with the…

  • Planes, trains and governors! Who am I?

    Jessica C.
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:08 am
    "He was so good!" praised the woman sitting behind my son during our flight from Reagan National to Detroit Metro as we stood waiting to exit the plane. Usually I'm a descriptive praise sort of gal, taking my cues from Alfie Kohn about avoiding judgment terms like "good" and "bad." But seeing as the fellow passenger and judge in question was Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, inwardly I pumped my fist and silently hissed "Yes!"The whole flight, which I spent with my three-year-old while his dad sat across the aisle and tucked into a window seat out of immediate earshot, I had been thinking…
 
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  • The C in C-SPAN is For Carlson

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:16 pm
    This Sunday at 7:30am on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" you'll see Tucker Carlson and Margaret Carlson. Yes, the C in C-SPAN is not for cookie, it's for Carlson. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

  • Sunday Show Preview

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:51 am
    • NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Amb. Nancy Brinker, NBC's Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman • CBS' Face the Nation: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and CBS medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton • ABC's This Week: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and a roundtable with ABC's George Will, Republican strategist Liz Cheney, Aspen…

  • Check Out NBC's Man Cave...

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:51 pm
    It's been a busy week for NBC's Chuck Todd, traveling halfway across the world with President Obama. Good thing he has this man cave back at the bureau to retreat to... Check out some politics and football with Chuck, First Read's Domenico Montanaro and Andy Gross above. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

  • Sunday Show Ratings: "MTP" Holds First

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:48 pm
    NBC's "Meet the Press" held on to its first place crown in total viewers and the A25-54 demo last Sunday. ABC's "This Week" was second in total viewers while CBS' "Face the Nation" took the #2 spot in demo (age 25-54). Total Viewers for November 15th NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 3,110,000 ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,820,000 CBS "FACE THE NATION" 2,610,000 FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,100,000 Demo(25-54) for November 15th NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 1,000,000/.8 CBS "FACE THE NATION" 920,000/.7 ABC "THIS WEEK" 780,000/.6 FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 420,000/.3 New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

  • BBC Hosts CPJ International Press Freedom Awards Reception

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pm
    Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director; Ronnate Tissainayagam, wife of imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam; Naziha Rejiba, Kalima, Tunisia; Mustafa Haji Abinur, Agence France-Presse, Somalia; Matt Frei, Anchor BBC World News America; Rome Hartman, Executive Producer BBC World News. Photo credit: Jeremy Bigwood Last night at the Newseum, BBC World News America and the Committee to Protect Journalists hosted the the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards reception. BBC World News America Executive Producer, Rome Hartman, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon and Matt Frei, anchor of BBC…
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  • Thanksgiving @the Pug

    21 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    All the usual fun plus $2 shots of Wild Turkey. 1234 H Street.

  • WP: 2nd Arrest in Rawlings Shooting

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:35 pm
    The Post reports that a second man (19 year old DeAngelo Edwards) has now been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of George Rawlings (21) as he boarded the X2 bus. Rawlings had just left the funeral of a friend who was murdered on Halloween night. MPD sources have suggested that Rawlings was a person of interest (a possible supplier of the car) in the murder of that friend. Seventeen year old Jeffery Britt has already been charged with first degree murder in the death of George Rawlings. An MPD press release now indicates that Edwards has been charged with Murder One While Armed.

  • H Street Shuttle Funding

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:47 am
    The following note from the Atlas has been making the rounds, and I'd be remiss if I didn't post it here:FROM THE ATLAS:Hello Atlas Staff, Arts Partners and Atlas District friends, As some of you may know the funding the free H Street Shuttle is up for renewal.  Our Ward 6 Council Member, Tommy Wells, has been extremely helpful with the shuttle project from the very beginning and he has been working hard to make sure the H Street Cooperative receives the money it needs to keep the shuttles running nightly.If you are not familiar with the H Street Shuttle, it is a free shuttle that runs…

  • Where to Buy a Christmas Tree

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:29 am
    A reader wrote in asking where to buy a Christmas Tree in DC. I've honestly not yet had occasion to purchase one in DC, but I've seen them at Eastern Market. If you don't mind a drive to the suburbs you can support Cox Farms. Cox Farms is a family run farm that has donated plants and materials to the Trinidad-Ivy City Garden Club. Here is a link to a company called North Star that will deliver a tree if you buy it from them. Prince of Petworth also has a post on the topic.

  • VOH: Humphries to Sell Martini Lounge

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:36 am
    Voice of the Hill is reporting in its Twitter feed that Cliff Humphries plans to sell the H Street Martini Lounge. In the Tweet Humphries is quoted as saying H Street is "just not safe," and that he's witnessed four crimes this week. Wow. Wasn't Cliff on the agenda for an ANC 6A meeting last night? Is this from that meeting?
 
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  • The roof is leaking and the wind is howling

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:46 am
    Well I got me a roof leak last night. Not my first, I still need to paint over the patch in the kitchen. Luckily I had my cousin in that bedroom and she noticed the first few drops seeping through a seam in the drywall. It appears the AC thingamajigger on the roof needs caulking or something, because that's where the water came from. But last night's rain was like a bucket and my sump pump in the

  • Gentrification of Sesame Street

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    Sesame Street gentrified and I blame Elmo. Others blame Elmo as well, showing how this annoyingly voiced red hyper monster destroyed SS single-handedly by taking up a huge portion of screen time.When I was a kid, we had two channels, NBC and PBS. So after I got home and Mom finished watching Days of Our Lives, I turned the channel to the PBS station to watch Sesame Street. People walked along,

  • Where are the Warrenton Condominums?

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:53 am
    Not too long ago we were informed of the Warrenton Group and their million + contract with the city to assist in the development of Northwest One. Then other bloggers noted that they had listed as their office the shuttered liquor store on 7th and Q here in Shaw. Then their website went down. Well now their website is back up and shiny and telling me to update my Internet Explorer. And they say

  • Turnover part 2

    18 Nov 2009 | 5:46 am
    This map is of houses sold on these few blocks between 1999 and this year below $500K. There are still plenty of red stars representing sales. The blue are more than likely houses that sold prior to 1999, or the odd property selling at $500K and above. Since I did throw in the more than $500K on the map (not shown) it seems there were a few but not many. Comparing the map from Turnover part 1 to

  • Turnover part 1

    17 Nov 2009 | 7:32 pm
    This was stolen off of the DC government's DC Atlas website and what it shows are houses sold between Jan 1, 1999 and yesterday. More accurately it shows houses sold for more than $1 and below a billion. I had to throw that in when it showed every house with a red star and I discovered the database had some quirky dates of homes being bought by their longtime owners for 0.00, and had to find a
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  • if there was a crosswalk, it wouldn't have been jaywalking

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:34 am
    The death of a 63-year-old pedestrian in the circle at 16th and Colesville on Wednesday is a reminder of how dangerous the streets of Downtown Silver Spring are for pedestrians. Sligo at Silver Spring, Singular says that drivers are the true victims, forced to react when a jaywalker darts in front of their car, but I doubt Mike and Wendy Linde, Downtown's crosswalk crusaders, would feel sympathy for someone carrying two tons of steel with them.Downtown streets like Georgia, Colesville and 16th are wide, befitting their status as state highways. But while they carry traffic from as far as…

  • what's up the pike: into the woods

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:17 am
    - Of course, tomorrow is the annual Montgomery County Thanksgiving Parade in Downtown Silver Spring. (Hoping the mounted horses don't pee everywhere this time.) The parade kicks off at Georgia and Sligo at 9:30am and ends around 12pm. Once again, I'll be driving the Councilmember Leventhal SUV Big Important Float. Better grab some sidewalk early, or watch it live on Channel 8.- On Sunday from 1pm to 4pm, students and local environmentalists will pick up trash on land next to Northwood High School left unmaintained after plans for a road there connecting Route 29 and University Boulevard were…

  • daily snapshot(s): dragonfly

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:45 am
    Once the dragonfly fell to earth, it didn't have a chance. There was a sale at DSW Shoe Warehouse and the high heels were the first to go, clomping loudly and emphatically down Ellsworth. At least it'll be a quick death, he thought.

  • this is not a sears . . .

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:48 am
    I know Sligo at Silver Spring, Singular likes his mid-century modernism, so this is for you. The Sears in White Oak (once the "largest Sears in America" according to Wonder Years creator Carol Black) is both a blast from the past and a sad reminder of suburban decay, looking much as it did in the 1960's.The rest of the White Oak Shopping Center shed its concrete slabs and triangular column-things for some faux-Colonial trim in 1993. But Sears, which like most department stores owns its building and the land beneath it (making a much-needed redevelopment of this shopping center very…

  • percontee: too good to be true?

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:34 am
    part SIX of a series about new development proposals in Calverton and Hyattsville by Percontee.While nearby garden apartment complexes are just renovating their buildings, Percontee felt it more appropriate to do tabula rasa, clearing the site and starting over from scratch. The redevelopment would happen in phases, starting closest to the new Post Park apartments on East-West Highway and working its way east.In an article in the Prince George's Sentinel from last May, he suggested that it was "less cost effective to make repairs" than to build new. "We don't feel it is the most responsible…
 
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  • Photo Deals Update — November 11, 2009

    robert
    11 Nov 2009 | 2:49 pm
    These are weekly Adorama deals, and the email is from this morning, so act fast Like last time, many will be offered only via the link, while others are for everyone.  You can get to the latest deals here (updated as often as I find out the new ones!) or by reading the post below: Hewlett Packard – HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-One Inkjet Printer, Scanner, Copier with 4800 x 1200 dpi Resolution, USB 2.0 Interface Save $3.00 Regular Price $74.99 Sale Price $71.99 Free Shipping Velbon El Carmagne 540 Carbon Fiber Tripod with Pan Head & Case, Height 9.3″ – 58.3″, Maximum Load 8.8 lbs.

  • Ace Photo Customer Appreciation Day

    robert
    11 Nov 2009 | 3:30 am
    Customer Appreciation Day/Holiday Mega-Sale 11/21/09 It’s that time of year again at Ace Photo where we would like to thank you for being our loyal customer. For only one day starting at an early 8:00 am on Saturday 11/21/2009, Ace Photo will be selling everything in store at cost pricing . Special offer applies to items that are currently in stock and only while supply lasts. There will be no rain checks issued, and will be on a first come/first serve basis. Pricing will not apply to online sales, but you can call us at (703)430-3333 for special pricing and place an order for anything…

  • Help-Portrait

    robert
    7 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am
    Thought this was important enough to get the word out, here’s my post from my personal blog: A little while back I heard about Help-Portrait, a way to give back to the community using our talents as photographers. I sat on it for a while and eventually signed up after seeing the video below. Everyday I’m thankful for the things I have, the people around me, my job, my health, etc. But with the holidays approaching we’re reminded that there are those who are less fortunate, whether they don’t have a job, no family around, nobody to go home to — whatever the case…

  • DC Shutterbugs going on hiatus

    robert
    9 Oct 2009 | 3:35 am
    In January my wife and I are expecting a baby boy, and as time is already tight, it will only get tighter.  Because of this, my spare time for DC Shutterbugs will be redirected Hopefully DC Shutterbugs can/will come back again in a few months time.  This will start now, and I’ll leave the site up in case any news comes through that I can share, but I won’t be posting as frequently.  I’d like to continue the monthly spotlights, so if you’d like to be featured, let me know by sending an email to robert [at] dcshutterbugs.com  I have a male for November, but need a…

  • Event reminders for October 7-11

    robert
    7 Oct 2009 | 3:25 am
    A few of the events around town this weekend! Wednesday, October 7 Intro to Studio Lighting Thursday, October 8 HDR and Focal Stacking Software Saturday, October 10 Canon 40D and 50D Class Shooting On-Location Portraiture w/ Nikon & Canon Speedlight/Speedlite Part 1 Sunday, October 11 HDR in Historic Ellicot City Take Your Camera Off Program Mode Related posts:Photo Classes & Workshops – October 2009Photo Classes & Workshops – August 2009Photo Classes & Workshops – September 2009
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  • Contributor Opinion By Susan Hoffmann: Thank You For The Honor Of Serving

    Brad Rourke
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:25 pm
    Dear Residents of Rockville: I wish to express my gratitude to each and every one of you for giving me the high honor to serve you as Mayor and previously as a Councilmember. I wish I could be in direct touch with you, but this open letter to all will have to suffice. As I said in my 2009 campaign kickoff speech . . . “my love affair with Rockville continues.” And that is and will always be the case. To serve a City . . . a community that one loves, is a great honor indeed, but also an enormous privilege that befalls only the most fortunate among us. I do, however, recommend it highly.

  • POTD: Reflecting

    Brad Rourke
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    This cool shot of the sky . . . seen reflected in this bank window . . . is by Julia Defino Leiby.

  • Pick of the Week 11/19/09: German and Kebabs

    Cindy Cotte Griffiths
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:28 am
    Pick of the Week Kebab Connection Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:30 PM Rockville Senior Center Completely and totally FREE and they’ll be light refreshments. The Rockville Sister City Corporation (RSCC) announces the showing of the film, Kebab Connection, a comedy in German with English subtitles. RSCC tells us, “It deals with two fast food stands, one Turkish and the other Greek, Ibo a young Turkish filmmaker whose uncle owns one of the stands, Ibo’s German girlfriend, and finally the mafia who become involved in the Greek-Turkish food stand rivalry. The Kebab Connection…

  • Rockville Central Still Second Most-Read Local Blog In Maryland

    Brad Rourke
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    According to our good friend Adam Pagnucco at Maryland Politics Watch, who tracks blog statistics throughout the Free State, Rockville Central remains the second most-read local blog in Maryland. Of interest in his encyclopedic post on the State of Maryland Blogdom is that, overall, traffic trends at blogs throughout Maryland is “up, WAY up.” Local Blogs, Site Visits 1/09-10/09 1. Inside Charm City: 267,283 site visits 2. Rockville Central: 92,498 3. Just Up the Pike: 88,869 4. Tales of Two Cities: 65,690 5. Rethink College Park: 33,064 6. Oceanshaman: 31,721 7. Track Twenty Nine:…

  • POTD: Late Bloomer

    Brad Rourke
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    Last weekend may be just about the last nice weekend we’re going to get, and this bush was flowering. It made me so sad to think of these little guys all covered with snow eventually. (Can you tell I’m not so into winter?)
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