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Aiming to slow Ed Gillespie’s momentum in the final days of the GOP gubernatorial primary in Virginia, Corey Stewart is warning that a vote for the former adviser to President George W. Bush would be a devastating blow against the grass-roots movement that gave rise to President Trump.
Shares Advocates for “smart growth” have long extolled the virtues of creating green spaces, bike paths and pedestrian areas for the benefit of all city dwellers. But a report from the pro-business D.C. Policy Center shows that smart growth designs actually push out longtime, low-income residents to make way for younger, wealthier newcomers.
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Former Washington Redskins running back Brian Mitchell attributes his healthy bones to drinking milk — lots of it. “As a young kid, two gallons of milk a week would be gone by myself,” Mr. Mitchell said Thursday during an appearance at the Georgetown Safeway grocery store. “I know it made me healthy and strong.”
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Women who sunbathe topless at a Maryland resort town used to get a scolding from beach patrol officers, but that has changed.
Shares Bob Woods says he chose idealism over pragmatism in the presidential race when he voted in the Virginia primary for Sen. Bernard Sanders over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Shares D.C. regulators fined Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2014 campaign committee $13,000 after an audit uncovered more than a dozen “excessive contributions,” several of them from real estate developers and contractors.
Shares People acting on behalf of Muriel Bowser during her successful run for mayor in 2014 broke the law. Within months, in 2015, people working on behalf of Brandon Todd, her successor to fill her Ward 4 seat on the D.C. Council, did the same.
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Police say a suspect is dead and an officer and a civilian were injured in a shooting during an armed robbery in Baltimore suburb.
Shares Want a “party house” in your neighborhood? Some Capitol Hill residents already have answered with a resounding “No,” and are considering a lawsuit if the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) grants an exemption to a Hispanic political action committee that wants to set up shop in their beloved neighborhood.
Shares Teachers unions increasingly are trying to unionize charter schools nationwide, an effort school choice advocates say will stymie the mission and success the nontraditional schools have delivered to struggling school systems.
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A city council in Virginia has voted on the new names of two parks formerly named after Confederate generals.
Shares We are in the midst of the age of distraction, when Americans of all stripes have seemingly fallen into one of three camps: 1) Resist by any means necessary; 2) Spend more money; 3) Blame Donald Trump. Some politicians, even those not registered as a Republican or Democrat, fall into all three.
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Shaw's Tavern hopes 9:30 isn't too early in the day to have a shot of Stoli with your morning "covfefe."
Shares Bars throughout the District are lending a hand in the event beginning Monday, in which participating bars will donate a portion of their proceeds for every Negroni, Campari cocktail or Negroni-inspired sale to charity.
Shares Eleanor Holmes Norton, the congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., asked the FBI on Friday to investigate the appearance of bogus U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaflets within the nation's capital this week warning residents against harboring "illegal aliens."
Shares Takoma Park, Maryland, considered by many a Berkeley of the East Coast, has gone orange for Gun Violence Awareness Day.
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12-year-old Ananya Vinay spells "marocain" to win the National Spelling Bee.
Shares If this is current America, what will the future look like?
Shares Citing an opioid crisis that's claiming hundreds of city lives each year, Baltimore made an overdose-reversing drug available over the counter on Thursday in a bid to make the antidote as prevalent as possible.
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