VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and Northrop Grumman will announce Tuesday that the defense giant has selected Virginia over Maryland for its corporate headquarters, the Virginia Politics blog is reporting. According to two sources familiar with the deal, the company is still considering sites in Fairfax and Arlington counties for its headquarters, […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: For 50 years, Southwest Washington was divided in half by a mall and office complex that withered with age. Like the freeway that isolates the neighborhood from downtown, Waterside Mall left its community without a center. Today the mall is gone, two gleaming glass office towers with a splashy ground-floor Safeway […]

By Mark F. Gray Somewhere Jay Schroeder and Rich Gannon are smiling as they get set to welcome another member into their select fraternity. When Jason Campbell was traded to the Oakland Raiders for a fourth round draft pick in 2012 there were groans of how he had been banished to the dark side of […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The D.C. Council is pushing to tighten regulation of pawnshops in the city and give residents a stronger voice in where they open, after a lengthy battle over plans to put a pawnshop in a Northwest Washington neighborhood. Pawnshop oversight legislation sponsored by council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) won unanimous […]