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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: When the transit authority postponed track work at Rosslyn Station after the big February snowstorms, it did so with great reluctance. The Presidents’ Day weekend project took a long time to arrange, and it was a window of opportunity to get a big job done all at once when relatively few […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The backlash is building against Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s (D) proposal to use increased parking fees and traffic tickets to help close the city’s budget shortfall, including raising the cost to park at some meters to $3 an hour. At a news conference this morning, the leaders of AAA Mid-Atlantic decried […]

By Mark F. Gray There are teams and schools in college sports that make the game better when they are good. Baseball is not the same when the New York Yankees stink and football is not the same when the Dallas Cowboys are bad. When the San Antonio Spurs were dominating the NBA’s western conference […]

VIA WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The Metrobus operator who was charged with soliciting sex from an undercover police officer while driving his bus was fired on Monday, according to the transit agency. Shawn W. Todd had been on paid administrative leave since he was arrested in the early morning hours of April 3, as first reported in […]

Join Bernie McCain at 4:30pm eastern when he talks to Fletcher Gill about the first annual Putts fore Mutts golf tournament, Saturday April 24, 2010, 1pm at Worthington Manor in Urbana, Maryland. This Captain’s choice scramble tournament is $180 per individual or $600 for a foursome. The proceeds support the Fletcher Gill fund raising efforts […]

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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Prince George’s prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of three county police officers who beat an unarmed University of Maryland student with their batons after a basketball game last month in an incident that was caught on video and surfaced publicly Monday, authorities said. County police also ordered an internal affairs […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The team from the University of Maryland Baltimore County has won the “Final Four” of chess and will bring its sixth college chess championship back to Maryland, The Baltimore Sun reports. UMBC has dominated the college chess world, bringing home six championships in the past 10 years. The weekend-long tournament was […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas began serving his sentence Friday night when he arrived at the Montgomery County Detention Center at 7:40 p.m., jail officials said. Arenas pleaded guility to a gun charge in the District and a judge sentenced him to two years probation with the first 30 days at […]

VIA THE BALTIMORE SUN: The House of Delegates voted Friday 125-14 to approve an historic ban using a hand-held cell phone while driving after rejecting a series of Republican-sponsored amendments. Because the Senate has already passed the bill in the same form, the measure goes to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has indicated he will sign […]