by Scott McCabe
The Washington area has been hit hard by counterfeiters who are converting $5 bills into $100 bills, the U.S. Secret Service said Monday.
by William C. Flook
Fairfax County staff has proposed limiting the number of houses it buys under Chairman Gerry Connolly’s anti-foreclosure plan to 10 initially, which would be part of a larger campaign to reverse a mounting crisis in the county.
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Both Barack Obama and John McCain must accept that spouses of presidential candidates are legitimate subjects of public discussion. Protecting a spouse from intrusion into his or her private life is understandable, but a candidate is wholly mistaken to suggest his wife’s statements on the campaign trail about why he should be elected aren’t fair game for criticism, or when he contends his wife’s sources of income should be of no concern to voters. Obama is guilty of the former, McCain of the latter.
by Craig Stouffer
As strange as it may sound, D.C. United might have made progress last weekend. Perhaps that’s because there was no further downward to go.
by Michael Neibauer
Ward 2 D.C. Councilman Jack Evans said Monday he is again backing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, one day after he threw his support to Sen. Barack Obama.
by Susan Ferrechio
With just three primaries remaining after today’s contests in Kentucky and Oregon and an insurmountable lead by Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton is winding things down on the campaign trail even as she and her top aides insist the race isn’t over.
by Whitney Blake
Six Washington-based health clinics have started an initiative to convert their patients’ health records to an electronic format and share those records among themselves and D.C.-area hospitals.
by Scott Fuller
Often, when faced with two capable candidates, voters can’t see the fire through the smoke. They don’t want to acknowledge the inevitable winner both for the sake of being contrary and because this recognition would slay the underdog, blowing the whistle on the thrill of competition. They get caught up in the pomp and circumstance, enchanted by the rivalry itself.
by Jeff Dufour
Since it put sushi on the map in Washington 32 years ago, Sushi-Ko has been one of the top temples in the city for innovative raw fish and rice. Yet it had one major problem: It could hardly accommodate the aficionados who flocked to its tiny two-level space in Glover Park.
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