Into the Deep End of the Pool- June 21, 2008 Andrian Gherbovet, a 20-year-old native of the Republic of Moldova, has found many things difficult since he arrived in May to spend the summer as a lifeguard at an Alexandria condominium complex. Getting a ticket to the consumer economy wasn't one of them.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31685178... Friendship House Could Lose Home- June 21, 2008 This isn't your run-of-the-mill foreclosure sale. The 1797 Capitol Hill house known as the Maples, in which George Washington purportedly slept and where Francis Scott Key later lived, is scheduled to be auctioned to the highest bidder Thursday.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31685178... In Chevy Chase, Pitching Sunshine As Clean, Cheap Energy Resource- June 19, 2008 Sometimes when Ketch Ryan is working in her Chevy Chase garden, she pauses to look at a contraption mounted on the side of her house. It is a solar energy converter that displays how much her personal carbon footprint is shrinking each day.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531041... Unkempt Properties Are Closer To Cleanup- June 19, 2008 The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday moved toward cracking down on unkempt lawns and other signs of neglect that residents say have diminished living conditions in neighborhoods in the eastern part of the county.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531042... Board Ponders Purchase of Merrifield Office Building- June 19, 2008 Fairfax County school officials are proposing to spend $52 million to buy a 275,000-square-foot office building in the Merrifield area to continue consolidating the headquarters of the region's largest school system.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31483933... Charles, Pr. George's Seek Common Cause- June 19, 2008 As the Charles County commissioners prepared to travel to National Harbor this week to meet with the Prince George's County Council, both groups of officials were mindful that their joint session comes at a time of major transformation for the two counties and their relationship with each other.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531042... Gas Prices Energizing Va. Senate Race- June 19, 2008 RICHMOND, June 18 -- Senate candidate Mark R. Warner said Wednesday that the U.S. government needs to get tougher with OPEC and better regulate investors speculating in the oil market to drive down gas prices.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531040... Foreclosures Spur Real Estate Market- June 19, 2008 The number of foreclosures in Prince William County rose last month to the highest point this year, while low housing prices kept the real estate market active.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531041... Montgomery Lifts Advisory on Water- June 19, 2008 An advisory to boil drinking water that had covered large sections of Montgomery County was lifted last night after two rounds of tests found that a rupture in a four-foot water main did not result in contamination.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31443717... College Park Grieves Over Death of Pathbreaking Ex-Mayor Lomax- June 19, 2008 College Park residents are mourning the death of Dervey Lomax , 84, on June 8. Lomax, a 27-year city council member, served as mayor from 1973 to 1975. He was the first and only black leader of the city.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/localbusiness/index_xml/~3/31531041... |