In a Face-Off Over Live Music, A Sweet-Sounding Outcome- April 29, 2008 The news releases claiming victory in the years-long battle over music in Mount Pleasant arrived within a couple of hours of each other. Two bitter opponents in the struggle over whether to ban live music and dancing from the restaurants along the retail strip of Mount Pleasant Street each argued that the District's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had sided with them.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802668.html?nav=r... Md. Slots Opponents' Splintered Campaign- April 27, 2008 Put Peter Franchot up against Martin O'Malley in a statewide vote and there can be little doubt that the pesky comptroller from Takoma Park would face a rough time against Maryland's charming governor, even if O'Malley's popularity numbers have drooped to Bush levels.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042601847.html?nav=r... Near-Adults Don't Belong in Ninth Grade- April 24, 2008 Wilson High School in the affluent Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington, home to some of the D.C. school system's highest-achieving students, is not accustomed to a stream of fights and arrests. But this year, the school's online bulletin boards are ablaze with accounts of unprovoked assaults, some with video (everybody's a documentary filmmaker these days).http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303245.html?nav=r... A Slight Gap Where the Sidewalk Ends- April 24, 2008 At least we agree on parks. We like them, and trees, too. We crave the respite they provide from the strains of everyday life. But that's about all we agree on.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042101280.html?nav=r... Schools Should Set Start Times To Students' Biological Clocks- April 22, 2008 Anyone who has ever been a teenager recalls the horror of early rising during those heady years. And school administrators know about research that supports the need many teens feel to sleep till noon. Yet most school systems insist that bus schedules and the convenience of parents and staff make it imperative to cling to school hours created when we were a nation of farmers and factory hands.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102902.html?nav=r... Inequality Is Evident With Flip of a Switch- April 20, 2008 Just as Candy Binson Smith was telling me about life without indoor plumbing or electricity in the 1960s in Scotland, the tiny black neighborhood tucked away along a dead-end street in affluent Potomac, the lights in the gymnasium next to us flickered and died.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041901744.html?nav=r... Getting Close to the Pope Runs in the Family- April 17, 2008 John Kane was 19 when he stood with his other siblings behind his sister Margaret and his brother Richard as they stepped forward to hand Pope John Paul II a chalice of wine, a ceremonial gift to the Vicar of Christ, during his 1979 visit to Washington.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041603314.html?nav=r... A Trip to N.Y. for the Price Of a Trip to the Soda Machine- April 15, 2008 I went from the District to Manhattan the other day, and my trip involved two trains and a bus. Can you rank the three pieces of my journey by how much they costhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402676.html?nav=r... National Harbor May Be In, but Is It for Pr. George's- April 13, 2008 "T his Place Changes Everything," say promotional materials for the new National Harbor, the $4 billion, 300-acre development along the Potomac River in Prince George's County.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201917.html?nav=r... A Report on Moral Character Best Left Behind- April 10, 2008 What would drive one of the nation's most successful and respected school systems to report which racial and ethnic groups demonstrate the soundest moral character and ethical judgment How did the Fairfax County schools come to put out statistics claiming that black and Hispanic students are less likely than their white and Asian peers to "possess the skills to manage and resolve conflict"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903688.html?nav=r... |