A Stadium Plan That Won't Pay Off- May 29, 2008 A soccer stadium in Anacostia would be a splendid addition to Washington's resurgence as a sports town. But the city has no business paying for such a facility or grabbing riverfront parkland to build it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803101.html?nav=r... Looking for Middle Ground In Tricky World of Personal Crusades- May 27, 2008 F ollowing up on two recent columns, we find that things get worse, but perhaps there is a way out:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052602299.html?nav=r... Turnaround Starts With Students- May 25, 2008 S ister Mary Bourdon runs a school divided into two campuses. One is a spanking-new set of classrooms in a lushly equipped arts center in Southeast Washington. The other, five minutes away by car, is a warren of rooms in an old apartment complex where gunmen burst in one recent day, desperate to find a hideout.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/24/AR2008052401544.html?nav=r... Nats Risk Priceless Goodwill For $100,000 a Day in Damages- May 22, 2008 Night after night, tens of thousands of fans crowd into Nationals Park to watch baseball. The views are spectacular, the scoreboard is dazzling, the team can't hit -- ah, well, you can't have everything. But at least the stadium, against many expectations, got built on time and on budget.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102584.html?nav=r... Line Between Reality and Fantasy Blurs Uneasily at Crime Museum- May 20, 2008 T he new National Museum of Crime & Punishment, which opens Friday across from the Abe Pollin Arena and the National Portrait Gallery, is another in Washington's growing supply of museums that aspire to be a blend of theme park and TV show. It's even produced in cooperation with the long-running Fox hit "America's Most Wanted," which will be taped in the museum's basement television studio.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902694.html?nav=r... When It Comes to Dogs at Schoolyards, One Parent Sinks Her Teeth in and Isn't Letting Go- May 18, 2008 W as it the time a golden retriever jumped up and snatched a sandwich from her son's hand at a neighborhood soccer game, startling and scaring the 6-year-old Was it the incident when dogs outside Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda jumped at her daughter Or is there some unknown dog trauma in Danuta Wilson's past that explains her crusadehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051702456.html?nav=r... Kaine Should Try Alternate Route To Transportation Financing- May 15, 2008 Six years ago, Northern Virginia voters weighed the pain of sitting in traffic against the bite that would result from a half-cent local sales tax increase to pay for transportation improvements. By a clear majority, they said, Thanks, but no thanks.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403840.html?nav=r... Jazz Breaks Up D.C.'s Arts Dirge- May 13, 2008 The announcement, made with great fanfare from the stage of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, was dramatic: This spring marks "the return of music to the D.C. public schools," said Deputy Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202352.html?nav=r... At This Point, MLK Memorial Needs a Fresh Start- May 11, 2008 Martin Luther King was never an arms-folded kind of man. He was never one to tighten up against slings of opposition, never one to choose a cocky or grandiose pose.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051002357.html?nav=r... Saving Sidewalks From the Evils of Ping-Pong- May 8, 2008 The grainy video, shot at night from across Connecticut Avenue, reveals the menace -- caught on tape, posted on YouTube for all to see. The danger, the violation of public space, the unchecked liability, all now undeniable.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703433.html?nav=r... |