Few Smiles Evident On Car Lots These Days- June 29, 2008 I nside the trailer on North Garfield Street, three guys sit at three desks and listen to the groan of the air conditioner. Lately, it's gotten so bad that when one salesman gets a call, others mosey over to see if a real, live customer might be on the line.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801949.html?nav=r... D.C.'s Handgun Ban Hits Unintended Targets- June 26, 2008 Allan Lucas discovered his passion nearly four decades ago, in the Marine Corps. Assigned to target practice at the range, he suddenly realized that everyone else had stopped shooting their M-14s. "It gets real quiet and I'm the only one shooting, and the general and the corporal are watching me," Lucas remembers. "I'm building a little circle of holes around the bull's-eye."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502402.html?nav=r... Green Alliance Takes a Stand at Poplar Point- June 24, 2008 From Marc Fisher's blog Raw Fisherhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301983.html?nav=r... Historic Md. Manor's Deteriorating Situation- June 22, 2008 T he setting high above the Potomac River is nothing short of spectacular: a long, elegant drive, a grand Colonial manor house and then a wide, rolling lawn descending to the water. Here, just half an hour's drive from the White House, George Washington and his friends fished and dined together.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101499.html?nav=r... Radio Daze at the FCC- June 21, 2008 Why has it taken federal regulators 17 months to decide whether XM and Sirius should be allowed to merge Because both of these statements are true: Even with a merger of the two pay radio companies, satellite radio is a dead man walking; and with or without a merger, satellite radio is poised to be among the most important content providers in a confusing new media landscape.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002210.html?nav=r... District Ill Served When Nominations To Service Academies Go Begging- June 19, 2008 Aside from the VIP license plates and the ability to breeze through security checkpoints, one of the great perks of being in Congress is the ability to hand out nominations to elite, tuition-free colleges to some of the highest-achieving high school students in the land.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802892.html?nav=r... Davis Has a Few Warnings for His Possible Successor- June 17, 2008 F or years, Northern Virginia congressman Tom Davis used good old-fashioned politics to cheat the shifting demographics of his Fairfax-centered district. As the population grew more ethnically diverse and politically liberal, Davis, one of the last of the commonwealth's moderate Republican officeholders, held on, maintaining the loyalty of a core of otherwise Democratic-leaning federal workers by fighting for their interests. Davis was the suburban version of a classic city ward-heeler.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602293.html?nav=r... Officials at SE Catholic School Offer an Improbable Prayer- June 15, 2008 As the curtain fell on another school year and the children, beaming in neat white-and-blue uniforms, waited to receive their awards, the pastor led everyone in calling upon the Lord. "I want you to keep praying for the charter board to make the right decision on Monday," Monsignor Charles Pope said in the cafeteria of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian School. "Change can be difficult, but we'll see that God can do wonderful things in ways that we don't expect."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/14/AR2008061401495.html?nav=r... Liberty Takes a Holiday in Occupied Trinidad- June 12, 2008 Another brutally hot night on Montello Avenue NE, and the front porches are full of people hoping for a breeze that never comes -- and then it does, in the form of fleets of D.C. police, whizzing by on bicycles, in patrol cars, aboard vans and trucks, a virtual army of officers. All here to fight crime by encircling the residents of Trinidad in something called a Neighborhood Safety Zone, better known through history as a ghetto.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103492.html?nav=r... Odds Are That Va. Has Big Say in Presidential Race- June 10, 2008 Barack Obama faces three possible paths toward choosing his running mate.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902683.html?nav=r... |