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Six more months of data, polling, and electoral math.

Inside the political numbers racket.

From that very first fanny pack you spot on the Metro, you know that the annual Tourist Invasion of our Nation’s Capital has begun. As we brace for three months of excruciating, smothering heat and throngs of Girl Scouts on troop pilgrimages to the monuments, it’s nice to remember the benefits of being a local. [...]

If we get Monday off next week, that means we get Friday off this week, right? Yes! … If you work for the government.

Relive your college days. Or, if you didn’t go to college, pretend to “relive” them. I don’t know, just do whatever the guy next to you is doing. Take this ping pong ball.

Is love like jazz, or Wikipedia? And wouldn’tcha know it, there’s a lunch at Cato! Fill your week with events. FILL IT!

You need to know what to do this week. And I happen to need to tell you. And I love to use infinitives. To die for.

After a two week sabbatical, Washington Planner is back in action. March Madness fades away as baseball swings into season, the cherry blossoms put on their annual exhibition, and one can almost taste summer approaching. Given that it’s such a perfect time to be in Washington, make sure you get out and take advantage of [...]

If you thought you had nothing important to do this week, K-Sol has a few suggestions.

You’re young. You’re fun. And you’re eager to show off the home-made business cards your mom taught you how to make.

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Norfolk Attempts to Silence Eminent Domain Protest 21 May 2012, 7:00 pm

  Government officials in Norfolk, Va., are not only taking a local business, they are telling the owners to be quiet about it. Central Radio Company has been in Norfolk for nearly 80 years. Founded in 1934, Central Radio serviced radio equipment for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Today, it employs more than 100 people [...]

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DC Dog Owners on a Tight Leash 17 May 2012, 9:05 pm

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform… -Alexis de Tocqueville, from “Democracy in America.” Getting a [...]

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