Last year, Metro proposed radical surgery on D.C.'s longest, most-used bus route, the 30 line, which runs from the Montgomery County line in Northwest to the Prince George's County border in Southeast. The procedure the agency recommended was one of its current favorites: cutting the route in half. The buses now designated 30, 32, 34, [...]

Late on Saturday night, I searched YouTube for clips of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. This famous PBS series molded me as much as television could. With no sarcasm and no hidden meanings, it tried to explain life: How trumpets are made, or how it feels to be angry, or what it means to have a friend. [...]

Bryan Cassidy, 75, first noticed the foul smell at his Southeast home two years ago. After running errands, volunteering at a hospital, or getting mad at public meetings, he would come home to a foul smell in his yard on 13th Street SE. His neighbor, 38-year-old Teeshay King, has two Great Danes that would defecate [...]