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Via WaPo's Virginia Politics blog, we learn that Virginia Republican Party chair Jeffrey M. Frederick, the guy who couldn't keep his state from voting for a Democratic president for the first time since 1964, has a new fundraising message out. Reports Tim Craig:
In another inflammatory barb, Frederick says Obama will push for voting rights for [...]

The ghost hunters show up at the Wayside Theatre in Middletown, Va., during the September run for Unnecessary Farce, a screwball comedy, and before opening night of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. They are looking for "George," the so-called "colored usher," who worked in the ’40s at Virginia’s second-oldest professional theater.
George, the story goes, lived and [...]

The moving date for Huong Que/Four Sisters from the Eden Center to Gallows Road and Lee Highway in Falls Church has been pushed back... again. A manager said today the owners now expect to stay put at least until the end of next month. The popular Vietnamese restaurant—and Tim Carman's pick for Best Of—has had [...]

By now, you may have heard of the legal troubles of one James L. Walls Jr., the mayor of District Heights, Md., who was arrested for soliciting a male undercover cop for prostitution early Thursday morning.
Fun fact: Mere hours before Walls was arrested near Verizon Center, he had been hanging out with Ward 7 Councilmember [...]

Bad news if you were hoping to pedal past CIA HQ in the next few decades—National Park Service has decided against extending the Mount Vernon Trail past the Roosevelt Bridge. TheWashCycle has the scoop.

Back in February, LL detailed a horribly complicated but tremendously juicy jurisdictional squabble over the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority. Long story short: The suburbs, which hold five of 11 seats on the WASA board, were pissed that District had asserted control over the agency’s finances and passed a law granting hiring preferences to District [...]

My friends are still a little alarmed at my impending relocation to Arlington. They cry that I'm abandoning the city and soon will have no life. I try to explain that Arlington isn't the burbs, that it's actually cool. It's like a secret hidden neighborhood were you can be a real person and avoid the [...]

Last week DCist linked to a post by Rob Goodspeed about "underperforming" Metro stations. He writes:

Of the system’s 86 stations, 32 (or 37%) had fewer than 5,000 average weekday riders (boardings) in 2007. If the entire system is subsidized by taxes, these stations are the most deeply subsidized. Given the huge expense of the station [...]