Today is Ronald Reagan's 101st birthday! 14 years ago today, Congress decided that one president wasn't enough for local air travelers and renamed Washington National Airport as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The renaming happened a year after the country's second-largest federal building, the Ronald Reagan Building, opened downtown. In 1997, the New York Times noted [...]

On April 25, 1985, a 4-year-old reporter interrupted a speech by President Ronald Reagan with a dance routine in the White House Rose Garden.
Reagan had been giving a speech honoring "exceptional volunteers," including the District's 10-year-old Monica Perez, who had helped run a summer school at her home.
However, Nicholas Speed, a 4-year-old "budding reporter" with [...]

There is Power in a Union: For months, workers have been protesting outside the Madison Hotel on 15th Street NW, clamoring about a labor dispute in which the hotel laid off workers and refused to recognize a contract with UNITE HERE Local 25. And, incidentally, making things rather noisy for executives at The Washington Post, [...]

Who Needs a Vote?: The Tea Party's rallying cry all of last year was, "No taxation without representation!" So it's somewhat mysterious that among the first moves the Tea Party-powered Republican House did today was to strip D.C. of the mostly symbolic representation we get for our tax dollars, voting down a resolution by Del. [...]

Oink Oink!  Just when we thought that the swine flu H1N1 virus was under control, The Post is reporting that a Chesapeake woman died from complications of the virus on Tuesday.  This is the area's first publicly announced death attributed to the flu and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is urging those with noticeable symptoms to be proactive about treatment.  

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