Is that while Washingtonians use their subway system, New Yorkers love their subway system. Case in point: The Saturday New York Times' special section on the New York Subway. Would the Washington Post ever run such a pullout on the Metro? Don't answer that.
The whole package is worth a skim for any train lover or [...]

A few days ago, Atrios flagged a lede graf in the Washington Post's write-up of a Brookings report on the changing nature of the suburbs, asking: "Nobody noticed what's wrong with this paragraph?" It reads:
The idealized vision of suburbia as a homogenous landscape of prosperity built around the nuclear family took another hit over the [...]

A familiar, long-running story is back in the news—and that's definitely a bad thing.
For years, D.C. officials have wanted to build a hotel to support big groups hosting events at the Washington Convention Center. That project—despite the economic downturn—was rejuvenated this summer when Councilmembers Kwame Brown (At-large) and Jack Evans (Ward 2) decided it could [...]

The new year is upon us. December's copious top ten roundups are beginning to dwindle. Now, it's time to bring on the lists of hopes, dreams and expectations for 2010!
Benny L. Kass, a real estate columnist for the Washington Post, wrote his own piece entitled "What the new year and new decade will hold for housing [...]

So I actually published this blog post for the first time almost exactly a week ago.*  People clearly need the message again now: You must shovel your sidewalk.  You're law-bound. But more importantly you're bound by a hovering societal anxiety that, at any point, someone could slip on your snow-covered sidewalk and sue you.
Last week, [...]

Personally, I would never sue someone if I slipped on ice in front of their home. I don't know anyone that would do such a thing. Certainly, not my family members.  And my co-workers don't appear to be very litigious people.
But as we're all aware, some people out there don't mind lawyering up at, say, [...]

A little over a year ago, I wrote about Founding Farmers, a new downtown restaurant owned by the North Dakota Farmers Union.
The place billed itself as supporting local agriculture and using meat and seafood from producers that followed conscientious, sustainable practices.  Founding Farmers intrigued me because, at the time, it was striving to become [...]

The Washington Post reports this morning that the city is going to begin distributing $7.5 million in stimulus money this week to needy families making a maximum income of $30,000. Couldn't come at a better time as we settle into hypothermia season, which began in early November. Here are some more details on how the [...]

For the last two weeks, I've been receiving press releases from the American Community Properties Trust about its uber energy-efficient, humongous planned development that will completely revitalize  St. Charles Maryland—located "only 22 miles from the White House," as one announcement stated.
What were they talking about exactly? "An international model of how to design and build [...]

In case you haven't spotted the news over at City Desk (or every other outlet covering D.C.), I thought I should mention D.C.'s biggest, late-breaking news this afternoon: Abe Pollin, developer extraordinaire, sports team owner, and philanthropist, has passed away.
He suffered from  corticobasal degeneration, according to the Washington Post.

Among his many accomplishments, Pollin developed [...]