I knew where I'd surely find the great inauguration party: in that glorious Victorian cupcake of a ballroom where partygoers celebrated Abraham Lincoln's second swearing-in, up on the third floor of what is now the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. This year it was called the "Lincoln 2.0 Ball."...

The phone started ringing at Cherry Hill RV Park the morning after the election, but Mike and Linda Gurevich didn't really believe it until the recreational vehicles started lumbering in by the hundreds. Winter's a quiet time at the Gureviches' campgrounds in College Park, but yesterday, their 60 ac...

The grand and wondrous thing about spending 20 years arguing over building a transit line is that the debate keeps gaining altitude. What was once a simple matter of where to lay the tracks to connect the two arms of Metro's Red Line has morphed into an epic confrontation featuring standoffs betw......

The grand and wondrous thing about spending 20 years arguing over building a transit line is that the debate keeps gaining altitude. What was once a simple matter of where to lay the tracks to connect the two arms of Metro's Red Line has morphed into an epic confrontation featuring standoffs between...

W hen the D.C. Council picks a company Tuesday to operate the city's lottery, it will try to determine the best way to spend many millions of taxpayer dollars, provide a trustworthy gambling experience for players and bring the lottery's technology into the digital age....

The contrast could hardly be more stark: As D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ratchets up the rhetoric in her battle to break the District's teachers union and force a merit pay plan on the city's classroom instructors, Montgomery County last week announced that its public schools have reached a...

After 88 years of selling Buicks in Northern Virginia's exurbs, the Dick C. Weaver & Son dealership sold its remaining cars, parts and tools back to General Motors this fall. Someday soon, bailout or not, GM is likely to start severing its ties to hundreds of dealerships, as the old American system ...

After 88 years of selling Buicks in Northern Virginia's exurbs, the Dick C. Weaver & Son dealership sold its remaining cars, parts and tools back to General Motors this fall....

Deep into more than 10 hours of argument and testimony in a jam-packed District government hearing room yesterday, someone finally dared to predict the fate of the Brutalist bunker on 16th Street NW that the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, has miserably called home for 37 years. "We all know how ...

In the holiday spirit, how about a contest? The president-elect and his wife said on television last week that they plan to be active in Washington--of course, it would be hard to be less a part of the city's life than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been. But just how can a pre...