There's no question in this contest buyer's win.  Buyers snap foreclosed properties left and right. That's just the reality here on the ground on foreclosed properties: if they're decent, clean, and well priced it would sell first over their competition, that is the other type ...

I have just read the March 1 front-page story "In Old Town, the Sex Shop Is a Kiss-Off," which contained Michael Zarlenga's sad tale of failing to win approval for major architectural changes to his old commercial building on the main shopping street in Old Town Alexandria and then taking revenge on...

urban planning, Kendall Square, Cambridge Wade Roush wrote: Companies, merchants, and residents in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge banded together last week to form the Kendall Square Association, a non-profit group whose mission, according to its new president Tim Rowe, is to “im...

Citigroup and JP Morgan Suspend Foreclosure Both Citigroup Inc. (C: 3.58 -0.83%) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM: 25.2804 -3.47%) announced Friday they have enacted temporary foreclosure moratoriums. Green Depot: Another Signal 'Eco' is Moving Mainstream On Thursday an “eco-Home Depot� opened in Manhat...

Growing up in Newport News, Virginia, Robert Cray started playing guitar in high school, mostly blues and soul. After 12 years, The Robert Cray Band released its third CD, Strong Persuader in 1986. It won Robert and the band a Grammy.  Since then, the smooth yet raspy bluesy singer has played w...

The heretics misunderstand the great Sts. Cyril of Alexandria and Dionysius the Areopagite of Athens when they talk of the two natures and the two operations/energies, respectively. Their appeal to the authority of these two champions of the faith is useless because the heretics are not of one mind ...

You want to know when market will rebound? Check this out. It's no crystal ball prediction just market insight from Standard and Poor's. The 5 key drivers to housing recovery, via Businessweek: 1. Buyers' confidence in their jobs and income levels; 2. Ease of housing price declines to ma...

The recount in the 46th Dist. is over and Dem Charniele Herring has seen her 16 vote lead over GOP wunderkind Joe Murray upheld.  Herring has now been sworn in as a Delegate in Richmond and seated. Murray showed what some hard work can do in the right circumstances and should provide a wake-up call...

They are victims of hurricanes and women who suffered in abusive relationships; they are disabled adults and children scarred by poverty. Some suffer from terminal illness. They arrived in Washington by plane, train and automobile from as far away as New Orleans, Galveston, Tex., and Wichita, inv......

RICHMOND, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told the General Assembly on Wednesday that he will use his final year in office to cultivate a major expansion in environmentally oriented jobs and try to work through partisan barriers to steer Virginia through severe financial turbulence....