A Shit Storm Of Violence, Of Course! Damn, where's Mother Oprah when you need her? Mother Oprah would tell the people of Silver Spring, Maryland the hard truth. "Girlfriend, if a liberal kumbaya stop the violence Obama disciple hits you once, he'll hit you again. Don't ever go to a peace concert wit...

Smart grid standards proposed in the House stimulus bill could snatch business away from some of the largest incumbent meter providers — perhaps even put them out of business — while virtually guaranteeing utility contracts for newer smart grid companies that support the computing standa...

Greenbox Technology, a startup with a web-based platform that monitors home energy use, told us recently it hopes to close its first round of funding by June. Matthew Smith, the company’s vice president of marketing, said the company is talking to potential investors now. The round could be as hig...

Local executives are opening their wallets to help fund Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, but their rewards are far more meager than those lavished on contributors to the galas of previous presidents....

Jay D. Homnick writes: In this spirit, it is appropriate for us to take a moment to publicize the outstanding respect shown by the President and Laura Bush to traditional Jews and their practices throughout his administration. One historic example of this is the startling fact that, for the first ti...

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...

I am not a bit surprised that Montgomery County sets limits on when Christmas trees can be sold ["Early Christmas Tree Sales? Heavens, No," front page, Dec. 5]. There is hardly anybody in this county who doesn't want to regulate every action taken by their fellow residents. People want to tell you h...

There is a lot of talk about who the next U.S. secretary of education will be. All I know is it won't be Rob Smith....

When did The Post become a family register? Devoting 100 column inches in the A section of the Nov. 15 issue -- close to an entire page of the paper, when the front page and continuation are combined -- to incoming first brother-in-law Craig Robinson and the Oregon State Beavers basketball team show...