Below The Beltway

Maybe, just maybe the season isn’t quite over just yet:
The sweep was more emphatic last August, when the Yankees rampaged into Fenway Park and won five games to bury the Boston Red Sox. The best the Yankees could do this time was to win three at Yankee Stadium and chisel a chunk from Boston’s sizable […]

A school in Colorado has banned the venerable childhood game of tag:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Running […]

The Yankees, that is, thanks to some skilled pitching from a former Boston Red Sox:
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a decade after bolting from Boston, Roger Clemens left the Red Sox scratching their heads.
The Rocket shut down his original team, allowing only two hits and outpitching an ace 18 years younger than him in […]

Back in 1996, a security guard by the name of Richard Jewell, was named by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, and NBC as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing. What ensued was a media circus not unlike that which we had seen two years earlier during the O.J. Simpson case. Only this time, Jewel was […]

The project to expand Metrorail to Dulles Airport is quickly turning into one of the biggest transportation boondoggles in recent memory:
Over budget and behind schedule, rail to Dulles International Airport is in trouble.
Planned for more than 40 years, the 23-mile Metro extension from Falls Church to Loudoun County is among the region’s highest transportation priorities. […]

It seems the Republican National Committee will be joining the DNC in efforts to crack down on states that are trying to move the primary schedule up:
The Republican National Committee plans to penalize at least four states holding early primaries, including New Hampshire and Florida, by refusing to seat at least half their delegates at […]

Notwithstanding the media circus over what Idaho Senator Larry Craig may or may not have done in a bathroom at the Minneapolis Airport, the question that remains is whether he actually committed a crime:
Why was Sen. Craig arrested? Is it really illegal to try to find a sexual partner in a public bathroom using code? […]

Because they find stories like this:
An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle on her birthday cake.
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever […]

First of all, the number of people in poverty has declined:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.
The nation’s poverty rate was 12.3 percent in 2006, down from 12.6 percent a year before, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median household income increased slightly, to […]

This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but a Circuit Court Judge in Arlington has upheld the constitutionality of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority:
An Arlington County Circuit Court judge this morning upheld the constitutionality of a state law enacted this year enabling the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to raise taxes and issue bonds to […]