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Gaithersburg Book Festival Seeks Local Authors to Spotlight on May 19
Fairfax Station Patch Announcements
Feb 07Gaithersburg Book Festival Seeks Local Authors to Spotlight on May 19 Applications Due by February 29 Gaithersburg, Md. – February 7, 2012 – Authors living in the Washington, D.C., area have the opportunity to be showcased alongside award-winning and b... »
Chance for Snow Wednesday
Fairfax Station Patch
Feb 07Maybe Punxsutawney Phil was right in predicting six more weeks of winter. Temperatures Tuesday night will dip into the low to mid-30s before a wintry mix starts during the Wednesday morning rush hour. The precipitation should move out by the end of the... »
Brenda Z. Greene, 'Health Expert' Passes Away
Fairfax Station Patch
Feb 07A Fairfax woman who was a leading expert for the National School Boards Association passed away recently. Brenda Z. Greene was 70 years old when she passed away on Friday, Feb. 3. Mrs. Greene oversaw the NSBA’s health policies for nearly 25 years until... »
Photo of the Day: Picnicking in Burke Lake Park
Fairfax Station Patch
Feb 07Picnicking in Burke Lake Park. Feb. 2012. »
Police: Clifton Home Searched in Gambling Investigation
Fairfax Station Patch
Feb 07Two were arrested in conjunction with what police said was an illegal gambling ring. On Feb. 2, Fairfax County Police Detectives along with Falls Church Police served seven warrants as part of the investigation. Don Ong, 42, and Vinh C. Pham, 58, both... »
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Getting The Story Through Grief
The Daily Dish
Jan 28Paul Hiebert grabs a great interview with Kerry Burke, a New York Daily News crime reporter featured in the short-lived reality show "Tabloid Wars": Have you ever had to break the news of a crime to the victim's friends or... »
Representing Future People
The Daily Dish
Jan 21Rupert Read wants us [pdf] to reform our political institutions to take into account people not yet born: Burke, in a famous passage...clearly forgotten by some conservatives in UK and (especially) the USA for the last couple of generations, says... »
Federal prosecutor to take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious probe
Politico Top 10 Blogs
Jan 20A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department's handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor's... »
French Diss: How Rick Santorum Misunderstands Ron Paul
The Atlantic Politics Channel
Jan 18The socially conservative Republican is deeply confused about the tradition of liberty he so frequently derides. »
DCDining.com’s Washington, DC Restaurant Guide Updates, January 1, 2011 – January 7, 2011
DC Dining
Jan 09Good Sunday evening and Monday morning. The following writings represent many of the changes which have been made in dcdining.com’s dining guide, posted on donrockwell.com, during the first week of January. Old South Mountain Inn (Boonsboro, MD) – A se... »