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DSW signs on for D.C. USA project
Washington Business Journal
Feb 07D.C. USA has another large retail tenant. Shoe discount store DSW has signed a lease for 23,000 square feet at the Columbia Heights, Target-anchored development. The retailer has been rumored for the location for some time, but things are now official.... »
ManTech subsidiary named to $958M Air Force contract
Washington Business Journal
Feb 07Fairfax-based ManTech International Corp.'s subsidiary Evolvent Technologies Inc., which ManTech acquired in January, was one of 13 named prime contractors on a five-year Air Force indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity that has a total ceiling value... »
Five contractors vie for $532M in USPTO tasks
Washington Business Journal
Feb 07Five government contractors are competing for task orders under the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Systems Development and Integration Next-Generation contract that has a ceiling value of $532 million, Washington Technology reported. Contractors vy... »
Boeing aircraft financing risks disruption
Washington Business Journal
Feb 07Boeing Co. faces a potentially damaging disruption in financing of new aircraft deliveries due to a political fight in Washington over The Export-Import Bank of the United States, The Wall Street Journal reported. Ex-Im has used up $90 billion of its $... »
Clarendon Mardi Gras Parade Two Weeks Away
ARLnow.com
Feb 07Clarendon's annual Mardi Gras parade is only two weeks away, and already some 30 groups have signed up to participate. The parade -- featuring homegrown floats, Mardi Gras beads, and people and... »
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Intern day in the White House press corps
Politico Top 10 Blogs
Feb 07(John Shinkle/POLITICO Photo) The line stretched down the sidewalk and into the street outside the White House this morning, reporters, photographers and videographers, all waiting to get through a Secret Service checkpoint to cover the science fair. W... »
Romney swats Santorum, Newt in Minn. mail
Politico Top 10 Blogs
Feb 07Mitt Romney’s team is playing down the significance of tonight’s non-binding caucuses in Minnesota, but his campaign spent money sending mail pieces into the state targeting other Republican candidates in only the last few days. Former Minnesota Republ... »
Santorum: Romney contraceptive decision 'trumped employees' religious consciences'
Politico Top 10 Blogs
Feb 07Rick Santorum has written an op-ed that firmly tethers Mitt Romney to President Obama on the issue of contraception, using a quote he attributes to the former governor from December 2005 about a requirement that the state's hospitals, "including Cathol... »
The Dollar Store Belt?
City Desk
Feb 07Richard Florida explores the geography of dollar stores—they're proliferating, particularly in the south, and even more affluent people are taking advantage of them. But, he contends, they tend to be concentrated in areas of high rates of smoking, pove... »
Arts Roundup: Consider the Wonk Band Edition
Arts Desk
Feb 07Country Life: The novelist Wendell Berry will give the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Kennedy Center on April 23, reports The New York Times. Berry, whose many novels, stories, and nonfiction writings center on the American rural South... »