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Orrick settles unpaid rent case with Huntsman campaign
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Feb 07Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, which in December sued the Jon Huntsman campaign over an alleged $42,000 in unpaid rent, has reached a settlement with the campaign, The Washington Post reports. The complaint said the Huntsman campaign signed a one-y... »
D.C. United likely to remain at RFK, for now
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Feb 07D.C. United, which has drawn some interest from Baltimore about potentially relocating, looks poised to stay in the District — at least for the next year, according to a report in The Washington Post, which said the Major League Soccer franchise is clo... »
Sulaimon Brown due in court next month on traffic charge
The Washington Post D.C. Wire
Feb 06Sulaimon Brown, the former mayoral candidate who alleges he was paid to disparage then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in the 2010 election, will have to return to D.C. Superior Court next month on charges of driving without a license. Read full article »
D.C. is key to YO!Sushi's expansion
Washington Business Journal
Feb 06The Washington market is a prime location in the U.S. expansion strategy of London-based conveyor belt sushi restaurant YO!Sushi. QSR Magazine takes an overarching look at the chain's growth plans for 2012, which include the opening of two locations in... »
NC judges don't dismiss map lawsuits entirely
Nation
Feb 06GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. A three-judge panel says a pair of lawsuits challenging North Carolina's new b »
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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... »
On the Agenda: Week of February 6 – 10, 2012
Blog Rights
Feb 06The first hearing under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act continues this week. The ACLU is part of a team of lawyers representing Marcus Robinson, a black defendant convicted in the death of a white person and who received a far harsher judgment than... »
Is Bill Kristol America's Most Unreliable Political Commentator?
The Atlantic Politics Channel
Feb 06His predictions are often inaccurate. And in his latest effort, he tries to explain the GOP defeat in 2006 without mentioning Iraq. »
Arts Roundup: Magnited Edition
Arts Desk
Feb 06The Texting Epidemic?: In a lengthy essay, Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday says we're having a crisis of moviegoing manners, citing a couple of amusing news stories from last year—like Alamo Drafthouse's amusing "trailer" featuring a patron th... »
Occupy D.C., De-Occupied
City Desk
Feb 05Yesterday morning, Park Service police entered McPherson Square and began pulling down tents—after making an agreement that tents, sans bedding, could stay up in protest. Lydia DePillis wrote yesterday over at Housing Complex: Early this morning, the P... »