A cover story in Thursday’s Washington Examiner may kill your appetite if you’re a fan of dining out. The newspaper surveyed three months of restaurant food safety inspections in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia and found more than 1,900 restaurants were cited for some type of violation.
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Food Safety Violations at DC Restaurants (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said.
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Wife and daughter of Sen. Harry Reid injured in crash on interstate highway outside Washington (Chicago Tribune)
Competing with Maryland and the District of Columbia to lure the corporate headquarters from California, McDonnell proposed legislation Friday that would increase money for Virginia’s economic development incentive grants to $30 million over five years, or $6 million in one year. The current economic development grants also total $30 million, but they have been used up, the House Appropriations …
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General Assembly Briefs for March 9 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The big pre-Christmas snowstorm that struck the Washington region was formally declared a disaster Thursday, putting the District, Virginia and Maryland in line to recoup millions of dollars from the federal government.
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Early snowstorm in Washington region declared natural disaster (Washington Post)
“Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.” Letter to Sidney Colvin From Rudyard Kipling read more
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Spring is, indeed, coming. (Dorchester Reporter)
Freshman Michael Snaer scored 14 points, including two game-clinching free throws with 4 seconds left, to lead Florida State to a 51-47 win over Wake Forest on Wednesday night. The win kept the Seminoles (21-8, 9-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) in a third place tie with Clemson and Virginia Tech going into the final weekend of regular season play.
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Florida State claims 51-47 win against Wake Forest (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie and Scott Brown scored recent Republican victories by singing from the same political hymnal: focusing on kitchen-table issues, criticizing Washington without demeaning the president and keeping their distance from the GOP’s most polarizing figures. Their strategies resounded in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts and won plaudits from GOP establishment voices as …
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Perry taps into fear of Washington (Politico via Yahoo! News)
Katherine M. Gehl, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a term expiring December 17, 2010, vice Collister Johnson, Jr., term expired. Michael J. McCord, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
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Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate, 3/1/10 (The White House)
Metro has teamed up with nonprofits in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia to provide comprehensive, individualized training to people with significant disabilities on how to get around using public transportation.
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Metro, Nonprofits Help Disabled Navigate (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
The Washington-area transit system has teamed up with nonprofits in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia to provide comprehensive, individualized training to people with significant disabilities on how to get around using public transportation.
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Training will help disabled ride Metro (Baltimore Sun)