Archive for May, 2007

Another Dulles corridor Metro extension problem

Dulles Rail Review Delayed – The Post
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, nearing a critical vote June 18 on funding the beginning of Metro’s expansion to Dulles International Airport, will not be able to see a key assessment of the $2.7 billion project’s financial risks until as late as mid-August, a federal official said yesterday.
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“How [...]

Beltway blues (probably the first of several volumes)

After 28 years of living in Northern Virginia I recently started traveling the Capital Beltway on a daily basis. I was pleased I got by so long without having to commute on “Washington’s main street.”
As I approached the ramp for I-495 north (Beltway Inner Loop) on VA 236 west (Little River Tpk.) I noticed a [...]

Star Wars on The Family Guy

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Improvement!

Los Angeles 5 WASHINGTON 0 (ESPN Boxscore)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When a franchise is rebuilding, wins and loses are not necessarily the most important aspect of a game. Take last night for example. The Nationals gave up half as many runs to the Dodgers as the night before — they lost 5-0 instead of 10-0, [...]

More Shore coverage

I have added more coverage of the Jersey Shore to the right navigation.
Asbury Park PressJerseyShoreNow
nj.com (Star-Ledger)Everything ShoreShore AlumniBeach Blog
philly.com (The Inky & Philly Daily News)Shore GuideDownashore
JerseyShore, NJ, beach
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Extended scenes from Episodes IV-VI

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Thud

Los Angeles 10 WASHINGTON 0 (ESPN Boxscore)
The Nats were 12-5 over their last seventeen games, making them one of the hottest teams in baseball and prompting Thomas Boswell to swing back a “the glass isn’t half full, it is overflowing! (The Post)” mood. As I mentioned yesterday, the AP wrote a story about their winning [...]

Tabloids’ triple double

Today there are three tabloids (Newsday makes its WWN Tabloid Watch debut) with the same back page photo. Two of them have the same headline.

The two NYC dailies (Newsday is technically a Long Island paper) have the same front page photo too.

When are these papers going to stop looking like each other? Are the executive [...]

Bud Shuster has fool’s gold on his hands

I-99 plan hits another roadblock – CDT
PATTON TOWNSHIP — A massive Skytop fill area — a virtual land bridge constructed to carry Interstate 99 over and between U.S. Route 322 and state Route 550 — looms as a new problem for road builders because contaminated groundwater underneath it hasn’t improved, state officials said Thursday.
I know, [...]

Pitching, pitching, pitching

This morning, The Post examines how the Nationals have been able to get by with 80% of the rotation (graphic) on the DL. The weakest link, LeVale Speigner, is probably out of the rotation as soon as possible given his 14.81 ERA.
Wouldn’t you know it, The Wash. Times also examines the rotation today.
The Nats [...]

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