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Linda McKenna Boxx, president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, said contractors are still on site completing a few tasks, but the route that crosses Sandcastle Waterpark and the neighboring Keystone Metals scrap yard is safe for cyclists.

Remember the NASA bike share thing from last week. Two things - I've ridden one of the bikes a couple of times and though clunkier than a CaBi, they get the job done; and one of the major contractors here has forbidden their employees from riding them because it's too risky.

Donna Kaulkin and Cinda MacKinnon have a lot to celebrate this month -- they've turned their childhood storytelling skills and dreams of writing a novel into reality.

The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. May 31. For information, visit the Council Web page at coj.net. * The City Downtown Investment Authority meets at 2 p.m. today in the Don Davis Room at City Hall.

The Post's online RootDC section has a piece that ran in the paper a few days ago, " Squabble over U Street restaurant offers close-up on city's constant change ," about how resident opposition to the noise from outdoor seating at The Islander, a many decades old Caribbean restaurant in the U Street corridor is racially-driven. From the article: ... (more)

With just a few short weeks left Memorial Day Weekend deals are still available.

You can attend your first AAJ Education program at 25% off, if you are an AAJ member & have been admitted to the bar for five years or less.

You pay attention to the wrong things. That's what three politicians claimed when caught in betrayals of the public interest in the past two weeks.

For 15 years, a sculpture of abolitionist Sojourner Truth watched over the south patio of the Sacramento Convention Center at 13th and K streets.

Bicyclists in the 2011 Police Unity Tour stopped for lunch at the Target parking lot in Downtown Jersey City on Monday, May 9, 2011.

Activists supporting a path to citizenship for undocumented residents held an unannounced prayer vigil this morning in U.S. Sen.

The historic Southern Hotel is long gone, razed by a developer who never could get his project, 1 Light St., done.

"Cooking is sometimes emotional, sometimes seasonal, sometimes cerebral, and sometimes physical.

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. wants city officials to threaten the use of eminent domain to prompt action on prime real estate at Light and Baltimore streets.

Michael Patrick/News Sentinel "Isn't this wonderful?" says Transform Now Plowshares activist Sister Megan Rice as supporters rally Monday at Market Square.

In the following interview, we speak with Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time .

You can attend your first AAJ Education program at 25% off, if you are an AAJ member & have been admitted to the bar for five years or less.

It's Tuesday morning, 9:30 a.m., and I'm leading a creative writing class for highly capable learners at Shuksan Middle School.

April was a big news month for Fairfax City and the surrounding county areas . The top headlines this past month were both happy and sad.

Will you be among those hitting the streets on bikes Friday, May 17, in celebration of Bike to Work Day 2013 ? Organizers are hoping to encourage more commuters in the Washington, DC, region to consider forsaking cars for bikes as a "clean, fun and healthy way" of getting around.