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As city officials plan to take ownership of the Wisconsin, the battleship has become snarled in a debate in Congress.

Last month, Americans watched as Virginia and New Jersey elected two new governors.

The Anne Arundel County Council plans to vote on a proposal to build Maryland's largest planned slots casino near Arundel Mills mall.

The Washington Post has a problem with partisan memory loss. Many of you may have heard of the recent nastiness of a Virginia homeownersa association attempting to deny Colonel Van T. Barfoot , a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, the right to erect a flagpole in his own front yard.A If you are like me, you heard about this first on Wednesday, ...

Americans love decorated war heroes. And what's more American than flying the stars and stripes? So when the Sussex Square Homeowner's Association in Henrico County ordered 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Van Barfoot to remove a flagpole from his yard, they never stood a chance of winning the battle.

As Ronald Reagan used to say, "There you go again". A funny thing has happened to the national GOP on the way to the Congressional midterm elections in 2010.

A part of Fairfax County is about to swell because of the federally-mandated Defense Base Realignment and Closure program, and that means a transportation nightmare could be just around the corner.

President Barack Obama strode into office backed by a Democratic majority in Congress and pledged to do something his predecessor had not: set mandatory limits on global warming gases and show that the U.S. was ready to tackle a problem it played a lead role in creating.

Environmental groups and local activists are releasing a report on how nuclear power will hurt the country's ability to fight global warming.

On Tuesday night, the newspaper held its 27th Public Square. The topic was health care reform.

Give Sen. Mark Warner a star for enunciating some insightful thoughts. No, give him five stars, for he got it absolutely right the other day when he said the emphasis in the campaign to rejigger health care has been wrongheaded and that the main thing was runaway spending.

Virginia's congressional delegation is divided over the question of bringing Guantanamo Bay terror suspects to the U.S. for trial.

Long-established professional relationships and friendships would have greatly complicated his participation on a high-level panel that will assess the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, former Republican Sen.

RICHMOND - U.S. Sen. Mark Warner this week described the man he appointed as Virginia's first Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry as "low-key but knowledgeable," and said he set a high standard for others to follow.

Climate change will be the defining issue of our generation. Not only does it threaten the air we breathe and the water we drink, but it poses a serious threat to America's national security.

Del. Robert G. "Bob" Marshall was outspent by more than five-to-one in the race for the 13th District of the Virginia House of Delegates, but it didn't matter.

Tuesday's elections mean different things to different people. The Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, when asked said 'we won' referring to an obscure and muddled House race in the 23rd District in upstate New York.

Tuesday's election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic party.

Four companies and three executives were honored for their achievements during the past year at the annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards program Wednesday night.

Mike Signer is the c hair man of the E3 Initiative of the Progressive Policy Institute and a p rincipal of the Truman National Security Project.