This is the first of a two-part series on residential segregation . McGovern Drive looked like the sanitized slice of suburbia presented on television in 1965, the year Wayne and Virginia Cole moved into a tidy brick ranch home just outside the Beltway in Montgomery County. The Coles, and everyone else who lived in the neighborhood back then, were white. Xsagsagsagsa gsdag saga m ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor isagsagncsgdasagdasg.agdssag Read full article > >

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Census: The new U.S. neighborhood defined by diversity as all-white enclaves vanish

Fewer than 100,000 of us here in Washington watch “Meet the Press,” the runaway No. 1 political affairs show on Sunday morning. “Fox News Sunday” draws even fewer viewers in the capital area. And the CBS and ABC programs even less. Combined viewership, at best: 200,000. But you know who you are, and so do the networks. The influencers, the decision-makers, the elected and those who want to be. And, yes, the flunkies and hangers-on. You are “THE 200,000” — the Beltway elite whom these shows, Sunday morning traditions for decades, prize and fight desperately to attract. Read full article > >

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TV networks get political workout with Sunday morning shows

Lawsuits after car crashes are beyond common. But in the Fairfax County courthouse, a lawsuit about a crash on the Beltway last year is dropping a few jaws as it makes the rounds and heads toward trial next week. Among the latest allegations in the lawsuit pending in Fairfax County Circuit Court: Paragraph 10. “At the time of the collision, Defendant was going 85 miles per hour.” Paragraph 12. “At the time of the collision, Defendant was having sex with a female.” Read full article > >

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On the Beltway, a claim of drunken sex at 85 mph

Few church choirs can realistically claim to have the best singers inside the Beltway. Bethesda United Methodist Church may, however, have the most ambitious. Sunday evening, the church’s 38 choristers took on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Requiem,” a major work for orchestra, soloists and a highly trained, sizable choir. Under the direction of David A. Fanning, his musicians not only emerged largely unscathed but also turned in some very creditable moments.

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Bethesda United Methodist Church choir shines in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Requiem’

A Washington political action committee has recruited top Beltway talent to battle what it says is an unjust system for determining the college football championship.

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Political Heavy Hitters Take On College Bowls

It doesn’t get more outside the Beltway than Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson.

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Feingold foe boasts: Never been to D.C.

It doesn’t get more outside the Beltway than Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson.

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Feingold foe boasts: Never been to D.C.

It doesn’t get more outside the Beltway than Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson.

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Feingold foe boasts: Never been to D.C.