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  • New Voters Loosen Republicans’ Grip on Old Dominion

    The downtown in Leesburg, Virginia, offers a portrait of attachment to the past. Federal-style buildings line the streets, and the courthouse square features both a plaque commemorating a reading in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence and a statue honoring Confederate soldiers.

  • McDonnell Probe Taints Cuccinelli Virginia Governor Bid

    A federal investigation into a Virginia businessman’s political ties is threatening to harm the reputations of Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, an often mentioned prospective presidential candidate, and the man running to replace him.

  • Dumb Question: Do We Need Washington If the S&P 500 Say They're 'Sustainable'?

    It's not every day you meet Republicans (or really, anyone) who advocate for a U.S. carbon tax. Then again, not everyone is a determined advocate of so-called Pigovian taxes, the phrase economists use for levies on activities we probably shouldn’t be doing anyway.

  • Obama Wants to Make Sure You Don’t Retire Rich

    A bullet point on Page 18 of President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget sounds ominous: “Prohibit Individuals from Accumulating Over $3 Million in Tax-Preferred Retirement Accounts.” That it appears in a section titled “Strengthening the Middle Class” is odd since such a proposal would seem to undermine the goal.

  • James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Dies at 93

    James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93.

  • Blacks Made History Surpassing White Voter Turnout Rates

    Almost two in three eligible blacks cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election, marking the first time they had a higher voter turnout rate than non- Hispanic whites, a U.S. Census Bureau analysis shows.

  • Gorman Skips Business, Jain Likes Faulks: Best Books of 2012

    What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year?

  • Lawmakers Decry FAA Budget Cuts as Flight Delays Grow

    A crush of flight delays at U.S. airports after the furlough of about 10 percent of air-traffic controllers sparked a backlash in the Capitol yesterday, with Republican lawmakers accusing the Obama administration of inventing a crisis to serve its interests in a budget-cut fight.

  • Virginia’s Contract-Fat Fairfax Digs In for Leaner Years

    When Mobil Corp. quit midtown Manhattan for 130 green acres in Fairfax County, Virginia, its new neighbors included country stores, dairy farms and a highway that ringed the nation’s capital. Mobil brought hope that the suburb could break free of its Washington ties to build its own world-class economy.

  • Obama Nominates Macfarlane to NRC, Replacing Chairman Jaczko

    President Barack Obama is nominating Allison Macfarlane, a professor and member of panel studying disposal of atomic wastes, to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, replacing Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who is quitting.

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