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Top Cop: Fairfax County makes one of its own acting police chief
April Burbank
Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013
A new acting police chief has been appointed in Fairfax County. He will hold the position until county officials select a permanent chief. Lt. Col. Edwin C. Roessler Jr. began his appointment as acting police chief on Saturday after several years of being the department's deputy chief of...
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3-Minute Interview: 3-Minute Interview: Printmaker Alessandra Echeverri
April Burbank
Updated: Fri, Mar 22, 2013
Echeverri is an artist who uses an old-fashioned letterpress to print cards, invitations, posters and books at Typecase Industries, a company she and two friends co-founded last year. They work at 52 O Street Studios in D.C., which will host an open studio weekend on May 18-19. Why is it...
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National Zoo's new $56 million elephant habitat opens Saturday
April Burbank
Published: Thu, Mar 21, 2013
When Marie Galloway stepped up to a podium Thursday at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, she was quick to acknowledge the elephant in the room -- two of them, to be precise. As two Asian elephants foraged in the background, Galloway and other leaders described the zoo's new indoor elephant...
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3-Minute Interview: Frisbee fanatic Cole Ingraham
April Burbank
Published: Thu, Mar 21, 2013
Ingraham sits on the board of directors for the 2,800-member Washington Area Frisbee Club and organizes the club's annual St. Hatrick's Day tournament, which will be held at Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton on Saturday. How did you get involved in Ultimate Frisbee and in the club? I started...
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Medical marijuana dispensaries prepare to open in D.C.
April Burbank
Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013
The District's first facilities for selling medical marijuana are expected to open next month after a long struggle over how and where the drug should be dispensed. The District passed a medical marijuana law in 1998, but Congress prevented the law from moving forward until 2009. Since then,...
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Engineers rip condition of D.C. roads, bridges
April Burbank
Published: Tue, Mar 19, 2013
A national group of civil engineers said Tuesday that nearly all of the District's roads need significant work -- and that the nation's overall infrastructure had improved only slightly since 2009. The American Society of Civil Engineers rated 99 percent of roads in D.C. as "mediocre" or...
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Peak bloom pushed back for cherry blossoms
April Burbank
Published: Tue, Mar 19, 2013
Recent cold weather has pushed back the expected bloom time for the District's cherry blossom trees, and residents and visitors can now expect peak blooms between April 3 and 6. National Park Service officials had said the annual cherry tree display would peak between March 26 and 30, but they...
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