Examiner Editorial

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Frustrated in his gubernatorial ambitions, Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling decided to skip the party's convention in Richmond this weekend and launch a political action committee for "mainstream" Republicans instead. The jab is directed at Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who will be the Virginia...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

DC Public Schools has been struggling for years to reduce the amount it spends annually on private school placements for special education students who cannot get their academic needs met in the public system. The focus is now on the main underlying factor:Too many District children are being...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Downplaying the D.C. Council's financial disclosure requirements as a bunch of "gotcha" rules, Councilman Jack Evans wants them reviewed and amended even though they've been in effect for less than a year. Evans was particularly dismissive of the rule requiring council members to report any free...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

"What problems are D.C.'s new food truck regulations trying to solve?" Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias wondered in March. Months later, the D.C. Council is still struggling to answer that basic question while it considers the fourth draft of regulations that would impose parking and other...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

More than half of all Fairfax County's expenditures will be spent on its public school system next year, but even that's apparently not enough. School Board members learned earlier this month that there's a $30 million budget gap for FY 2014, which will widen to $130 million in 2015. County...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Maryland learned the hard way that high taxes encourage businesses to relocate to states where the tax burden is lower. Virginia and North Carolina have been the prime beneficiaries of out-migration stemming from Gov. Martin O'Malley's tax-hiking spree, which will cost Marylanders nearly $20...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Last March, the daughter of the late D.C. Councilwoman Hilda Mason told the Office on Aging's Elder Abuse Prevention Committee that even her politically connected mother and multimillionaire stepfather became victims of neglect and financial exploitation at the hands of court-approved...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Maryland is one of the nation's most generous purveyors of taxpayer-funded freebies, so it should come as no surprise that the state also has the highest rate of growth of any of the 50 states in a controversial federal program that provides "free" cell phone service to low-income residents. Of...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Less than a week after Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Virginia Republican Delegates Tim Hugo and Barbara Comstock spoke in McLean about the growing problem of human trafficking in Northern Virginia, three young women were rescued from a Cleveland, Ohio, home where they had been held captive for 10...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

If the Securities and Exchange Commission's "informal inquiry" into D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi's office is nothing to worry about, why is the city lawyering up? The Washington Examiner's Alan Blinder reported Monday that documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act...