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...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

Now that he's running for governor, Terry McAuliffe suddenly wants to get money out of politics and limit campaign contributions to Virginia candidates to $100. This is rich, considering that the multimillionaire McLean resident and former head of the Democratic National Committee was one of the...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

In the fairy tale world envisioned by certain members of the Montgomery County Council, the office building in Aspen Hill would be full of workers who biked to their high-paying jobs advancing various progressive causes, and then stopped after work to buy organic food from locally owned shops...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

Federal auditors once again reported that Maryland has failed to comply with the basic requirements of the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program and must now reimburse the federal government $10.9 million. A recent review of Medicaid claims for home health care aides that were filed between 2008...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

Last week, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority opened five design-build bids for construction of the second phase of the Silver Line Metrorail extension. The contact award, to be announced later this month, will likely go to the lowest bidder: Capital Rail Constructors -- a group that...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

More than a decade after 9/11, is the District of Columbia prepared to handle the aftermath of a terrorist attack similar to the recent bombing at the Boston Marathon? The answer to this simple question is of grave concern not only to District residents but to anybody who visits or works in the...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

Thirty years ago this month, Americans were startled to learn that their underachieving public schools were undermining the future prosperity and security of the nation. "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very...