See a week of Amtrak trips on this animated map

By Dan Malouff (Board of Directors, Editorial Board) • December 26, 2019

This animation shows how every Amtrak train in America is scheduled to move, over the course of one typical week.

Lawns are green—they’re also terrible for the environment

By Ellen Paul (Guest Contributor) • December 26, 2019

I made my childhood fortune pulling dandelions. My father saw dandelions as the scourge of his beautiful green lawn. He paid two cents per pulled dandelion, provided the roots came up, too. I had job security because the neighbors let their dandelions go to seed, assuring that there would always be more dandelions for me to pull.

Breakfast links: Arlington buses will celebrate 1960s civil rights protests

By Liam Sullivan (Contributor) • December 27, 2019

Arlington bus art commemorates 1960s sit-in protests

Buses in Arlington will soon feature art to commemorate the lunch counter sit-in civil rights protests during 1960 in Arlington.  (Will Vitka / WTOP)

Fairfax’s solar plan will make Virginia reexamine power regulations

Fairfax county’s solar energy plan will likely force Virginia legislators to examine existing regulations that favor Dominion Power. The new solar plan in Fairfax will produce approximately 45 million megawatts of energy.  (Antonio Olivio / Post)

A new university is coming to Silver Spring

Part of the former Discovery campus in Silver Spring, Maryland will now be home to Ana G. Méndez University. The county has worked to fill the space since Discovery moved its headquarters to New York.  (Rebecca Tan / Post)

Maryland’s housing market is healthy, a real estate company says

While the number of house sales declined, the overall prices of sales increased across Maryland in 2019. The trend points to a healthy market, according to Larry Foster, president of Long & Foster Real Estate.  (Jeff Clabaugh / WTOP)

Green Line service was suspended due to a gas leak

On Thursday, Green Line service was suspended and nearby apartments evacuated near the Navy Yard Metro station after a construction crew hit a gas line. Service was restored later that day.  (Justin Wm. Moyer / Post)

DDOT will allow rejected scooter companies to appeal

DDOT released a plan to increase the number of dockless scooters in DC that would limit the number of companies allowed to opperate them. Now DDOT will allow excluded companies to appeal the decision.   (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)

Shoppers grocery stores will close 12 locations in 2020

Shoppers, a grocery chain in Maryland, will close 12 locations across the state in early 2020, including one in White Flint.  (Dan Schere / Bethesda Magazine)

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