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VIA MY FOX DC: PepsiCo says it’s raising prices on its popular Tropicana orange juice because of the deep freeze that hurt much of Florida’s citrus crop. The company is shrinking its most popular size by about 8 percent — while maintaining its price — and raising prices on another size starting in May. The […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The U.S. attorney’s office in the District has found more than 100 cases since the mid-1970s that need to be reviewed because of potentially falsified and inaccurate tests by FBI analysts. The report, filed in D.C. Superior Court late Friday, stems from an internal investigation by prosecutors after the exoneration in […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: In “The Paradox of Choice,” author Barry Schwartz makes the case that more can be less. Sometimes, he writes, we have too many options for our own good. Rather than being thrilled with the range of possibilities before us, we become anxious about sorting through them all and making the right […]

DeWayne Woods DeWayne Woods who got his start working with Donald Lawrence, has garnered much success with his debut hit single “Let Go, Let God”. He’s back with single “Living On The Top” and a new album My Life’s Lyric set to be released Mar 30, 2010 Jason Nelson He’s the twin brother of Jonathan […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Federal education officials have singled out Alexandria’s only public high school as one of the nation’s poorest-performing schools, putting it on track for dramatic instructional reforms fueled by new federal funds. Washington area educators don’t generally regard T.C. Williams High School, whose early integration efforts were celebrated in the movie “Remember […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: When Coolidge High School announced two months ago that it was looking for a new football coach, one of the school’s science teachers was sitting in a conference room in the building when a colleague asked, “Why don’t you put your name in for it?” Natalie Randolph chewed on the idea […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — It was always hard to be old in Haiti, but after the earthquake, to be old and poor feels like a curse, say those who are both. “We struggle to maintain a little dignity, but look at us,” said Lauranise Gedeon, who sat, embarrassed, in soiled sheets in […]

Some of the DC area’s swankiest restaurants are among nearly two-thousand eating establishments in the region recently cited for health code violations. The “Washington Examiner” says over a recent three-month period, health department records indicate problems including rat infestations and slime-covered water faucets. At the top of the list of critical violations were Gordon Biersch […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: District families applied in record numbers to the annual online lottery for out-of-boundary, preschool and pre-kindergarten slots, school officials reported Thursday. School leaders said the historic level of participation, which generated first-time waiting lists at 14 schools, reflected improvements in test scores, school building conditions and teacher quality since control of […]

Most Americans believe God is involved in their daily lives, from parking tickets to football scores to losing those extra pounds. That’s the finding from a Canadian researcher who looked at two U.S. surveys on the subject. Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, found that 82-percent of respondents depended on […]