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San Francisco’s Oldest Restaurant Opening Washington D.C. Location
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)-- The owner of the famed Tadich Grill restaurant, San Francisco’s oldest continuously running restaurant, is set to open a new locale in Washington, D.C. You don’t have to look far in the city to find someone with sentimental feelings toward Tadich Grill, located on 240 California in the Financial District.The original version of the seafood restaurant opened in ...
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Millennium Bank gets softer but still unrealistic enforcement action
After showing some financial improvements, Millennium Bank is getting a bit of regulatory slack. The Comptroller of the Currency lifted a previous enforcement action that's been hanging over the bank for five years and replaced it with a less stringent one. That's despite the fact that Sterling-based Millennium, which has been trying to raise capital or sell itself for several years, had ...
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EU not coordinating with Washington on China solar dispute
NEW YORK | Tue May 21, 2013 12:29pm EDT NEW YORK May 21 (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official said on Tuesday there were no coordinated talks with the United States to negotiate an end to a trade dispute with China over the dumping of solar panels onto their respective markets. The European Union has until June 5 to decide whether or not to impose duties averaging 47 percent on ...
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Amazon beats other big cloud providers to federal certification
Amazon Web Services Inc. is the third company and first large, commercial cloud provider to get an official blessing from the federal government that enables agencies to more easily purchase and implement the company's cloud products and services. Specifically, AWS, the cloud-computing platform of Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), received an "agency authority to ...
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White House Again Raises Possibility Of Closing Guantanamo
For the first time in years, the Obama administration appears to be focused on shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison and - at a minimum -- has redoubled its efforts to reduce the number of people held there. The key, officials familiar with the administration's thinking say, may lie with 56 Yemeni detainees, a group of men who have been at the island facility for more than a decade though ...
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Protesters Arrested At Justice Department In DC
Activists protest outside the U.S. Justice Department May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Homeowners and activists from Home Defenders League and Occupy Homes joined the protest to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder 'hold Wall Street Banks that ravaged America's economy accountable.' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty ...
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Donald Trump clears regulatory hurdle on Old Post Office redevelopment plan
The General Services Administration has completed an environmental assessment ruling there would be no adverse environmental impacts from Donald Trump'splan to convert the Old Post Office into a luxury hotel. Real estate mogul Donald Trump has cleared a regulatory hurdle in his efforts to redevelop the Old Post Office in downtown D.C. into a high-end hotel, though he is still engaged in ...
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Two BAE Systems execs step down from Intel Security sector
Two executives charged with expanding Arlington-based BAE Systems Inc.'s intelligence and security business have stepped down. Kate Hall, vice president and general manager of intelligence and operations in I&S is retiring, confirmed BAE Systems spokesman Neil Franz. Hall will stay on the job until the middle of July. Deborah Werner, vice president of business development in the intelligence ...
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Newseum plans Civil Rights exhibit
A section of the original Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where four black college students launched a sit-in movement in 1960, will be included in the Newseum's newest exhibit, set to open Aug. 2. The exhibit, called "Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement," will highlight student leaders who fought segregation in the early 1960s. The exhibit will also ...
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Virginia judges decision puts road projects in trouble
A ruling by a Virginia judge threatens to jeopardize the way the Commonwealth uses private companies to operate the Beltway Express Lanes and to build similar lanes on I-95, the Washington Examiner reports. Portsmouth Circuit Court Judge James Cales ruled earlier this month that Virginia's tolls on the Midtown Tunnel included as part of a $2.1 billion deal with a private company were ...
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New Italian restaurant-bocce bar opens in District
Vendetta, a new Italian restaurant and bocce bar combination, has opened to the public starting Monday, DC Eater.com reports. Located at 1212 H St. NE in the former Red Palace space, it features a full fare of Italian dishes, including Vespas suspended from the ...
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Logan Circle welcomes ZenGo Cycle
ZenGo Fitness is coming to Logan Circle. The indoor cycling studio, whose flagship location is in Bethesda, will open its second Washington-area site on the terrace level of 1508 14th St. NW. The Logan Circle outpost will be rebranded "ZenGo Cycle," said Marc Caputo, the founder of ZenGo Fitness LLC, and is expected to open in ...
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Hoamgar opens first international boutique in Bethesda Row
Hoamgar, a popular fashion house with product lines in China, Mongolia and Singapore over the last two decades, has opened its first boutique outside of Asia at Westfield Montgomery Mall, Robert Dyer ...
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ePals names new CEO to start in 2014
Katya Andresen has been named CEO of ePals, effective January 1, 2014. Herndon-based ePals Corp., an education media company focused on the K-12 market, has named a new CEO to succeed Miles Gilburne, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Katya Andresen most recently was the chief operating officer and chief strategy officer for Network for Good. During her tenure, the company transformed the nature of social ...
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Up to 16 D.C. vacant schools made available for charter status
District Mayor Vincent Gray Sixteen former public school buildings will be made available for public charters and other community use, District Mayor Vincent Gray announced Monday, the Washington Examiner reports. Charter school demand continues to rise in the District. The Public Charter School Board announced earlier in the month that 22,000 students were on public charter waitlists this year, ...
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New condos coming to H Street NE
Alteration and repair permits were issuedfor 712 Seventh St. NW, where FrozenYo will take the place of the former Ruby Tuesday that closed last month. Monday was a busy day in permits. Read on for news about new H Street NE condos, Eat the Rich oyster bar, the new Columbia Heights Petco and another ...
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Will Dish chairmans $2B bid for LightSquared spectrum run into interference
Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network Corp., is offering to pay $2 billion for the spectrum owned by thwarted 4G wireless network LightSquared, according to reports. LightSquared, as you may remember, is the ambitious mobile broadband venture built partially off Reston-based SkyTerra, backed by hedge fund billionaire Phil Falcone. The company filed for bankruptcy almost exactly a year ago, ...
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Why You Cant Trust The White House
"You and others have said that no one in the White House knew about IRS actions before getting the heads up on the inspector general's report last month," George Stephanopoulos told senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday. "Are you absolutely sure of that?" ...
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Low-Wage Workers Strike In Washington Sixth City In Wave Of Actions
Service workers at four buildings in Washington, D.C., are going on strike Tuesday, putting a human face on a recent report about federally-contracted workers stuck with unlivable wages. Starting at the Ronald Reagan Building and moving through two Smithsonian museums and Union Station, the city's commuter rail and Amtrak hub, the strikes are the latest in a wave of low-wage worker actions ...
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Posters In Washington Capitol Claim Gun Laws Are Just Like Anti-Gay Discrimination
A series of posters appeared around the Washington State Capitol in the last several days linking gay rights and opposition to gun laws. One poster even suggests that laws intended to prevent gun violence are ...
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White House aides learned of IRS details in April but didn’t tell Obama
Follow @mpoindc The White House first learned of a draft report detailing abuses by IRS officials in targeting conservative groups in late April, though the top administration spokesman maintained on Monday that President Barack Obama was not notified of the emerging controversy at that time.White House press secretary Jay Carney, in a bid to further the administration's public response ...
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Federally-Contracted Workers Strike in D.C.
Called the "Good Jobs Nation" campaign, the workers will protest Monday outside the Reagan Building, the American History Museum, Union Station and Columbus Circle. The group represents the nearly two million workers employed by private businesses to work in federally-owned buildings, serving food, selling memorabilia and even making military ...
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Raytheon Lockheed Martin in battle to build $3B space fence
The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have competing proposals for the project, the Boston Globe reports. Both ...
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DC Fire Carbon Monoxide Sickens 7 Workers
WASHINGTON (AP) - A D.C. fire department official says seven construction workers were sickened by carbon monoxide and sent to area hospitals. Fire department spokesman Lon Walls say 10 people were affected by the fumes on Monday night as they worked at the National Press Club. Walls says the workers were sickened while removing asbestos from the building at 14th and F streets northwest. Walls ...
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Thunderstorms possible in Eastern Washington
Forecasters say there's a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday in Eastern Washington as a cold front moves inland. By Tuesday afternoon storms could become strong in the northeast corner of the state and the Idaho ...
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