Frederick County's Board of County Commissioners approved an ordinance yesterday making English the official language for nearly all local government functions. Other languages will only be permitted for issues of public health or safety. more ›

In case you hadn't noticed: this weekend has been a bit of bedlam for traveling on the Metro. Lumping together the severing of the Orange/Blue lines at the Foggy Bottom station, several track disruptions and a body found on the Farragut North tracks, a relaxing three-day weekend is not the first notion to come to mind. Unfortunately, those of us already looking forward to the next federal holiday in February, there will be no respite as Metro plans to close the Federal Triangle and Smithsonian stations for similar maintenance -- all part of an "aggressive maintenance" schedule for 2011. Metro's anger management issues aside, sounds like we should plan to spend a good chuck of our extra days off riding the rails. more ›

After this morning's news that the Prince George's County Council appears to have blocked DC United from building a new stadium in the county, DC United fans have spent the day worrying about the future of the team. Now the Washington Business Journal's Tierney Plumb reports that hope still hasn't gone out of style: officials in both Montgomery County and Frederick County have reportedly expressed at least initial interest in building a stadium for the team. So now we're talking maybe Shady Grove or Germantown? Those are even farther away from the center of the city than the hypothetical PG stadium. Of course, any such development would likely rest on the original, and still unpopular plan to have the Maryland Stadium Authority float bonds. Color us skeptical. more ›