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This is a question I often ask myself when strolling by the intersection of 14th and U Streets NW (though thankfully a little less often now, since the long-awaited redevelopment of the buildings on the northeast corner nears completion). Matt Yglesias offers up the vacant building next door, however, as a case study in why, even accounting for the current recession, so many city storefronts in seemingly ideal locations remain vacant for so long. Assuming that a landlord has difficulty attracting a new tenant at the current rent, shouldn't there be an incentive then to lower the rent? Isn't some rent better than no rent at all?

Anyone who's a renter has at least one landlord-related horror story. It could be that your house doesn't meet the normal safety regulations, that your landlord just jacked up the rent 15 percent or that they're starting to play dumb when it comes to returning your security deposit. Whatever the case, navigating the District's tenant/landlord laws and regulations -- no matter how weighted towards tenants they might be -- can sometimes be confusing and frustrating.

When news broke last week that the Lerner family was witholding rent payments on the new baseball stadium because they claimed it wasn't fully complete, many residents were predictably peeved. But today the Post is reporting that the D.C. Council may take a step that will similarly annoy everyone else who attends Nats games -- they might raise taxes on tickets and concessions to cover the rent shortfall.

, now being staged at Theater J. In this production, in which the actress plays five members of a Jewish family in the 80s, material that may have been dated instead feels like a cozy trip back to a time gone by.

It's one of the peculiarities of the interaction between economics and politics that the idea of price controls is roundly dismissed as a wrongheaded remnant of command economies while rent control maintains a prominent place in urban political debates. Economists hate the policy, with good reason, but political calculus makes it very difficult to get rid of the idea once and for all.

A couple of months back we posted information on a pre-sale for tickets to see the Foo Fighters in a special, one night only show at the 9:30 Club. Needless to say, our decision wasn't met with kind words from the band's "real" fans, who proceeded to leave us all types of dirty comments and even went as far as to post the address of yours truly on a 9:30 Club Forum thread. So when...

The D.C. Tenants' Advocacy Coalition will be holding a Candidates Forum this Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Charles Sumner Museum School at 1201 17th St. NW.