Cameras Receive Mixed Reviews: Over the weekend the first four of 48 planned surveillance cameras went live in the District, promising to help police handle an on-going crime emergency. But how useful might they be? Not very, according to the Washington Times. Officials in other cities that implemented the cameras argue that they don’t do much in helping stop crime, an experience that proven in our northern-most suburb, Baltimore: Baltimore, for example, set up…

Cox Communications and Peter Angelos’ Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) have announced an agreement in which Cox will air MASN’s Nationals telecasts. The deal means that 260,000 cable customers in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg will be able to see the 154 Nats games that MASN plans to cover. Unfortunately, this means nothing for many, if not most, of us. In a battle of the region’s supervillians, Comcast has repeatedly taken Angelos to court over Orioles broadcasting…

The Nats have had better weeks. First there was the news that they may not even be able to keep their name, thanks to Cincinnati-based Bygone Sports, who managed to trademark “Nationals” before MLB could. Next we find out that area fans will be able to see even less of the Nats’ games on TV, thanks to a bum deal by the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network which will leave us with only 32 games of the…