While D.C. is trying to keep its inspectors working from home, Montgomery County says that reusable bags potentially carry a health risk.

Ten years ago, Washington, D.C., was one of the first places in the nation to impose a fee on single-use shopping bags in an effort to curb pollution in the Anacostia River. Now, outright bans are catching on.

Some legislators in Montgomery County want the five-cent bag tax to only apply in food stores.

Some people insist that D.C.’s five-cent bag fee is an abject failure that will drag down the city’s economy. We respond to some of their claims.

Prince George’s County is considering imposing its own five-cent fee on plastic bags.

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the…