Customers are coming in to tune in to Bob Ross while drinking a “happy little pale ale.”

Nestled in the northwest corner of D.C.’s diamond, Spring Valley’s rolling landscapes are home to diplomats, prominent journalists, and even a young Kermit the Frog.

A D.C. man got a break on his property taxes because he argued that his home stood on land where the U.S. Army once dumped mustard gas.

The Fourth of July is all about celebrating America’s history and founding principles, and a few groups used local parades to express their opinions—both odd and humorous—to large crowds.

The New York Times reported Sunday that demolishing a house in the Spring Valley neighborhood may unearth a key stockpile of old chemical weapons that have created a lingering health risk in the neighborhood.

Today’s Post leads with a report on the long-term effects of World War I-era chemical weapons testing conducted in an upscale part of Northwest D.C.

Spring Valley is one of the city’s most striking neighborhoods, replete with beautiful residences, spacious tree-lined avenues and planned munitions detonations which will be exploding eight to ten times a day over the next week. That’s right, upper Northwesterners: the Army will soon be blowing some stuff up within earshot of your idyllic neighborhoods.

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful day here in Washington, with a high around 70 degrees and mostly sunny skies. Here’s hoping the great weather can brighten the days of Montgomery County election officials, who are reporting that they won’t have a final count of all provisional ballots in the county until sometime next week, thanks to mistakes which forced many early morning voters to cast the paper ballots. We know the idea that…

We picked up this little tidbit via Laura Rozen’s blog, War and Piece. It seems that folks in a diplomat-heavy neighborhood in Upper Northwest are less than pleased that one of the chief architects — one Paul Wolfowitz — of the Iraq war is staging a very different sort of “invasion and occupation” in their neck o’ the woods, as the Post mentioned this past week. The reason? A not-so-secret romance with Arab feminist and…

There are two water-related stories of note: First, the Los Angeles Times reports of an authoritative study released by the National Research Council that has concluded that perchlorate (a chemical most often associated with the military, NASA and related contractors) poses “a health threat because it can interfere with the human thyroid gland, which controls how the brain develops in infancy.” That’s pretty straightforward. But the story gets a bit more complicated, when you consider…