A Post business columnist and an independent music non-profit have joined the chorus questioning Live Nation’s proposal for a Silver Spring music hall. Last Friday, Steven Pearlstein wrote that while I.M.P. boss Seth Hurwitz has fought against competition for his 9:30 Club before, and his alternative proposal to Live Nation is in his own best interest, “he’s put forward a financial proposal attractive enough that county officials cannot ignore it.” Under their non-binding letter of…

You have to give Steven Pearlstein credit. It’s easy to be wrong about stuff: to call Tysons Corner a choice address, to fault Reston for not having bums and graffiti, or to assert that building churches is a better use of public money than constructing a tunnel for the Orange Line extension. Anyone can pen those garden variety inanities. It takes balls to compare Route 7 to Midtown Manhattan. That’s some grade A crazy; we’re…

Yesterday, the Washington Post recapped its effort last year to divine the economic prospects for the area in 2005 by polling a panel of 16 in-the-know Washingtonians working in business, economics, and real estate. It seems their experts did all right, generally predicting good economic times, which we generally had. The Post is having another go at it this year, having added ten seers to their list. From what the Post says, it looks like…

Good morning. We start out this morning asking a question that Steven Pearlstein href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51558-2005Feb24.html”>asks in his Post column: “Can someone explain to me why the capital of the richest and most powerful country in the world needs to be shut down by the mere threat of an eight-inch snowstorm?” Are we weather wimps? We think the answer is yes, but we grew up in a lake-effect snow belt, so we’re naturally critical when we see…