Two young lawmakers are reimagining housing in the Va. and Md. suburbs. They face critics from all sides.

As the city gets more expensive, poverty is pushed to the suburbs.

Over the course of the day, residents of suburban communities in both Maryland and Virginia have complained of smelling smoke in the air.

If it seems like cities these days are crawling with more young people than ever before, that’s because they are, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

President Obama is set to kick off his re-election campaign this weekend in Richmond, but presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney certainly isn’t leaving the Old Dominion to the Democrats.

If you want to live in the District’s suburbs, your savings on housing costs are certain to be eaten up by significantly higher transportation costs — so says a new report published today by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the D.C. Office of Planning.

Photo by . . . every.seven . . .. A Newsweek report shows that 7 of the 10 richest counties in the country are in the D.C. metro region. Newsweek used data from the 2009 Census to inform their rankings. The richest county in the country is Virginia’s Loudoun County, with a median income of a staggering $114,204. Following are VA’s Fairfax County (number 2), MD’s Howard County (number 3), VA’s Arlington County (number…

For the most part, Forbes’ latest billionaire list is a who’s who of New York’s hedge fund managers and the West Coast’s tech giants, with a few oil barons and other old-money types sprinkled in for good measure. But the D.C. area is actually home to two of the 25 richest Americans, and six of the 10 richest counties. Forbes did not provide pictures of Forest Mars, Jr. or John Mars, but does list…

You may have read Eric Weiss’s story in Sunday’s Washington Post, which described the District’s attempts to improve pedestrian safety and encourage walking and mass transit use as a “war against workers who drive into the city.” There’s not much more to say about it that David Alpert and Ryan Avent haven’t already said. This sums it up nicely (from Avent):Essentially, Eric Weiss went around the suburbs asking folks to bitch about the District’s efforts…

Still in the office, D.C.? Yeah, us too. We hope you’re only sticking around because you don’t need to travel this holiday season. If so, enjoy the empty halls, bask in the quiet, and call it a day early. If not — well, good luck on the roads and at the airport. It sounds like they’re going to be predictably nasty. There Seems To Be Some Sort of Holiday Occurring: And consequently you can…