Neighbors Split Along Power Grid (Stock Trading)
Neighbors Split Along Power Grid
The front doors to their brick colonials face each other on Western Avenue in Chevy Chase. Both women are named Kate and are raising young children in homes where their grandmothers once lived.
Ann E. Marimow and Ray Rivera
Lessons Learned, Investor Builds Portfolio of Stamps
In the 1940s, a woman in Middletown, Ohio, set aside a stack of postage stamps, expecting them to appreciate in value over time and thereby pay for the college education of her young son, Bill Gross.
Neil Irwin
K Street Confidential
K Street Confidential columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum will be online to discuss what happens when business and government collide.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
What Data Thieves Didn't Steal From Veterans
Pat and Thomas Halberstadt take all the right steps to protect their identity.
Michelle Singletary
Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief
Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial. An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan.
Yuki Noguchi
High-Tech Hide and Seek
Maribeth Luftglass is a gumshoe mom. The parent of three preteens periodically reads the text messages on their cellphones, monitors whom and when they're instant messaging and searches the Internet to make sure they haven't started blogging or set up profiles on social networking sites.
Yuki Noguchi
From Public Life to Private Business
After more than 30 years in politics, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen was saddled with credit card debt. Cohen, 65, made plans to go into the consulting business in 1996, when he decided not to seek a fourth term in the Senate. Nowadays, most of Cohen's mornings begin with an 8:30 staff………
David S. Hilzenrath
Alley Homes Fight for Respect — and Trash Pickup
They were once Washington's slums — crude buildings tucked into alleys across the city where the poor lived in such squalor that Eleanor Roosevelt railed against them and Congress made them illegal.
Lyndsey Layton
Keeping a Rest Stop in Motion
One of the few things Vern Bingham is not sure of concerning Memorial Day weekend is what people actually do on Memorial Day weekend. But he has some suspicions: The beach is popular; so are roller coasters and backyard barbecues.
Michael S. Rosenwald
Paulson Nominated as Treasury Secretary
President Bush named Henry M. Paulson Jr. , chief executive of Goldman Sachs, as the new Treasury secretary this morning to replace John W. Snow.
Fred Barbash and Peter Baker
On Trash Pickup, Hawaii Is In for the Long Haul
There is trouble with the garbage in paradise. Hawaii, one of the country's most scenic states, hardly has an image as a place where unsightly piles of trash are piling up. But because of its population and limited size, some of the Hawaiian islands have waste problems that a proposed change in…
Cindy Skrzycki
GM Names Clarke Chief of N.America Unit
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. on Tuesday appointed Troy Clarke president of its North American operations, a position currently held by Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner.
TOM KRISHER
Working Outside May Not Be a Picnic
Warm weather is back, and millions of people will be heading to work in outdoor jobs at camps, parks, pools, construction sites and residential properties.
Rebecca R. Kahlenberg