News Archive - November 22, 2009

Numbers Of Needy Families On The Rise For Holiday Food Charity

By Mana Rabiee

Hundreds of struggling families in D.C. are receiving Thanksgiving gift boxes from a private food program. This year, the number of families in need has grown.

Project Giveback is a local food charity that delivers food baskets to needy families for the holidays. The nu...

Local Politicians Remember Desi Deschaine

By David Schultz

A boy's choir sings in a downtown cathedral for an audience of Desi Deschaine's family and senior D.C. politicians. Deschaine died this summer in a boating accident on the Chesapeake bay.

Deschaine's friends say politics was his life. At the service, they handed out c...

Washington Blade Newspaper Relaunches Under New Name

By Mana Rabiee

The now-defunct gay newsletter, the Washington Blade, has reappeared in a new incarnation under the name "D.C. Agenda".

Kevin Naff was editor of the Washington Blade and has overseen the publication of the new gay-community paper which printed its first issue Friday. Na...

VA Regulators Want To Pull N.C. Mutual's License

By Elliott Francis

State regulators in Virginia want to stop the nation's oldest black-owned insurer from doing business in that state.

The State Corporation Commission reports the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance's surplus dropped by more than a third in the past year. That, acco...

Virginia Hopes Railroad Tourists Will Get On Board

By Matt McCleskey

Several railroad museums and related organizations are working together to boost tourism in Virginia.

Earlier this year, the general assembly designated parts of central Virginia, along with the Alleghany Highlands and the Roanoke Valley as the state's Rail Heritage...