Takoma Park, Maryland

...a smaller carbon footprint will sell in a middle-class bedroom suburb 22 miles from Washington. "This is not a handful of people in Takoma Park," said Malcolm D. Woolf, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's top energy adviser, referring to...

In this article: Competitive Power Ventures, Carbon footprint, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Carbon, and College of Southern Maryland

...is a classic case of environmental racism. "There is no discussion about placing this in Takoma Park, Bethesda or Mitchellville, but instead they want to build it in a long-standing black, minority neighborhood," said Edmonston...

In this article: Cheverly

"We want people to be more focused on what matters ... not on having to buy," explains Carolyn Danckaert, a program director with the Takoma Park-based Center for a New American Dream, whose motto is "More fun, less stuff." Even though...

In this article: Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, NPD Group, Kalle Lasn, Baltimore, St. Nicholas, Adbusters, and Globalgiving.com

...you know these things?" she demands. They board the 51 bus at 6:10 a.m., the first of three that will take them to Keke's school in Takoma Park. They are regulars in the seats up front, where Bruce often chats with the bus driver as Keke...

In this article: Keke, Surgery, and Takoma Park

It can be "energizing or calming," depending on your needs. First-timers may want to check out another class at Willow Street's Takoma Park location on Thanksgiving at 10 a.m. The suggested donation of $20 goes to Oxfam, the international...

In this article: Bethesda, Pecan pie, Deviled egg, and Cancer

...law professor Jamie B. Raskin, who founded the Marshall-Brennan project in 1999. Raskin, a Democrat who represents Silver Spring and Takoma Park in the Maryland Senate, wrote a textbook that delves into all the landmark Supreme Court cases...

In this article: American University, Fourth Amendment, Supreme Court, Docket, Washington College of Law, First Amendment, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and Ibuprofen

...right in the terms that it worked. Faulk had the ball in his hands and a first down in his grasp. Absent the bobble, the game was won. Takoma Park, Md. : Hey Dan- How much of Washington's success last Sunday can be attributed to a...

In this article: Redskins, Jim Zorn, Washington, D.C, Brian Orakpo, Albert Haynesworth, Tony Kornheiser, NFL, and Virginia

...a little Catholic gypsy girl I spent kindergarten in St. John the Baptist de la Salle in Chillum and first grade at Our Lady of Sorrows in Takoma Park. And before the school was built we went to Mass at the local movie theater. We'd see John...

In this article: Sauce, Sugar, Sandwich, Purgatory, God, Osteoporosis, and John Wayne

...before coming to the Washington area in 1993. He was a leader in the international effort to respond to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. The Takoma Park, Md., resident ran a $200 million contract for Abt Associates to help organizations deliver...

In this article: Hiv/aids, Zambia, Kitwe, Washington, China, George Washington University, and Surgery

Ruth Abbott, 89, an activist who helped lead protests, voter registration drives and preservation efforts in Takoma Park, where her husband served three terms as the city's feisty mayor, died Oct. 14 of congestive heart failure at Holy Cross...

In this article: Takoma Park, Washington, Buffalo, Guatemala, Women Strike for Peace, and Bruce Springsteen