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<item><title><![CDATA[ Democrats Harnessing Momentum for N.Va. Seat ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502723.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502723.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In Northern Virginia's 11th Congressional District race, Democrats are aiming to extend recent gains while Republicans hope a wealthy businessman who is already advertising on television can help the party hang on to a seat held for seven terms by retiring Rep. Tom Davis. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harnessing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Momentum]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith S. Fimian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC North Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annandale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland Browns]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of William & Mary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Domino's Pizza Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Kenneth Klinge]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Walkinshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hishta]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie L. Byrne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Republican Congressional Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Monaghan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Agency Bolsters Dulles Project ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201875.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201875.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal officials have offered another signal that a $5.2 billion Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport is on track to receive federal funding by the end of the year, giving project officials the green light to begin construction in the heart of Tysons Corner. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bolsters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcia McAllister]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Qwest Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tysons Plan Poised To Move Forward ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102450.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102450.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors could approve plans as early as next month that would allow developers to transform traffic-clogged Tysons Corner from suburb to city, but critics are growing louder in their opposition to a vision that they say will ruin Tysons and surrounding communities. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poised]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Move]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greater Tysons Citizens Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean Citizens Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hope for The Best, Expect The Worst ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102958.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102958.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was bad enough for gridlocked Northern Virginia that leaders in Richmond failed this week to come up with a transportation funding plan, but there's even worse news: There's no Plan B.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263137182" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263137182" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric M. Weiss And Michael Laris]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expect]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Zimmerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beverly Parker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig E. Baumann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Transportation Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Belvoir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[William D. Euille]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kameel Stanley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danville Area Humane Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where the Car Is King, Tysons Faces a Dilemma ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402512.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402512.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Think there's no such thing as too much parking? Take a look at Tysons Corner, where there's more parking than jobs, more parking than office space, more parking than in downtown Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[King,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheryl Cort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition for Smarter Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Diner Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Zimmerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reid Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scotts Run]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foster Real Estate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Macerich Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zipcar Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lessons of Arlington's Urban Development Needn't Be Just History ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062001345.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062001345.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The phenomenal metamorphosis of Arlington County's Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, among the region's most dramatic real estate transformations, teaches a timely lesson: Successful urban revitalization requires long-range planning and long-range public investment that sparks private investment. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lessons]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Needn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarendon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friendship Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac Yard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When 'Airport Business' Is a Ticket to Less Traffic ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502136.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502136.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John Van Vliet commutes from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., to Alexandria every day. And almost every day he stops at Dulles International Airport, not to catch a flight, but to buy a 99 cent cup of coffee at the sole gas station on airport property. He makes sure to get a receipt. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric M. Weiss]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA['Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business']]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Less]]></category><category><![CDATA[Traffic]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Van Vliet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Holl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Express Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danielle Delgado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[James E. DeFord Sr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tigi Zewdie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Town Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott International Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Plan to Remake Tysons Corner Envisions Dense Urban Center ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803262.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803262.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The transformation of Tysons Corner from a car-dominated tangle of offices, malls and auto dealers into a livable city will start moving ahead in the coming weeks.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263138819" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263138819" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Envisions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rebuilding Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarendon]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean Citizens Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Audubon Naturalist Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greater Tysons Citizens Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine Endorses Connolly for Congress ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001817.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001817.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has endorsed Democratic congressional candidate Gerald E. Connolly in Northern Virginia's 11th District, an increasingly blue-leaning territory where Democrats are betting heavily on gaining a seat now that Republican Rep. Tom Davis is retiring. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Endorses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie L. Byrne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas J. Denneny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bolling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Fox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori P. Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Saslaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[EMILY's List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Organization for Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tysons Tunnel Supporters Raise Money to Continue Fight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051903008.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051903008.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Supporters of a tunnel for the Tysons Corner portion of a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport vowed to fight on last night, even as they acknowledged the overwhelming odds against changing the aerial design of the project. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supporters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Money]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Continue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Denneny]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie L. Byrne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[John W. Foust]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy McLeod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Monett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dulles Metro Extension Still Faces Hurdles ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050204233.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050204233.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The future grew brighter last week for the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, but many questions remain -- especially about the phase of the project that would bring the much-anticipated rail line into Loudoun County. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandhya Somashekhar]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Extension]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurdles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Howard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirby Bowers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Proposed Extension To Dulles Revived ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001674.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001674.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal transportation officials revived a long-sought Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport yesterday, but they attached daunting conditions, including a demand for a major influx of cash into the Metro system.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263142949" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263142949" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Proposed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Extension]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revived]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Proposal To Boost Housing In Fairfax ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032801309.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032801309.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gerald E. Connolly, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, proposed last night using county funds to buy foreclosed properties and then sell them at below-market prices to working families. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Proposal]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie L. Byrne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat S. Herrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Labor]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine and Peters Praise Efforts to Resolve Dispute Over Dulles Rail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703219.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703219.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said yesterday that she and Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine are working closely to complete a federal review of the troubled Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Praise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resolve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dispute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine Vows to Fight Efforts To Re-Solicit Bids for Project ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803835.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803835.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Feb. 28 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday that he will oppose efforts to force the state to rebid the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Craig]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vows]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Re-Solicit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bids]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe T. May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles Transit Partners]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Saslaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ward Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Education Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bechtel Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Some See Funding Woes as Chance to Fix Flaws ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902191.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902191.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For some, the possible denial of federal funding for a proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport is not a setback, but an opportunity.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263144791" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263144791" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[See]]></category><category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woes]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chance]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flaws]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Howell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert G. Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles Transit Partners]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugh Keogh]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat S. Herrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandhya Somashekhar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia House of Delegates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bechtel Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dulles Rail Problems With FTA Worry Md. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604180.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604180.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maryland's transportation secretary says he is increasingly concerned about financing the Purple Line and other transit projects after Virginia's setback in trying to clinch crucial federal funding for a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Shaver]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[FTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Md.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[John D. Porcari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevy Chase]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Kay]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Carrollton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Business Community Gets Onboard to Revive Dulles Rail Plan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502920.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502920.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine met with federal transit officials in Richmond to discuss the fate of the proposed Metro extension to Dulles International Airport, Northern Virginia business leaders were already worried. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kendra Marr]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Onboard]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston Hospital Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashburn (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eileen Curtis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirk Forman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purcellville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanya Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Howard]]></category><category><![CDATA[William D. Lecos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles Corridor Rail Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chantilly (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Input Sought to Save Rail To Dulles ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103244.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103244.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) asked regulators yesterday to tell him how to change the plan for the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport to qualify for federal funding, striking a conciliatory tone but offering no specific changes himself. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Input]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sought]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Save]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Catoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Howell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia House of Delegates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Shortsighted Federal Government, a Derailed Transit Project ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020101515.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020101515.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Shaping cities is both a goal and a consequence of investing in transportation infrastructure. Sadly, the Federal Transit Administration seems unaware of this.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263147424" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263147424" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shortsighted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Derailed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Handle Immigration Bills With Care, Kaine Urges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013103316.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013103316.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Jan. 31 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine predicted that many of what he called "mean-spirited" proposals to crack down on illegal immigrants will not make it through the General Assembly this year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Handle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bills]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Care,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Saslaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Department of Motor Vehicles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Manager Seeks $150 Million for Urgent Repairs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013001810.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013001810.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Metro has $150 million in capital projects that need to be funded immediately to maintain safe and reliable operation of the rail system, including a power system upgrade and repairs to track equipment and deteriorating station platforms, General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Manager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[$150]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urgent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Repairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Catoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Examiner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine Raises The Specter Of Higher Dulles Tolls ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012901232.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012901232.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) said yesterday that one of the few ways to pay for a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport without federal funding would be to raise charges on the Dulles Toll Road -- a solution he is unlikely to support. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raises]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Higher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Albo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg Town Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Gains Time to Save U.S. Funding for Dulles Rail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/28/AR2008012802703.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/28/AR2008012802703.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has agreed to a brief "cooling-off" period before making a final decision on whether to fund a rail line to Dulles International Airport, prompting a renewed effort by Virginia political leaders to keep the troubled project alive.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263150551" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263150551" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Save]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Scandling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wes Irvin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Appropriations]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Private Interest In Rail To Dulles ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701894.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701894.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Private equity investors are drawing up proposals to partner with Virginia for a rail line to Dulles International Airport as hope fades that the federal government will help fund the 23-mile Metrorail extension. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Private]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interest]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Moran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert W. Dove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[William D. Lecos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Dulles Rail Death Knell ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/26/AR2008012602083.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/26/AR2008012602083.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Regional business and political leaders have looked to a rail connection between the nation's capital and its premier airport as more than a congestion reliever. It was to be an organizing principle around which Northern Virginia would grow. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner and Michael Laris]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Cherner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[William D. Lecos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cherner Automotive Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bettina Lawton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Tyler]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Wardlaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Thomson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Regional Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bechtel Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Contradictions Surface in Dulles Rail Talks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503388.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503388.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal transportation officials gave incremental approvals to the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport on many of the same issues that they cited in rejecting it this week, according to letters, memos and interviews. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Contradictions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surface]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[James S. Simpson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Borinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Appropriations]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Metro Eyes a Makeover ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003458.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003458.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With shiny, stainless-steel exteriors, ergonomic seats and interactive, high-tech maps, the next generation of Metro trains could look and feel dramatically different from those of the past 40 years and represent a fundamental shift in the way the nation's second-busiest subway system operates its rail fleet.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263153326" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263153326" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makeover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Kubicek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Zimmerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Catoe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Benjamin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Transit Administration]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Slam-Dunk Victory for Connolly ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602608.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602608.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gerald E. Connolly (D) steamrolled to a second term as chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors yesterday, defeating Republican challenger Gary H. Baise with nearly 60 percent of the vote on a night when Democrats dominated county elections. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Slam-Dunk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victory]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary H. Baise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan DuBois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond F. Morrogh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick A. McDade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Horan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John W. Foust]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Hudgins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Hyland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael R. Frey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penelope A. Gross]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Bulova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dale A. Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Kauffman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas R. Boulter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dranesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth D. Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erich Steinbeck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fair Oaks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ilryong Moon]]></category><category><![CDATA[James L. Raney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff C. McKay]]></category><category><![CDATA[John T. Frey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Q. Smyth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mantua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Glod]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Laris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mychele B. Brickner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan G. Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen M. Hunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Jackman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax Circuit Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chairman Hopefuls Offer Stark Contrasts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103101131.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/31/AR2007103101131.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One is a seasoned politician and a restless, kinetic policy maven, most comfortable when he's juggling a dozen ideas or initiatives. The other is a cool and confident man of the courtroom and the boardroom, who sees government service as a civic obligation, not a calling. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chairman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hopefuls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Offer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Contrasts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary H. Baise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[SAIC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Griffin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ruckelshaus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Big Developments Need Good Timing, Not Just Good Location ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092800830.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092800830.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Location, location, location" may be the mantra of real estate, but equally important is "timing, timing, timing." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Developments]]></category><category><![CDATA[Need]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timing,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[Good]]></category><category><![CDATA[Location]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville Town Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peterson & Co. LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Convention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Anne Village Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Under Deal, Cost Will Grow Until Federal Review Is Done ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001716.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001716.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Starting tomorrow, the estimated cost of the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, currently $2.7 billion, will go up between $3 million and $6 million a month.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263155313" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263155313" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Under]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Until]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Review]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Done]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dulles Metro Funding At Risk ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702264.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702264.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The estimated cost of the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport has grown so significantly over the past three years that it may not meet guidelines for federal funding, the U.S. Transportation Department's inspector general reported yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Performers Appear Today at Metro Stations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061401513.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061401513.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hip-hop dancers, a capella groups, African drummers and others will start performing today at six Metro stations in the District as the transit agency welcomes acts at its stations for the first time. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Performers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stations]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Airports Authority Signs Deal to Initiate Transit Project ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602560.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602560.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority signed a contract yesterday that will launch the first half of a 23-mile Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, committing the region to a $5.1 billion transit project to be funded primarily with local taxes and tolls. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Airports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Initiate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supporters of Metro Tunnel Face Uphill Climb With Board ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060401783.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060401783.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hundreds of people crowded before the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors yesterday hoping for one last chance to demand a tunnel instead of an overhead track through the Tysons Corner portion of the proposed Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263157259" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263157259" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supporters]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Face]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uphill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Climb]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fairfax Closed Doors for Sessions on Metro Extension ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602557.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602557.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was less than seven weeks ago that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors complained about the lack of transparency with which Virginia officials and a private contractor were negotiating to build the first phase of the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doors]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sessions]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Extension]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rail Project For Dulles Raises Concerns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201928.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201928.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If Virginia transportation officials and a private contractor resolve their differences over costs and strike a deal to build the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, Northern Virginia commuters and landowners paying most of the $4 billion bill are likely to know very little about the terms of the agreement. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Concerns]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Behind Closed Doors, Hoping for Open Minds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032100777.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032100777.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No political issue in Northern Virginia is more highly charged than transportation. And lately, no issue has been more likely to prompt elected officials to duck public debate and seek sanctuary behind closed doors. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque and Amy Gardner]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Behind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Closed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doors,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hoping]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Open]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minds]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dense Development Sought Near Transit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201463.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201463.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fairfax County embraced a new policy yesterday encouraging dense, pedestrian-friendly development near current and future transit stations, continuing the transformation of car-friendly suburban neighborhoods.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263201001" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263201001" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Gardner and Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sought]]></category><category><![CDATA[Near]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tunnel at Tysons Would Be Costly Risk, Study Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802018.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802018.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A rail tunnel under Tysons Corner would take nearly three years longer to build than an elevated track, would cost at least $160 million more and would jeopardize $900 million in federal money for the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, according to a study commissioned by state officials. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Turque  and Lena H. Sun]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Costly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Study]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Blog, an Unlikely Voice For a Tysons Tunnel ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100749.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100749.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The debate over whether to build a Metrorail extension below or above ground through Tysons Corner has officially made it to the big time. Last week, video clips of a rally held by tunnel supporters were posted on YouTube, where they had been viewed hundreds of times. Even more surprising, a teenager has been devoting his blog to the debate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis and Bill Turque]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blog,]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlikely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voice]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Davis Joins Tysons Tunnel Backers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401740.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401740.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The public groundswell against building an elevated track through Tysons Corner for a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport has failed to force a change in course. But it has helped sway one key player: Rep. Thomas M. Davis III. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backers]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On Road To Dulles, Confusion And Angst ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101580.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101580.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every few weeks, it seems, bring another argument in favor of building a 23-mile Metrorail extension from the East Falls Church station to Dulles International Airport underground through Tysons Corner instead of on an elevated track.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263204654" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263204654" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dulles,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confusion]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angst]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Metro Shelves Fare-Hike Talks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802140.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802140.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Proposed Metro fare increases have been put on hold at least until an outside consultant completes a review to find other ways to balance the budget, a committee of board members decided yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Metro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fare-Hike]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talks]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tunnel Backers Given New Hope ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600941.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600941.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal transit officials said yesterday that Virginia has until spring 2008 to submit its plans for a Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, cheering supporters of an underground route through Tysons Corner who said the additional time would allow the state to change its decision from an elevated track to a tunnel. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tunnel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Backers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Given]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Old Shopping Malls Require Much More Than Cosmetic Surgery ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020101893.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020101893.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the University of Maryland a few years ago, an architecture student undertook an unusual master's thesis project: the functional and aesthetic redesign of a strip shopping area in suburban Maryland. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger K. Lewis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Require]]></category><category><![CDATA[Much]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cosmetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 5-Year Tysons Nightmare Starts Soon ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012701206.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012701206.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263207227" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=35263207227" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Thomson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[5-Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nightmare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soon]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Woe Unto Tysons Commuters ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601861.html?nav=rss_metro</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601861.html?nav=rss_metro</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Take the 12th-biggest business district in the country, which already suffers spirit-crushing traffic jams as more than 100,000 employees and thousands more shoppers try to squeeze onto the few roads in or out of the area daily. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Woe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commuters]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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