<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Extra Cover Stories</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/alexandria/coverstory?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><description>Extra Cover Stories</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Budget Battle Like No Other]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49734-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49734-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than 100 Alexandria residents signed up to speak at last week's public hearing on the city's proposed $471 million budget for the coming year  --  nearly double the number that would normally turn out for such a hearing. But this is no ordinary year, citizen activists and city officials say. With Alexandria's residential real estate assessments up 21 percent this year  --  and up 77 percent over the last three years  --  the city is experiencing one of its most contentious budget seasons in recent memory.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Find a World of New Words]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31151-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31151-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On a sunny day after school last week, a group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Arlington's Jamestown Elementary School sat trading pleasantries, and a mild insult or two, in French.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Frustrating Finish for Traffic Camera Proponents]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12630-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12630-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vienna Police Chief Robert A. Carlisle went down to Richmond and witnessed the vote himself. He sat in a House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee meeting and watched as state lawmakers eliminated red-light cameras at busy traffic intersections beginning July 1.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Numbers, in a Snapshot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12648-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12648-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Annual Revenue From Tickets <br>  Annual TotalPer Citation Alexandria-$40,382 (-$6.32 )Arlington$12,499 (88 cents )Fairfax City$11,004 ($1.33 )Fairfax County-$97,811 (-$5.31 )Falls Church$545 (6 cents )Vienna-$52,677 (-$29.45 )]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera Locations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12649-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12649-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Alexandria <br> Patrick and Gibbon streets<br> Seminary Road and Nottingham Drive]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Closing Is Hint at What's In Store]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12653-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12653-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A customer could walk the whole interior of Safeway No. 743 in less time than it takes for a pot of coffee to brew.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Del Ray, Visions of an Arts Colony]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59690-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59690-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alexandria artist Eric Nelson was on the verge of losing his studio when he had an unexpected revelation while driving down Mount Vernon Avenue a few months ago.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Law  Regarding Sexual Relations With Minors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41012-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41012-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Virginia Law  Regarding Sexual Relations With Minors <br>   CARNAL KNOWLEDGE  (statutory rape)]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rooting for The Home Team Again]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41003-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41003-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tom Holster's affair with baseball in Washington began around 1967. Like other 11-year-olds of his generation, Holster would spend many nights listening to Washington Senators games on the radio.]]></description><author> C. Woodrow Irvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Age-Old Cultural Divide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41011-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41011-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ She was 16, but with her small stature, enormous brown eyes and eighth-grader's innocence, she looked more like 13. He was 24. She was sure she loved him.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Arts to Craft Higher Self-Esteem]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20397-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20397-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tall and lean, a paint-smeared apron hanging from his neck, artist Steve Prince stands before a clutch of teenage girls explaining the strong foundation necessary to build something as simple as a chair.]]></description><author> Leef Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tackling a Big Tax Problem]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1455-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1455-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Judy Yoder saw a property assessment letter from Arlington County arrive last month, her heart sank.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson In Foreign Exchange]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45952-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45952-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here's a reality show idea that would make "Wife Swap" and "Trading Spaces" look like tame "Gilligan's Island" reruns: A native of a remote Ugandan village moves to Virginia and enrolls his children in an Arlington school, while a veteran Arlington teacher moves to the Ugandan man's village to teach there.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Experience for Everyone]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11166-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11166-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Shirley Figueredo holds a red-and-pink paper heart hanging from a string with one hand, and uses the other to carefully climb a stepladder in the front hallway of Arlington's Barrett Elementary School.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Landmark Mall Plans Unveiled]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57333-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57333-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On a frigid night last week, more than 150 Alexandria residents turned out for a meeting to hear plans for a large-scale redevelopment of Landmark Mall, the fading shopping center off Interstate 395 that city officials hope will be the catalyst one day for an urban renaissance in the city's West End.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beekeepers Feel Sting of Attrition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38239-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38239-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[About nine years ago, Pat Haskell was attending a home and garden show when she came across a booth pushing something a bit more unusual than lilacs or petunias.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome Mat Being Laid Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21306-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21306-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Trish Zwirnbaum and Stella Shanholtz, employees who work at the new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, jumped at the chance to take advantage of a new bus service to explore their new neighborhood last week.]]></description><author> Elaine Rivera</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fair Opportunity To Get a Head Start]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3628-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3628-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Doggie, doggie, where's my bone? Somebody took it from my home."]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson About the Gift of Giving]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19184-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19184-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to this Christmas story. There are those who have and those who have less, or nothing at all. The two groups have never met, nor are they ever likely to. They don't even know each others' full names, although in some cases, they live only a few blocks apart. And yet each will affect the other in ways unexpectedly profound this Christmas day.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Many, The Price Isn't Right]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1611-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1611-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria/coverstory</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rapidly rising home prices in Arlington and Alexandria have priced many municipal workers -- teachers, mid-level managers, police officers -- out of the local housing market, statistics show.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item></channel></rss>