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Obama attends Inouye memorial in Hawaii Dec 24th 2012, 01:30 HONOLULU —President Obama came to a veterans cemetery here on Sunday to honor the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, less as the nation's top politician and more as a native son of Hawaii paying tribute to his roots. Read full article >> Tea party stays on the sidelines as Obama, Republicans in Congress tackle fiscal cliff Dec 24th 2012, 00:41 The tea party movement has been nearly invisible in the intensive lobbying campaign over the "fiscal cliff," even as Congress and the White House debate the issues of government spending and national debt that are at the core of the movement's identity. Read full article >> At contractor FCI Federal, job opportunities for high-school-educated workers Dec 23rd 2012, 23:30 At many companies in the professional services industry, a college degree is a common denominator among all employees. FCI Federal, however, doesn't put much stock in that credential. The Leesburg-based company, which provides administrative support for government agencies, estimates that 95 percent of its employees have only a high-school education. Read full article >> Parking garages turn to smartphone apps to attract night, weekend drivers Dec 23rd 2012, 23:06 Owners of some of the District's parking garages are turning to smartphone apps to attract the increasing number of motorists looking to park at night or on weekends, times when their facilities once sat vacant in this town dominated by weekday commuters. Read full article >> New at the top: Razorsight's Chris Checco and the power of getting things done Dec 23rd 2012, 23:01 Growing up I had many professional aspirations, everything from a geologist to a professional gymnast. But after a few turning points it became clear what I was meant to do. I started at a publishing company where I was tasked with converting a manual business into an automated electronic business. It was a huge undertaking because it involved converting bins and bins of cards that tracked the 600,000 members in the company's book clubs. Read full article >> D.C. area appointments for Dec. 24 Dec 23rd 2012, 22:44 Arabella Advisors of the District appointed Jill Rademacher managing director. Arbitron of Columbia appointed Sean R. Creamer president and chief executive. JBS International of Bethesda appointed Candace Charkow, Jennifer Kasten and Larry Robertson as vice presidents. Read full article >> Gun owners vs. the NRA: What the polling shows Dec 23rd 2012, 18:26 Poli-Sci Perspective is a weekly Wonkblog feature in which Georgetown University's Dan Hopkins and George Washington University's Danny Hayes and John Sides offer an empirical perspective on the issues dominating Washington. In this edition, Sides examines research showing that the strongly anti-gun control views embraced by the National Rifle Association are not only at odds with those of most Americans who do not own guns, but differ from those of many gun owners themselves. Read full article >> Earn an average salary? Covering your health spending will take 58.3 workdays Dec 23rd 2012, 14:15 We usually think about the growth in health care spending in straight dollars, the number put toward medicine from one year to the next. Chris Conover has another way of going about it: He recently graphed the number of work days, paid at average wage, necessary to buy an average amount of health care. Right now, the average worker needs to work nearly two months of eight-hour work days 58.3 days, to be exact to purchase the average amount of health care spending. Back in 1958, that number stood at 14.8 days. Read full article >>

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