How Maryland and Virginia Students Will be Affected if Stafford Loan Interest...
By July 1, 2013, Congress will have to take action or else the federally subsidized Stafford Loans that more than 7 million students and families rely on will be responsible for paying twice the...
View ArticleCar Theft Rates Continue to Drop in DC and Across the Nation
It looks like grand theft auto is becoming less and less of a lucrative pursuit for car thieves everywhere, at least according to a recent FBI study. The Washington Post reports that not only has car...
View ArticlePrediction Wizard Nate Silver Disappoints Political Fans by Moving to ESPN
Any even halfway informed politico worships on the alter of Nate Silver. The New York Times statistician was catapulted to national fame for his shockingly accurate state-by-state predictions in the...
View ArticleReport Card: How Far We've Come on the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty
On this day 50 years ago, January 8th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave his first State of the Union Address, in which the new president announced his ambitious "War on Poverty." Just seven...
View ArticleVenture Capital Funding in DC Region Hit 12-Year High in 2013
We've been waiting confidently for the final-quarter D.C. venture capital stats to arrive from the National Venture Capital Association. Well, finally they have. And boy ,do they look good. In 2013,...
View ArticleSurprise! DC Teams Are Among the Least Efficient Spenders in Sports
On Monday, Bloomberg Businessweek released a neat statistical breakdown of spending efficiency for all 122 "major-sports" teams in the U.S., weighing average payroll against average wins over the last...
View ArticleMaryland and Virginia Among Most Popular States For Immigrants
In 2012 there were over 40.7 million immigrants living in the United States, a number that has only risen since. However, foreign born individuals who choose to make America their home seem to settle...
View ArticleWhich Maryland Town is One of the Fastest Growing in America?
Editor's Note: Sometimes a number can provide more insight than a paragraph of analysis. This weekly column is a look at some of the numbers from the week that we just can't seem to get out of our...
View Article100 Years of Immigration in One Amazing GIF
I am proud to say that I come from immigrant stock. My father's family came to the United States in the 1940s after their home country had been ravaged by World War II. My mother's family came to...
View Article7 Charts that Show How Much Republicans and Democrats Hate Each Other
Editor's Note: Sometimes a number can provide more insight than a paragraph of analysis. This weekly column is a look at some of the numbers from the week that we just can't seem to get out of our...
View ArticleThis Map Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Debt in America
Even with the recession technically over, many Americans are still wallowing in mountains of debt. But according to new research released this week from the Urban Institute, debt looks very different...
View Article3 Midterm Campaigns That Are Changing the Big Data Game
Image via Flickr/Nick McPhee (CC BY-NC 2.0)Ever since the monumental success of President Obama’s voter database in the 2012 election, big data has become a crucial part of any political campaign....
View ArticleP&G Joins with Virginia Bioinformatics Institute in Strategic Innovation...
A recently signed master alliance with Procter & Gamble signals a new era of research for Virginia Tech, according to officials at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech.A master...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When We Run Out of Internet
We're running out of Internet. Or at least, we are almost out of addresses in the IPv4 system, by far the most widely used format for defining a computer's unique address in the world. The American...
View ArticleWi-Fi and Mobile TV: A RomCom With a Happy Ending?
It’s predicted that in less than two years, the average person will own five Wi-Fi enabled devices and that 86 percent of all in-home broadband usage will be via a Wi-Fi connection. Many of us already...
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