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Expenses that are destroying your budget 03/06/2023 07:45am • Overspending is often the result of making a bunch of small purchases rather than one big one. As inflation causes prices for nondiscretionary items like food, housing and energy to rise, families may need to reduce their expenses in other areas to make ends meet. Consider cutting these 13 recurr DC's first Disability Services director Judy Heumann; disability rights activist, dead at 75 03/05/2023 10:20am • Revered "Mother of the Disability Rights movement," Judith "Judy" Heumann, died Saturday afternoon in D.C., after decades of activism and federal service. She was 75 years old. The disability rights activist, podcaster and author of "Being Heumman" and its young adult counterpart "Rolling Warrior Anne Arundel Co. health officer stepping down for public health post with state 03/03/2023 02:24pm • Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman, who led the Maryland county through the COVID-19 pandemic, is stepping down from his post to take a top public health role with the state. Kalyanaraman's last day with the county will be March 21, before he becomes the deputy secretary f TSA PreCheck sets new membership record 03/03/2023 01:00pm • A record number of U.S. airline passengers are leaving their belts on and getting through TSA screening faster, with PreCheck membership surpassing 15 million. The Transportation Security Administration also reports another PreCheck record. On Feb. 21, more than 19,200 individuals applied for Why we need to preserve and modernize AbilityOne 03/02/2023 12:17pm • This content is sponsored by Melwood. New research underscores economic and community impact of AbilityOne program at Melwood According to census estimates, there are 20 million people with disabilities who are unemployed in the United States, but desire employment. Twenty million. It’s an ou US Sen. Kaine strongly advocates bill to boost hiring of military spouses 03/02/2023 07:11am • U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia wants to give employers an incentive to hire military spouses, calling it an issue of military readiness. Military spouses have been facing a high unemployment rate of 22% in the past decade, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Kaine’s bill, Maryland food bank braces for more hungry mouths after emergency benefits are reduced 03/01/2023 03:44pm • Many in the D.C. region might find it a little harder to buy food after additional federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits, ended Tuesday for many states. Now, the Maryland Food Bank is bracing for more hungry mouths to come to their doors. Emergency allotments adde Stratford University files for bankruptcy; president, vice president listed as biggest creditors 03/01/2023 07:47am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Stratford University, the for-profit college whose abrupt closure last year left hundreds of students without a clear path to a degree, Man pleads guilty for first-degree murder of former Chevy Chase Village manager 02/25/2023 08:58pm • An ex-employee of Geoffrey Biddle, former manager of the historic Maryland community of Chevy Chase Village who was found dead in his home in June 2021, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder. The Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office said that Billy Phillips, Santos was questioned by Secret Service in 2017 credit card fraud probe 02/25/2023 04:02pm • When George Santos' Florida address was found in 2017 inside a rental car used by the suspect in an ATM skimming investigation, the United States Secret Service came knocking. Investigators from the agency located Santos in New York City, the future congressman's hometown, where they intervie Legislative leaders working on bill to move Maryland 529 to Treasurer, wind down pre-paid tuition program 02/25/2023 02:59pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Legislative leaders are planning to introduce a bill next week that would shift oversight of Maryland’s beleaguered college savings plan Virginia NAACP responds to Youngkin's review of African American studies course 02/25/2023 08:01am • The Virginia chapter of the NAACP released a statement Friday condemning Gov. Glenn Youngkin's review of an Advanced Placement African American Studies course that was to be held in state schools. "There should be no question as to whether African American Studies is a worthy topic of study from Bill would require utilities to deliver on promised renewable energy 02/24/2023 08:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Anne Manuel and her husband have been willingly paying an extra $1,000 a year to power their Silver Spring home and a cabin they own Thousands in DC region lost money to scams, ID theft last year 02/23/2023 04:35pm • It can't be repeated enough — watch out for identity theft and scam artists. The reason those warnings don't go away is that the scammers aren't going away. The Federal Trade Commission is out with startling numbers showing just how much of a common occurrence it is everywhere in the U.S. I Some Fairfax Co. board members call for quick review of AP African American Studies course 02/22/2023 04:15pm • Some school board members in Fairfax County, Virginia, are calling on Gov. Glenn Youngkin to quickly approve the Advanced Placement African American Studies course slated to be offered at a handful of high schools next fall. In a letter to Youngkin, board members Laura Jane Cohen, Stella Pekarsky