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Course load: Growing burden of college fees 03/31/2013 10:28pm • by Marian Wang ProPublica At the University of California Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees - including a small charge for what's billed as "free" HIV testing. Students at Oklahoma State University pay a handso Townhall Becomes Battle of Bus vs. Streetcar 03/28/2013 12:40pm • Four members of the Arlington County Board, along with county staff, made their best cases for streetcars in Crystal City and along Columbia Pike Wednesday night, to a largely skeptical audience that peppered them with questions about why the streetcar would be superior Historic Baltimore cookie in trouble with tax man 03/24/2013 06:58am • WASHINGTON - A Baltimore cookie with a history is having money troubles. The Baltimore Sun reports that the IRS has filed a notice of a nearly $109,000 tax lien against DeBaufre Bakeries, which makes the Berger cookie. Most of that amount was due in 2010, with smaller amounts due in 2009 and 2 Sunday, March 24, 2013 03/24/2013 03:30am • 4:20 p.m. Danielle Kurtzleben, U.S. News & World Report Download In debt? Maybe you should wait to do your taxes 1:20 p.m. Andrew Cohen, CBS News Legal Analyst Download Gay marriage goes before the Supreme Court 12:50 p.m. Nycci Nellis Harry Reid falsely claims the government has cut the deficit by $2.5 trillion 03/22/2013 04:31pm • It's politically fashionable now to say you've helped reduce the nation's debt.  And at nearly $1 trillion annually, there's a lot of debt to be reduced.But during a speech this week on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed that over the past two years the government has reduced Despite sequester, D.C. sees credit rating boost 03/21/2013 11:08pm • WASHINGTON - Standard & Poor's has boosted the District of Columbia's credit rating, signaling confidence in the District's financial health despite the looming unknowns of sequestration. S&P, one of several Wall Street credit rating agencies, announced Thursday that it had raised the District's r Only 3 Va. university basketball teams profitable 03/21/2013 12:05pm • Kristi King, wtop.com WASHINGTON - March Madness includes schools large and small, especially when you look at their sports budgets. This year the NCAA tournament includes no Virginia schools with profitable basketball programs. Student athletic fees bolster basketball at most Virginia univers Board Approves Homeless Shelter Despite Neighbor Concerns 03/18/2013 12:35pm • (Updated at 12:45 p.m.) The Arlington County Board on Saturday voted to approve a controversial use permit for the county’s new year-round Homeless Services Center in Courthouse. The permit will allow the county and the Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network to run a year-round hom Police, Library Increases Highlight Leggett’s Proposed Budget 03/15/2013 11:17am • Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) today proposed a $4.8 billion operating budget that would add School Resource Officers to more schools, restore some funding to libraries and fund pay raises for many county employees for the first time in four years. Leggett said the county saved $469 m Morning Notes 03/13/2013 09:20am • Lane Markings Repainted Near Pentagon — The lane markings on Route 110 near the Pentagon were repainted this week after NBC4 alerted VDOT to “awkward lane markings” left there by construction work. Before the repainting, “motorists drove along seemingly in one lane, only to Federal employees owe $3.5 billion in unpaid taxes 03/10/2013 11:04pm • Jamie Forzato, wtop.com WASHINGTON - From military personnel to postal workers, federal employees are on the hook for $3.5 billion in unpaid 2011 taxes, according to a report obtained by WTOP. The amount is a nearly 3 percent increase compared to the year before. About 312,000 employees owe How Arlington Could Balance Its Budget Without a Tax Hike 03/08/2013 11:05am • In her proposed FY 2014 budget, which calls for a 3.2 cent tax hike and 9.2 million in spending cuts, County Manager Barbara Donnellan also identified — for discussion purposes — ways the county could cut enough spending to negate the need for tax hikes. The county would need to cut New D.C. ticket collection effort shrinks refunds 03/05/2013 06:33pm • WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia expects to collect $2 million this year by withholding unpaid traffic fines from tax refunds. NBC 4's Mark Segraves reports that so far this tax season, the District has withheld $682,320 from taxpayer refunds under a new program the D.C. Council and mayor app In new era, Inova and Children's team up instead of compete 03/01/2013 02:36pm • Not long ago, if two health care companies both saw growth potential in the same market, they'd have gone to the mattresses in a zero-sum battle that would have cost both the winner and loser (and their customers) a lot of money. But times have changed, and on Thursday Inova Health System and Childr County Working to Collect Tax Debts from Shuttered Restaurants 03/01/2013 11:35am • Closed restaurants dominate the list of meals tax delinquencies in Arlington County. The latest list, from December, includes only 3 currently-open restaurants among the 23 that owe the county more than $10,000. (Meals tax delinquencies are often accrued when restaurants collect a required tax