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First restaurants at Foggy Bottom’s Western Market are open 10/14/2021 10:07am • Western Market is across the street from the original Western Market, built in 1802. It is on property leased from George Washington University by developers MRP Really and Westbrook Partners. (Courtesy MRP Realty) Western Market, a new food hall at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in D.C.’s Foggy Bo Should You Get a Business Credit Card? 10/14/2021 12:00am • Most business owners start out needing resources to sustain themselves during their companies' early stages. Owners need everything from a computer and a telephone to specialty equipment. But obtaining financing as a new business can be challenging. That's where a business credit card comes in. A b 7 Thematic ETFs to Buy for 4Q 2021 10/14/2021 12:00am • These niche funds have the potential to outperform more generalized investments.The power of index funds is well established, as patient investors who "set it and forget it" tend to be very happy with their portfolios in the long term. But many investors either want to chase performance over reliabi CarCare to Go aims to end trips to the mechanic 10/13/2021 11:25am • This content is sponsored by CarCare to Go. No one likes carving out a chunk of time to take the car to the mechanic, let alone the additional stress of figuring out whether you should take time off work to do it, or finding someone to come and pick you up after you drop the car off at the shop. Costs to Consider When Aging in Place 10/13/2021 12:00am • Most people would like to stay in their own home as they age. Nearly 90% of Americans over age 50 prefer to remain at home and "age in place," according to a 2021 online survey conducted by Capital Caring Health and WebMD. "Independence and the opportunity to age in place adds to the viability and What to Know Before Buying a Burial Plot 10/13/2021 12:00am • No one is exactly dying to buy a burial plot. But think of it as those gifts for yourself that you hope to not need to use -- for a long, long time. And just as you aren't in a hurry to use a burial plot, it's best to not rush the process of making a purchase. This is, after all, a home of sorts, a Why retail store credit cards may have an unwelcome surprise 10/11/2021 08:45am • Retailers will be promoting their store-branded credit cards this holiday shopping season and, in many ways, they offer great benefits. But, in some ways, they are a ticking time bomb. Signing up for a retail store credit card on the spot often means getting big instant discounts on the purchase Takoma Park police team up with mechanics to stop catalytic converter thefts 10/08/2021 07:57pm • Mechanics at an automotive shop in Takoma Park, Maryland, spent Friday afternoon etching serial numbers on catalytic converters and painting them. Depeshwar Doley, the owner of RS Automotive, said police asked him to offer the service so they can better track the commonly stolen car part. Doley Girl injured in Prince George's County shopping center shooting 10/08/2021 06:00pm • A girl is in the hospital after being shot in Prince George's County, Maryland. It happened around 6:30 p.m. on the 5200 block of Marlboro Pike at the parking lot of a shopping center in the Coral Hills area. An investigation found that a shooting took place outside the shopping center, and th Loudoun Fall Farm Tour is back this October 10/08/2021 09:24am • The Loudoun Fall Farm Tour is returning on Oct. 16 and 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Courtesy Loudoun Farm Tour) For the first time in two years, the annual Loudoun Fall Farm Tour in Virginia will be offered in-person, with more than two dozen locations on this year’s tour. The tour will be he Weekend Road and Rail: Full closure on Outer Loop, Suitland Parkway to close; Metro work brings single tracking 10/08/2021 07:05am • We have rain in the forecast with full closures planned on the Outer Loop of the Virginia Beltway, Suitland Parkway and ramps from the Beltway to the Clara Barton Parkway. Metro continues its shutdown with Saturday maintenance bringing single tracking. Here’s what you need to know if you're tra 5 IPO Stocks to Watch in October 10/08/2021 12:00am • A boom in initial public offerings that began in 2020 has accelerated in 2021, thanks in large part to record stock prices. Traditional IPOs have raised $155 billion year to date, up 184.7% from a year ago. There have been 417 IPOs filed so far in 2021, a 106.4% increase compared with the same peri Investing in 'Moonshots': 7 Emerging Technologies to Watch 10/08/2021 12:00am • Keep an eye on these emerging "moonshot" technologies.Since the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s, new, complicated and often incomprehensible technologies have rapidly emerged and firmly rooted themselves in everyday life, like one-click online shopping, Facebook friends, and fully electric, self-d Tips sought on string of Gaithersburg fires 10/07/2021 07:42pm • A strip mall on Gaithersburg's East Diamond Avenue suffered damage after a fire in the overnight hours of Wednesday into Thursday. (Courtesy MCFRS/Pete Piringer) Fire crews in Gaithersburg, Maryland, battled a series of fires that happened between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday, and investigators ha Ah-beetz: New Haven's Frank Pepe Apizza to open in Alexandria 10/07/2021 06:15pm • New Haven's popular pizza restaurant will open a location in Alexandria, Virginia. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) One of the oldest and most celebrated pizza restaurants — Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana of New Haven, Connecticut — will open a new location in Alexandria, Virginia, in mid-2022. Kno