February 5, 2015
New baseball commissioner on Southeast D.C., the Nats franchise and the potential for a D.C. All-Star Game
With Rob Manfred, the newly appointed Major League Baseball commissioner, in town this week, the question everyone wanted answered was what the future holds for competing markets Washington and Baltimore to ever host an All-Star Game.
In his first official public appearance as commissioner during a Wednesday visit at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, the 10th MLB commissioner responded in a way that may make both markets happy: He would have no issue awarding both cities All-Star Games back…
Under Armour Inc. CEO Kevin Plank spoke with Bloomberg TV on Thursday about his company’s big bet on digital fitness — and weighed in on the strategy of its top competitors.
The Small Business Administration wants to establish a governmentwide mentor-protégé program to match small contractors with more experienced ones — in the process, closing some loopholes that masked fraud in such programs in the past.
Colorado School of Mines in Golden has received a $1 million gift from the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation to support renovations and upgrades to the university’s Edgar Mine, an experimental mine facility in Idaho Springs that dates to the 1870s.
The 3.1 million-square-foot Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center opened in 1998 as the second largest government facility in the Washington region. Less than two decades later, it may have already reached the end of its useful life. At least, on the inside.