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Mother Nature's fury this winter has left a path of fiscal destruction that will linger far after the record-breaking snowfall starts to melt -- and she's not done yet. But for some businesses, blizzards mean opportunity.

The U.S. housing sector's long and winding road back to health continues. Home prices in 20 cities declined at a 13.3 percent annual pace in July -- a substantially smaller decline than June's annual pace -- according to the S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price survey, released...

Famed 19th-century newspaperman Horace Greeley may have urged, "Go West, young man," in search of opportunity, but today's young people are finding fortune (if not necessarily fame) in a city few would associate with open land and spacious skies -- Washington, D.C. The nation's capital has become...

Like a pimp after his money, the Washington Redskins are taking no pity on season ticket holders who are hit hard by the recession and can't afford to watch a team that went 8-8 last year.The Redskins have sued 125 season ticket holders in the past five years who asked to be released from their...

I have just returned from a visit to Washington, DC, where everyone is talking about next month's inauguration. Some estimates place attendance at up to four million people. Even half that amount would be spectacular. (To put it in perspective, Bush's second inaugural attracted only 300,000 people,...