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Obituaries Donald S. McCreary, 85, worked for the U.S. Agriculture Department for more than 20 year, as well as for the international aid agency CARE. B6


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PRINCEGEORGE’S Council weighs pay raise


Officials are awaiting financial data before taking a final look at the affordability of 2 percent salary increases for non- unionized county employees. B4


More news in the Local Living section in today’s newspaper ELECTION2010


For Ehrlich, a chance to build on a foundation


Panel approves


Bethesda facility must preserve 12 houses


BY KATHERINE SHAVER Montgomery County’s zoning


appeals board approved Subur- ban Hospital’s proposal to build an addition and a parking garage Wednesdaybut requiredit tokeep 12 houses that it had planned to demolishfor the expansion. The five-member board agreed


with residents in the adjacent Huntington Terrace neighbor- hood that the hospital’s plans to replace the houseswith landscap- ingwoulddiminishthe area’s resi- dential feel. However, the panel agreed to


allow the hospital to tear down two hospital-owned houses on Southwick Street tomakeway for thenewgarage anddemolishnine houses on Lincoln Street if itwins separate approval to permanently closepart of the street. The ruling is the latest in a


BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), right, crosses a Rockville street with his wife,Kendel, and others after kicking off his campaign in April.


Second term for former Md. governor could be marked by less partisanship, some say BY JOHNWAGNER


Nineteen months after Robert


L. Ehrlich Jr. was voted out of office, fans of the former Mary- land governor packed an audito- rium for the unveiling of an official portrait that showed, quite literally, how he would like his time in Annapolis to be remembered. Ehrlich is depicted sitting ca-


sually on his desk, where three pieces of signed legislation are visible. The bills launched Mary- land’s charter schools program, created a fund to upgrade the state’s wastewater treatment plants and established a Cabinet- level department to help people with disabilities. Those laws are part of Ehr-


lich’s legacy, but even he says they offer a rather incomplete picture of his four rancor-filled


years asMaryland’s firstRepubli- can governor in a generation. Ehrlich’s frequent clasheswith


Democraticmajorities in the leg- islature were a defining part of his tenure, limiting the scope of his accomplishments and turn- ing Annapolis into a more parti- san town. That experience offers a window into how Ehrlich might govern in a second term if he wins back the job he lost to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) in


2006. To his supporters, Ehrlich


served as a much-needed check against the worst instincts of the state’s “Democratic monopoly.” His detractors say he was an obstacle that Democratic law- makers increasingly found a way around. Ehrlich vetoed 86 Democratic


initiatives, including measures ehrlich continued on B5


Pentagonmakeswaves in Va. 2nd District


Democrat’s run for reelection complicated by threat of lost jobs


BY BEN PERSHING


virginia beach — In some respects, the flash points in Vir- ginia’s2ndCongressional District mirror those in tight races across the country: the economy, health care and the question of whether the incumbent Democrat is really an independent voice or just a lackey for President Obama and the national party. Yet in a year when so many


candidates are running against federal spending and incumben-


cy, freshman Rep. Glenn Nye (D) and auto dealer Scott Rigell (R) have also focused on more-paro- chial concerns: Which man would wield more influence on Capitol Hill, and who would do the better job of preventing mili- tarymoney and jobs from flowing out of the district? In August, Defense Secretary


Robert M. Gates announced a proposal to shutter the Norfolk- based Joint Forces Command, a move that could cost the region about 6,000 jobs. Separately, the Navy is planning to move one of five nuclear aircraft carriers based inNorfolk toMayport, Fla., taking with it an additional 10,000 jobs. The Hampton Roads economy


Metro extension giving


Tysons a split personality Determining new stations’ names as tricky a job as creating the new urban downtown itself


BY DEREK KRAVITZ


Metrorail extension from Vienna toDullesInternationalAirportsay quite a bit about the area’s strug- gle for an identity: Tysons Central 123. Tysons West. Tysons East. Route 28. “The old names were purely


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functional,” saidWalter L. Alcorn, a former environmental consul- tant who for two years led the


name can say a lot about a


place. So the long-standing titles associated with the


planning for Tysons Corner. “Ty- sons is too big to have a single identity. . . . Names are needed to develop its communities.” Fairfax officials, landowners


and developers are now debating the merits of names for eight fu- ture Metrorail stations — six sta- tions inTysonsCorner andReston and two stations in the Herndon area along the 23-mile extension. (Three other stations planned in Loudoun, including one at Dulles International Airport, are not in- cluded inthe discussion). As Tysons Corner embarks on a


is heavily dependent on the mili- tary,andthePentagon’s proposals threaten to boost the unemploy- ment rate—which, at 7.4 percent, is lower than the national average but higher than for the rest of Virginia — as it struggles to emerge from recession. The military’s plans have fu-


eled anxiety among voters and created bad blood on the cam- paign trail as Nye — widely seen as one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the the Nov. 2 congressional elections — has fought the decisions and Rigell has accused him of being an inef- fective guardian of the district’s interests.


nye continued on B5


three-year zoning battle between Suburban and nearby residents over the hospital’s $230 million plan to build a 300,000-square- foot addition and a four-story parking garage in Bethesda, where open land is scarce and neighbors are close. Suburban is acrossOldGeorgetownRoadfrom the National Institutes of Health


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JOHNKELLY’SWASHINGTON Unloading the overload


Too many loyalty cards? Newfangled technology can ease the bulge in your aching wallet. And maybe retailers could help out by trying some old- fashioned cooperation. B2


Suburban project HOSPITAL TO EXPAND


and is bordered on three sides by homes. “We’rethrilled,” saidLeslieFord


Weber, a senior vice president for Suburban. “The project approved iswhatwe’ve been about—meet- ing the health-care needs of peo- ple inour community.” Hospital officials say Suburban


needs the expansion, its first ma- jor one in 30 years, to meet the demands of being Montgomery’s only trauma center and to comply with state regulations, such as re- locating operating roomsnear the emergency room. The hospital, whichwasacquiredbyJohnsHop- kinsMedicine last year,alsowants to add private patient rooms and physicianoffice space. Amy Shiman, president of the


Huntington Terrace Citizens’ As- sociation,which fought the hospi- talwith its own lawyer and volun- teers, said that she was grateful the board spared some of the houses from demolition but that residentswill be leftwith a “behe- moth, football-field-sized parking garage” intheirmidst. “I’mdisappointed the Board of


Appeals was so biased in favor of Suburban Hospital’s existing plan,” Shiman said. She said the community hadn’t decided whether to appeal the board’s de- cision to theMontgomery County CircuitCourt. The case centered on the legal


question of whether the effects of Suburban’s growth plans on the community went beyond those considered “inherent” for a hospi- tal ina residential area.


hospital continued on B5


Truth can get lost in fights over Civil War history


addedthat the living are victims, too. Virginia fourth-graders are the


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latest targets ofhistorical misinformation.Atextbook distributedto students last monthincludedthe gross falsehoodthat two battalions of AfricanAmericansoldiers fought for theConfederacyunder famed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Thiswasn’t just aminor factual


error, like saying that Jacksonlost his right armat theBattle of Chancellorsvillewhenany self- respectingCivilWar buff knows it washis left. Thepassage represents a


HYUNSOO LEO KIM/VIRGINIAN-PILOT VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS


Rep. GlennNye is ranked among the vulnerable incumbents.


deliberatedistortionofhistory drivenby apolitical agenda. It was foistedonkids by a sloppy authorusing Internet research whomistakenlydrewfromworks done byConfederateheritage enthusiasts. The latter like topromote the


canardthat largenumbers of AfricanAmericans carriedarms willingly for the South.The rebel


ROBERTMCCARTNEY


revisionistsdo so because ithelps coveruptwohistorical truths that put theirLostCause ina bad light. One truthis that blacks at the


timewere overwhelminglypro- Union, andthey fought inlarge numbers for theNorthbecause they recognizedthat a victory by that side representedtheir best chance atwinning freedom.The second, larger verity—which, to its credit, the schoolbookdid make clear—is that sectional disagreements over slaverywere theprimary cause of thewar. Carol Sheriff, aCivilWar expert


at theCollege ofWilliamand Mary,discoveredthe error inher daughter’s copy of the offending book, “OurVirginia:Past and


mccartney continued on B8


Handful make shortlist for Metro manager job


First interviews start next week; board has no hiring deadline


BY ANN SCOTT TYSON A Metro search committee


multibillion-dollar, decades-long transformation into a new urban downtown, thenamingof theMet- rostationsgivesplannersaspecial opportunity to assign a vision and feel forwhatwill be built there. “One of the things I’ve been


totally convinced of is something that the Indians said: ‘Once you name something, you own it,’ ” said JoelGarreau, a formerWash- ington Post reporter and editor


names continued on B8


next week will conduct its first round of formal interviews with candidates to become the agen- cy’s next general manager. Board members say they have selected about eight prospects from hun- dreds of applicants but won’t rush to make a final decision. In fact, the search could last


into next year, they said, stressing that their priority is to identify the best possible person for the job rather than rush to meet an arbitrary deadline. Akey factor in that approach is


what members describe as an emerging consensus that interim General Manager Richard Sarles has stabilized the transit agency. Several vacancies in the agency’s executive ranks added urgency to the initial search to replace John B. Catoe Jr., who left the troubled transit agency in April. “We want to make sure we


really do find the right person for metro continued on B8


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