Alan M. Kaufmann Jr., a retired Department of Housing and Urban Development branch manager who was a devoted major league baseball fan, died Jan. 10 at his McLean home in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was 68.
Voters could be forgiven for not noticing that there was a race for U.S. Senate on the ballot. There has been virtually no coverage of a contest for which you could easily ask a trivia question: Who is Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s Republican opponent for re-election? His name is Chris Chaffee.