It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without fireworks! We have our local displays in the parks, the not-so-legal ones in the streets, and the big show on the Mall. And plenty of places to watch them all. Where’s your favorite place to watch the fireworks?
In August the Blockbuster on the 400 block of 8th Street will close its doors, which has led to a number of suggestions for what should fill the empty space. Barracks Row Main Street asked its Twitter and Facebook followers for suggestions, which ranged from Trader Joe’s (is that space really larger enough for that?!) […]
The census numbers are in and it’s time for the city to redraw the boundary lines for each Ward to maintain a roughly equivalent population in each. Our neighboring Wards need to gain some population, which can directly impact Ward 6 — most notably, to the east and south — Hill East and Near Southeast. […]
April showers bring May flowers, or so we learned in nursery school. What I’ve learned since having my own yard to tend to is that April showers bring a massive invasion of weeds that can grow as tall as me in the blink of an eye. And in front of each of our houses, at […]
As you may or may not have heard, our councilmember, Mayor and several others were arrested yesterday for civil disobedience during a protest over a federal spending plan. The issue: the Federal Government can basically override any decision DC makes about how to spend its own money. We could argue over abortion and school vouchers, […]