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Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

How to make your Ward 6 Happy Hours unforgettable, Part 1

We’ve been in some sort of social isolation for well over a year. There are more things open now and it seems like we’re seeing the light at the end of this tumultuous tunnel, but the coronavirus pandemic has also made some magic happen. This week, neighbors on 9th Street SE tell us how they’ve […]

Hill Buzz

On Friday, April 2, 25-year old Noah Green, who, according to accounts collected by the Washington Post was a troubled, paranoid young man, crashed his car into the United States Capitol’s north gate, located across the street from the Russell Senate Office Building, at the intersection of Constitution and Delaware Avenues, NE. He killed Capitol […]

Incident at the US Capitol North Gate today

Update 5:32 p.m. Via @realtimenews10, the suspect is 25-year old Noah Green from Indiana. Update 4:24 p.m. Capitol Police has released a statement on the death of Officer William Evans Update 3:56 p.m. A tweet posted at 3:29 p.m. by Capitol Police, summarizing today’s incident. Investigation still ongoing: Update 3 p.m. One of the officers […]

The To Do List, Week of April 1, 2021

First up, my sincere condolences to all the baseball fans. The Nationals called off today’s season opener due to COVID (FOX-5), and due to “ongoing contact tracing.” See the tweet below. So baseball is canceled, but what can you do? How about making the plan to support your local eateries anyway? Places like Walters, The […]

Is blocking a constituent on Twitter against the First Amendment? This DC resident thinks so

Over the past year or so, ANC 6B10 commissioner Denise Krepp has tweeted updates on ANC business, as well as personal communications. She has also blocked constituents on the platform, as well as other DC residents and fellow ANC commissioners with whom she did not see eye to eye. One of the residents she blocked, […]

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Is blocking a constituent on Twitter against the First Amendment? This DC resident thinks so