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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

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Hi, Capitol Hill. It’s been a while since I rapped at ya. Here are some news you may want to read, with some snarky comments you’ll probably ignore. Onward! The British are coming to Barracks Row– and to a whole bunch of other neighborhoods in DC. Over on Barracks Row, we’ll soon bid farewell to […]

Local Girls Deliver 7000+ Pairs of Underwear to Children’s

Back in July, I told you about three Capitol Hill girls who made it their mission to collect 5,000 pairs of underwear to donate to Children’s National Hospital. When we first published the story, the girls had a decent amount of donations– around 1,400 pair– but thanks to the generosity of neighbors and friends, Mirabel, […]

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Hey Capitol Hill! You always look lovelier when I come back from vacation! A big shoutout to Kate for taking over last week’s Hill Buzz and holding down the fort. Hope all of you have been able to get away somewhere different, even if just for a weekend. What’s shakin’ around the interwebs this week? […]

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We had almost a month of no rain, but now it hasn’t really stopped deluging. How are you holding up, Capitol Hill and environs? Hope your basements aren’t getting flooded because what a nightmare that is. Ok. Let’s catch up, shall we? After welcoming Sephora with open arms/wallets a couple of weeks ago (don’t judge […]

TOMORROW: WABA-Organized Rally for Streets that Don’t Kill People

Pedestrian and bike casualties have increased in the District over the past two years, according to data in a recent Washington Post article. Incidentally, Vision Zero also started campaigning for safer streets two years ago. It appears that Vision Zero is just not a very successful program, at least in the biker and pedestrian deaths metric. The […]

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