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Sharee Lawler

Sharee Lawler is a recovering political junkie. After many years of invoking the First Amendment right of a Fortune 100 company to petition the government for redress of grievances (aka, lobbying for Big Business), she got her MBA and left government affairs to to offer business strategy and communications consulting geared towards small businesses. She and her husband lived on the Hill for 12 years, during which time she was, variously, an entrepreneur, lobbyist, volunteer, student, gardener, jogger, cyclist and hostess of many a backyard barbecue. You can contact Sharee at ShareeTheHillIsHome [at] gmail [dot] com.

Local Business: Keith “Car Wash” Arrington

He is one of those classic local fixtures. Born and raised in DC, Keith Arrington, known as “Car Wash” by locals, can be seen around the Hill with a trademark mobile car wash kit looking after his 25 regular clients and picking up new ones along the way. A resident at 8th & A NE, […]

Hill Haunts on "Best Of" List

The July issue of Washingtonian is on newsstands around the city. This month, writers ferreted out the “cool people, places and things to do” around the area this summer. So how did the Hill measure up? You’ll have a chance to share your opinion for our own “Best Of”, but in the meantime here’s a […]

Opinion: Does your business need the new DCRA license? Maybe …

DC’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) on December 31, 2008, launched a new license category: the Basic Business License for General Business or the General Business License, a new category of the Basic Business License (BBL) which already covers many existing business categories. Does your business need it? Well, what I’ve discovered is, […]