The Capitol Hill Energy Co-op’s Solar Panel Project is gearing up for its first installation of solar panels on its members’ homes. This will enable the home to convert sunlight into electricity, lowering the members’ Pepco bills while immediately reducing the carbon footprint of their Capitol Hill homes. More than 120 residents are on the solardc […]
This week’s column is, in a way, poorly named, as it concerns itself not with something lost from Capitol Hill, but rather, something that never was built in the first place. Nonetheless, it gives me a chance to look back on L’Enfant’s plan of Washington once again, and this opportunity is one that I will […]
The leaves are lovely, but not when they’re plastered to my car. Oh how I dream of one day bidding farewell to street parking and having a little indoor hideaway my car can call its own. No more leaves, no more snow, and no more … well, you know. If you’re looking for garage parking […]
Involvement by residents of a community is essential for its improvement. Grassroots initiatives ensure the businesses and services a neighborhood needs are recognized and determined by its residents. But is there a point where such neighbor-driven initiatives become status quo, and what was once considered activism becomes part of the social fabric of a neighborhoods? […]
Along with the special elections to fill the seat in ANC6B-03, there will be a presentation at Tuesday’s ANC 6B meeting by CSX that anyone living in southeast, near Virginia Avenue should attend. As part of a larger infrastructure improvement project that spans several states along the northeast corridor, CSX is proposing to modify the […]