Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from reader Emily W. She’d spotted the following sign along 4th Street NE while out for a walk: The note was, in a word, heartrending. A military widow and mother of two was growing two pie pumpkins in her side yard –which is actually a small neighborhood plot in […]
Hey neighbors! This is David from @eat_dc and Maria from THIH. Let’s talk about the fence for a moment. The four miles of barbed wire fence around the Capitol complex have cut off our access to open spaces and essential roads through the city. These are areas where we play, relax, walk our dogs, enjoy […]
Do you want to bring awareness of the Statehood fight while also bringing awareness of just how annoying the Capitol fence is? Friend of the blog Andria Thomas sent this my way on behalf of Show Up For DC. Pencil in a week from today, Thursday, March 22. Read below and SHARE FAR AND WIDE! […]
Long-time readers may know about the app that started off as How’s My Driving DC and became OurStreets. OurStreets is a crowdsourced app that lets you report bad driver behavior on the go, so that DC agencies can ticket and boot repeat offenders faster and get dangerous cars off the streets. When the stay at […]
Dear friends and readers, We are sailing uncharted waters at this point. In our lifetime, we have seen modern medicine make strides unimaginable: Making life beyond incurable disease possible, making childhood diseases that immobilized or killed children before they were old enough a thing of the past. But along with these advances, our global village […]