Gordon Chaffin is a freelance journalist who focuses on infrastructure and traffic news and insights for Street Justice. You can support independent journalism by subscribing to Gordon’s newsletter. He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers.  –Maria Helena Carey Phoenix > DC > Detroit on Light Rail Transit On Friday’s Street Justice report — excerpted below — I analyzed DC government’s abandoning of westward streetcar expansion by comparing it to my hometown Detroit’s last 50 years […]

In my review of In the Shadow of the Capitol last week, I used a picture that the authors had found in a guide to Washington DC that I was not previously aware of: Dr. John B. Ellis’s 1869 Sights and Secrets of the National Capital: A Work Descriptive of Washington City in All Its […]

Hey there, live music fans! Sure, it’s cold outside, but when you’re listening to good music inside, who cares? Where can you warm up and/or get down this week? Thursday, January 23: If you’ve never caught a show at Mr. Henry’s, put this on your 2020 bucket list. The lineup every night, Wednesday through Sunday, […]

Good frigid morning, Capitol Hill! It’s reassuring when winter behaves as it ought, don’t you think? On with the links! A terrifying sight just a little ways off the neighborhood: A collapsing building that injured a passerby and scared the living daylights out of several more. We’re glad to hear DCRA paid the construction site […]