It’s another lovely Tuesday in the nation’s capital and I can almost smell the dry-erase boards and the Pine-Sol: It’s the last week before school starts! What other excitement is happening around the interwebs? ANC 6B10 commissioner Denise Krepp wrote a sternly-worded opinion in this weekend’s Washington Post, regarding Charles Allen’s proposed early-release legislation for […]
DCPS kids start school on Monday, so this is their final weekend. Some charters started this week and most private schools follow the King’s Dominion law and start after Labor Day, which is how it should be. This will be my final year as a DCPS parent and it has not really sunk in. It […]
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 Street Justice newsletter: He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. See more information below. –Maria Helena Carey Pedestrian Dead Wednesday is 16th of 2019 in DC A driver killed Jascha Wilson, a pedestrian walking across North Capitol NW at 9:50 PM on Tuesday night. He was crossing North Capitol in […]
At 8:45 AM on Friday, May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat down at a telegraph key set up in the Supreme Court room in the Capitol, just around the corner from where he had done his test just a little over a year earlier. He pressed the key briefly. Forty-four miles away, a dot appeared […]
If you are like me, you are dreading the end of summer but maaayyybe you are a little intrigued by the notion of wearing socks again? Just me? I’m okay with that. If you are here in town, here are some ideas of how to get down with your summer-self. Tonight is another Third Thursday […]