We periodically share updates from your ANC commissioners, edited for brevity and clarity. Although these are most pertinent to particular single member districts (SMDs), we feel the information shared can be of interest to the whole Capitol Hill community. Are you an ANC commissioner who shares regular updates? Add thehillishome@gmail.com to your distribution list, please! –María Helena […]
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 StreetJustice newsletter: He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. See more information below. –Maria Helena Carey The Basics on Virginia DOT’s Commuter Choice Programs Virginia’s Department of Transportation is doing a lot to change I-66, widening in places, lengthening express (i.e. toll) lanes further out from the DC core, updating […]
We are coming up to a momentous (well, to me) anniversary: The 10th year after my first Lost Capitol Hill column. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this pretty much without fail for 520 weeks, having amassed a quarter-million closely-researched words in that time. My first column was, unsurprisingly, about public transportation, a […]
I will not discuss this heat and instead offer you ideas on how to distract yourself from the fact your clothes have melted onto your body and you have decided ice cream deserves its own ledge on the food pyramid. Tonight there is a screening of Ralph Breaks the Internet at Canal Park, part of […]
Hey parents! How are you enjoying your summer so far? Relaxing? Good. So, about those Kids Ride Free cards you had to get last year: They will expire on October 1 of this year. But never fear: You get to stand in line and get a new one at one of several events around town […]