Happy New Year!!! Welcome to the first Hill Buzz of 2019! Hope you were able to rest and find joy in small things over the holidays. Frankly, I’m still trying to RELAX AND ENJOY THE RIDE, but the yelling isn’t helping. How about you? Let’s kick it off with my hero, Dave Barry, and his […]
Over the last weeks we looked at a number of planes who landed or took off more or less successfully at the Capitol. Today, we will branch out a little by looking at a slightly different way of flying. Autogyros were the Next Big Thing for a number of years after being invented in the […]
Our good friend, nightlife and bar maven Barred in DC, recently shared a comprehensive list of all the hip, happenin’ and happiest spots around town to ring in 2019. (Possible catchphrase for 2019: “I can’t suck any worse than 2016, amirite?”–which strangely hasn’t been a reassuring catchphrase coming from 2017 or 2018) He was kind […]
Apparently, America is deeply divided on the subject of, oh, I don’t know– pretty much everything? Among those divisions, Tally shared the results from a national survey on whether people like holiday eggnog. DC is in the anti-eggnog camp, although it was too close to call with 942 responses, according to the survey results. Personally, […]
Last week, we looked at an unfortunate aeronautic event near the Capitol, one that sent the would-be aviator into the hospital for a considerable time. Today, I want to look at a more successful – and much earlier – adventure. On March 22, 1922, those people hanging around the east front of the Capitol were […]