Police are investigating a car chase and shooting that took place this afternoon on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol, near the intersections of Constitution Avenue and First Street NW. The Capitol building was placed on lockdown temporarily, and witnesses tweeted photos from the scene. Residents should avoid streets surrounding the U.S. Capitol as […]
Each time I look back into our archives I marvel that what seems like yesterday was indeed several years back. As tired an expression as it is, where does the time go? Some of the posts in early October of 2010 could have been written yesterday, but some of them were certainly of their “era.” […]
My apologies for no To Do column last week. We had technical difficulties here and then I split town. I hope you were able to piece together a weekend without our carefully culled list of activities. Tonight the Atlas welcomes singer Christine Salem. She is one the leader singers of maloya, a traditional style of […]
You may have noticed that your city-issued visitor parking pass has an expiration date of September 30th. No, you did not miss the new one in your mail. After some back and forth on expanding the program to be city-wide, DDOT has extended the expiration date of our current passes to December 31, 2013. So […]
In what may not come as a surprise to many people, Charles Allen announced this morning that as of October 4th, he will be stepping down as Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells’ Chief of Staff. Speculation is extremely high that Allen is making the move so that he can run for the Ward 6 seat […]