Many years ago, I wrote in my book about Capitol Hill scandals about President (then-Senator) Warren Harding, and the baby that he had fathered out of wedlock. Harding hushed up the scandal by paying off his paramour. Unsurprisingly, this previous payoff came up in the news recently in relation to a very current scandal— and […]

Arrests and other crime information in the area, directly from MPD. If you have a tip, you can always call 202-727-9099. You can also send info anonymously to the TEXT TIP LINE by texting 50411. Crime Solvers of Washington, DC currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment […]

In researching the history of Eastern Market, a name I came across numerous times was one of the primary drivers of the building of the new market, a man who came within a hair’s breadth of having the market named after him, and someone almost entirely forgotten in the intervening 150 years. Joseph G. Carroll […]

Arrests and other crime information in the area, directly from MPD. If you have a tip, you can always call 202-727-9099. You can also send info anonymously to the TEXT TIP LINE by texting 50411. Crime Solvers of Washington, DC currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment […]

I have written over the past two weeks of the statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough, the criticisms that it brought forth, and how it was moved around the Capitol grounds before ending up in the Smithsonian. Along the way, I discovered is that the base of the statue has had a similarly peripatetic […]