Night had come to the town of Alton, Illinois and a crowd began to gather in the darkness. Some of the men stooped to gather stones. Others fingered the triggers of the guns they carried as they made their way to a warehouse on the banks of the Mississippi River. Such begins a report from […]
In the heart of our livable, walkable village there is a gaping inconsistency. It’s like a game of “One of these things is not like the others.” Capitol Hill’s mostly quiet grid opens up at C Street, NE, starting around 15th Street, like a large gash on its way to RFK stadium and dumps a […]
This Saturday afternoon a new documentary that may be on its way to the Sundance Film Festival will be screened in the Chapel at Congressional Cemetery. The film, God’s House, tells the little-known story of Muslim hospitality in Albania that saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II, and a present-day Muslim […]
For those of you who subscribe to the Police Department’s First District listserv, you may already know that two juveniles were arrested last Friday in at least some degree of connection with the rock throwing incident that I first wrote about two weeks ago. I’m personally grateful to the timely intervention of two MPD officers, […]
Last night Hill East residents met with local police officers and detectives from the carjacking unit at the PSA 107 meeting at Liberty Baptist Church, located at 527 Kentucky Ave, SE. Approximately 20 residents were in attendance for the discussion with MPD Lieutenant Daniel Ewell (daniel.ewell@dc.gov), Sergeant Mike Architzel (michael.architzel@dc.gov), and four officers who cover […]