I started using my bike as a primary means of transportation when I moved to Capitol Hill in 2005. I loved the freedom bike riding afforded me—I wasn’t a slave to slow Metro trains, no-show Metro buses, and parking enforcement drones that would ticket in an instant—but I quickly learned that the city is not […]
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, […]
DC’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) on December 31, 2008, launched a new license category: the Basic Business License for General Business or the General Business License, a new category of the Basic Business License (BBL) which already covers many existing business categories. Does your business need it? Well, what I’ve discovered is, […]
Enforcement of a long-held policy of barring people under 16 unless accompanied by a parent became a flashpoint on Barracks Row recently. When Patty Curran’s son Ian, on an errand from his mother to buy raw hide and waste bags, the 13 year-old was prevented from entering Chateau Animaux. Curran, mother also to a 17 […]