If you work for the DC Government, you’re likely reading this from your desk (if so, can someone let me know when my garbage and recycling from last week will be picked up??). Everyone else? Chances are you’re warming up the pancake griddle or already sitting in your weekend seat at a favorite coffee shop. Here’s a […]
The Navy Yard neighborhood of Capitol Hill was the first real neighborhood to develop in D.C. While the city as a whole existed entirely to support the new Federal government and was therefore full of clerks, this neighborhood was there for the Navy Yard and so here lived all those needed to build and repair […]
We’re back from our holiday hiatus and ready to kick off the New Year! Here’s your weekly buzz from around the Hill. ANC 6B Commissioners Brian Falhaven and Kirsten Oldenburg recapped the December ANC meeting and votes. JDLand captured the transformation of a baseball stadium to the home of the Winter Classic. Famous DC profiled […]
I have previously written about the Statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol, how it got its hat, and how it does not, infact, limit the size of the statues in Washington. I will return to this subject one more time today because of a book I just began reading, Freedom Rising: Washington in […]
Last week, I shared a reminder to go online to request your 2015 Visitor Parking Pass, which allows your guests from outside of Ward 6 to park on your street for longer than two hours without getting a ticket. If you got your new pass in the mail this week, you were likely a bit […]