Guest post by K. Denise Rucker Krepp In the aftermath of 9/11, significant resources were devoted to improving communication processes. Intelligence stovepipes had prevented information sharing before the attack and the new measures were supposed to make everyone more secure. Sadly, the Washington Navy Yard shootings last year demonstrate that gaps still exist and vulnerable […]
You love Capitol Hill– all of it. You shop, dine, and carry out as much of your business as you can in this large, diverse and welcoming neighborhood we all call home. It’s time to tell those businesses that make this place awesome that you appreciate them and reward them accordingly! Nominations are NOW OPEN […]
Washington Business Journal reported on the pitch from Edens Reality to build a movie theater at Union Market. Urban Turf checked out a block on which everything seems to be for sale. JDLand shared an animated video from DDOT and FHWA on how the CSX Virginia Avenue Project construction will and will not impact the neighborhood. ANC […]
As we have seen in the previous installments of our look at how the battle of Fort Stevens 150 years ago was seen in the newspapers of the time, news of the battle of Fort Stevens was slow in being printed in D.C., based on hearsay and often wrong. Thus, too, was the news on the […]
One hundred and fifty years ago today, July 11, 1864, is generally considered to be the beginning of the Battle of Fort Stevens, which is located about four miles due north of the White House, on what was then 7th Street and is today Georgia Avenue. Around noon of that day, the first of Confederate […]