Given that today’s a holiday, I’m taking it easy and rerunning a piece from last year. My reason for so doing is that its subject, Clara Barton, is back in the news: the office she used after the Civil War will soon be a museum. It was found untouched recently, and there has been an […]
Loose Lips looks at the growing potential candidate list for the Ward 6 City Council race. Eater DC interviewed Aaron Silverman, owner of the newly opened Rose’s Luxury, about their first day. PopVille shared renderings of Near Southeast’s Twelve12 ANC 6B Commissioner Phil Peisch detailed the current issues around the alley on the 500 block […]
The shutdown currently keeping us out of our local parks and giving many of our neighbors unpaid vacations is hardly a new phenomenon. Most people can point to the shutdown of 95/96 as a precursor. However, 15 years before that, a similar battle had ensued, with some – minor – effects on governmental operation.
Police are investigating a car chase and shooting that took place this afternoon on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol, near the intersections of Constitution Avenue and First Street NW. The Capitol building was placed on lockdown temporarily, and witnesses tweeted photos from the scene. Residents should avoid streets surrounding the U.S. Capitol as […]
You may have noticed that your city-issued visitor parking pass has an expiration date of September 30th. No, you did not miss the new one in your mail. After some back and forth on expanding the program to be city-wide, DDOT has extended the expiration date of our current passes to December 31, 2013. So […]