Saturday, January 15th is the last day for community comments on the proposed designs for an information hub in the Eastern Market metro plaza. The 30-day comment period opened following a December 14th community meeting hosted by Councilmember Tommy Wells. Though you won’t see it now (its too cold December-February, which is one of the […]
It turns out that when you only have one liquor license request to deal with on the ANC agenda, you can actually get through the meeting in under two hours! This was the first meeting for newly sworn-in commissioners, Ivan Frishberg, Brian Pate, Brian Flahaven and Jared Critchfield. Neil Glick has replaced David Garrison as […]
You may recall walking up C Street Southeast to Eastern Market on weekends, past a dilapidated house, boarded up and yellowing, collecting old newspapers and rubbish. It is no longer there. It is now a vacant lot, covered with hay, behind a cheap fence. Once a Chinese-American-owned market and/or drycleaner (I’m not Robert Pohl–ask […]
It’s a new year for community meetings — new commissioners were sworn in after the New Year and they will be taking their seats at their first meetings this week. This could have a potentially significant impact in some of the more contentious issues that have been coming up in recent meetings. At the same […]
Who was out too late last night watching the big game? Then you are probably pretty bleary-eyed this morning, wishing that you didn’t still have four days of work to get through! Well I hope you are not hurting too badly and that a cup of coffee and some morning reading can help you through. […]