A sad and bizarre story this morning from near Eastern Market. DC Fire and EMS responded to a car fire in a garage on the corner of 8th and A ST SE a little before 5 AM today. Once on scene, firefighters found heavy smoke and fire in a garage. While the fire was quickly […]
Washington DC is full of “temporary” things that have become permanent, and critics often decry any “temporary” government action by saying that it is bound to become permanent. There are, however, numerous excellent counter-examples, with the best-known probably the tempos built on the Mall during World War II. Closer to home, though somewhat earlier, there […]
Well, the 112th Congress opened its session on Wednesday with a low blow to their surroundings, stripping the DC Delegate of voting on the floor in Committee of the Whole matters. While this website concerns itself more with matters of the Capitol Hill neighborhood and more-or-less ignores the big-domed building in the middle, the actions […]
Welcome back to the first five-day week you’ve had in at least two weeks. Sorry to break the news but it is, in fact, only Tuesday and you are not even half way through the week yet. My work computer could not have been more unhappy yesterday to be turned on after a five day […]
Much is made of the fact that the Marine Commandant’s House is the oldest continually-operated Federal building in DC. It has stood at the north end of the Marine Barracks since 1806, five years after the Barracks were built. The Barracks themselves, which run down the east and west side of the Square, are much […]