Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells called for citizens concerned about recent crimes to attend the community PSA 106 meeting Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 7pm, at Tyler Elementary School, at the corner of 10th and G Street SE. “While crime in general has gone down in Ward 6 – if you’re the victim, any crime is […]
The sentiment in this post’s title was conveyed at Monday night’s Eastern Market Task Force community meeting by long-time Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) member Tom Kuchenberg to sum up the current state of affairs among Eastern Market stakeholders. “We have a treaty,” he said, indicating that relations between the indoor vendors, the outdoor […]
Two Sunday crimes that have alarmed many in the community — a seemingly unprovoked, vicious attack on a woman walking from Harris Teeter around 3 PM Sunday, by one among a group of four young men, resulting in substantial facial injury and the unrelated shooting of a man nearby — has prompted the First District Police […]
And today’s cup of coffee picture comes from my recent trip to New Orleans where I spent Thanksgiving with my family, who I do not get to see nearly enough. No trip to New Orleans is complete without a Cafe Au Lait and an order of beignets, piled high with powered sugar. While you can […]
In searching for something completely different, I came upon a picture of the Speaker of the House protecting their head from being pelted by something. No, it isn’t Steny Hoyer, and the projectiles aren’t tea-party brick-bats, but rather Representative Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, and he is protecting himself from large hailstones. This bizarre and – […]