According to Barracks Row Main Street, two community meetings will take place this week that focus on 8th Street, SE and the surrounding area. Tomorrow is the final meeting for the Lower 8th Street Visioning Exercise, which seeks to create a comprehensive vision for this area connecting Barracks Row Main Street with the Capitol Riverfront […]
JDLand, The Washington Post, and now Tommy Wells are reporting that CSX did not receive the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant funds necessary to begin work on the Virginia Avenue Tunnel project. While the Virginia Avenue project does not have immediate funding, CSX spokesperson Steve Flippin shared the company’s continued commitment to “find […]
Walking home from work tonight I was reminded how much more clean up the city is really facing in the aftermath of Snowmageddon. Not only do they still have massive amounts of snow to remove from parking lanes, crosswalks, and other public spaces, they now have mounds of trash that sit almost as high as […]
Happy Mardi Gras! Since my mother is from New Orleans, this time of year always means King Cakes and jambalaya — two of my favorite things. Sadly our order of cakes didn’t make it because of the blizzard, but we made the best of it. We took some of those massive mounds of snow and […]
We all now know that this winter has dumped the most snow on the nation’s capital than any previous winter – and there may be more to come, soon. I was all set to talk about the winter of 1898/9 and began working my way through the newspapers of the time when I became, well, […]