Hi there, Capitol Hill! How are things? Sure, it’s thunderstormy around here, but life keeps rolling by at the same weird pace that’s now become our new normal. What’s going on? The District of Columbia Public Schools will be virtual at least through November 6, the end of the first term. The news was not […]
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Good afternoon Capitol Hill! It’s another pandemic day, but boy am I glad that “demon sperm” is trending on Twitter today! Okay, “glad” may be an exaggeration, but we get our humor where we can. If you would like to pay for final respects to Rep. John Lewis, WJLA has details on how to mourn […]
You may as well call this week’s column Hill Swelter because the feels-like 100 degrees grossness is real. How are we keeping our cool this week? (Or, alternatively, what’s making us lose it?) In cautiously joyous news, baseball is back? Opening day is coming at us this Thursday, July 23, pitting the Nationals against the […]
This morning, a tweet from reader Janna (@jannalibrarian on Twitter) made us sit up and take notice. She highlighted the following tweet from user Gabi, @gkhuesca, who is a children’s librarian: I reached out to her but have not heard back, so instead I talked to a library staffer from Northeast Library, who told me […]