Today is the last day to vote, friends! I like the sound of that: It’s not the finality of election days past. It’s more like the culmination of an incredible effort and an exercise in democracy. This is something to make us all proud, regardless of the outcome. More people than ever have volunteered to […]
Over the last two weeks, I have looked at how the old Hall of Representatives, which nowadays we know as Statuary Hall, was misused in the time after Congress moved out and before it became a museum. Today, a look at another room, just a few feet north of the former: The Rotunda. Conceived as […]
Good morning, Capitol Hill and all Hill-adjacent areas. You know what? Let me wish a good morning to everyone who’s voted already or has made a plan to do so, because it’s HAPPY EARLY VOTINGMAS and have you checked out our voting resource? Speaking of voting, if you’re concerned that voting might take you too […]
Only 14 days left to vote, so let’s get a soundtrack to this dystopian feeling. Good thing local band Beauty Pill has the song to carry you through these last days, with an impactful video to go along with it. Listen and watch here. First off, someone attempted to rob one of the stores along […]
You probably saw him around the Hill, pedaling a bicycle with an enormous black box on the front, a box from which he would remove all manner of equipment that allowed him to fix whatever had gone wrong in Capitol Hill row house. Or maybe you even were one of the lucky ones whose house […]