Brent Elementary (301 North Carolina Ave., SE) dedicated its new rain garden, the result of an enormous effort among parents, educators and the community, on Monday, November 2. “This rain garden is an attractive way to reduce the amount of storm water entering the sewer system while providing a fun learning laboratory for Brent’s students and […]
After a hopefully entertaining excursion into the spiritual world, I return again to this plane of existence, and my usual musings on Capitol Hill history. Today’s subject is a temporary hospital built on a piece of vacant land in the wide-open spaces of eastern Washington DC during the Civil War. It was named after the […]
Our final ghost story for this month finds us back on the Capitol grounds, and the Russell Senate Office Building in particular. When it came time to clear the site preparatory to building the first office building for the Senate, a number of old buildings had to be torn down, including the old Casualty Hospital, […]
When I started my consulting business a little over a year ago, the first thing one of my good friends said was, “You have to meet Andrea Fuller”. You see, because of my corporate background I had come to regard it as myth that the flexible workplace truly existed for experienced professionals. After meeting her […]
A spate of carjackings in the area has caused some alarm among residents. They are occurring between 1 and 4 p.m., according to Renato Caldwell, a lieutenant for the First District. Last Saturday, October 10, two subjects approached a car parked in the 200 block of 12th Street NE between 3 and 4 p.m., and […]