23 Jan 2012

Monday Morning Circle Time

Good morning everyone! Hope the weekend treated you kindly if not all that warmly. Despite only being two-days long the weekend seemed to have something for everyone. Well anyone who cares about football and/or politics. The years-long reality show known as the Republican primary was extended with Newt’s victory so that’s fun for those of us who […]


23 Jan 2012

Lost Capitol Hill: Meader's Electric Scoreboard

With the manuscript of my book at the editors, I can once again look at some piece of arcana of Capitol Hill history. And little is more arcane than what I discovered while researching something completely different: The electric scoreboard. In those long-ago days before TV – or even radio – the only way to […]


20 Jan 2012

Things We Take for Granted: The Sidewalks and Streets of Capitol Hill

Let me start by saying that I am not out to prove that any one city can be better than another city. Rather, I came to realize something on a recent trip, and I have a forum — this blog and specifically the “Things We Take for Granted” column — in which I can share […]


20 Jan 2012

Open House Round Up

Guest contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales.  This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. Every day I take my daughter to school I park on M St, NE, usually right in front of #506.  There […]


20 Jan 2012

While you were sleeping: Virginia car chase ends in Hill East neighborhood

Did the sound of helicopters hovering overhead affect you or your pet’s sleeping habits on Thursday night? According to a news report from WUSA Channel 9, the 1200 block of Potomac Avenue was the end scene of a Virginia car chase. The suspect was apprehended by Metropolitan Police after a barricade situation, which shutdown several […]


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