Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you are looking to celebrate with a margarita, we have plenty of places that serve up tasty ones in the neighborhood. What’s your favorite? This weekend is jam packed with the kick off of Capitol Hill Month; Mother’s Day; the Dead Man’s Run; the Capitol Hill House and Garden Tour; […]
The census numbers are in and it’s time for the city to redraw the boundary lines for each Ward to maintain a roughly equivalent population in each. Our neighboring Wards need to gain some population, which can directly impact Ward 6 — most notably, to the east and south — Hill East and Near Southeast. […]
Gone are the days when celebrity authors — ok, call them candidates — signed books at Trover Books. At present, food certainly has more cache in the neighborhood than books; Sweetgreen brings in the crowd in a way that the newly minted Congress members’ autobiographies weren’t able to. But there’s an upcoming signing appearance by […]
This guest post is by ANC 6B Commissioner Brian Flahaven. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the writers of The Hill Is Home. We welcome constructive discussion about the issue in the comments. In the next few weeks, the DC Council’s Subcommittee on Redistricting will propose and vote […]
Over the winter and early spring the grass field behind Watkins Elementary School was replaced with an artificial turf playing surface. I’d been wondering about the ecological impact of replacing live plant material with a synthetic system and I had a suspicion there were camps for and against the transition. The data I found wasn’t […]