You may recall walking up C Street Southeast to Eastern Market on weekends, past a dilapidated house, boarded up and yellowing, collecting old newspapers and rubbish. It is no longer there. It is now a vacant lot, covered with hay, behind a cheap fence. Once a Chinese-American-owned market and/or drycleaner (I’m not Robert Pohl–ask […]
It’s a new year for community meetings — new commissioners were sworn in after the New Year and they will be taking their seats at their first meetings this week. This could have a potentially significant impact in some of the more contentious issues that have been coming up in recent meetings. At the same […]
Who was out too late last night watching the big game? Then you are probably pretty bleary-eyed this morning, wishing that you didn’t still have four days of work to get through! Well I hope you are not hurting too badly and that a cup of coffee and some morning reading can help you through. […]
A sad and bizarre story this morning from near Eastern Market. DC Fire and EMS responded to a car fire in a garage on the corner of 8th and A ST SE a little before 5 AM today. Once on scene, firefighters found heavy smoke and fire in a garage. While the fire was quickly […]
I have no wisdom or snark or domestic lamentations this morning. The weekend took a sharp turn on Saturday as news of the tragic events in Tuscon reached us. Maybe we here on the Hill are feeling it more because this is where some of the victims work. Maybe it’s the parent in me lamenting […]