I’m sitting here in PCJ, listening to their great music picks. Muzak it is not. At the moment BB King’s guitar riff keeps beat with the steady flow to the counter. The Post headline on Michael Jackson’s death jumped out at me from a table. As sick as I was of the talking head coverage […]
DC’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) on December 31, 2008, launched a new license category: the Basic Business License for General Business or the General Business License, a new category of the Basic Business License (BBL) which already covers many existing business categories. Does your business need it? Well, what I’ve discovered is, […]
Today at 11:10 a.m. Mayor Adrian Fenty, together with city and neighborhood officials, cut the ribbon on the newly reopened Eastern Market. A crowd of more than 300 people waited in the heat as Fenty, Council Member Tommy Wells, Council Chair Vincent Gray, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and other spoke about the history of the […]
The Market had quite the buzz this morning, less than 24 hours from the 10:30 a.m. ribbon cutting tomorrow. The staff at Fine’s Sweet shop were baking cookies in anticipation of the crowds, as other vendors loaded their shelves up with their wares. Yesterday the Washington Post ran a great story on Maria Calomiris, the […]
There’s been a lot of debate on the HillEast listserve about the activities of the Mayor’s Conservation Corp, seen throughout the week giving out door hangers promoting their services. Perhaps nobody is taking them up on the offer to help with trash and weed problems on city property? Instead, at 11 a.m. today, a number […]