Yesterday morning council member Tommy Wells and staff took the office to the coffee house, specifically SOVA on H Street, NE. That’s web 2.0 at a local grassroots level — meet the constituents where they are. Even better if they’re caffeinated. Wells’ Director of Constituent Services Tawanna Shuford says this kind of outreach to the […]
Mayor Adrian Fenty is a frequent visitor to Port City Java. He came in this morning after a swim at the Aquatic Center. Fenty and PCJ owner Abe (pronounced Ab-eh) have something in common – running. Ever observant of growing his political base, the mayor mentioned he spotted Abe running around town and invited him […]
DCMud reports that the city is moving forward in it’s plan to redevelop the property where the Hine Junior High sits on 7th and Pennsylvania Ave., SE. District administrators will be hosting a community showcase of all six proposals on June 10th at Tyler Elementary School at 1001 G Street, SE. The meeting will begin […]
On the Hill East list serve, the issue of lead in the soil came up. With more and more residents digging into urban gardening, some research might be helpful. Tom said, “A few weeks back there were posts about lead in local soil and the effect on plants and vegetables. Last week’s NYTimes has this […]
Since honey bees (I hope that’s what you’ve got, and not wasps) are so rapidly declining in recent years across the world, it would be best not to have them killed, but to have a specialist come in and remove them to somewhere useful, such as an orchard. My parents did that a few times, […]