It looks like it will be a quiet New Year’s Eve today on Capitol Hill, and I thought about historic precedents for this. The closest I could come was 1918, the year that the first World War ended, and the country was ravaged by a pandemic. So, what did those celebrations look like? Pretty quiet, […]
Welcome to the last Hill Buzz of 2020. Not sure that a year ago, I imagined we would end the year on such a weird and uncertain note, but I don’t think anyone, apart from some very tuned-in people, was expecting 2020 to be *that* year. Anyway, what’s going on– you know, other than SUPER […]
Goodbye and good riddance, year that was. But what were the things that captivated us the most about this dumpster fire of a year? Below, a breakdown by month of our most-clicked stories on the blog: January: Back in January, when we thought that COVID was a distant nightmare that would never affect us, we […]
As we count down the days to the next Presidential inauguration, I wanted to go back and look at tales of Hill inaugurations past. We start, as one so often does, with Thomas Jefferson. When he won the election in 1800, he was Vice President and lived on Capitol Hill in Conrad and McMunn’s boarding […]