Street Justice: : New Pick-Up/Drop-Off and a Weak Press Conference

Gordon Chaffin is a freelance journalist who focuses on infrastructure and traffic news and insights for Street Justice. You can support independent journalism by subscribing to Gordon’s newsletter. He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. –Maria Helena Carey What is “Traffic Calming?” Many of the transportation projects we cover in Street Justice involve something called Traffic Calming. What’s that? Well, it’s street design to slow motorists down. Why slow cars down? Vehicle speed is the […]

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04 Nov 2019

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: James P. Ellicott

Looking through events other than those ending in death and which happened at the Washington Navy Yard in 1853, I came across a short article entitled “Resignation and probable Appointment.” In it, it stated that a James B. Elliott, “the efficient Engineer of the Copper Rolling Mill” had resigned. There is no “James B. Elliott” […]

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31 Oct 2019

Events:

To Do:Weekend of October 31st – November 3rd

Good morning fellow citizens of the home of the World Series champions! It was such a fun ride. That team is pretty special. And now we sleep. Actually I’m kidding about sleep! Because… Tonight is Halloween! Truly the best night on the Hill. Whether you are escorting tiny goblins on East Capitol Street, handing out […]

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29 Oct 2019

News:

Hill Buzz

Good morning from Capitol Hill, an “isolating and serious place to live sometimes.” Isn’t it great to have our city explained to us by the kind, erudite folks at the New York Times? What would we do without them? Anyway. I’d like to send a hearty shout-out to all the kind, warm folks I met […]

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29 Oct 2019

Building community:

MOTH Moves

As a moderator of Moms on the Hill since the early aughts, I have been fielding snark about Yahoo Groups for quite a while. It’s mostly well-deserved snark, I would say. Yahoo has inexplicably made their product worse for many years, stripping it of any usable functionality. I was even part of a story about […]

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