Happy Tuesday, dear readers! The air is moist and cool and we’re in the 70s and if the rest of the summer decides to behave like a spring day in May, I am alright with it! What’s going on around the interwebs? A restaurant worker was held up last night near Barracks Row, and other […]
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The asterisk means that alcohol is the friend we may just need while watching the circus that will be the Mueller hearings. Let’s not forget that this zoo pushed back our own DC Statehood hearing until September. (Insert angry emoji.) Anyway, you want to watch and you want to watch at a place where everyone […]
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 StreetJustice newsletter: He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. See more information below. –Maria Helena Carey The Basics on Virginia DOT’s Commuter Choice Programs Virginia’s Department of Transportation is doing a lot to change I-66, widening in places, lengthening express (i.e. toll) lanes further out from the DC core, updating […]
We are coming up to a momentous (well, to me) anniversary: The 10th year after my first Lost Capitol Hill column. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this pretty much without fail for 520 weeks, having amassed a quarter-million closely-researched words in that time. My first column was, unsurprisingly, about public transportation, a […]