We are on day 12 of the government shutdown. To our neighbors who are on furlough, we send our condolences and hope this matter is solved quickly. However, according to Politico, it looks like this shutdown is tied for sixth longest in history and it’s not clear what will happen when the 116th Congress convenes […]
Happy New Year!!! Welcome to the first Hill Buzz of 2019! Hope you were able to rest and find joy in small things over the holidays. Frankly, I’m still trying to RELAX AND ENJOY THE RIDE, but the yelling isn’t helping. How about you? Let’s kick it off with my hero, Dave Barry, and his […]
Want to start 2019 with something inspiring? Here’s a story for you. Capitol Hill resident and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church member Elin Whitney-Smith started asking a group of friends and fellow church members about their experiences with sexual harassment and/or discrimination, and she started collecting the number of instances of sexual harassment mentioned by this […]
This morning at around 10:20 a.m., the District-wide DC Alert system issued a warning: Stations along the Orange/Blue/Silver line, from Federal Center SW to Stadium-Armory Metro, were closed. The reason cited at the time was that a suspicious powder was found at Eastern Market Station. Since the first alarms were issued a few hours ago, […]
Over the last weeks we looked at a number of planes who landed or took off more or less successfully at the Capitol. Today, we will branch out a little by looking at a slightly different way of flying. Autogyros were the Next Big Thing for a number of years after being invented in the […]