If you were to ask me for a headline to describe February’s ANC 6A meeting, I’d call it the, “We Pretty Much Agree on Everything Except Marathons” meeting. Aside from the inconveniences of road blockages, the commission also discussed the renaming of the Rosedale rec center, pending snow removal legislation and heard from the owner […]
Crime, development, new businesses, liquor licenses…it’s the fun that fills the agendas of the community meetings. So mark your calendar and come out to meet your ANC commissioner, police officers and other community meetings.
I spent the better part of my elementary school years with skinned knees. Swings and monkey bars on top of blacktop will do that. Ours, a typical 1970’s school playground, was not the safest, but my classmates and I did learn to hang on for dear life. Playgrounds today are much more knee-friendly and really […]
Tuesday night’s ANC meeting was a long one and truthfully, I couldn’t make it all of the way to the end. When two and a half hours had gone by and the commissioners were still going back and forth – a bit contentiously – on what provisions to include on a voluntary agreement for the […]
Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells has been in the news a lot lately. He’s weighed in on reductions to the city the budget and advocated tax increases for the city’s wealthiest. He had a large role in the recently passed law about youth offenders — and of course after the random attack near Harris Teeter, he […]