For those of you who subscribe to the Police Department’s First District listserv, you may already know that two juveniles were arrested last Friday in at least some degree of connection with the rock throwing incident that I first wrote about two weeks ago. I’m personally grateful to the timely intervention of two MPD officers, […]
Continuing our series of “How the Schools of Capitol Hill Got Their Name,” I’ll follow up on fellow tour guide and Hill dad Tim Krepp’s recent article with a discussion of my son’s school, Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. Zachary Taylor is a no-brainer– Old Rough and Ready, Mexican-American War hero and 12th President of the United […]
Generally, I prefer to discuss items that are safely consigned to history when I post here, but recent events in my little corner of the Hill have forced me to confront “real” life. The last month or so has brought an upsurge in rock throwing incidents by students from Eliot-Hine Jr. High. The pattern is […]
Involvement by residents of a community is essential for its improvement. Grassroots initiatives ensure the businesses and services a neighborhood needs are recognized and determined by its residents. But is there a point where such neighbor-driven initiatives become status quo, and what was once considered activism becomes part of the social fabric of a neighborhoods? […]
Since Monday, THIH has written about the recent conversation this reporter and Sharee Lawler had with Tommy Wells and his chief of staff Charles Allen. The discussion covered transportation, development, and crime. Today, we’ll address schools, especially the issues facing parents as their children matriculate from popular elementary schools in the neighborhood. When the conservation […]