Weekend visitors to the fantastic Wilson Aquatic Center may have been a bit dismayed to find the spa/whirlpool/hot tub out of order. There it was, just sitting empty, without the usual horde of middle-aged seekers of free relaxation.
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Morning all. Gotta love this: D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services may be having a hard time reading maps of water mains these days, but not for a lack [...]
The Heights Life is pumped about the new fountain on 14th Street providing pictures, a slideshow, and a written item. DCist has reporting from the opening of the finally completed plaza. Councilmember Jim Graham did not comment on the on-going-ness of the fed's bribery investigation which has already netted his Chief of Staff Ted Loza. [...]
Davita Simpson, 54, perches a cross the street from Metro Center. She leans against the wall by an ATM, timidly promoting Street Sense to the sharply-dressed weekday morning pedestrians. Selling the paper isn’t a great source of income, she says, “but it helps me get by.” Simpson is currently homeless. She began selling papers [...]
Natural History, 2003
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The Issue: Is Ward 8 taking on more than its fair share of social housing? So Others Might Eat (SOME), a D.C. nonprofit group, bought a rundown residential property about a year ago on Mellon Street in southeast with the intention of turning the space into long-term housing for adults with special needs. The complex [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—'Jim Graham Postpones Hearing on Taxicab Bill'; 'Majority of Voters Polled Disapprove of Fenty'
Morning all. More details trickled out this weekend on the investigation that [...]
How over are the Redskins?
So over that on WRC, Lindsay Czarniak did her sports report Sunday night without ANY visible Skins logos on her person. (Fact.)
So over that Sonny Jurgensen didn't tussle with Jim Zorn in his postgame interview. (Fact.)
So over that starting this week, the Virginia Lottery has changed first prize for its $20 [...]
Hard to imagine much going on over the next two or three news cycles save for post-mortems on the Redskins central role in ending the 19-game losing streak of the Detroit Lions. I suppose ending that terrible run of fecklessness has to fall to one team or another. But the fact that it was the [...]
The Issue: One of the Trinidad Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANC) wants to curb alcohol-related problems by having liquor licenses banned at establishments along Bladensburg Road in NE, with one exception. An ANC proposal says that all establishments in the area will be denied licenses to sell alcohol for five years unless they are “part [...]
Man With Umbrella, 2003
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Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has announced he's postponing a hearing on his taxicab medallion bill, one day after his chief of staff was arrested for accepting a bribe to influence it.
The hearing, which had been scheduled for Oct. 1, is being delayed to an unspecified date "[i]n light of the current context of events."
Graham's [...]
