Don't Worry, If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go: With frequent delays and crowded trains, Metro's Orange Line can bring out incivility in anyone. But a new ad in the Clarendon station is rude even accounting for its location. Written to complain about President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, it includes the choice line, [...]
The illness keeps spreading! In a statement released this afternoon, Howard University has confirmed last week’s 40+ cases of gastrointestinal dysfunction were, indeed, norovirus. According to the university, 42 Howard students, one UDC student, three Howard University Hospital employees and one D.C. resident with the virus were seen at Howard University Hospital between Feb. 22 [...]
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Greetings, D.C.! What's on your agenda today? If you have norovirus, you should probably be doing this. If not, here are some suggestions from our staff!
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Those Who Teach Can Sometimes Also Do: With [...]
An economist at the Economic Policy Institute sends along a chart estimating D.C. unemployment numbers from pre-recession levels until now. As expected, it's pretty bad. For some people, that is. The fourth quarter of last year ended with black unemployment at 20.3 percent—and white unemployment at 3.3 percent. And may even be generous, since the [...]
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On Monday we noted that the latest customer survey from WMATA really doesn't seem to be interested in actual customer input, based on the lack of space for customers to suggest solutions for the current $116 million budget gap. In the survey, customers are allowed to play with one option: General Manager Richard Sarles' proposal [...]
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Good morning from Washington City Paper! It's Wednesday. Barack Obama's Tumblr team has entered the [...]
Green Line, Gallery Place – Chinatown, Feb. 26th. © 2012 Matt Dunn
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Weeds-Be-Gone: A member of The Palisades email list writes “In the dead of winter, with spring about to begin, the invasion of weeds — some people call it ivy or some other kind of creeper that destroys trees — [...]
Capital CrashShare: The way some people ride Capital BikeShare bikes, you'd think accidents involving the service were frequent. (Besides, the bikes feel damn near indestructible while you're on them, and by "damn near indestructible," we mean "very slow.") But today's incident on U Street NW where a tractor trailer and a cyclist collided was only [...]
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Talk About Bikes With A Humanitini: In this city of wonks, many of which champion proper urban development, it’s no surprise that barstool chatter often slips into [...]
700 Block H Street, NW. Feb. 26th. © 2012 Matt Dunn
The battle against students living in residential parts of Georgetown continues with this salvo to a Georgetown email list from a resident whose sensibilities are offended by students sunbathing on their own steps:
The joy of these recent beautiful, sunny days have been somewhat mitigated for me by the sight of bare-chested, boxer-shorted GU students sunbathing [...]
It's weird that the Post's latest entry to its Black Women Are Like This series, based on polling it did last year, quotes two old songs about how sexy larger, curvier bodies are, as evidence that black women don't have the body issues white women have.
Sure, Sir Mix-A-Lot likes big butts. The Commodores appreciate women [...]
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