As much as it bothers me when people bring their pungent personal odors on the bus, I always just buckle down and tell myself to stop acting so spoiled and get over it. It's the bus. If I wanted to avoid all the annoyances that come along with public transportation, I should just [...]
Shaw residents who have long wished for more cafes and restaurants in their up-and-coming neighborhood have some reason to hope: Shiloh Baptist Church, notorious for owning numerous fallow properties in the neighborhood, has undergone a changing of the guard.
Shiloh's board of trustees is comprised of 10 members who serve no more than two three-year terms, [...]
Attention city bureaucrats: Anthony Muhammad, a member of the Anacostia advisory neighborhood commission, demands a little respect for his neighborhood. And if he doesn't get it, your job fair could be in trouble.
The city's Office of Unified Communications, which houses the citywide call center, 911, and 311 responders, sits on Martin Luther King Avenue SE, [...]
The Benning Neighborhood Library has been closed since December 2004, leaving lots of Ward 7 residents wondering when their community will be served by something more than occasional bookmobiles and a tiny kiosk in nearby Deanwood.
At a mid-February meeting of the Ward 7 Leadership Council, they thought they finally had an answer: D.C. Council Chairman [...]
As recently as two years ago, the former home of Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Month, was a complete mess. Vagrants slept on the stoop and inside the 9th Street NW row house, then owned by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (which Woodson founded), and squatters lit [...]
When a truck with D.C. government insignia and a bed full of salt remained parked on the 1500 block of Allison Street NW for almost two weeks, Louis Wassel and his neighbors thought perhaps the city had started giving individual neighborhoods salt trucks as part of a new DIY clean-up initiative. Wassel was rolling up [...]
Two weeks ago, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, responding to constituents' concerns, lobbied for and received 10 traffic-control officers to man the main thoroughfares of Adams Morgan during the busiest hours of weekend revelry. But residents had no idea that the officers would prove a bigger nuisance than the traffic jams they were hoping to [...]
Today's Washington Post detailed the inner workings of Mayor Adrian Fenty's "bullpen" office, where transparency is the priority and paper is a quaint notion. As the Post reported, there's nothing on Fenty's desk—not a sheet of paper or even a pencil—because he leaves the paper-pushing to his aides or lackeys or interns or whomever, and [...]
Complaints about blight in Ward 8 are nothing new. But one advisory neighborhood commissioner is placing some blame on Mayor Adrian Fenty—and not just in a general sense. Anthony Muhammad, who represents a district in Anacostia, says that Fenty's old campaign banners, still hanging, are eyesores.
Particularly egregious, Muhammad says, is an enormous green-and-white Fenty for [...]
These days, when an inmate violates his parole, he is taken to the D.C. Jail until a hearing examiner makes the trip from the Chevy Chase offices of the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) to decide whether the charges are enough to hold the parolee and, if so, for how long. But the USPC now proposes [...]
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The Shaw advisory neighborhood commission's outgoing chair, Al Hajj Mahdi Leroy Joseph Thorpe Jr. has had a busy December. He was officially voted out of his elected position on the ANC, only to be appointed to a new role—parliamentarian and executive assistant to the chair—by [...]
A curious thing happened this Tuesday afternoon across the street from the Adams Morgan Safeway: the Latin music stopped.
CDs were seized as evidence when D.C. police shut down three street vendors allegedly hocking counterfeit wares on Columbia Road. Recording-industry investigators and a dozen or so D.C. cops boxed up the hundreds of counterfeit discs and [...]
Proof that the gentrification of Columbia Heights is a work in progress: Three armed robbers crashed the Wonderland Ballroom, at 11th and Kenyon Streets NW, in a daring heist during peak Friday evening drinking hours.
According to owner Matthew McGovern, the thieves came in around 9 p.m. and were in and out within three minutes. “At [...]
Shaw advisory neighborhood commissioner Al Hajj Mahdi Leroy Joseph Thorpe Jr. may have lost the Nov. 7 election, but he's not gone yet. At his last meeting as the official leader of ANC 2C, Thorpe and his allies made sure he will remain a force on the commission well after his departure.
Well over an hour [...]
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In Adams Morgan, the store next to the Starbucks at 18th Street and Columbia Road has been vacant for sometime, and Sid wants to know what's up. “It has been vacant now a long time. It looks like the have [...]
