The city is finally saying in court what car owners have said in private for years: James W. Gee is ripping us off.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer asks the judge for an injunction to shut down Youngin's Towing and Auto Body once and for all. Readers may remember that the [...]
DDOT these days is exploring all sorts of ways to make the city more pedestrian friendly. That quest includes a first-ever public meeting on pedestrian issues that our city planning expert, Mark Jenkins, skewered in this very space.
I didn't attend, but I have a belated recommendation: End the tyranny of right on red. No single [...]
Orange flags arrived in Chevy Chase to great media fanfare in 2005. Inspired by a similar program in Salt Lake City, area residents had lobbied the city for buckets of the flags at two intersections on Connecticut Avenue NW to help pedestrians safely cross from Safeway to Child's Play or the American City Diner.
For two [...]
Friday morning, I went to the DMV. And it was great.
This should come as no surprise, really, seeing as the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has made great strides in customer service over the past few years.
But the news is that the DMV opened a new service center in April on the unit block of [...]
James W. Gee Jr., owner of Youngin's Towing, has not always had the best relations with his customers—they've been so bad, in fact, that Youngin's has recently had its business license revoked by the city. Nor is his record with cops spotless. In June 2004, Gee was so belligerent to a 5th District cop that [...]
The used car chain Eastern Motors has long had the greatest local commercials. But things haven't turned out so well for the local superstars who have appeared in those fabulous ads to lip-synch long to the fabulous jingle: "At Eastern Motors/Your job's your credit."
Original spokesmodels LaVar Arrington and Laveranues Coles both left Redskins Park angry [...]
Shortly before 8:45 this morning, Susana Ricca walked out of the Jurys Hotel in Dupont Circle in search of a bagel. She didn't make it to Firehook Bakery, less than a block away.
Just as she made it to the sidewalk across Q Street, Ricca heard a loud crunching bang to her left and caught the [...]
Behold the Suzuki X-90 4x4. It's got the "X" thing going, so you know it's rad. But what's the "4x4" mean? Total square centimeters of space? The only off-roading you're gonna do in one of these is time spent in the garage. And that spoiler on the back? Puh-leeze!
And, seriously, if you're going to be [...]
On television, James W. Gee Jr. of Youngin's Towing looks tough but honest. If you treat him with respect, he says, he'll treat you with respect. Viewers have no reason to believe otherwise. The only contrasts to Gee's opinion are car owner LeRoy Atkins (you might remember him from our story) and Department of Consumer [...]
Unlike many car owners with beefs with Youngin's Towing, Michigan Park resident Kevin Williams actually wanted the controversial company to tow his car. The Infiniti coupe had broken down on Pennsylvania Avenue SE, and he needed a wrecker to take it to a service station on Alabama Avenue SE. According to a court complaint, the [...]
I am a big fan of the city's street-sweeping program. It does what it says it does—sweep the streets—and it creates some occasionally helpful anomalies on the parking scene. For instance, on pre-sweeping nights, you can generally find parking spaces in congested neighborhoods on the side of the street that's gonna get a bath the [...]
From the pages of the Dupont Current: Dee-Dot is launching a trial program in Georgetown under which residents will be allowed to park their cars in front of their own driveways. The plan, of course, is part of a longrunning effort by Georgetowners to mitigate their longrunning parking crisis. So the idea here is that [...]
Over the mayor's first four months in office, we've confirmed a lot of things about him. He's impulsive. He's got all that energy. He wants control of the schools but may not have the most original of plans.
Comes now evidence that he's not going to take any risks with the District's ever-mighty senior vote. According [...]
The toll-booth plan floated by Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry et al. is pretty much a farce on its face, so I almost hate to give it any further credibility by talking about it here. But the idea that you'd only put booths on major commuter routes is the reason that guarantees this plan will [...]
Real results are happening from the folks fighting to save Darfur and Iraq one organic latte at a time: major road closures.
The Arlington County PD will close Washington Boulevard, both directions, this Saturday from 12:30 to 4 p.m. from Memorial Circle to 395. So, unless you want to join the Pick Your Own Cause* March [...]
