From the 30 Bus, 1992

The monthly breakfast meeting between Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and members of the D.C. Council had been scheduled for tomorrow morning.
LL says "had been," because the mayor has canceled.
When asked in recent weeks, Fenty has said repeatedly that executive-legislative relations have been "great"—with all available evidence to the contrary.
So maybe things aren't as hunky-dory as [...]

Richard Layman, over at Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space, is capping on our recent cover story about bike helmets. After laying out his own biography vis-a-vis helmets, Layman goes prescriptive on what Washington City Paper could have done to produce a better cover story. Here goes:
The City Paper article would have been better [...]

Start lining up outside Borders now: Twilight will be released in a special, 2,394-hour DVD Special Edition on March 21.
Surely, Amazon's preorders are already through the roof. If you haven't heard the details yet, the package will be "packed with bonus features that are sure to please even the most hardcore Twilighter.
"They include [...]

Today's new strategy memo from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth filled its quota of bland and unspecific principles. And on the specifics front, it left quite a deficit.
Yet if you poke around the Post newsroom a bit, you can find an initiative or two that has some beef and some direction. Take the Book [...]

Since it's Black Friday and all, figured I might delve into the consumer-affairs arena.
This afternoon, I strolled over to ubiquitous retailer CVS's Adams Morgan outlet, at 1700 Columbia Road NW. There I purchased a 99-cent bottle of aspirin and two packages of AAA batteries—2-for-1 deal today!
For my $7.32, I not only received the aforementioned goods, [...]

Question: when it’s 90 degrees outside does it really need to be below freezing in your office? What’s the logic behind Arctic indoor temperatures in the middle of July?

I blame men’s workplace fashion. If offices would stop forcing men to wear jackets and ties maybe they wouldn’t need the air conditioning up so high. Call [...]