The good ol’ farmers market. Promoting sustainability, healthy living, and...free plastic bags?
The city's new 5-cent fee on them—save the Anacostia!—has GOPers picketing, residents running into Maryland and Virginia to shop, and Politics & Prose ditching the mints.
But on any given Sunday, residents can still find an abundance of free plastic bags (free bags for the [...]

The District of Columbia is about a month away from having to pay five cents a pop for its plastic bags, and some details are yet to be worked out.
Such as: What about the self-checkout facilities increasingly populating city supermarkets—how are they going to work with the bag fee? After all, there's no human to [...]