Little about this inauguration pleases Terry Lynch, executive director of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations. Not the extended boozing. And not the behavior of the Secret Service.
He reports in a message to LL Daily: "I waited at the 7th & D checkpoint entrance amidst a crowd of thousands; Secret Service had only a few metal [...]

Staffwriter and Obaman Jason Cherkis reports he's been walking for two hours and is not happy about his progress. He's at M and 19th Streets and trying to get home to Mount Pleasant. Cops and "army dudes" (going to go out on a limb here and say they were Army National Guard soldiers) are giving [...]

If yesterday's concert at the Lincoln Memorial is practice for the cops, National Guard soldiers, and volunteers in charge of handling the masses, I think we're in good hands. Leaving the Lincoln was, notably, not that exciting.
When I got to the checkpoint, the entire area between the WWII memorial and the Washington Monument was pretty [...]

It sucks being late. It took forever to get out of our apartment and head to the concert. We thought: The Boss has to be the closer. We were wrong. We ended up listening to the Boss on NPR in our kitchen nook! By the time we made it to the Mall (Cab to Foggy [...]