Thirsty on this cloudy morning? How bout a nice tall glass of...marketing. In response to the waterborne lead crisis, the District's Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) is ushering in a "new era" with a new name and new logo. WaPo's Mike DeBonis reports the agency is rebranding itself "D.C. Water," at a cost of around $160,000 to [...]
New Columbia Heights seems to enjoy the opening up of a liquor store at Sherman and Fairmont, writing "it's convenient for folks in that area." This is just interesting. Liquor stores in gentrifying neighborhoods–as well as wine store openings—are accepted, draw excitement even. In other areas, say areas still struggling to get more than one [...]
DCist reports on the efforts to get rid of the gun amendment attached to the Voting Rights bill. Activists "seem to be ignoring his comments and have renewed the push to make a clean D.C. voting rights bill." So there's lobbying and a mass email and a strong rebuke against Fenty's comments last week that [...]
