Posts Tagged ‘Solomon Bekele’
Weekend in Review
No wonder the Washington Post is playing up the story on its homepage. That's what happens when the paper provides compelling Sunday reading. I am talking about the feature piece in Outlook titled "I Didn't Tell. It Didn't Matter."; it's about a young man, Joseph Rocha, who served in the Navy and got abused constantly over his sexuality.
The gripping part comes when the Rocha, a dog handler, describes in extensive detail just what his superiors did to torment him:
Taxi Mogul Solomon Bekele Speaks
In his column this week on the D.C. taxi industry, LL mentioned the name of Solomon Bekele---calling him "almost a mythic figure, a bogeyman, in local taxi circles."
LL was not able to speak to Bekele prior to his Tuesday deadline, but he has since gotten in touch.
In the course of interviewing various figures in the taxi industry, Bekele's name came up repeatedly---not, mind you, as anyone who is directly involved in the ongoing scandal, but as someone who cuts a wide swath in the taxicab world.
