Comments on: Mount Pleasant’s Main Drag: The cute neighborhood with the dingy main street goes to war over a plan. Again.

By: ANC Election Will Bring Change in Mt. Pleasant - Loose Lips - Washington City Paper

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:33:22 +0000

[...] their time to other pursuits. But there’s an additional factor at play here: as Housing Complex reported in June, conflicting visions for the neighborhood’s future make for an ANC that gets things done at a [...]

By: d

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:58:07 +0000

I'm really intrigued by Gregg Edwards' style of thinking, but he needs more power if he's going to make his pedestrian encounter zone into reality. His main problem seems to be that he calls for all these studies which water down his ideas, then he rejects the study, and nothing gets done. What he needs is executive authority and a new title--maybe Lord Gregg, the Michelle Rhee of Mt. P.

By: Adrian Bent-Me

Adrian Bent-Me — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:49:24 +0000

Juan Carlos Ruiz is nothing but a self-promoting asshole. He doesn't represent anyone other than himself. The Latino Federation organizes maybe six or seven unemployed individuals by promising pay for attending rallies. Ruiz doesn't know anything about the neighborhood and only incites people rather than inform them. He's also a pretender in the Latino community. He loves his people so much that he married a white woman...

By: HAYDEES

HAYDEES — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:37:57 +0000

FROM DESK OF HAYDEE VANEGAS RESIDENT, BUSINESS OWNER AND FORMER MOUNT PLEASANT BUSINESS ASS PRESIDENNT THIS LETTER IS IN REFERENCE TO THE POOR REVIEW OF MT PLEASANT GIVEN BY THE CITYPAPER / LYDIA DEPILLIS

ON BEHALF OF THE BUSINESS OF MT PLEASANT WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE ARE UNDER FIRE BY THE CITYPAPER.WE THE BUSINESS OWNERS NEVER EXPECTED THE COMMENTS FROM THE CITYPAPER TO DESTROY THE MORALE AND CHARACTER OF THE MULTICULTURAL BUSINESS IN MOUNT PLEASANT WHY IS IT THAT LIDIA NEVER ACTUALLY INTERVIEWED A BUSINESS OR PROPERTY OWNER TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MT PLEASNT ? JUAN CARLOS RUIZ AND THE MPNA MAY NOT HAVE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUSINESS OF MT PLEASANT AND ARE NOT THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION THE ANC 1D EXPECTS TO GET THE SAME FAIR PLANS FOR MT PLEASANT THAT WILL HELP INPROVE OR REBUILD MT PLEASANT THAT WILL NEED A BIG PROJECTS LIKE THE ONE GIVEN TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS WE HAVE ONLY RECEIVED SMALL GRANTS WHICH ONLY COVERS THE SALARY OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS MOUNT PLEASANT NEED BIG PROJECTS TO REBUILD THE MT PLEASANT IN GENARAL HOWEVER WE NEED HELP SWAYING THE HOLDERS TO WHO SAY NO TO BIG CHAIN AND BUSINESS INPROVEMENTS THE MPNA MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR A BUSINESS TO GET THE REQUIRED LICENSES OR PERMIT FOR INPROVEMENT FOR PROPER OPERATION THEY HAVE BEEN RUNNING THE SAME FACADE FOR 2 DECADES AND NEVER SUPORT THE BUSINESSES FOR NEW PLANS THEY CLOSE THE DOORS OF FINANCIAL PROSPERITY. SO LIDIA COME TO INTERVIEW BUSINESS OWNERS TO GET REAL ANSWERS DON'T TROW CHEAP SHOT ON THEM

By: Adrian Bent-Me

Adrian Bent-Me — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:37:55 +0000

Edwards is a fat-ass douche and I'm being polite. He struts around pretending he's the mayor or something and if you don't kowtow to him, he'll take it upon his rather large self to make your life a living hell. He makes everything more convulted than it should be and he always sounds like he's applying for a job by selling his vast credentials in everything. Please.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:28:41 +0000

@LOL Next time Lydia should call Greg Edwards, "MR." Edwards.

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:51:24 +0000

Please! You know that the ANC in Mt. Pleasant is crazy. Lydia didn't do anything but write about it. Anyone who thinks she is being dishonest only need to go to a meeting or watch Greg Edwards at a council hearing.

Next time Lydia, insert some Greg Edwards quotes. It will shoe that MPT says is true.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:01:49 +0000

If you flip to the next page in the print edition, Dan Savage takes juicy topics like lubricants, ejaculation and cuckolding and elevates it to a great read.

Lydia DePillis takes serious topics such as the ethics of grant proposals, performance of DC agencies, and the function of ANCs and civics and reduces it to yet another lurid Mount Pleasant cartoon.

So much for the hope that - while truth and justice gets stomped out in civic life - more of the real story would come out in the press.

By: MtP

MtP — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:58:47 +0000

That's rich: Edwards calling MtP "a toxic environment." Frankly I'm surprised he engaged the audience here, because he fails to do so in MtP. (But then I'm also shocked his reply doesn't reference the Huguenots, Robespierre or the bourgeoisie...typical condescending obfuscation from Edwards.)

By: Lydia DePillis

Lydia DePillis — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:25:29 +0000

For the record: I did change "two minutes" to "a few minutes" after realizing that I wasn't positive whether it had been two or three minutes. But while it's true that formal hearings often have time limits, I haven't heard of any informal ANC meeting or committee meeting in which discussion was similarly confined. Lydia