3rd July '08Today's Top Blog Posts from Washington DC
1. ZOMG Barack Obama Goes To Daughter’s Soccer Game
You might not want to watch this if you want to keep believing Barack Obama is a “cool dood,” because he wears his shirt tucked in AND he keeps his phone in a dumb little belt-clip. He is basically that earnest dork…
2. 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas
(if you’re a planner, transit advocate, or an environmentalist).Will sends us a link to this article, “10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas,” from Time Magazine:1. Globalized Jobs Return Home;2. Sprawl Stalls;3. …
3. MATT DRUDGE GAY STRIPPER CHAKA KHAN OUTRAGE: When Drudge was
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MATT DRUDGE GAY STRIPPER CHAKA KHAN OUTRAGE: When Drudge was growing up in Maryland, he was friends with a dude who later became a college professor in Washington and then a gay stripper, and has now written a book,…
4. What's for Breakfast II
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I recently was asked where one could get a good diner style breakfast on H. We’re, unfortunately, a bit short on diner type food that isn’t carryout. None the less, I’ve put together a short list of breakfast options on…
5. ANC 6C Meeting 7/9
Announcement-Greetings Neighbors,The operators of Studio 400 are on the agenda for the July 9, 2008 ANCmeeting at the Heritage Foundation at 7pm. Come out to express yourconcerns and ask questions.If you are unable to…
6. Morning Roundup: Handcuffs and Trigger Locks Edition
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Good morning, Washington. D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson is hosting a roundtable meeting at noon today on revising the District’s gun laws in response to the Supreme Court decision last week. D.C. Wire has the…
7. Council Endorses Voting Rights Signs for Stadium
Hooray?The Post is reporting that the D.C. Council endorsed legislation yesterday that would place electronic signs at the new baseball stadium displaying the amount of federal taxes paid by District residents while not…
8. Photo of the Day: July 2, 2008
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Your Photo of the Day is brought you today by Flickr user Sarah Oh. Best Safeway Ever? Make your own jokes in the comments.
9. Hitchens Joins Ranks Of Brave Journalists Getting Tortured On Video For Public Amusement
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At first this might look like the Formula One guy’s kinky Nazi S&M hooker orgy, but no, it’s just Christopher Hitchens getting waterboarded while terrible spin-class techno music plays in the background. We look…
10. Our Morning Roundup
*What do you say when a bunch of angry ex-convicts ask you why they don’t have jobs? Why blame DCPS, of course! A group of protesters demanded that more work opportunities be created for people released from prison.…
11. DC Metrocentric Eisenhower East Master Plan
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Check out this cool master plan design that we just got from a tipster for the area around the Eisenhower Station in Alexandria. This is apparently a master plan created by EE&K Architects to guide the future…
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12. Forgotten Neighbors and Lost Houses
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WJLA reports: This Woodridge home might appear abandoned, but it turns out there’s a very long-time resident still living there. By my math, her family has had the house since 1949. With no water, no electricity, and no…
13. Evaluation of roundabouts in Maryland
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Mount Rainier CircleOriginally uploaded by Mr. T in DC(Roundabouts do not have traffic signals. Traffic circles a la DC do have traffic signals.)See “State’s traffic roundabouts reviewed,” from the Annapolis…
14. City Supports O Street Market
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As you may have heard from us in the past, we are obsessed with the old O Street Market in Shaw. Unfortunately progress has been slow to get the development underway which includes preserving the gorgeous…
15. Transit still dominated by automobility and automobile-centricity
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1. If you drive to transit, you defeat a lot of the advantages of transit. Transit systems can’t afford to build unlimited parking at stations. What needs to happen is the creation of bus shuttles/routing to take…
