I didn’t even know the Omnibus Domestic Partnership Equality Amendment Act of 2008 was in the works and — lo! and behold — it passed the District of Columbia Council unanamously. Now the Congress has thirty legislative days to kill it; if there’s no action, it becomes law. If there’s a rumble, I shall call […]
Just got back from a lunch with Fr. Chris Tessone (Even the Devils Believe) — with whom else can I talk about LaTeX and typesetting Gregorian chant? — to discover that the California Supreme Court has overturned the ban on same-sex marriage and without punting it back to the legislature. The same legislature you’ll recall […]
Yesterday I went to the Capital City Market (a.k.a. the Florida [Avenue] Market) on a tour by Richard Layman, Ken Firestone and Elise Bernard on a tour sponsored by Cultural Tourism DC. (I’m the fifth figure from the left — brown polo shirt and jeans — in this photo.) This is a wholesale market with […]
“The Dog” has a bad reputation of being the intercity tranportation mode of last resort. That’s a shame. Many countries enjoy inexpensive, efficient (if not fancy) bus transportation. And that’s an efficient use of depleting petroleum.
And oil jumped above $120 a barrel on Friday.
But Greyhound’s service stinks. Hubby was shocked that you didn’t get a […]
Hubby and I live in a mid-grade rental apartment in a newly-nice neighborhood very close to downtown D.C. We both walk to work. (Washington, D.C. has one of the highest rates of pedestrian commuters in the country.) We don’t own a car. Most people who don’t live in New York or Los Angeles think we […]
D.C.-area people should note that the EPA will have having an electronic recycling drive on Sunday, April 20:
Event Location and Details Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC Corner of 13th and E Streets, NW Metro: Metro Center and Federal Triangle
no Federal property please!
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Self-service shared bicycle stations, featured in European cities, comes to the United States first in Washington, D.C. (Or perhaps not; there seems to have been programs elsewhere. So it must be the automated, self-service piece.) A good idea, I think given our strong transit use and relatively flat terrain.
The stations locations, plainly, couldn’t be better […]
Back in 2006, I first wrote about the UK-based Megabus entering the US market, and giving riders an option between the hard-worn Greyhound and the under-regulated (”is that antifreeze?”) “Chinatown” buses. (Link, to give you an idea of schedules and fares.) They’ve since moved to locations in California and Nevada, and have now announced a […]
The buzz today was less about oil touching $108 a barrel than New York governor (and Clinton superdelegate) Eliot Spitzer touching — er — something else. And doing the deed in my fair city!
Not only here, but at the nearby Mayflower Hotel. Here’s the Universalist tie-in: the Universalist General Convention in 1935 met at the […]
Well, I called it wrong with respect to Obama support in my District of Columbia precinct, the 16th.
1270 people voted, a 45.45% turnout.
Of these, 1201 voted in the Democratic primary. Yes, D.C. is a tad lopsided politically.
Barack Obama got 703, or 58.53%. That’s close to the ward-wide […]
