September 25, 2006
Morning Roundup: Not From Texas Edition
Happy Monday, Washington. Many reasons to be smiling during the start of this week: fall
appears to be settling in
with some cool yet still-sunny weather, the Redskins totally (and finally!) kicked some ass yesterday against the
Houston Texans, and Tim Gunn, Project Runway guru, will be doing a live chat on on washingtonpost.com at 11 a.m.! If only Jeffrey
Sebelia would go ahead and get his mouth sewn shut, then we'd be truly happy. But as for
the real news, let's get to that.Teen Held in Cardozo Shooting: A 17-year-old D.C. teen is being held without bail in last week's shooting of a Cardozo basketball player. Eugene Huff was charged as an adult with assault with intent to murder while armed; the shooting took place, allegedly, over a girl, which, you know -- romantic! Given that I also just moved right next to Cardozo High, I'm feeling pretty fuzzy on the inside. Nothing says true love like assault with intent to murder while armed.
E. Coli Timing Called Suspicious: E. coli contamination from spinach has been linked to three people in Maryland thus far, and an 86-year-old woman in Hagerstown is believed to have died from it. Now her family is questioning officials' timing of the announcement and warnings and wondering if the public could have been alerted earlier. June Denning's son-in-law suggested that Maryland officials only told the public of the E. coli threat after Denning's death had been publicized; a spokesman declined to answer specific questions about Denning's case. Remember, kids: stay away from the green stuff.
Surprise! Electronic Polling Problems!: The Post reports on a variety of errors that affected the Sept. 12 primary in Prince George's county. Color us shocked. Collection failures and improperly secured voting machines both played a part, but the Post notes that the biggest problem that is "Armies of minimally trained, modestly paid election workers are increasingly confronted with an unfamiliar, complex business." Want to remedy the situation? Apparently election officials are looking for people to be trained. Get in touch.
Briefly Noted: Butterstick and mum explore newly-built areas of their outside home ... Edwards concedes to Wynn in Md. congressional race ... Land for school sites hard to find in Loudoun County due to residential development ... District abandons baseball parking plan.
This Day in DCist: Was a Sunday in 2005, so we gave you some classical music picks. 2004? Nada. Sorry about that.
Credit to Flickr user Sager!!! for the Donkey in a Metro shot
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Heh, I understand- I live a block from Cardozo, and it makes me feel all pretty and special to know that those teens who make lewd remarks at me on my way home from work will probably shoot my boyfriend.
The sports commission says it will now look at other parking options, including surface parking on the five acres next to the stadium.
Cat --
Welcome to the neighborhood. I, too, live across the street from Cardozo. This morning I took my car in to my local Honda dealer to deal with the third incident in 14 months involving people trying to break into my car when it was parked near the school. Last time, they actually stole it and dumped it in Mt. Pleasant. Fun, fun times...
OK, so what's your point?
good thing i decided not to bring my car in...
That school building would make beautiful condos. Gorgeous view, classic architecture, private track and athletic fields.
I wonder if the E Coli thing is a terrorist plot to destroy America?
You wanted to be the Hip Ones moving into these "changing and evolving neighboorhoods" so deal with the consequences of your actions.
CWPMBD et al: (With Irony) The really CWP live a few blocks further North, near to Bruce Monroe Elementary. Shootings are a regular thing there. The Cardozo CWP are poseurs who get a (not so secret) thrill from what is a relatively sanitized experience.
A,BWATI: Cardozo will never be condos. It's too valuable for the city to give up.
CWPMBD -- How should they deal with the consequenses of their* actions? Arm themselves? Start shooting back?
*The actions having the consequenses are actions taken by the Cardozo students. And, those actions impact the white and black, new and old residents of the neighborhood. I'd argue the consequenses are far more serious for blacks than the "cool white people".
I realize you are trying to be ironic, but imagine of a poster calling himself "uppityblackpeoplemakingbaddecisions" had written the same post about a black resident who moved to a white neighborhood in 1963 and had a cross burned on his lawn?
"You wanted to be the Hip Ones moving into these "changing and evolving neighboorhoods" so deal with the consequences of your actions."
I love how, these days, everyone's a demographer. And they're usually shit at it. Why do you assume I'm white?
It's not uncommon though, among those with reductive habits of mind, to believe that simply because they've named something, they've defined it. Thank God actual human experience transcends the nomenclature.
You wanted to be the Hip Ones moving into these "changing and evolving neighboorhoods" so deal with the consequences of your actions.
Spoken like a true fringe, religious idealogue describing rape. I see bin Laden & Falwell now read DCist.
"Spoken like a true fringe, religious idealogue describing rape. I see bin Laden & Falwell now read DCist."
Is bin Laden the new Hitler in terms of strained and heavy-handed analogies?
What exactly are the 'consequences of your actions'? Are you suggesting people deserve to get harassed and sometimes shot for moving into the 'wrong' neighborhood?
And why do you assume either of these posters are either white or newcomers? A lot of black oldtimers are fed up with the crime and hell too.
Copperred - You are in violation of DCist's modified Godwin's law. Please dial down the jingoism and lame analogies.
I'd like to point out that just because someone is white doesn't mean they moved into a particular to be cool or hip.
When I first moved to DC, I had no job and little money. For my first year here, I lived on 15th, right next to Malcolm X Park (which, at the time, was devoid of condos and heavy on the drug pushers). I didn't move there to be hip or edgy---I moved there because it was what I could afford at the time. Had I ever been the victim of crime while there, I wonder how folks like CWPMBD would judge whether I was deserving of sympathy?
Ironic or not, such comments are simply racist---firstly because they assume that all white people deserve whatever they get and, more importantly, because black area=high crime area.
Discussions which center on the premise that people who are attempting to reduce crime in their neighborhoods suck are deeply fulfilling. People who suggest that the city's residents deserve the crime they have inherited are making an important argument, and they should be heard out.
"Discussions which center on the premise that people who are attempting to reduce crime in their neighborhoods suck are deeply fulfilling. People who suggest that the city's residents deserve the crime they have inherited are making an important argument, and they should be heard out."
This passage was either poorly translated from another language, or was generated by whatever barely functioning machine is currently spitting out Tom Friedman's prose. Either way, it's incomprehensible.
Actually, acerbic (or "ace," as I've now decided to refer to you in perpetuity), it's perfectly comprehensible as sarcasm.
The comment is even--dare I say it??--acerbic.
aw, i missed DCist! even the crazy comment threads!