Go Home Already: Shouts and Murmurs
Man Stops Traffic at 17th and K to Demand $200 Million
Compromise Uncertain on Same-Sex Marriage Law
Morning Roundup: Second Helpings Edition
Fire at 17th and L NW Forces Evacuations
Good morning, Washington, and welcome back to work after a nice long holiday away. We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving vacation as much as we did ours. That is if you can take a long enough break from all the online shopping you'll supposedly be doing from your desk today to tell us about it. Stay tuned until the week before Christmas for your next update on the holiday shopping habits of Americans -- we predict last-minute sales in an attempt to lure procrastinators!
Study Calls D.C.'s HIV Rate a 'Modern Epidemic': In a startling new report released today on D.C.'s most recent HIV infections, African Americans are shown to be being hugely disproportionately affected by the disease, with nearly 80 percent of new cases attributed between 2001 and 2006. HIV was also spread through heterosexual contact in more than 37 percent of these recent cases. Mayor Fenty will announce an overview of the District's HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in a press conference this morning.
Decades of Tax Records Investigated: The Examiner says that investigators are now looking closely at decades of city tax records in an attempt to determine just how far back the Harriette Walters corruption scandal really goes. Walters has been working in the tax office since 1981, though she wasn't in a position of any power until later.
Briefly Noted: Two fires on same block in Woodbridge ... Two area deaths from hit-and-runs ... Disabled man staying in garage killed in Northeast house fire.
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I wait until the last minute because I'm a bargain hunter, not a procrastinator! Deals are a-plenty for those who wait.
What, no mention of the Hawthorne Heights guitarist found dead before the show at the 9:30 Club? I'm not a fan of the band, but still a sad story.
About the HIV/AIDS report, I would like to know what the DOH puts down for address when a patient refuses. Or, if they are(which there are many), a Veteran/Homeless/Drug User, or "without residence," what address do these clinics/hospitals/hospices put down?
Not to be an asshole, but that's not really a startling report is it? This has been SO apparent in the community that it is on metro bus adds. So yeah, we know, we're not startled... It's kind of shocking, but only a little, that DC would be third world country-esque in terms of HIV/AIDS. Then again, it's DC, and comparing DC to a third world country gets done a lot. And oh yeah, I guess this wasn't a "not to be an asshole" kind of thing, since I'm pretty much being an asshole about pedantic and useless information.
Guest number 10: I feel your frustration. On one hand we all agree that HIV/AIDS is a problem in the world, maybe more so in DC than other cities, maybe not.
On the other hand, we know how non-profits like to "elevate" their numbers so they can get funding, etc. and these huge numbers are on billboards and metro trains all over the city. But apparently the drug users, and black women in town don't listen to billboards or the "numbers" would go down right?
Not placing blame on those 2 statistics, but they are the highest infection groups.
Not startling at all, considering the amount of unprotected backyard crack-for-sex rough trade going on in DC. Is DC's next step going to be spending millions on a campaign to remind people to pretty-please remember to wear a condom? Because apparently that hasn't been drilled into people's skulls enough over the past couple of decades.
This is almost as pathetically depressing as all the kids dying in car accidents when they should be WEARING THEIR SEATBELTS. I say almost because the AIDS cases are mostly adults and should probably know better, and I really don't see DC having a high bug chaser population.