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 to what for many of us is the shortest work week of the year! Granted, it can end up being the most frantic one of the year as well, if you have to squeeze five days worth of work into only three. And given that we're all so damned busy following every cabinet nomination and forcing ourselves to listen to Chinese Democracy, we can already tell we're going to need some extra cups of cups of coffee for the next couple of days.
Double Murder in Chevy Chase: There are finally some more details available on the cryptic Chevy Chase double murder investigation first reported in the Washington Post on Sunday. The couple, Michael and Virginia Spevak, a psychiatrist and a retired middle school teacher, were found in their pajamas, bound and beaten, inside their home. Their car was found completely burned in Petworth. And there's a working theory that Michael Spevak's work with troubled youths might have led to their murders.
Council Committee Approves Verizon Deal: The Examiner reports that the D.C. Council's Public Services and Consumer Affairs Committee approved the Verizon FiOS deal on Friday night, paving the way for full Council approval next month. The deal would mean that FiOS will be available within three years in most of Ward 4 and all of Ward 3, Barry Farm and historic Anacostia in Southeast, and Deanwood and eastern Capitol Hill in Northeast. Other neighborhoods would receive the service in a rollout plan over the next decade.
Briefly Noted: Escapee arrested in fatal stabbing of girlfriend ... 1 dead, 2 injured in Capitol Heights crash ... Bomb threat forces high school evacuation in Fredericksburg.
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this is the first year i've had to leave DC for thanksgiving, so i'm wondering at what point does 95 south turn into a total clusterf*ck? can i get away with leaving on wednesday morning, or should i leave on tuesday night?
Just take the train. Trying to drive anywhere on the Eastern seaboard this week is an utter nightmare. Plus you can drink on the train.
I don't have Friday off. I'm taking a half day, and "work" that day include an hour or so of actual work and a long lunch, probably at Irish Times.
95 is a fustercluck ALL the time, not just on holidays. If you're going deep south, take 81. Might be out of the way, but it's a lot more relaxing and there's never that hellish backup around Richmond.
Is it just me or has there been a recent uptick in the murders, attacks, and overall stabbiness? Good thing nothing lasts forever in the cold November rain.
Lilybelle,
I-95 will turn into a CF at around 9AM on Thanksgiving Week Wednesday morning and will be a CF pretty much throughout the day. You are guaranteed some soft-core CF action just south of the Mixing Bowl (which will start once you get that feeling that there is not going to be a CF after all); it will turn into a full-fledged, balls-to-the-wall CF with lane switching and perhaps some rear-ending at around Newington, and you'll get the long-lasting pleasure all the way to Middle-of-nowhere Mall north of Fredericksburg, at which point the CF will magically disappear... as if the lights had been turned on and everyone had realized that the Porsche Carrera they thought were tailgating is really a Yugo with a box sticking out the back window.
95 is a great place to park, but who want to drive on it? Good luck with that $h!t.
We go north instead of south, but we generally have better luck leaving early (like 7:00 am) on Thursday rather than the night before.
The double murder in Chevy Chase reflects a new racial diversity among DC homicide victims; we truly have entered a period of racial transcendence.
I'm going to the MD burbs for Thanksgiving and plan on leaving the night before. The original plan was to just go ahead and drive up when I get off of work around 530pm and with the SO meeting me later via metro. But let's face it, by the time I get to my folks' place my SO would be there waiting for me. So I'm going to do my favorite thing, get drunk off a box of wine while waiting for the SO to get off of work and drive us to my folks'.
Ah, nothing says welcome home more than being stone cold drunk off of cheap boxed wine.
I'm headed north on 95, leaving thursday morning at the buttcrack of dawn or thereabouts. No way in Hades I'm leaving on Wednesday. I did that once and was literally in park while on 95 on that bridge that crosses that big river in northern MD (Susquehanna?). Was rather unpleasant due to my fears of bridges, being stuck on bridges, and being stuck on bridges with lots of other cars. It was a trifecta of terror for me.
Surprised that there is no discussion of the police checkpoints in U St/Columbia Hgts this weekend. One on eastbound Euclid St. between 14th & 15th, 14th street northbound south of U St. The police state expands!!
If you want to go North I recommend as being only slightly insane making taking 270 to 15 and then head east around Harrisburg. I have traveled that way a number of years on Wednesday evening and the only time I thought having a book for the driver to read was a good idea was when there was black ice all the way from Harrisburg to Delaware. That night I literally went one mile in one hour.
Nice to see the City Council learning from their mistakes. Oh, wait, never mind me...I forgot: they used the same rollout plan for cable that they intend on using for FIOS. 'cause that worked *so* well.
Surprised that there is no discussion of the police checkpoints in U St/Columbia Hgts this weekend.
Why would we discuss it? None of us wants to get arrested for criticising the latest public safety campaign. The last time I criticised the cops for their Thanksgiving roadside body cavity search program, codenamed "Operation Wishbone Dark Meat", I woke up in GitMo with my pants full of Stovetop Stuffing.
Yeah. Good luck fixing the Euclid crime problem. Not only do you have a long history of narcotics and prostitution on Euclid, any Euclid, anywhere, you've also got geometry against you.
juanfe, you have my vote for quote of the week.
Unfortunately, Disco Stu, DCist seems to have retired "What's That You Say?" Has anyone seen in recent weeks? Without WTYS, there will be no comment of the week. I miss "Magical World of Monkeyrotica." *snf*
@Connie Dobbs I thought Magical World of Moneyrotica was every Wednesday at your house? Maybe DCist should just dedicate an RSS stream to Monkey's comments.
"He described the area as a "perfectly safe, quiet neighborhood," where typical crimes are the occasional car break-in or stolen bicycle. "
cracks me up every time i read it
Ah, the slanderous media campaign against me continues. They pulled my column because it looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.