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Former Blade Staffers Launch 'DC Agenda'
D.C. Insurance Dept. Denies Birth Control Coverage Meddling
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
- City Desk is compiling a lot of evidence that the smoke detectors inside the Harvard Hall apartments in Adams Morgan never went off during last night's fire.
- SI.com reports Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden is part of a federal investigation into the skimming of signing bonuses given to prospects from Latin America.
- David Nakamura asks the important questions: was Mayor Fenty in Dubai to visit his doppleganger? Mike DeBonis has details on the actual business at hand: exchanging best practices and gifts with His Excellency Rashid Mubarak Al Hajiri.
- Don't miss WaPo's Susan Kinzie on how problems at the medical school at George Washington University were a lot worse than the school originally admitted.
- Jason Cherkis calls out Council members Alexander and Thomas for selling out at-risk youth in favor of grumpy seniors.
- WJLA reports that some inauguration workers employed by Florida-based SD Protection still haven't been paid.
- Washington Business Journal reports that Ritz Camera has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- Michael Neibauer in the Examiner found that two-thirds of all District parking meters that reported broken turn out to be operational when a repair crew arrives on-site. "So a person who parks at a meter displaying a 'fail' message may return an hour later to find a working meter flashing zero time and a ticket on the windshield — a process that may repeat several times a day."
- Could good fences make good National Mall? The Washington Times' Timothy Warren brings word that large portions of the Mall will be fenced off from visitors and events for several months to help restore the area after 1.8 million people trampled it during the inauguration.
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Solitary jogger on a background of monument steps. Never seen that before. Just once I'd like to see a chalk diagram of a jogger on some monument steps. Or a bicyclist. I'd settle for a Suburban driver with a cellphone grafted to her ear chalk diagram. And a pony.
I agree, but this photograph, without the jogger, would be more interesting.
Maybe the monument to W will be more like Chichen-Itza, so that running up and down the monument won't be such a bore to watch.
A monument to W should be more like one of those Mayan sacrifice wells where they bind your arms, strangle you, then dump you with boulders tied to your feet. And when it freezes over in January, there will be skating and $13 hotdogs. $13 hotdogs? That's right. They're cursed.
This would make an interesting Worth 1000 contest.
regarding the examiner article, THANK YOU. i just received a $50 ticket in the mail today (with late penalty - so it was doubled). before leaving my car that day, i called the meter hotline and reported the meter broken. very nice people there, by the way. i'm not being sarcastic. they are very, very nice people and i always enjoy talking to them.
regardless, i never even received the ticket. you'd think they'd send me a reminder before they gave me a penalty, right? wrong. do they really think placing these tickets under a windshield wiper on a windy january day is infallible, much less fair, notice?
luckily i have the confirmation code so i'll probably get out of this one.
i can't count how many times these meters have sucked up change and not registered time. you have to basically hurl the damn quarters in the meters and say three "hail marys." it's ridic. fix the meters, dc!
Please - you think anything in DC works? I'm actually impressed/shocked to hear that DC *has* a meter hotline. I don't know whether any other city I've lived in does (although I haven't owned a car in years so I don't exactly keep up on these things.)
One of my friends in Chicago once received a "final notice" and a fine of like $300 from the city for allegedly parking his car at an address that did not in fact exist. Of course he had never received any of the multiple prior notices that allegedly were mailed to him. It's a time-honored scam in sketchy American cities to try to extort money illegally from parking tickets.
trying to take care of this today by calling one of the numbers on the final notice of nonpayment thingy. the number's out of service.
try the other number and get dispatched to five different electronic menus before i hang up. found out online i can show up in person and have an in-person hearing at one of the dmv's office. such bs.
trying to take care of this today by calling one of the numbers on the final notice of nonpayment thingy. the number's out of service.
try the other number and get dispatched to five different electronic menus before i hang up. found out online i can show up in person and have an in-person hearing at one of the dmv's offices. yuck yuck yuck.
I was not aware of the meter hotline either, although it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I've gone online to pay a ticket that I actually, you know, received...only to find that there have been "ghost tickets" on there for which I never received an actual paper ticket.
DC...leading the way in paperless traffic offense recording.
There's probably a crazy person somewhere in town with half his house wallpapered in parking tickets he picked up off of illegally parked cars.
Can we have signs on the fences on the mall with pictures of George Washington saying "Get off my lawn!"?