Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
On Tuesday we picked up a WTOP report that First Lady Michelle Obama's office was behind an application to close Vermont Ave. between H and I Streets NW one a week for a new White House farmers market. But this morning the Examiner's Bill Myers follows up with word that FLOTUS isn't necessarily the driving force behind this proposal. Instead, it appears that prolific local market purveyors FreshFarm put in the application, and Obama's involvement is a little fuzzier than first thought.
White House staff have been in talks with FreshFarm officials, but the first lady's office declined to answer questions about whether Obama was endorsing the Vermont Avenue market. After WTOP reported that the plan was the first lady's, the White House called the station to deny it.The story also quotes Jack Evans pushing for the reopening of E Street by the White House in exchange for the farmers market closure.
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I wonder if we could add removing the fudugly woman from the "Legalize Gay T-Shirts & Tanks" advertisement above my comment.
... in exchange for the farmers market closure.
Good thing DCist corroborates information prior to posting rather than just regurgitating local media outlets' posts. Oh, wait.