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On March 17, 2010 1:47 PM in First Look: U Street Music Hall, they said:

How about the address in "bare facts"? It looks like it's in that downstairs bar space that has been a revolving door...?...

On January 5, 2010 6:06 PM in Woman Fatally Struck By Red Line Train Monday Night, they said:

Different location, different problem, different solution. Fences are cheap and effective--the comparable Metro solution, while it would work, is ridiculously expensive and impractical. OTOH, changes...

On January 5, 2010 12:15 PM in Woman Fatally Struck By Red Line Train Monday Night, they said:

For the record, this is what I sent to DCist. You can google the document I refer to if you are interested. -- I’ve grown increasingly disturbed over the last year by your reportage on the rash of M...

On January 5, 2010 12:10 PM in Woman Fatally Struck By Red Line Train Monday Night, they said:

Or the press could stop running them. If people like Smithie07 make their weak excuses, the outlet can state that they are doing so in order to save lives. It's not like these two-paragraph releases a...

On November 17, 2009 6:01 PM in Man Fatally Struck by Train at McPherson Square Metro, they said:

Dcist editors, As you know, it is irresponsible journalistic practice to report on suicides in this way (http://www.sprc.org/library/sreporting.pdf). You know that it contributes to contagion and in...

On November 17, 2009 5:53 PM in Morning Roundup: Remembering Oscar Fuentes Edition , they said:

No I don't. Metro riders deserve to know how long they are going to be delayed. They don't report when there is a heart attack or what exactly the mechanical failure was. Why should psychiatric medic...

On September 17, 2009 9:57 PM in Metro Service No Tea Party for Some Protesters, they said:

How to get DCist commenters to stop complaining about weekend metro delays: have their ideological opposites complain about weekend metro delays....

On July 14, 2009 6:08 PM in Go Home Already: Magic Hour, they said:

They can name the park after his father, then....

Knew what I meant though, didn't you? Suicide is many things and one of them is a violent act. It has victims. There's no need for name-calling. I'm not some asshole making simplistic moral judgme...

That's actually the better journalistic practice. Suicides are "contagious"--reporting on them, or on methods in any detail, can affect rates and method choices of people in the coverage area. That s...

On April 1, 2009 4:04 PM in New Circulator Routes Formally Launched, they said:

Aurelgrooves, one driver told me that there would be short buses on the green circulator line, like the 98s but new. I haven't heard about it anywhere else, though. I blame Sommer, who should have al...

On April 1, 2009 4:03 PM in New Circulator Routes Formally Launched, they said:

Aurelgrooves, one driver told me that there would be short buses on the green circulator line, like the 98s but new. I haven't heard about it anywhere else, though. I blame Sommer, who should have al...

On March 31, 2009 1:06 PM in Morning Roundup: Moving Right Along Edition , they said:

Seconded--I took it both Monday rush hours and on Sunday, and it worked like a charm. For Monday morning rush hour from CH, I usually take the green to the red to the orange, and the bus took the same...

Congrats everyone!...

On November 4, 2008 6:11 PM in Schools Roundup: Not Just Polling Places Edition, they said:

Extra security my ass. This is why you close the schools that are voting locations: the alternative is voter intimidation. At least when I voted at Bell at 4pm nobody stopped me when I "jumped the l...

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