Results tagged “generalservicesadministration”

Just a few days ago there was a flurry of sarcasm over the launch of DipNote, the comically named, poorly designed and dubiously intentioned new official State Department blog. It's fair to say that its arrival was met in the larger blogosphere with a resounding thud, though whether there might be anything worthwhile content-wise in its existence seems worth going back to check at least a few times. Now there's another new government blog being...

It was a tantalizing prospect. The news that Walter Reed Army Medical Center would close in 2011 had District residents and officials dreaming of the possible uses for the 113 acres of land located between 16th Street and Georgia Avenue in residential Northwest Washington. Getting their hands on the land was always a longshot, however, and news organizations are reporting today that the Feds have lowered the boom on the idea -- deciding instead to...

Good morning, Washington. As if the Christmas lights and plastic santas weren't enough to satiate our holiday decorating needs, now we're getting word of an abundance of nativity scenes with live animals -- camels to be exact. As cute as this sounds, something about your lawn ornaments spitting on you just doesn't seem like a good idea. And aren't camels desert-roaming beasts? With the beginning of winter behind us and Christmas and Hanukkah fastly...

The U.S. government is soliciting bids for a potential renovation of the Old Post Office building, the Pennsylvania Avenue landmark which has held government offices since 1899. The General Services Administration is soliciting bids from companies interested in "redeveloping the OPO and its annex, the OPO alone or the annex alone," but the press release makes clear renovation by the private sector is anything but certain: "If GSA determines through its review that redevelopment is...

DCist is not a big fan of MapQuest. Despite the fact that the mapping service can be very useful, direction queries can often give confusing directions, or in some cases, directions that are just plain wrong. So we decided to torment the MapQuest computers by giving it two locations near the White House: 1550 Pennsylvania Ave. NW and 1750 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. One is inside a restricted zone, the second is outside. 1550 would...