Delaware’s epidemiologist sent D.C.’s Health Department new data.
Officials at Dewey Beach are discussing imposing a smoking ban for beaches and municipal parks.
We’re only a few hours away from a number of coastal beaches, but if you want to the cleanest water possible, head to Delaware.
We first heard about DieYuppieKickball.com over the weekend — like some seed that had been delicately germinating for a few weeks, it burst forth into the sunlight of popular consciousness seemingly all at once, displaying its angry, vengeful sprout for all to see. In other words, seems like everyone’s been talking about this lately. It surely doesn’t take too much explanation to understand what this web site is all about, but here’s an excerpt from…
No doubt you’re just sick of all the traveling and lounging around on beaches you’ve done all summer. It’s time to trade the coolers of Corona for free glasses of wine, and the sound of crashing waves for the amusing chatter of art scensters. The fall 2007 art season has begun! Over the next two weekends you’ll find too many opening receptions for even the most ambitious art lover to get to, so pick your…
As always with the end of summer, there have been slim pickings in the art world, and most galleries are banking on you using Labor Day weekend for one final trek to sunny beaches. We scrounged up a few options for those of you sticking around town, which you may want to consider using as a warm-up for next week, when the fall art season opens with a bang. >> G Fine Art is warming…
>> The commission charged with deciding whether to fire Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson has voted to formally notify Pearson that he may not be reappointed to the bench. Can’t they just notify him he’s actually fired already? [WaPo] >> Metro trains carried more passengers in July than in any other month in the transit agency’s 31-year history. [Examiner] >> Aaaaand a coalition of the shrill against a hypothetical D.C. congestion tax is born….
Let’s start with the good news this morning: this excessive, unrelenting, soul-sucking heat is expected to come to an end tomorrow, say the guys at Capital Weather. And we say they better not just be leading us on. However, today is yet another day in Scorcher ’06 — and may even be the hottest one yet — with highs once again flirting with triple digits. Heat-related Problems Continue: With near record temperatures, people are…
Anyone who reads our posts on local transportation knows that we are big advocates of transit at DCist. Though many DCists are already living la vita auto libre, as DCist Ryan once put it, starting today, we get to give a more detailed account of just what it is like to live car-free in DC. Car-sharing company Flexcar has teamed up with Metro for the Low-Car Diet, a promotion that challenges us and two dozen…
This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn’t know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we’ve said, typed, and thought the phrase “server problems” more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it…
