After lodging a protest last week, DC Water was informed this week that attendees at next year’s presidential inaugural luncheon will be able to forego fancy, imported bottle water and instead refresh themselves with local tap water.
Dignitaries at next year’s presidential inauguration luncheon will sip on bottled water from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. DC Water wants to know why it got snubbed.
Download the original attachment Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend’s annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what’s becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist’s decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration…
A few more tidbits keep trickling out about decisions made during the D.C. Council’s action-packed final summer session earlier this week, and this one is ripe for a cascade of debate. Running enthusiast Mayor Adrian Fenty is determined to see the Nation’s Triathlon, scheduled for Sept. 29, go forward this year, complete with a one-mile swim in the Potomac River. Last year, the swim part of the event was canceled after the health department determined…
It was a beautiful Saturday at Pimlico; the predicted scattered showers never materialized and the temperature never went too far in either direction. Stages were set up for the innaugural U.S. edition of V Fest. And what fine stages they were. Never having gone to the Preakness, I didn’t realize how massive Pimlico really is. The man who makes cross-Atlantic flight comfy, spacious and fun did the same for his music festival. Compared to past…
FEMA announced at a news conference this morning that it is fully prepared to handle the traffic disaster expected to begin mid-afternoon today as a result of heavy holiday weekend travel. “With more than half a million people potentially caught in traffic this Memorial Day Weekend, we are standing by and ready to assist in every way we can,” said a spokesman yesterday.Relief workers will be stationed along area highways with MREs and bottled…
Since this DCist grew up in lake effect snow country, we always get a chuckle out of local reaction to an incoming snow storm. And this one, where snowfall predictions seemed to haved increased to panic levels, petered out at a modest four inches or so. (See Capital Weather for a detailed analysis of different forecasts, and check out what our friends are dealing with up in New York.) So to all those people…