The Friendship Heights BID would be the 12th district of its kind in D.C., and respond to wide-ranging concerns about the neighborhood’s appeal to consumers.

We got an email today from the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District announcing a little lunchtime commuter fair for tomorrow. It’s a fairly benign event, but one little detail jumped out at us: Workers and visitors in downtown DC’s central business district can navigate Metro’s online trip planner, pick up bus schedules, register their bikes, get information on car sharing, and learn about MARC, VRE and commuter buses during a lunchtime commuter fair at Farragut…

UPDATE: We’ve now gotten word from intrepid boy reporter Kriston Capps that the D.C. Council’s Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation voted to table Bill 16-734, in a motion brought by At-Large Councilmember Carol Schwartz, which carried 3 to 2 with Marion Barry, Schwartz and surprise vote Vincent Gray against Kathy Patterson and Phil Mendelson. What does this mean for the future of Williams’ library plan? Hard to say. Tabling a bill is usually a…

At a Bike to Work Day rally on Freedom Plaza this morning, the District Department of Transportation’s Acting Director Michelle Pourciau announced the launching of a new website that would pool resources and information for area commuters. Working with the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District, DDOT today officially introduced goDCgo.com, a site that will include information on parking, transit, bicycling, carsharing, road closures and more, all pooled from existing websites. According to a DDOT press…

If you didn’t know, today is National High-Five Day. And as weird as that may sound, there is something mildly satisfying in giving strangers on the street the surprise high-five. And best of all, there is a local tie-in here — it was a group of students at the University of Virginia that kicked off the celebration five years ago. Security Aides Come to Adams Morgan: Concerned with rising weekend crime, business owners in…

News today has it that the U.S. Capitol Police seemed to have forgotten about the First Amendment on Tuesday night, when they arrested anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and Beverly Young, the wife of a Republican representative, at the State of the Union address for wearing “expressive t-shirts.” Ironically, Young’s shirt was pro-military: “Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom.” Capitol Police Terrance Gainer issued an apology and dropped the charges against the two. District Claims…

If you’ve passed near Chinatown recently you’ve probably seen the huge vacant lot where the old Washington Convention Center once stood. While we don’t have an update for what will go on the site (a public forum on redevelopment plans was recently held at the MLK Branch of the D.C. Public Library and in May the Post noted that plans were a year behind schedule), we are happy to report someone will be putting that…

Last night over 250 District voting rights activists attended an event they probably all wished they wouldn’t have to celebrate — DC Vote’s Champions of Democracy 2005 award ceremony. Held in the Madison Hotel along 15th Street, attendees came together to share in food, drink, and mutual indignation over an undeniable and odious injustice forced upon the city’s 600,000 residents — the inability to vote for members of Congress. Beneath the pleasant social atmosphere ran…

Although the Post might be stuck on the line at Potbelly’s at L and 19th streets NW, those lucky enough to work in the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (what we like to refer to as the ‘axis of nonprofit power’) know the area has plenty of interesting lunch options if you look beyond the big fast food chains. Although we wrote about Galileo Restaurant’s financial woes last August, the pricey Italian restaurant run by…