Sep 11, 2007
Mayor Fenty: Man of the People, For Just One Day
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty may be seen by his constituency as young, technologically savvy and constantly making personal appearances at even the smallest neighborhood events. But unlike his pal up in New York, rarely can he be seen riding public transportation, preferring to be whisked around town in his big, black Lincoln Navigator. And we’re willing to concede that it probably makes more sense for the most part, seeing as how Fenty needs to…
Feb 23, 2005
The Mercury Program
It’s a regular media circus up at the top of 13th and Clifton streets NW (one block north of U Street proper, still not quite in Columbia Heights) where this DCist lives. Traffic has been blocked off in four directions and twenty-some fire trucks, ambulances, police cruisers and less-familiar official vehicles have been posted throughout the neighborhood because, as the Post reports:School authorities in Washington, D.C., today closed the city’s Cardozo Senior High School for…