Take a virtual gander at the seat of D.C. government.
Last night, demonstrators with Occupy DC took a march down to the District’s city hall, set up shop in front and removed the D.C. flag, replacing it with an Occupy banner in a show of national solidarity.
With reminders like this, who needs ethics reform?
What was that “suspicious device” which shut down several blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue and placed the District’s city hall under lockdown this morning?
This morning, the U.S. Capitol Police shut down several roads around the Capitol, including three blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue, after discovering a suspicious package.
Photo by M.V. Jantzen First Union Station, now the John A. Wilson Building. The home of D.C.’s city government is celebrating its centennial tomorrow, and a new exhibit inside the building will open to the public starting at 9:45 a.m. The exhibit, “People, Politics and Progress”, incorporates photographs, manuscripts, works of art and oral histories that represent the experiences of D.C. residents. On the first floor you’ll find displays about people who have been…
Prescott Moore Lassman’s End of Pew, from a series about congregants at the All Souls Church. Copyright the artist. Image courtesy of the City Hall Art Collection. In 2006, local artist Sondra N. Arkin was given an enviable but extremely difficult job: acquire the defining volume of works that captured the breadth and scope of D.C. art to display in HeART of DC, the City Hall Art Collection at the John A. Wilson Building….
>> “More than 50 nonunionized workers rallied against the new Nationals ballpark this morning, angry that more District residents did not receive construction jobs.” [WaPo] >> “I saw firsthand the fragile relationship that exists between Mayor Fenty and the City Council Members. I heard tales of a delayed Comprehensive Annual Financial Review , rising murder rates and a Chief of Police who feels burdened by a system that won’t help her, proposals to close…
In most any public or private sector job, losing $31 million on your watch is a surefire way to get yourself fired. CFO Natwar Gandhi’s reputation for saving the city’s finances has thus far protected him from what is to date the District’s biggest corruption scandal. But his fortunes might be changing. Buried towards the end of an article from the Examiner today on an investigation into the tax refund scheme that milked the city…
A little over a year since the Reynolds Center, where the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed, re-opened its doors, it continues to celebrate huge improvements to the building. This Sunday stop by for the grand opening of the Kogod Courtyard, which will include tons of musical performances both in the courtyard and inside on the third floor, hands-on activities for all ages (a Lite Brite station!), and, as usual,…
