A seven-bedroom 20,000-square-foot mansion in Forest Hills recently sold for $18 million.

Via FreeRide, we read that WTOP’s Mark Plotkin spent part of his live chat with washingtonpost.com yesterday afternoon to call out Ward 3 residents for not caring enough, if at all, about the District’s lack of voting rights in Congress. Q: In your experience, do people from Ward 3 generally not support statehood/voting rights? I grew up in the ward – Forest Hills represent – and have found so many people on my parents block…

After college, most twenty-somethings move their way into the working world of offices and cubicles for the first time, alternately laboring furiously, scouring the internet for entertainment during slower hours, and attending any number of post-work happy hours. Sam Brooks bucked this trend — at 24, he ran for public office. Surprising the District’s political establishment, Brooks jumped in the race for an at-large seat on the City Council, coming in third to challenger and…