The oldest and largest of the military services is also the last to gets its own museum, housed in a dramatic steel-and-glass building containing rare artifacts and immersive exhibits.
Photo by picture prefect The Washington Post has all the details about the $300 million that Montgomery and Fairfax counties stand to receive from the federal government to alleviate soon-to-be major traffic problems. As part of the government’s BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) decisions in the past year, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Hospital were consolidated, adding thousands of personnel to the Bethesda location and doubling the number of visitors…
Prince William County is earning itself quite a perplexing reputation. Last Friday, while most of us were recovering from turkey hangovers, the Washington Post reported that Prince William, whose representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates have been instrumental in defeating bills to help pay for Northern Virginia transit improvements, will consider a bill placing a one year moratorium on new home construction. According to county officials quoted in the Post story, the move would…
Why do we always find about these things a day after they happen? According to WTOP, a group of naked cyclists took to the city’s streets yesterday in an effort to promote alternatives to oil. This isn’t to say that we would have joined in — after all, the idea of riding nude isn’t terribly appealing — but we would have taken pictures. Publisher Remains Missing: Philip Merrill, publisher of the Washingtonian magazine, went missing…
Good morning, Washington. As if the Christmas lights and plastic santas weren’t enough to satiate our holiday decorating needs, now we’re getting word of an abundance of nativity scenes with live animals — camels to be exact. As cute as this sounds, something about your lawn ornaments spitting on you just doesn’t seem like a good idea. And aren’t camels desert-roaming beasts? With the beginning of winter behind us and Christmas and Hanukkah fastly…
In a huge blow to the region’s economy, a federal commission charged with choosing which armed forces bases to close decided Walter Reed Army Medical Center (named after the Civil War doctor and major at right) will likely admit its last patient soon. The closure, which includes the Northwest center as well as office space in Northern Virginia, means 9,000 jobs will go elsewhere. The decision means that those jobs will shift to exurban bases,…
Did you get caught in the downpours this weekend? Here’s a shot of a bolt of lightning taken from Matthew Bradley’s Flickr photostream via DCist Photos. (We think this was taken from Fourth Street NE, correct us if we’re wrong.) What else happened this weekend? A quick roundup: … Traffic was delayed through Georgetown Saturday afternoon after a traffic officer was hit by a vehicle at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue….
