Good morning, Washington. Well, this is it: the holidays are finally, tragically over. You’re once again sitting at your desk. And now we begin the slow, terrible death march toward spring, with only brief, inadequate celebrations of Presidents’ and MLK Day to sustain us. Stay strong, D.C. — we’ll get through this. Can You Hear Me Now? Hello? Hello?: The ball dropped, the phones came out and… nothing. “Y2K8 Bug” doesn’t sound very catchy,…
Presented without commentary. Or much commentary, anyway. I’d like to see some suggestions for other kinds of stories for which this headline might be useful, so get cracking in the comments. UPDATE: Poor washingtonpost.com is taking a real beating today. Via Wonkette, it seems someone reposted the obituaries of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford yesterday, in such a way that it seemed as though the Post was reporting their deaths very, very late….
Randomduck took some time out this morning to snap a few shots of the hearse carrying President Gerald Ford to the National Cathedral for a funeral service in his honor. The biggest local story today was also a national one, so thanks to everyone else who contributed photos of this big event. My office is very near the catherdral, so my co-workers and I all had to devise alternate routes to work this morning. If…
>> Soon-to-be Mayor Fenty has named Brian K. Lee as interim fire chief and attorney Matthew Cutts to chair the Sports and Entertainment Commission, as well as three mayoral appointments to the D.C. Board of Education: Laura McGiffert Slover, Tonya Vidal Kinlow, and Herb Scott. [WaPo] >> The Yellow Line extension is Coming! The Yellow Line is extension is coming! On Sunday. [AP via WTOP] >> Eric Schaeffer of Signature Theater reveals the wild partying…
>> Yeah, you. You need to stay late tonight to make up for the crazy amount of time you’re about to have off. That’s right, those of us who do not work for the Federal Government are currently glaring up a storm at those of you who do, because the word from on high is now official: President Bush has declared January 2 as the official day of mourning for President Ford, which means Federal…
> > Gerald Ford, remembered. [WTOP] >> The Metropolitan Police Department alerts us that the FBI will be doing a “fly over” above Washington, DC tonight until midnight. No, we don’t have the slightest idea what this means either, but why take chances? Tonight, conduct your illicit activity from the safety of your own domicile, where, as the courts seem to agree, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. >> Of course, as far as…
The Associated Press has the early word on scheduling for President Gerald Ford’s state funeral and public viewing, though they have yet to be approved by the Ford family and therefore are not final. Officials were preparing tentative plans for President Gerald Ford’s body to lie in state this weekend and expected a funeral service after New Year’s at National Cathedral capping days of mourning in the capital. U.S. Capitol Police officers said they were…
Good morning, Washington. As you may have heard, former President Gerald Ford passed away yesterday. The Post has all of the currently available details, as well as the detailed obituary you would expect. Moussaoui Barriers To Remain In Alexandria: The Post reports on a story near of particular interest to us. Alexandria resident Jim Savage has been trying to get rid of the allegedly-temporary security barriers that were placed around the town’s courthouse for the…
Well, this weekend looks like it’s going to be absolutely gorgeous, so we’re hard pressed to recommend doing anything besides rolling around in the grass outside. With a beer. Or seven. That’s our plan, at least. But if you’d like more options, our suggestions follow. And don’t forget to plan ahead: DCist’s Unbuckled concert, featuring Cartel and Bicycle Thieves, is a little less than two weeks away! FRIDAY: >> The third annual AFI and Discovery…
It wouldn’t be fair to say that Washington, D.C., spent the past week swept up in “State of the Union Fever.” After all, with the Inauguration only a few weeks past, there’s something about a SOTU that seems … so yesterday. It’s been years since a president ascended the congressional pulpit to suggest that the State of our Union was anything other than straight-up applejack goodness for everyone and everybody, and the last one who…