A new statue is heading to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol — but it’s not either of the long-requested two statues to represent the District of Columbia. Alabama has decided to replace one of its two statues, of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, a former congressman, Confederate general and professor who advocated for free universal education, with one of Helen Keller, the famed Socialist Party activist and the first deaf and blind…

To be honest, Washington, it’s taking everything we’ve got not to put up eight or nine posts today just indulging in our need to whine about how nasty hot it is outside. Apparently the humidity today and tomorrow is going to be so intense, it could feel like it’s 105 degrees. Can we all agree that this is not OK? OK. Thanks. We’ll move on to the headlines then, and by “move on” we don’t…

It’s no wonder Congress doesn’t take us seriously. Controversy has erupted in the District over — of all things — statues. As we have reported in the past, the District has been looking to place two statues in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, a privilege granted to states with which they can recognize two of their most prominent residents. City officials went as far as to allow residents to choose the two Washingtonians that…

Will a Frenchman represent the District in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall? It looks like it. According to an online chat with WTOP Political Reporter Mark Plotkin over at the Post, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the man George Washington charged with designing the District, has been chosen as one of the city’s two statues for the famed hall in the U.S. Capitol. As we reported in April, the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities allowed…

It was another busy week in DCist. We kicked off a new feature exploring what Metro needs, starting with a good PA and proposing that it take a cue or two from the London Underground. We checked out The Sounds and Morningwood at 9:30, discussed CVS’s condom-locking policy, mocked Dick Cheney’s ceremonial first pitch and reviewed the West End’s recent development. We reported on an update to the rock-throwing kids in Columbia Heights, cooked…

Late last September, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton requested that the District be allowed to place two statues in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, alongside those chosen by the nation’s 50 states. That idea may soon be moving forward. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is asking the public for its input as to who the District should immortalize in Statuary Hall, allowing residents to either pick from a list of 30…