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….
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with the Post’s Animal Watch desk, but this week’s list in the District weekly is filled with stuff that is more comical than the normally depressing examples of animal neglect. We perhaps shouldn’t be laughing, but we find the mixture of detailed and semi-vague information from the reports to make for good reading. Oh the twisted irony in this one on Capitol Hill: Humane Society officers removed…
As you may remember, the folks up in Cleveland Park were outraged recently when their local elementary school, John Eaton, was used as a weekend community spay-and-neutering clinic for area cats. Parents said they didn’t receive advance warning from the school system that hundreds of cats would get their personals snipped where their children eat lunch Monday-Friday. The organizers of the cat clinic, along with the D.C. health authorities, said that the cafeteria was properly…
Good morning, Washington. As you can see from this photo of the National Cathedral from the Newark Street gardens taken this morning, it should be a nice day, though according to Capital Weather, rain may be moving in this evening and into the overnight hours. A New Reason for Cracked Red Line Rails?: WMATA thinks that one reason why rails are cracking on the Red Line is because of increased frequency of service along…
We borrowed that headline from last weeks Slow Lane column in the Weekend Financial Times. In the column, Slow Lane tells us that oftentimes our rage is directed at those who had very little to do with the actual problem, citing train operators on underfunded rail networks as those who sometimes unfairly bear the brunt of the rage of commuters. DCist agrees that train and bus drivers are not always to blame for our commuting…
