Just when you thought the District’s public schools were facing enough hurdles these days. The Examiner reports that most of the Ward 3 public schools were without telephone service yesterday, in what appears to have been an error on the part of DCPS. The outages ocurred after DCPS gave the District’s Office of Finance a list of phone numbers they supposedly weren’t using anymore. The disconnects began March 8 under the city’s Zero Usage Project,…

Dine Out For Life On March 8 If you’ve been feeling guilty about all your meals out lately, get ready to wash that all away next week. The annual Dining Out For Life benefit will take place next Thursday, March 8. If you’re unfamiliar with the charity affair, it’s one day each year when dozens of area restaurants donate at least 25% of their profits to local charity Food and Friends. The event, which takes…

Today’s Opinion on the flat tax in D.C. was written by Jonathon Schuster. On March 9 the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on DC held hearings to discuss Senator Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) idea of using the District as a testing ground for a national flat tax. Forget for the moment that Brownback is far from representative of the majority of District residents with his often extremist right wing statements (such as comparing abortions in America to the…

If you’ve lived in D.C. for any amount of time, you’ve lived through your share of protests big and small. Just pick a cause, any cause, and we can guarantee you that sooner or later its true believers will find their way to our nation’s capital, to stand on the National Mall, wreak havoc on downtown traffic, clog our metrorail system, fill up our hotels, and spend money in our shops, food courts and restaurants….