On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. Today’s column comes to us from reader John Heaton. If you have an opinion to share, please email us. Almost every city has it; some local delicacy that represents the roots or fabric of the area. NYC has cheesecake and pizza, Philly has cheesesteaks, and, going out to the left coast, the Seattle area has coffee and smoked salmon. What does D.C. have? Nothing. Some…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. We’re keeping it in the family today, as the following column was written by my cousin, Rajiv Shah. If you have an opinion to share, please email us. Metro Board Chairwoman Gladys Mack’s recent apology and pronouncements to improve customer service by the newly inducted WMATA Director Dan Tangherlini, reported in Friday’s Washington Post, will do little to assuage the ire of MetroAccess’s riders. As…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. I have lived on Capitol Hill since 1992, and the only thing that I do not like about living in this city is my so-called voting rights. I wish that the government would take them back. The lines of the federal district were drawn in 1791, but the people who lived here continued to vote…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author, who, in this case, is Charles Gray. If you have an Opinion to share, please email us. It looks like we are going to get a smoking ban in the District. Let me start by saying that, as a smoker, I actually don’t particularly care about the effects of the smoking ban. I smoke outside…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The opinions below belong entirely to the author, who, in this case, is reader Timothy Ebner. To add your opinion to the fray, please email me. Leave it to our Capitol City to make politics out of the holiday season. Apparently political correctness now goes as far as Christmas trees or should I say Holiday trees? This year House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) wrote…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. On Friday night, MLB and District officials announced they had reached an agreement on the lease for the new stadium, leaving a City Council vote on December 20 as the last obstacle between the design and the construction of a new home for the Washington Nationals. Come that long-awaited day, it will have been a…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. It wasn’t until I started working in the city that I really knew anything about the city. I’ve lived in the suburbs of D.C. for a considerable chunk of my life and had always seen D.C. recreationally. My daily life happened in the god forsaken outer corners of Tyson’s Corner, McLean, Reston and Herndon. Fun…
Welcome to Opinionist! On Sundays, starting today, DCist will publish opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. Six months ago, I plunked down what meager savings I had and purchased a few hundred square feet of condo in the Brookland area of Northeast Washington. I had been living in a Columbia Heights rowhouse, surrounded in coffeeshops and bars by the newly rich, made wealthy by…
