Two Capital Fringe offerings resonate with current headlines.
If approved, Pepco estimates that residential customers would see an increase of $4.36 a month.
“They put a couple of pennies in front of us, but meanwhile they’re reaching deep into our pockets,” says Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh.
GQ’s annual list of the “50 Most Powerful People in Washington” is, not surprisingly, made up of a bunch of federal types. And a couple of party planners.
Metrorail service was disrupted early this morning after electrical power to substations along the Orange and Blue lines was interrupted.
If you’re reading this from your office, a library or a coffee shop because you don’t have any power, do note that Pepco is currently estimating that you might have to wait a few more days until it comes back on.
The District might be getting a brief break from the insanely oppressive heat today — but Pepco is warning customers that they’re not out of the woods yet when it comes to those pesky rolling power outages.
The city’s local political Twitterati are all aflutter this morning about this column by Harry Jaffe in the Examiner, which proclaims Kwame Brown, but six-plus months into his tenure as Chair, as the “most powerful” leader in the Council’s history.
It might not be quite as dramatic, image-wise, as the last time the lights went out on along the National Mall, but a power disruption near the Lincoln Memorial is causing some real headaches for commuters this morning.
