In just a few months, fans will finally get a glimpse of the new $611 million baseball stadium rising in Southeast. No longer will they simply be looking at an artists rendering — they’ll get to see the new concourse, the stands, the suites and the field for themselves. And today the Post’s Marc Fisher poses an interesting question — beyond the bricks and mortar, what should the team’s owners offer inside the stadium? After…

Update, Part 3: Here’s the audio of Rep. Gohmert’s wisdom on the District’s lack of representation. Or, should we say, over-representation? And we’ve redesigned the banner for his website to better reflect his new responsibilities… Louie Gohmert — The District’s Voting Representative powered by ODEO–> Update, Part 2: Here’s a pic of Louie. He seems like a nice guy. And this is what he said, according to the Congressional Record: “I would submit to…

Ramsey’s Legacy Pondered: The Post has a front page story this morning mulling over exactly how outgoing Police Chief Ramsey will be remembered as he leaves his post. Often criticized for emphasizing public relations and merely reacting to crime issues instead of thinking ahead, but undeniably praised for bringing order to a corrupt department and out-of-control crime situation, council member Kathy Patterson (D-Ward 3) probably assessed Ramsey’s overall performance most accurately: “very mixed.” Ford’s…

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…

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…

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), our non-voting representative in the U.S. Congress, yesterday requested that the District be allowed to place two statues in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, at right, where each state is granted the right to place two statues of prominent citizens. The request came during a debate on New Mexico’s request to place a statue of Po’pay, a Native American leader who launched what has been called “the first American Revolution”…