Dec 05, 2006
Blog Your Way to Fentytown
If you still haven’t spent any time perusing Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty’s Official Transition Web Site, allow us to suggest you do so today. Not so much because it tells us anything we didn’t already know about Fenty (what’s that you say, he’s an avid jogger and dislikes cigarette smoke? Shocking!), but because there is an entire section of the site devoted to using blogs as a key tool to get public input during the transition….
Nov 22, 2006
Morning Roundup: Calm Before the Storm Edition
Happy day before Thanksgiving, everyone. The holiday weekend isn’t getting off to the most auspicious start here at DCist, since our browser keeps crashing before we get a chance to save our work, thus the lateness of the usual morning roundup. But really we feel worse for those of you about to head out of town today, whether by car, plane, bus or train, everyone seems to be predicting the worst holiday travel day in…
Nov 16, 2006
Morning Roundup: Easy Being Green Edition
Batten down the hatches, Washington. Proving that no good spell of weather goes unpunished, we’ve now got some major storms headed our way. Two separate storm lines, to be precise, are barreling down on the metro area as we speak, the first having just begun, and the second, more powerful system, expected between noon and 5 p.m. With winds at 30 mph, we’d suggest upgrading your umbrella to something more than cheap and crappy. District…
Jun 08, 2005
Fenty Filing His Papers Today
Councilmember Adrian Fenty continues his “Early, Often, and Crazy Ubiquitous” mayoral campaign strategy today at the Frank D. Reeves Building, where, if all goes according to plan, he will be the first candidate to officially file candidacy papers. According to the latest “Team Fenty” press release, it will all go down today at 2:00 p.m. We’re guessing that Fenty’s campaign is hoping for both a crowd and a handful of television cameras—two of the candidate’s…