“There have been many fond memories within these walls, and perhaps a few best left to posterity.”
It’s happening March 31 in Easton, Md.
“We’re not just talking about clubs. It’s a much broader issue.”
The National Park Service controls most of D.C.’s parkland, sometimes well, sometimes not. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is hosting a town hall tomorrow on the city’s parks, and NPS officials will be on hand.
Was all the hubbub about the District’s intranet gaming plan a lot of hot air? That’s the impression one might get after reading this report in the Washington Times, in which representatives from the D.C. Lottery say that most people they spoke with during a series of town halls on the matter were “supportive.”
Residents should take note of some minor changes to the remaining slate of public meetings regarding the District’s online gaming program.
If yesterday’s Ward 5 town hall on the District’s controversial new i-Gaming platform is any indication, it’s not really the idea of online gambling that has residents put off — but rather how the idea came to be and where the money it’s supposed to generate will go.
In case you haven’t heard, President Barack Obama will take his negotiations with Congress on a deal regarding the complete financial collapse of our nation to the campus of the University of Maryland this Friday.
President Barack Obama, fresh off fielding the questions of Northern Virginians, will hold a Facebook town hall event this afternoon from California — and he wants your questions! The theme of the event is “Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity” — hmm, shared prosperity, eh? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to ask him why he felt the need to sell out the District on abortion funding, even though more income taxes go to our city than to his home/office.
It’s an old D.C. adage that regardless of the differences between us, we’ll always have the weather, the Metro and the Redskins to gripe about. But if I had to add a fourth to that list of always-pertinent subjects, I’d probably suggest water. After all, it’s a topic that affects everyone in town, and plenty of residents probably have good questions about what’s going on with the water supply. The good news is that D.C….
