Only three days old, and the District’s smoking ban for bars and restaurants may soon get just a little tougher. WTOP is reporting that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has hinted that he may seek to make it harder for bars to apply for an exemption to the ban. Currently bars that lose 5 percent of their sales due to the ban can apply for an exemption; Fenty would like to see that raised to 15…

We’re not ones to agree with most of what Washington Times Metro columnist Tom Knott says. Well, to be honest, we tend to bristle at pretty much every one of his unhinged rants about the region. But last Thursday, writing on the church parking debate, Knott finally seemed to come to his senses. In reference to D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams’ taskforce on the issue, Knott wrote: Perhaps the residents of Logan Circle could bring a…

We’ve always been amused by Tom Knott, the Washington Times Metro columnist who on a weekly basis directs his wrath at someone or something in the District and beyond. He recently dedicated two entire columns to exposing the “red-light district of Wisconsin Avenue Northwest” and not long before that railed against car-sharing services, loudly arguing, “No one buys the logic of selling parking spots.” And it was only a matter of time before Knott took…

It was on December 8 that Washington Times Metro columnist Tom Knott used his perch to describe an ongoing feud between Town Hall, a new and upscale watering hole in Glover Park, and the bar’s neighbors. It was also in this infamous column that Knott described the stretch of Wisconsin Avenue where Town Hall has set up shop as a “red-light district” and, even more poetically, as such: …a fading commercial strip that features two…