Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In 2017, shortly after the next president is inaugurated, thousands of newly appointed federal officials will struggle with the same existential question: What do I wear to my first day of work? I understand their anxiety, having languished over wardrobe during eight years of federal service and pondered the fashion choices of my male colleagues…
View this image › Jim Johnson, Baltimore County Police Department chief of police. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call,Inc. ID: 9591600 One day after a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed how the Baltimore County Police Department declares many rape reports “unfounded” after only minimal investigation, the department has promised to “re-examine” three years’ worth of such reports….
Scott Silverthorne built a reputation as a civic pillar of Fairfax City, Va., over three decades, helping bring a park to the affluent suburb’s downtown and championing other improvements during his stints as a City Council member and mayor. But even as he was the public face of the city, police said, Silverthorne was privately…
Hillary Clinton has chosen Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (Va.) as her vice-presidential running mate, completing a Democratic ticket that prizes experience and traditional notions of public service in a political year dominated by Republican rival Donald Trump’s unorthodox, highly personal brand of leadership. Kaine, 58, a former Virginia governor, Richmond mayor and Democratic National Committee…
If the idea of an Aspen-style gondola ferrying potential shoppers and tourists across the Potomac River from Rosslyn to Georgetown seems farfetched, you probably have yet to encounter the Georgetown Business Improvement District’s newest crowd share pilot project: ParasolShare. Now the beleaguered shoppers of downtown Georgetown can finally get relief from that relentless and inconvenient…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen A little bit more than four months from opening, a thin film of dust covers everything. Only a handful of exhibits have been installed. Still, it is already clear that the National Museum of African American History and Culture is stunning. A Smithsonian more than…
After decades of maintenance neglect, Metro next month will begin a massive subway rebuilding effort that will inconvenience virtually everyone who uses the system, with portions of most rail lines shut down for up to a month at a time and reductions in train service throughout the year-long project, officials said Friday. The service disruptions…
For a country that was partly founded on the idea of opposing “taxation without representation,” it’s always been a tad odd that those who live in our very capital, the District of Columbia, pay taxes while being denied representation. Especially when you consider that there are more people living in D.C. than in either Vermont…
The hope was to eventually identify the slaves’ descendants. By the end of December, one of Mr. Cellini’s genealogists felt confident that she had found a strong test case: the family of the boy, Cornelius Hawkins. Broken Promises There are no surviving images of Cornelius, no letters or journals that offer a look into his…
First it was ridicule, now it’s outrage. George Mason University’s decision to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is facing an internal backlash, with dozens of professors and staff members signing a petition that warns the move would be harmful to the school and insulting to many students and…