Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Marijuana has been legal in the District of Columbia since February of last year. But walking around, you would be hard pressed to notice any sign that the weed has indeed been freed. Sure, most any large American city smells like marijuana these days. But unlike other states where pot is legal, there are no…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered an apology to the residents of the District after the city failed to adequately prepare for an inch of snowfall Wednesday, which caused significant delays during rush hour. (WUSA9) As we’ve proved before, we’re not good at snow. And on Wednesday night, we proved it again in utterly humiliating fashion,…
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This holiday season, one lucky D.C. thief nabbed him or herself a Secret Service starter pack, complete with a gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and flash drive. It’s a Christmas miracle, in that our president is still alive. According to CNN the items were stolen “in broad daylight” out of the agent’s personal vehicle, if you…
Photo by Erin. The D.C. government is hardly the only entity taking advantage of the city’s hot housing market to turn a tidy profit. More than a quarter of all homes sold in 2015 passed hands in less than three years, according to data published by District, Measured. Problems with unscrupulous house flippers (and…
Maryland will soon begin recalling license plates with the Confederate flag on them, after a federal judge on Thursday lifted an 18-year-old injunction keeping them in circulation, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said. The state was stymied in its attempts to pull the Sons of Confederate Veterans plates in the 1990s when the U.S. District…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said this week that he doesn’t think the Washington Redskins should change their name, adding he doesn’t believe the pro football team’s name is offensive to Native Americans. “I don’t think they should change it,” he said in an interview with ABC’s Rick Klein and ESPN’s Andy Katz. “But again,…
This spring, Doug Walker did what would have seemed unthinkable a year ago: He bought a car. For eight years he made his daily commute on Metro. But after moving to West Springfield last year, he grew weary of the endless delays and service problems on the Blue Line. Service reductions to make way for…
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a head coach be as openly hostile to a starting quarterback as Jay Gruden was toward Robert Griffin III in D.C. last year. In the final month of the season, it seemed like there was always another passive-aggressive shot being made. It was all pretty unprofessional, like a Coors Light commercial…
paging_filter Could it be? An old-fashioned newspaper war, but one fought in the digital trenches? Neither venerable news institution wants to call it a head-to-head battle, but the numbers are beginning to tell us otherwise. Meanwhile, we can only begin to speculate about the business implications of the numbers we see. Just now, The New…