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Feb 13,14,15 | Mtng to discuss green design of Anacostia metro public spaces
Congress Heights On The Rise
Feb 02Good Morning Community Leaders and Organizations, I wanted to send a quick reminder about a very exciting series of events coming up in our community. The District of Columbia was recently selected as one of five capital cities to receive the U.S. Env... »
Feb 13 & 15 | Anacostia Metro Station Green Space Design Mtngs
Congress Heights On The Rise
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Reprint: Tom Sherwood, Duncan Spencer, Anwar Amal, and thinking about what I call the "Uncivil War"
Rebuilding Place In The Urban Space
Jan 07Given the recent political developments with regard to the guilty pleading and resignation by Harry Thomas Jr. as Ward 5 Councilmember as a result of "conversion" of public monies (technically, it's not embezzlement), it's worth reprinting this blog en... »
Lost Washington: Good Hope Road’s German orphanage
Greater Greater Washington
Dec 28by John Muller Good Hope Road SE, one of East Washington's historic thoroughfares, has been home to many places now forgotten. While still a pastoral area the arterial road hosted, from the late 1800s into the 1960s, an orphanage for children of German... »
If Gene Marks Were a Poor Black Kid Who Went to Ballou In 2003
City Desk
Dec 14Some corners of the internet were all a-flutter over this unfortunate and offensive article from a Forbes contributor titled: "If I Were A Poor Black Kid." In it, author Gene Marks explained that although he is just a middle-class white guy, if he were... »