New Kid on the Eckington Block

Sep 29, 2006 -- The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) has detected high nitrite levels in the drinking water at six prop...

No this post isn't going to focus on the transcript of what the first words on the moon were. I you are interested read here . The sec...

Candidates have historically paid less attention to Eckington due to low voter turnout rates. We arent Brookland, and certainly not Palisade...

Yesterday was the perfect early fall day. I took time to attend a self prescribed meeting at Langston Golf Course. Besides enjoying the su...

This morning I was roused not by the sound of mourning doves, a single beam of sunshine through the window or the din of school children on ...

I just reviewed the posts for the month and realized that the focus has been almost exclusively on crime. How did that happen? On the way to...

The St. Martins proposed 184 room development has been a community wide issue for the last year. This topic was picked up by the Washinton ...

I took a moment last evening to "dine" at Duffy's Irish Pub on Vermont Ave. This is part of an ongoing quest to support local ...

Here are a couple of reports of violence in Eckington this weekend. Note that you will probably not see this on Fox 5, or in the Washington...

Here is some info from MPD-5: "Over the pastfew weeks we have had about five burglaries on the Northwest side ofP.S.A. 501. They have h...

There are nitrates warning on water cited by stop, blog and roll in Brookland. And there is lead in the Districts water. Now, the WASA has...

There has been an inordinate amount of coverage over the last decade over the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey. Yes the incident is tragic, a lit...

As mentioned in an earlier post, I will try to frequent as many local restaurants as possible. Hopefully, doing my part to spend money at t...

Another article from the Washington Post "Four neighborhood surveillance cameras will be installed this week on D.C. streets as part o...

The WashPost has an article this morning on a new flyer circulated by Linda Cropp highlighting the differences between her and Adrian Fenty ...

I took the bus and metro combo today to get to work. The bus was quick, convenient and pleasant. I got onto the Shaw metro around 8am, whic...

What's Up With The Eckington Hotel? (Courtesy of Scott Roberts Bloomingdale list) The ANC 6C report in the August 2006 Hill Rag provide...

Saturday morning around 3:00 there were some shots fired off around North Capitol and T Street N.E. A neighbor provided a description and th...

In a nearly unparalleled move, the city has taken to paving the patchwork quilt that has been U St NE. They began by stripping off the whol...

I know that making comment son this topic is at my own peril. But, isnt 6 hours of overtime a day for 365 days a bit excessive? This parti...