Washington, DC - While dining at California Tortilla I read the DC Examiner's cover story on crime being up in the Metro System. Then, I stepped outside and I looked across Connecticut Avenue. Transit Police were...
created by fwinstead | 3 years ago 294 views | 14 recommendations | 0 comments
Washington, DC – At 1pm on a Thursday people lined up for reduced hours of service at the Cleveland Park Library. “Due to the economy”, libraries across DC are opening a half hour to 4 hours later and closing...
created by fwinstead | 3 years ago 181 views | 13 recommendations | 1 comment
Cleveland Park, DC – The Cold Stone Creamery at 3508 Connecticut Avenue NW is displaying new signs “For Sale” and “Closed until further notice”. The doors are locked but the lights are on in the empty...
created by fwinstead | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2809 views | 1 recommendation | 5 comments
Washington, DC – A Friday morning water main break on Porter Street south of Connecticut Avenue limited East-West traffic as DC WASA contractors repaired the damage. Workers excavated a site in the eastbound lane...
created by fwinstead | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 785 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Washington, DC – Washington National Cathedral opened their two day 69th annual Flower Mart with 80 degree weather, partly cloudy skies, and an occasional gust of wind. The event seeks to raise money...
created by fwinstead | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 449 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Soon after I posted this message about the loof lirpa that escaped from Washington, DC's National Zoo this morning, the Police Commander in the precinct where the zoo is located responded. The orignal alert...
created by Bill Adler | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 5060 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Washington, DC – Councilmember Mary Cheh joins God, Nature and Ward 3 to preserve Klingle Valley from Mayor Adrian Fenty and Councilmember Jim Graham's attempts to pave through woodland that nature is...
created by fwinstead | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 900 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Here at NowPublic Global HQ, we were pleased to see the work of Bill Adler make it to CNN's Situation Room. Regardless of whose side one takes in the TSA/sippy-cup story, it's quite telling to see a site like...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 754 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The story of Monica Emmerson and her 20 month-old son has reverberated across the web.UPDATE: The TSA has posted its own version of events to its website. An account of this is here. Many are outraged at the...
In the ongoing battle over whether or not Cosi, a cafe, should be permitted in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, DC there are few people without an opinion. By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, neighbors who...
created by Bill Adler | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2409 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Apparently the woman responsible for the crash had been driving erratically all day."An Oxon Hill woman driving a grey
Volvo station wagon careened into Unifest in Southeast DC this evening
injuring more than 30 people, at least 7 critically. Unifest, held in
Anacostia along...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1088 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
One of the most notable and historic restaurants in Washington, DC, Yenching Palace, will be closing for good on June 10th. Yenching Palace opened in 1955.Yenching Palace, located on Connecticut Avenue, NW just...
created by Bill Adler | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3743 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Would you like a boring line drawing by a famous person? No, I'm not talking about John Lennon...this time we're dealing with a drawing by Barack Obama of some fancy-looking Washington types (the balding jowly man...
created by Kaitlin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 738 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Update: Thirteen-Year-old Evan O'Dorney has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee. the word, by the way, was "serrefine", which is a pair fo small foreceps. O'Dorney has made a huge jump from last year, when he...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1188 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments