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Monthly Archives: August 2010
So You Think You Can Do a Better Job?
Georgetown, Burleith, and Hillandale have one of the most active and (in GM’s opinion) responsible ANC’s in DC. While GM has certainly had his complaints about certain decisions and commissioners, he generally thinks they’re a decent group of citizens who do a pretty good job within a legal entity that is, in many ways, functionally toothless.
But hey, maybe you think they an awful group of dictatorial killjoys and that you could do a lot better job. Well starting tomorrow, you can take your first step towards taking a shot. That’s when the District Board of Elections and Ethics allows you to start circulating a petition seeking signatures to get your name on the ballot. You only need to collect 25 signatures of people who live in your Single Member District (numbered 1 through 7 above). Continue reading
Filed under ANC
The Morning Metropolitan
1972 flood from DDOT.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Water main break knocks out water to lower Georgetown, how did you affect you? By the way, check out the video: apparently the break was on Thomas Jefferson between K and “Canal St.” Hmmm…
- Revolution Cycles in Georgetown will host a clinic focused on women and biking next Thursday 6:30 to 8:30.
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By Far the Most Expensive Thing at Safeway
Seen at the Safeway:
That’s not a typo. At least GM doesn’t think so. What you see there is a locked case of truffles in the Safeway produce section selling for $999.99 per pound.
GM did a quick run through of the store to see if anything came close to this in terms of price. Only a few bottles of wine and champagne topped the multi-hundred dollar range, but nothing close to this. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Biking under the Whitehurst by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Despite previously writing dreck about how city dwellers aren’t “ordinary”, Kathleen Parker miraculously finds “small town values” on Olive St. How about we drop the “small town” and just call them “values”?
- Georgetown should have its Capital Bikeshare stations by September.
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