The Georgetown Metropolitan

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As you hopefully stay home for Thanksgiving this week, it’s important to take some time to think about those that have much less than us to be thankful for. And to turn those thoughts into action, please consider giving to Georgetown Ministry Center.

The institution, based right in the heart of Georgetown, offer services and programs to the area’s homeless. And in cold winter nights, it offers a place to sleep, which can be a question of life or death. As GM wrote back in October, the center is trying to adjust to the challenges of Covid, and could certainly use your help in doing so.

If you’re a federal employee who participates in the Combined Federal Campaign, please add the center (CFC# 31661) to your list of charities. Then pass the gravy!

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Herb Miller sells the Powerhouse building on Grace St.
• John Kerry was tapped to be Biden’s climate czar, but don’t expect to see high profile security outside the former Secretary of State’s house on O St. again, he sold it last fall.

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Photo by Vincent.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• DPW will be collecting leaves raked out into the street this week in east Georgetown. It will do the same in west Georgetown next week.
• Pillar and Post selected as one of the best home stores in America.

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With the 2020 Census wrapping up, the contentious steps of reapportionment are on the horizon. And while DC sadly does not have any Congressional reapportionment to worry over, we do need to redraw the ward boundaries again. And given the huge population growth in other parts of the city, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Georgetown could rejoin Ward 3.

The reason to redraw the ward lines is that the city is required by law to maintain roughly equal populations for each. So essentially the city takes the total population counted by the Census and divides it by eight. That resulting number is the target population each ward must meet by either growing or reducing in geographic size. So, if a ward grew faster than the average, then it has to be reduced in size to bring its total population down.

But reducing or growing a ward isn’t done in isolation. That land has to come from or go to another ward, which itself might need to grow or shrink irrespective of what the first ward needs to do. So needless to say it’s a complicated matter! And that’s just talking about math and geography. It gets exponentially more complicated when politics enter. And next year will likely be an explosive year on the politics front, as GM will explain. Continue reading →

Photo by Bill Starrels.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• New book out on the history of the Washington Canoe Club.
• 1789 reopening this week with a new chef.

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