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3000 block of R St.

As you head out (or stay in town) for Thanksgiving next 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 shelter, 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.

Georgetown Ministry Center is an effective and efficient charity that makes people’s lives better right here in your own backyard.

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 Andrew Griffith.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• How to shop small in Georgetown, on Small Business Saturday.
• James Allen jewelry store moving into the former Steven Madden space. It’s really amazing that two such incredibly boring names would end up such successful fashion brands.

3200 block of O St.

Come on out Dec. 2nd to Volta Park for the annual Breakfast with Santa! Proceeds go towards improving Volta Park. As always there will be coffee, donuts, and crafts. Photos (printed on site) will be available for purchase! See you then!

Photo by Andrew Griffith.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some thanksgiving dinner options around Georgetown and elsewhere.
• The tree killer got a $53,000 fine.

1200 block of Potomac St.

After a tragic spate of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, Mayor Muriel Bowser recently proposed increasing the number of downtown intersections where no turns on red would be prohibited (among other changes). While welcomed, the announcement was generally received tepidly from safety advocates that demand even more aggressive steps to address unsafe driver behavior. And while the city hasn’t announced where all the new “no turn on red” will go, it was reported that they will be in the central business district, which does not include Georgetown.

But should it?

Allowing turns on red lights was a policy that became popular in the 1970s. It was dressed up as a step to address the energy crisis, under the reasoning that cars will end up idling less and therefore use less gasoline. But there’s not a whole lot of studies that support that argument. And in the mean time it has simply become a right that impatient drivers feel entitled to. (Consider the differing treatment that jaywalking and right-on-red gets. The former is condemned as unsafe, and often used to blame the victim in traffic fatality. The latter is allowed and rarely punished, even when misused. Yet in both cases it is simply a question of a road user surveying the situation and deciding that notwithstanding the default, it is ok to proceed.) Continue reading →

Photo by Andrew Griffith.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some more details on the new High Street Cafe (which took over the former Paolo’s space).
• This is odd: A application to open a business involving the “sale of plants” was made for 1516 Wisconsin Ave., which currently houses G-Land Uniforms.

3200 block of Volta Pl.