November 2, 2012 · 10:00 am

Vote for Grosso

Photo by LopezJuanDiego.

 

GM doesn’t normally do a lot of endorsements for elections. Typically, the elections around here are either uncontested or lopsided. And for the most part, Georgetowners will find most of the ballot that way this year too.

But not all of it.

There is one genuinely competitive race that Georgetowners will be able to vote in next week (or right now, if you want to vote early): the at large slots.

It’s virtually guaranteed that Vincent Orange will win the Democratic slot. GM wishes this weren’t the case, but it is. Who will win the second slot (which must go to a non-Democrat) is hard to predict. It will likely come down to a race between Michael A. Brown and David Grosso.

GM expected very little of Brown before he was elected. He failed multiple times to win an election as the Democrat that he is, so he “switched” to independent in order to win the less competitive second slot. (He still goes on TV billed as a “Democratic Strategist”). Continue reading →

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November 2, 2012 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

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November 1, 2012 · 2:00 pm

The Georgetown Metropolis

 

1500 block of 33rd St.

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November 1, 2012 · 10:00 am

Jos. A. Banks To Open

 

GM wasn’t aware of this news until the signs went up: Jos. A. Bank is opening up in the new commercial strip just south of Safeway. (Normally this would have been revealed during the Old Georgetown Board review of the signage, but either they skipped that, or it just wasn’t specifically mentioned in the agenda).

This is normally the place where GM would complain about the mallification of Georgetown. Yes, Jos. A. Bank is a pretty middle-of-the-road chain. And Georgetown really doesn’t need more clothing stores. But GM’s gotten so pessimistic about the state of Georgetown retail that a Jos. A. Banks counts as “well, it could be worse”.

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November 1, 2012 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

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October 31, 2012 · 2:00 pm

The Georgetown Metropolis

 

Georgetown Waterfront

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October 31, 2012 · 10:00 am

Halloween Traffic Restrictions in Effect Tonight

As expected, DDOT is shutting down some roads to traffic tonight in anticipation of Halloween crowds. The restrictions are identical to those last year.

The governing theory is to keep traffic off the side streets (because of the kiddies walking around in the dark) and to push all the traffic onto M and Wisconsin. So even though it would be great for the partiers on M St. to shut the whole road down to traffic as they used to, this is probably a safer plan overall. Plus it has the benefit of allowing partiers to catch a cab on M St. and Wisconsin rather than off on a side street.

Here’s a map of the closings. The red streets are streets that are closed to everyone except residents and employees (if it’s a commercial street). The purple streets allow traffic but don’t have any on-street parking:

The parking restrictions will be in place from 4:00 PM tonight until the early morning hours of tomorrow. The traffic restrictions will start at 6:30 pm. Continue reading →

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October 31, 2012 · 8:00 am

The Morning Metropolitan

 

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

  • Sandy didn’t appear to cause too much damage around Georgetown, as far as GM could see walking around yesterday. Did you suffer any damage?
  • Carol Joynt is reporting that another 7-11 is planning on opening up at the corner of O and Wisconsin.

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October 29, 2012 · 2:00 pm

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3300 block of N St.

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October 29, 2012 · 10:00 am

Georgetown Flooded (in 1918)

As GM hunkers down for Hurricane Sandy to pass, he thought he’d travel down memory road for an article he’d previously written on the great Georgetown flood of 1918:

Potomac Flood

“Potomac flood, Georgetown, D.C.” [created between 1909 and 1923]

Unfortunately there were multiple floods of the Georgetown waterfront in that time period, but GM is relatively confident this flood was from Feb. 1918. Check out this excerpt from a Washington Post article from 2/19/1918:

30,000 Throng Aqueduct Bridge and Neighboring Roads to Witness Wreckage Left By Weeks’ Flood

Everybody nearly was out on the Aqueduct bridge yesterday…watching the ice in the Potomac go by. There were close to 30,000 of them during the height of the ruch witnessing and commenting on the greatest flood the Capital has seen since 1889…A young woman stood on the bridge. She was filled with poetry by the maelstrom which whirled beneath her feet. She grasped her escort by the arm “Ain’t it wonderful what nature can do?” she breathed.

This appears to match up with the photo because the article describes the destruction of several boathouses near the bridge, including the Analostan Club House (Theodore Roosevelt Island used to be called Analostan Island, as well as Mason’s Island). There are a couple other photographs in the LOC’s collection of the same flood from above that show wreckage to the boathouses, so that’s why it would appear to be the same flood:

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