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Go Home Already: Bike, Film
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 5:30pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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In today's Go Home Already: we had some issues with Firefox and IE, PG County to investigate police stop of speeding councilmember and more Metrobuses run more red lights. [ more › ]
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Virginia Congressman Wants Metro to Take Down Ad Telling President Obama to 'Go to Hell'
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 5:00pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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A poster at a Metrorail station isn't mincing words in advertising a documentary opposing the 2010 health care law. A member of Congress from Northern Virginia wants to see it taken down. [ more › ]
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Space Shuttle Discovery to Join Smithsonian Collection
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 4:30pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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Big news for all you space nerds: as we noted last year, the space shuttle Discovery will join the Smithsonian's collection in April. But even better, the AP reports today that NASA got the permits to fly a 747 with the shuttle strapped on it over the U.S. Capitol, allowing anyone in the city with a good view of the sky to get quite the view of it. [ more › ]
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Activist Tells Council He's 'Lost Confidence' When MPD Investigates Anti-Transgender Crimes
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 4:00pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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A leading member of the District's transgender community told the D.C. Council today that he has little faith in the Metropolitan Police Department and Chief Cathy Lanier when crimes against transgender persons are committed. [ more › ]
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Arts Agenda
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 3:30pm MST by Kerrin Kastorf
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Overcoming creative block, remembering a lost civilization, watching free movies, calling all artists and more in this week's Arts Agenda. [ more › ]
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Phil Mendelson Just Isn't Himself Today
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 3:15pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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No, Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) isn't on Twitter, and he wants you to know it. [ more › ]
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Ready, Aim, Register: Getting a Gun in D.C. May Soon Get Easier
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 3:00pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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A bill that would make it easier for residents to register handguns moved through a D.C. Council committee today, and if it passes the full council hopeful gun owners will no longer have to complete a five-hour training class, submit to a vision test or give up their gun for a ballistics test. The law would also allow the District's mayor to act as a federally licensed firearms dealer if the sole dealer in the District goes out of business, as happened briefly last year. [ more › ]
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Bowie Woman to Stay in Home After Assist from Occupy D.C.
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 2:30pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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In what might be the most concrete, positive result of its actions since first appearing last October, Occupy D.C. succeeded, it appears, in helping a Bowie, Md. woman stay in her home and avoid a foreclosure sale. [ more › ]
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This Week in Jazz
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 2:00pm MST by Sriram Gopal
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D.C. Jazz Composers Collective @ Phillips, Marshall Keys @ the Caverns, Mike Stern/Dave Weckl @ Blues Alley -- all that and more is happening This Week in Jazz. [ more › ]
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Rain Creating Hellish Conditions for Virginia Commuters
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 1:45pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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The Post's Dr. Gridlock reports that at this hour, a stretch of Route 1 in Alexandria is closed in both directions after being inundated by the heavy rainfall that swept through the area this morning. [ more › ]
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No Big Trip Needed to Get This Endorsement of D.C. Statehood
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 1:30pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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Prince George's County has endorsed the notion of making the District of Columbia the 51st state. Unlike attempts to get New Hampshire and Florida to embrace D.C. statehood, this came without a big plane trip. [ more › ]
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About Tonight: February 29, 2012
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 1:00pm MST by Elisabeth Grant
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Tonight: Fe-Brau-ary and Brainfood Fundraiser, Coats & Cocktails, mountain climbing stories, and more. [ more › ]
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Posted: February 29th, 2012, 1:00pm MST
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Recall of Ward 4 ANC Commissioner Too Close to Call
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 12:30pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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A recall vote of a Ward 4 ANC commissioner yesterday ended without resolution, as enough absentee and special ballots had yet to be counted before pro-recall forces could claim victory. [ more › ]
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Photo of the Day: February 29, 2012
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 12:00pm MST by Samer Farha
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There's a lot of adjectives that one can use to describe the Metro. Often, they are not positive. But one thing that Metro has going for it is how photogenic most of the architecture is. And pablo.raw captures the awesome Dupont entrance (and working escalators!) in full glory. [ more › ]
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NBC4 Morning Anchor Joe Krebs Retiring After Three Decades With Station
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 11:30am MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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After 32 years with NBC4 Washington, the last 18 as anchor of its morning news program, Joe Krebs is retiring at the end of March, the station announced Wednesday. [ more › ]
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Fojol Bros. Again Ranked Among Country's Best Food Trucks
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 11:00am MST by Martin Austermuhle
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Just as it has in the past, the Fojol Brothers of Merlindia has been ranked among the top 20 food trucks in the country, this time by Smithsonian Magazine. [ more › ]
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Occupy D.C. Spends Wet Morning Protesting Agribusiness Giant
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 10:30am MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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In a morning rush hour demonstration, members of Occupy D.C. lined up outside an office building at 1300 I Street NW to protest Monsanto, the agricultural engineering giant, which has an office there. [ more › ]
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New Images of Eisenhower Memorial Seek to Quiet Criticism
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 10:00am MST by Martin Austermuhle
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As everyone from members of Congress to conservative commentators the family of former President Dwight Eisenhower complains, the minds behind the controversial memorial to the 34th president rolled out a new image of the proposed memorial this week showing what it would look like from the ground-level. [ more › ]
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Metro Rolls Out Alerts for Bus Disruptions
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 9:30am MST by Martin Austermuhle
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For years Metro has offered email and text message alerts for disruptions in rail service, and now it's doing the same for buses. [ more › ]
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Morning Roundup: Leap Day Edition
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 9:00am MST by Martin Austermuhle
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Happy Leap Day, Washington! In the news: a judge postpones two wrongful death trials related to the 2009 Red Line Metro crash, Freedom Plaza occupiers look to stay a little longer and Ward 5 gets itself quite the race for the May 15 Special Election. [ more › ]
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Go Home Already: Mural
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:30pm MST by Benjamin R. Freed
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In Go Home Already: McDonnell signs bill overturning gun-purchase limit, Nationals tell Bob Casey to sit on it and another take on that stupid Metrobus song. [ more › ]
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House to Vote on Norton Bill Allowing More Flexibility in Scheduling of D.C. Elections
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:50pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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A long-awaited bill that would offer the District more flexibility in scheduling its elections heads to a House vote tomorrow, moving the city closer to being able to respond more quickly when seats on the D.C. Council are vacated. [ more › ]
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D.C. Council to Move on Bill That Would Make Food Trucks Charge Sales Tax
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:30pm MST by Martin Austermuhle
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On the same day this week that a 30-day comment period for new rules on the city's food trucks closes, a D.C. Council committee will mark-up legislation that would force the city's increasingly popular four-wheeled vendors to pay sales taxes. [ more › ]
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New Kid in Town: A. Litteri, Inc.
Posted: February 25th, 2012, 4:19pm MST by Erin Keane
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The new kid visits A. Litteri, Inc. The Morse Street Italian market has been serving the D.C. area since 1926. [ more › ]