A friend plays in a men’s rec league in Arlington (I think they play at the MedStar Capitals Iceplex?). There seem to be a bunch of options there for varying skill levels. DC’s only rink is currently closed for renovation, sadly.

I want one specific data point on violent crime: how much of the reduction is due to a reduction in snatch and grab robberies of phones? It’s a violent crime as defined by DC (and most jurisdictions), and due to that, when you looked at crime maps in the early 2010s, many of the most “violent” places were near popular metro stations like Dupont Circle. With Apple and Google increasingly making phones worth less and less to steal (by locking them down, etc, such that a theft now is good only for conning someone into buying a useless phone or parting it out), those crimes have seemed to drop precipitously.

There was a better article a while back that distinguished between Washington, the company town revolving around the Capitol, White House, and political DC, and the District of Columbia, the vibrant city of 700,000 who have little or nothing to do with the political company town. Washington is incredibly transient. The District less so. There’s still turnover in the District, especially among the 20-something crowd that moves here for internships and nonprofits, but the District is otherwise pretty stable.

Mine just hit my bank account this morning.

Cooper Hewitt and the other American Indian museum.

I’ve seen this specific frog on the south side of Neal St NE near 4th St NE. Basically across the street from Last Call. There are a handful of others near Union Market as well.

That’s part of the problem. There’s no one accountable. People direct their anger at MPD, the Mayor, and the Council, and there is for sure some blame to go around. They also direct their office at the DC Attorney General, and while there’s some blame there for some things, mostly misdemeanors and youths, they’re not to blame for this. Our felonies are prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC. The US Attorney is a presidential appointee. The AUSAs (prosecutors, in this case) are federal employees. They try the cases in our local court, except the judges are presidential appointees there too. So what do we do when federal officials who don’t have to answer to the local populace refuse to charge people who allegedly commit violent felonies or when they plea out what by all accounts appears to have been a premeditated murder carried out in front of the victim’s kids and recommend the perpetrator get so little jail time that, even if he were to serve his entire sentence, he’d still be out before the kids graduate from high school? Nothing. We rage into the wind. We don’t even have a voting rep in Congress who might pursue these things on our behalf.

Guessing it’s related to when he attended an event at the White House where Trump signed an executive order on small businesses. There was a lot of angst in social media over that.

West of Capitol? If you’re not very familiar with city living, absolutely not (and even then block dependent). East of Capitol, AKA NoMa, depends entirely on your comfort level in urban environments. It’s safe, but it may not always feel safe to some people.

This is all the more reason to contact OTA. The more complicated your situation is, the more you want expert advice, and they’re literally the experts and in your side.

That said, yes, you likely have rights as a tenant. That your sublessor didn’t have permission to sublease doesn’t likely change whether you have rights, and you’ll want to talk to OTA about rights with respect to your current apartment, the management company, and the sublessor. It’s not your fault they broke their own lease with the management company to sublease to you, and you probably have rights you can exercise in this situation.

In the old days of the Orange Crush and generally high levels of service, I could see it. A train pulls in and is packed, but you can probably wiggle your way on and suck it in just enough for the doors to close. But you look up and see that there’s a train just two minutes behind that’s not crowded at all. At that point, eff it, I’d wait.

Nearby, Alex’s Unisex Hair Salon is great, especially for the price. I haven’t been since just before the pandemic (I moved to a different neighborhood), but in 2019, men’s cuts were $17 pre-tip and the quality was solid. They have locations in Mount Pleasant (which is where I went) and on 14th up sort of close to Red Derby.

They’re already working. May as well tip heavy and make it worth their while.

It’s about Toronto, but no reason to believe it doesn’t apply similarly to DC: Toronto’s streeteries made 49 times more money than the parking they replaced. Granted, the city only takes in 10% or so of that as tax revenue, but that’s still 4.9x as much revenue to the city than parking.

That’s the point. The reporting on this has been bad because reporters are treating it as a good faith lawsuit, when in reality it’s more Nick DelleDonne and Ed Hanlon nonsense. They’re both nutters and seemingly the sole (or at least primary) people behind the Dupont East Civic Action Association (one of the plaintiffs in this suit) and have made opposing bike lanes on 17th St NW his raison d’etre (also really hate the apartment building at 15th and S). DelleDonne has previously been featured on this subreddit for stunts like setting up a table with a coffee urn blocking bike lanes between a parking lane and sidewalk (meaning bikers had to dismount and carry their bikes on the sidewalk to get around him), holding town halls wherein he blamed bike lanes for children getting killed by cars, and, most hilariously, blaming bike lanes for inflation. This suit has little to do with safety for disabled people; it’s just about blocking bike lanes.

It’s got a tarnished history that may turn off some. I’ve also never really enjoyed their food (it’s fine, but there’s better Cuban cuisine around, such as Mi Cuba in Columbia Heights). I recall the drinks being decent, though I’ll confess I haven’t been in five years or so.

The 6000 Series trains had armrests on the aisle, as you can kinda see in this ohoto. The 7000 Series trains got rid of then.

Eyewitness testimony is often not entirely reliable, but it is still a category of evidence that should be considered. Video can’t show you what people were thinking at the time or describe what could be seen from other vantage points. There are plenty of things to be concerned about when a death occurs during training—was there a conspiracy to harm this person? A conspiracy to cover up an accident?—and one way to gather evidence on that is to get testimony from witnesses without giving them the chance to talk to other witnesses or to view other evidence. Mismatched statements can be significant, as can be surprisingly uniform statements that run counter to what the video shows. No one is suggesting their testimony is infallible, but neither is video evidence (because again it can only provide evidence from a specific vantage point). We want their testimony, though, without them having the chance to revise it or even just change their memory (memory being as fallible as it is) as a result of having seen the video.

They’ve opened a few more locations. Some seem far too nice to look at (the Crystal City location is so shiny and clean), but the prices and food quality are still on point.

I don’t know why people are downvoting you, because you’re right. The title obsession and focusing only on how others can help you get ahead is far more prevalent in “Washington,” the political town and its hangers-on, than it is in DC, the vibrant city of 700,000 people living here and working in all sorts of walks of life. It certainly exists in the rest of the city, just as it does anywhere else in the world, but it being a defining characteristic of people is far more common on the Hill than just about anywhere else. That people mostly see that suggests they’re spending most of their time with those people.

My GF has two cats. Both are very interested in fast-moving toys, but one catches them, holds them, and then releases, waiting for them to start moving again. The other does anything and everything it takes to catch the toy and then immediately starts bunny kicking with her rear claws out doing her absolute damnedest to eviscerate the toy. She also spends her days slowly stalking up to the window chattering at the birds she so desperately wants to murder. Not sure how the first cat would do if he ever got outside, but she’d promptly decimate the bird and mouse population and declare herself god-emperor of what remains. That said, I think even she’d leave full-grown rats alone. Why risk it when there are so many easier targets out there?

Your quote suggests that they want the witnesses to testify without first seeing the video. That is, they want them to testify to what they actually remember and not tailor their testimony to what they see on the video.

My understanding is they can’t actually do that due to the structure of the compact between DC, VA, MD, and the Feds that created WMATA. If I understand it correctly, each jurisdiction’s funding is set by a formula, and they can’t unilaterally give more. As I understand it, that’s part of the rationale behind things like DC trying to give residents $100 in metro money: it’s a way to indirectly fund metro without violating the funding rules. That said, I’m repeating what I’ve read and been told by others; I haven’t actually read the compact to confirm this limitation is in it.

Metro basically barred enforcement in the city after DC decriminalized fare evasion. Cops could no longer arrest fare evaders, just issue them a $50 citation, but WMATA argued they had no ability to actually issue a binding citation under the new scheme. Supposedly this has finally been resolved, with the DC government itself being the ones printing the citations and providing them to WMATA.

I am curious to see how this plays out. In the past, much of the controversy around enforcement of fare evasion was around things that happened when people refused to stop for police or resisted attempts to cite them. This led to some violent altercations and controversy over the level of force being used when the underlying offense was just not paying a $3.50 fare and for which the fine, before resisting arrest, etc, was only $100. People will undoubtedly refuse to comply with attempts to issue a citation, and what happens then? Do the police escalate and arrest for failure to comply when the underlying offense isn’t criminal? We’ll find out, and I imagine it won’t be without controversy.

Technicality: it’s free to the kids, but Metro still gets paid. Kids Ride Free is a subsidy provided by the DC government—DC covers their fare. When the kids and teens don’t use their card, Metro isn’t getting money.