We have been brought up with a slew of racist and classist notions that prevents us a nation from achieving the best for everyone. Moreover, despite the stated intents- we ensure that folks simply can’t work, given the conditions. (It is generally not laziness or poor choices.)
I know many of you have been reading my series on “We’re all startups now” (that started on Monday), thinking only businesses have been affected by the pandemic. Oh, sure, the pandemic just made you work from home- or, worse yet, left you furloughed.. But, you thought that’s about the total affect on your life from the pandemic.
Continue reading Pandemic Surprises
Not surprisingly, many cities are trying to regulate short-term rentals (aka AirBNB and their “hosts”).
Continue reading Not in my neighborhood!!!
Some three decades ago, I began commuting from Charlottesville to Washington, DC, in particular to George Washington University. Being a train buff- and with an accommodating schedule- my trips were via the famed Southern Crescent. This glorious train made the round trip between DC and New Orleans.
Continue reading Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah (not)
July 1.
In the area of the country where I live, DMV means one of two things. The dreaded Department of Motor Vehicles, where waits can be long enough to keep one engaged (and enraged) all day long. But, it also means the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region. And, that means on 1 July, it’s the time when many a rule changes forever.
Ah, DC. The Capital of the United States of America.
Where local rule is a fiction. Because for years it has been a majority minority city. It has always been a reliable Democratic Party bastion. (In the DC-MD-VA region, the only place that provides a more reliable Democratic voting record is Alexandria, where I live.)
Continue reading DC Politics. Not politic.
It’s finally opened. I wrote about this “house” a while ago, as it stood on the corner of 17th Street and what is now known as Constitution Avenue. And, this delayed opening was not quite as bad as a site I passed during my birthday celebration in Manhattan. (The signs on E. 40th Street stated: Under Construction. To be completed in the Summer of 2016. Even though it was almost Fall 2018 and nowhere near done.) This is only 7 or 8 months late- but only open temporarily for now.
Continue reading Constitution Gardens
When I moved to Charlottesville (VA) way back in 1976, I knew I was in for a major life change. Despite the way I thought the modern world worked, Charlottesville was a remnant of the old South.
Continue reading Will lightning strike twice?
I remember the first time I came to DC. I was almost 4 years old.
My folks took me to the Smithsonian, the White House, the US Capitol, and the Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments. And, I remember a most curious little house on the edge of the mall, near the Washington Monument. I thought it was for the Park Police. (It was then- but, then they abandoned it. It simply became the home for vagrants, until it was “locked up”.)
Continue reading Mystery Solved!
