Washington Post garden columnist Adrian Higgins today lends his voice to the growing movement behind backyard chickens in the nation’s capitol with a front-page spread in the paper’s Home section. Higgins recounts the story of Caryn Ernst and how D.C. police and animal control agents swooped down on her family’s Capitol Hill home in June when […]
A federal ban on fishing red snapper went into effect this week from Florida to the Carolinas and officials are considering banning fishing of any kind in a large area of Atlantic waters. Fishermen don’t like the ban much and some groups are threatening to file suit, arguing that federal agencies should consider economic impacts […]
The sign in the window says to expect a new grocer in Columbia Heights in “Fall 2009.” But fall is almost over and the big space in the DCUSA mall at 14th and Irving streets NW where Ellwood Thompson’s supermarket is supposed to locate is still empty. What gives? Ellwood Thompson’s, in case you’ve never heard, […]
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