Hill Rag DC

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https://www.hillrag.com Daily online, monthly in print. The hyper local news that matters to the people who really live on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC – the neighborhoods around the dome.

It opened last weekend but this weekend’s weather is a good reason to remind you that Le Petit Scoop is open @ Wine And Butter near Lincoln Park, from 10 AM to 10 PM every day

Loveful hands by Jay Coleman has been placed in Eastern Market Plaza Park near the metro entrance, 6 years after Coleman was selected as the artist. An official unveiling is expected next week.

A Black man in plaid blazer green vest and blue shirt hold a model of two hands in heart shape on a pedestal, the model for a statue now at eastern market.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

A MASSIVE tree fell Sat morning across 11th st SE between G & i Sts., SE next to @chisholmdcps. it does not appear that anyone was injured; tree branches broke the back window of a car parked on the w side but just missed a new white van. Road is blocked as tree removal service Treeman extracts it.