If I had any awards to give, they would be coming your way. Your post is solid stuff.

It was a steal while it lasted. Cheaper than the bus in some instances.

That never happened to me, but UberPool was interesting. Every once in a while there’d be a great chat between the co-riders and/or the driver, but mostly it was an insight into how antisocial we’ve become.

That’s a great explanation of what I thought was a throwaway insult. Thanks.

Maybe the biggest news here is that WaPo is doing proper investigative reporting on local issues. This has been a long long time coming.

Suburbanism is the reason a lot of these people are Republicans in the first place (yes, there are actual studies on that). It’s a vicious cycle.

Not bad at all.

Nailed it. Drivers ranting about “entitled cyclists” plumbs new depths in self-awareness.

Spring Valley has the swankiest houses in DC.

I saw the same trails crossing from a different location. Thanks for posting.

It’s completely impossible in your simple mind that there are Republicans that could vote for Hillary and support planned parenthood. OK.

It’s so nice of you to join us here, Jo-Ann.

At some point, it just becomes common sense. Like all efficient organizations, there is a division of labor at WaPo. Local politics is delegated to her. She has established a long track record of endorsing folk like Jack Evans, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she publishes crap like this as well. Luckily, DC voters apparently don’t give a whit what she has to say. Her endorsements have a terrible track record of winning competitive elections.

I do. Jo-Ann Armao is the editor covering local politics. If you think all 16 editors and associate editors write editorials, I admire your naïveté. Here is some background for you: https://dcfordemocracy.org/2020/10/06/why-washington-post-local-endorsements-cannot-be-trusted/

Yep.

Yes. Please find it for me.

I agree that a ~500 student school is too big for right now. A ~300 student school would however relieve overcrowding at the other elementaries feeding Hardy and give the city the classroom space it needs to guarantee Pre-K via DCPS across the city (which would be a huge deal).

The area will inevitably densify as families move in to the area to access the new high school and so it’d make sense to build it large enough to add additional classrooms as necessary. LAB is only using 1/2 of the Old Hardy building as it is so hopefully the city to take back what they are not using and use that for the new school with an annex on the parking lot beside the building. Best case scenario is to overturn the lease extension but I can’t see how that would ever happen.

Don’t think so. I haven’t seen anything in any event.

It’s not actually the “Board”, but rather one Republican who lives in Silver Spring and to whom the rest of the Board has delegated coverage of local politics.

There is density along MacArthur Blvd., but the lack of a neighborhood elementary school and distance from other schools has driven parents away. The new schools will attract parents and change the character of the neighborhood, which is what has got the retirees so upset. None of us knows exactly how many elementary school age kids live in Foxhall, but there are probably more than enough to fall a small (300 student) school.

It does. Wards 7 and 8 have the worst traffic statistics in the city.

No one has any plan build a school “on” Hardy Park. The proposal is to build a school beside the park that would keep all playing surfaces and facilities intact (and enhance many of them). Many people in the neighborhood have ES-age children and want the neighborhood public school that all other DC neighborhoods have. However, a handful of retirees - who have opposed proposals for a public school in the neighborhood even when it would have occupied an existing building - are peddling scary falsehoods to make the proposal out to be something it is not.

P St NW in Georgetown and Sherier Pl NW in the Palisades were fantastic pre-pandemic but were sparse last year and look to be this year as well.