In a press release sent via e-mail, the District of Columbia installed ‘Trans Pride’ crosswalks in the city after a petition to do so gathered 12,000 signatures: D.C. Installs Rainbow, Trans Pride Crosswalks to Honor LGBTQ Community Following Successful Care2 Petition Campaign ***http://www.thepetitionsite.com/785/509/267/*** The Care2 petition by a transgender resident was successful after gathering over […]
The social media campaign hashtag is #ADayWithoutImmigrants, where immigrant workers went on strike to highlight their value to the American economy. D.C. chef Jose Andres closed five of his restaurants for the day, in addition to children not showing up to class. La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group with a history of promoting amnesty policies, praised […]
How is this an actual news story? The liberal media must be running out of things to say about President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence. Sounds like a bunch of bitter liberals taking out their election angst by raising rainbow (i.e. ‘gay pride flags’) in the neighborhood where Vice President-Elect Mike Pence is […]
Economics and common sense means less jobs when the minimum wage is hiked: Washington, D.C., is getting a real life lesson in economics as the city moves closer to implementing a $15 per hour minimum wage. During the first six months of 2016, restaurants in D.C. shed 1,400 jobs. That’s a 2.7 percent decline in […]
Homelessness fell in seven of the nine jurisdictions in the city, but it rose overall. According to the Annual Point-in-Time Count of Persons Experiencing Homelessness report, there were 12,215 homeless people on Jan. 28, 2016. That’s a 5 percent increase from 2015 to 2016 across all nine local jurisdictions. There were 11,623 homeless people in […]
A gun range in D.C.? Okay. The first gun range and gun store within the city limits of Washington, D.C. is scheduled to open within the next year. DC Gun Range and DC Guns and Ammo will be located under the same roof at a site on Queens Chapel Road in the city’s northeast quadrant. […]
But gun control was supposed to drive down crime rates, or something? Three major cities accounted for more than half of the rise in the national murder rate between 2014 and 2015, a new report shows. Though overall crime rates were stagnant in America’s 30 largest cities the murder rate rose 13.3 percent, according to a report […]
Well, it won’t happen soon because the GOP won’t let a Democratic-leaning District of Columbia to add two senators and tip the balance of the upper house of the national legislature to the Democrats. Photo by streetsensedc
Mikhail Lesin’s death was due to blunt force trauma, not a heart attack as Russian media reported. Now investigators are wondering if a deadly attack outside of his hotel in D.C. on Lesin led to his death. Photo by laveupv.com