The Council’s Testing Time
Dear Testers:
The City Council normally takes a long summer break in July and
August, and it has a number of important tasks to complete before it
goes into recess. The Council is investigating corruption in the city's
real estate contracts, including leasing, selling, and purchasing land.
But it's not just the Office of Property Management that is involved in
the corruption; at the last Council hearing, the involvement of the
Corporation Counsel's office in inflating the price of land the District
was buying was also called into serious question. Will the Council trace
the corruption to its roots, or will it be satisfied with exposing one
OPM employee? The Council is trying to oust a corrupt and incompetent
Inspector General, who has lied to it many times; but does it have the
fortitude to prevail against a Mayor who protects Charles Maddox as IG
in exchange for his defaming the Mayor's political enemies?
The Council has to consider the Mayor's proposal to give away
hundreds of millions of dollars to the billionaire boys baseball club;
has to go through Congressional review of the FY 2004; and has to
consider a raft of nominees to the Board of Education, NCRC board,
Corporation Counsel, Director of Human Services, Director of DMV, and
other critical positions. The Council has to establish that Police Chief
Charles Ramsey will be held accountable to performance standards. And it
has its normal daily work to do besides. I never thought I'd say it, but
if the Councilmembers actually accomplish these tasks over the next
month they'll earn their inflated salaries for part-time work. On the
other hand, if they punt — if they do a halfhearted investigation of
OPM, leave the IG in place, stick the taxpayers with the bill to enrich
the political favorites in the Washington Baseball Club, rubber-stamp
the Mayor's appointees, and let Ramsey skate without enforceable
accountability — I won't have to change my opinion of them.
Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com
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In Memory of George LaRoche
Timothy Cooper, Democracy First, worldright@aol.com
George LaRoche, who died on Saturday, May 31, after a long illness,
went where most men feared to tread: He railed against systemic
oppression wherever he could find it in whatever form it took. His
unswerving commitment to justice was a shining example of self-sacrifice
in the name of social service.
George will be remembered for his fine legal mind, his boundless
dedication to the cause of equal rights for everyone and, above all
else, for his enduring love of justice.
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Memories of George S. LaRoche
Mark David Richards, Dupont East, mark@bisconti.com
Yesterday evening I saw the most beautiful rainbow stretching far
across the windy and tumultuous DC sky from Brookland to the Mall,
transcending churning clouds of shades of gray. Yesterday I learned that
in the morning Attorney George LaRoche passed away peacefully at his
home. George was a Takoma Park, Maryland, resident who cared deeply
about DC and stood up for democracy in DC. You may recall George's
writing and conversations in themail. Mr. LaRoche crafted the Twenty DC
Citizens lawsuit (Adams v. Clinton, later Adams v Bush)
and inspired many DC democracy activists in his spirited fight for DC
equal rights. See http://dccitizensfordemocracy.org/.
George explained that the fundamental question of Twenty DC Citizens was
“whether Congress can continue to segregate the District from the rest
of the United States,” it was “not [about] whether the citizens [of
DC] are entitled to representation in Congress.”
George was searching for the "pebble" that is holding the
great “boulder” of DC inequality so firmly in place. In the end, it
didn't matter to George if the media and the courts did everything they
could to disregard George's arguments — he fought on and, like many
heroes of the past, he left this world before the goal was won. He was
deeply skeptical about "public opinion" and the confusion of
voting rights with true democracy. He loved the US Constitution and
history and detail and fact. (He pointed out that a 1930's essay by John
Clagett Proctor was “among the finest essays on the District's
political status ever published” — see http://dccitizensfordemocracy.org/williams1.htm).
I will miss George. He shared his time and intellect with me over the
years, for which I am deeply grateful. He was an honest man with
integrity. When I think about that rainbow yesterday, I think of George
and his actions and never-ending hope for DC democracy, that one day DC
will be set free.
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On March 27, when the City Council Committee on Government Affairs
was considering whether to pass its bill changing the qualifications for
the Inspector General, I testified that: “Under the current law the
Inspector General can be removed only by the Mayor 'for cause,' and to
date the mayor has not indicated that he is in any way displeased with
Mr. Maddox's performance. Indeed, it may even be the case that the mayor
believes himself to be well served by Mr. Maddox's misuse and abuse of
his powers. If the mayor will not do his duty and remove an Inspector
General who misuses and abuses the office, there is still one more
resource.
“DC Code 2-302.08(f)(5) requires that: 'A peer review of the Office
of the Inspector General's audit, inspection and investigation sections'
standards, policies, procedures, operations, and quality controls shall
be performed no less than once every 3 years by an entity not affiliated
with the Office of the Inspector General. Any final report shall be
distributed to the Mayor, the Council and the Financial Responsibility
and the Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.'
“No such peer review has ever been done, although Mr. Maddox, in
his testimony to this committee on March 7, 2003, seemed to be under the
impression that the peer review was something that he himself could
initiate and engage outside entities to do this review. This DC
provision parallels, to some extent, the federal provisions contained in
Executive Order 12993, regarding 'Administrative Allegations Against
Inspectors General' (March 21, 1996, 61 F.R. 13043). It is clear that
the Office of the Inspector General cannot initiate its own
'independent' review, and it certainly cannot choose and engage the
entity that should conduct such a review. This committee must insist
that such an independent peer review begin immediately. If the mayor
refuses to cooperate with such a review, under the clear language of the
law the City Council can proceed on its own. It is my recommendation
that it do so. Any honest and impartial peer review of the performance
of Mr. Maddox as Inspector General must result in his resignation or his
removal from office for cause.” [Complete testimony at http://www.dcwatch.com/dorothy/dot030327.htm.]
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Library Fandango
Ron Lefrancois, nicmich at starpower dot net
Am I the only one who believes the Tenley Library project needs adult
supervision? The facts: 1) the Public Library at Wisconsin and Albemarle
Streets, NW, needs to be replaced; 2) private developers are interested
in building condos, apartments, and/or offices on top of a new library
building, generating substantial tax revenue and air-rights payments; 3)
the adjacent Janney Public School could benefit from construction of a
parking garage under its soccer field; 4) after entertaining zero
proposals for a public/private, mixed use project that would take
advantage of a prime Metro location, the library bureaucracy clings to a
self-inflicted schedule with existing bidders, claiming “it's now or
never” and “it's too late for a great idea because we said so”; 5)
the area councilwoman refuses to employ a little common sense and
influence the process so that smart, mixed use ideas can be considered
by people in government who aren't stuck in 1980s — or 1880s —
thinking (“we've always done it this way, so it must be right”); 6)
despite the absence of a signed contract to do any work, the bureaucracy
insists it's “impossible” to rethink and re-bid the project (see Catch-22);
7) many, perhaps most, neighborhood residents believe the Tenley
Metro/Wisconsin Avenue corridor is a smart choice for additional
housing.
Is it any wonder that Washingtonians are cynical about local
government? Nevertheless, let's try to convince our city and library
officials that we strongly wish to avoid the obvious questions in 2010:
why did city government and library officials spend tax money on another
squat library building on top of a Metro station? Why aren't we
collecting any tax revenue on prime real estate? PS: I look forward to
learning that not one of the bidders on the library projects is a
campaign contributor, relative, or crony of the public officials
involved with the current intransigence.
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Three p.m. on a Sunday, and I see people cutting down a public tree
off of the sidewalk. I wonder why someone is cutting down a perfectly
healthy tree at 3258 N Street, NW, so I call 911 to get a police car
dispatched to check on this. I get dispatcher 6031, who thinks this is
the funniest thing he’s heard all day. Not only won’t he dispatch a
car to check this out, he makes me repeat the address eight times. I
have no idea of what would happen if I had been being attacked. Nothing
much was happening, just a city-paid-for tree was being cut down, but
our 911 operators were doing their usual — absolutely nothing. I try
to get him to dispatch a police car for half of an hour and he won’t,
and he laughs at me on the phone; he doesn’t think this is important
enough to take up his time or the city's. So a city tree is dead and a
useless dispatcher is still on the job.
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For Once, MPD Officer Notices Aggressive
Panhandler
Paul Michael Brown, pmb@his.com
One of the nicest things about living on Capitol Hill is sitting
outside at the restaurants and bars that are located on the south side
of Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets SE.
Unfortunately, a handful of aggressive panhandlers work the area as
well. Usually falling-down drunk, they accost those who seek to dine al
fresco and those who patronize Roland's grocery store, cadging spare
change to purchase yet more malt liquor. Usually the MPD turns a blind
eye to these obnoxious mendicants. But last night I observed a
refreshing change as a man in blue channeled Officer Krupke and ordered
one of the worst offenders to “move along.” It's a small thing, but
for a few minutes the folks having dinner were free of aggressive
panhandling. Kudos to the MPD officer.
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After noting here in themail that WASA, after a whole month, had not
fixed a safety issue with a sewer cover on Warren and 48th Streets, NW,
I received an E-mail from Councilperson Patterson. Her note said that
the problem would be fixed. The next day, the gaping hole between the
concrete slab, which holds the sewer cover, and the walkway, was fixed.
It is a shame that there are no caring persons in some of the DC
departments that will fix problems routinely. There are processes in
place to respond to safety issues. It is just that many of the city
employees just don't give a darn about customer service. Let's hope the
next Mayor will shape things up in the District. Don't bother asking our
current Mayor to fix things. Tony Williams is already out of the office.
Maybe he's out to lunch, too.
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Ward 8 Political Empowerment Convention
Linda Brown Lee, Ahjgroup@earthlink.net
Former mayoral candidate and ex-Ward 8 Democratic State Committeeman,
Arthur H. Jackson, Jr., has developed a proposal designed to strengthen
the East of the River community's impact on future citywide races and to
prevent a political bloodbath in the upcoming Ward 8 City Council race.
The Jackson plan proposes that all critical segments of the ward's
business and community leaders convene a convention this fall to develop
a citizens agenda for our goals for the future of Ward 8. In addition to
discussing issues and solutions, we will also hear from some of the
candidates considering running for the Ward 8 City Council seat in next
year's election, including the incumbent, Sandy Allen.
The plan would provide for establishment of a planning committee that
will be divided into committees such as education, health care,
environment, housing, public safety, senior citizens, youth, jobs and
economic development, small and minority business development, and other
issues critical to our community's future. Delegates to the Convention
will represent tenant associations, tenant councils, Advisory
Neighborhood Commissions, business and professional organizations,
political party organizations, homeowners associations, recreation
councils, student and youth organizations, senior citizens
organizations, PTSA's, ex-offenders and families of ex-offenders,
substance abuse treatment organizations, children's advocacy
organizations, religious organizations and institutions, and other
segments of the ward. The former member of the DC Democratic State is
seeking volunteers to assist the planning committee with copying,
donating office work space or serving as committee support staff.
Under the Jackson plan, copies of the convention's adopted agenda
will be presented to the Ward 8 City Councilmember, all at-large members
of the City Council, School Board representatives, the mayor, and other
city officials. All former Ward Councilmembers will be honored at the
convention, tentatively scheduled for November 2003.
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ANCs and PSAs
Kenan Jarboe, former chair ANC 6B, kenan.jarboe@verizon.net
I have to disagree with earlier comments concerning the alignment of
the proposed new PSAs with the ANCs. There are too many anomalies in the
ANC geography to make them useful for patrol areas. The ANC boundaries
were drawn based on population, geographical balance, and political
reasons — and have to follow the deals cut in the Ward redistricting.
For example, ANC 6C stretches from 8th Street NE Capitol Hill to
downtown Penn Quarter. The Kingman Park area (north of RFK) is no longer
part of ANC 6A, but is now in Ward 7. The Navy Yard part of Capitol Hill
that was part of ANC 6B is now part of the SW waterfront ANC (6D) —
which is now separated from the area directly to the north of the SE/SW
freeway. That area of SW is now in the Shaw ANC.
Whatever one thinks of the proposed PSAs, let's not compound and
perpetuate the problems created by the ward and ANC redistricting
process.
[The boundaries of the new police service areas that have been
proposed by the Metropolitan Police Department are posted at http://mpdc.dc.gov/info/districts/PSAs_proposed.shtm.
— Gary Imhoff]
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I want to respond to the comments of Victoria McKernan and James
Treworgy on Beach Drive and Rock Creek Park. Victoria McKernan says that
restricting auto traffic on weekdays to allow recreation is “a
classist and elitist plan” that discriminates against people in
Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, and Georgia Avenue. These charges don't
fit the facts. Thirty-five percent of households in the District of
Columbia don't own a car. The only discrimination is against these
people — and it's not the proposal to close the road for part of the
day that discriminates. Rather, they are discriminated against by the
current system, since they are denied access to Beach Drive five days a
week, twenty-four hours a day. Further, if you spend any time watching
traffic on upper Beach Drive, the first thing you'll notice is that the
overwhelming majority of cars are not from DC at all. About two-thirds
have Maryland tags. Another fifteen percent are from Virginia or other
states. Only twenty percent of the cars are registered in DC. So,
whatever else you may not like about this proposal, it's hard to make
the case that it discriminates against inner city residents. Her second
point is that closing the road “would also eliminate the best trail
for the elderly, handicapped, and mobility impaired.” Again, the
opposite is true. Closing Beach Drive north of Broad Branch makes the
road itself accessible to these groups. It is by far the best surface
for the mobility impaired, and it offers the best views in the Park.
James Treworgy argues for better bike routes through the Park rather
than road closure. The problem with this is that there is nowhere to put
a trail without doing major environmental damage to the most scenic
parts of the Park, which the Park Service will not do. I like his idea
of using the reverse commute lane as a bike route in rush hour, but I
think the opposition to that would be even greater than to what the Park
Service has proposed. In essence, I hear him and many others saying that
they doubt anyone would use the Park during the day if it were closed to
traffic. We won't know the answer to that if we don't give it a try, and
that's one of the reasons that the coalition of organizations supporting
this plan suggested a test closure. But our bet is that many people,
including retirees, school groups, parents with young children, kids on
summer vacation, people who work weekends and have time off during the
week, and people on their lunch hour in nearby offices (Silver Spring,
Van Ness, Walter Reed, etc.) would use the Park for recreation, with
minimal impacts on traffic.
In any event, it's a park. How about we treat it like one instead of
just another road?
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An Alternative?
Ed T. Barron, edtb@aoldotcom
There's a lot of contention about closing Beach Drive so that
cyclists can ride their two wheelers at the expense of those who drive
four wheelers. Why not build a bicycle path along Beach Drive so that
all the wheelers will be happy?
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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS
CareFirst Conflict on Radio, June 2
Sam Jordan, samunomas@msn.com
WPFW - FM (89.3 FM) will broadcast “The CareFirst Conflict and
You” on Monday, June 2, at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Co-hosts Sam Jordan,
Director Health Care Now!, and Terry Newmyer, Chair Fair Care Foundation
will interview guests including Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), Bart
Naylor of Health Care for All, Maryland, Cheryl Fish-Parcham of FAMILIES
USA, and Carrin Brandt of Children's Hospital Parents. Maryland
Insurance Commissioner Steve Larsen has been invited. Listeners are
encouraged to call-in at 588-0893. The broadcast may also be monitored
on the web at http://www.wpfw.org.
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Baseball Stadium Financing Strategy Meeting,
June 5
Susie Cambria, scambria@dckids.org
DC Action for Children and Friends of the Earth invite advocates,
environmentalists, and others to a strategy meeting to prepare for the
upcoming Council hearing on baseball stadium financing. Thursday, June
5, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Friends of the Earth, 1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, 3rd
Floor, main conference room (near Metro Center). There is great concern
that the mayor’s financing plan will deplete funds needed for health,
human services, education, and environmental programs. The goals of this
meeting are to explain the problem, develop common language for the June
12 public hearing, share strategies and tactics underway, and identify
others who should be engaged in this effort.
DC Fiscal Policy Institute will provide an overview of the research
showing that baseball is bad economic development. DCFPI will also
summarize the legislation. The legislation under consideration at the
June 12 public hearing is Bill 15-270, "Ballpark Revenue Amendment
Act of 2003." It is available on-line at http://dccouncil.dc.gov
[and in htm format at http://www.dcwatch.comhttp://www.dcwatch.com/council15/15-270.htm]
or by calling 724-8050. For more information: Chris Weiss, Friends of
Earth, 783-7400 x120 or cweiss@foe.org;
Susie Cambria, DC Action for Children, 234-9404, Scambria@dckids.org.
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Meet the Press at Cleveland Park Citizens
Association, June 7
Ann Loikow, johnl@erols.com
All are welcome to the monthly public meeting of the Cleveland Park
Citizens Association on Saturday, June 7, at 10:15 a.m., at Cleveland
Park Library, Connecticut Avenue and Newark Street, NW. “Meet Our
Press!: How Well Do Local Media Serve The Community?” with Mark
Plotkin, WTOP Radio; Judith Havemann, editor, Washington Post DC
Extra; Davis Kennedy, editor/publisher, Northwest Current; Kathryn
Sinzinger, editor/publisher, The Common Denominator. Join a
lively discussion of how media cover burning local issues and events,
and why — sometimes — they don’t. How do these journalists view
current issues that concern our neighborhood? What are the important
emerging stories elsewhere in DC that will affect us? What does it take
to get your letter published? All this and more.
Also, PSAs, ANCs and “Clusters,” what are they and why do they
matter, especially now? — a timely report on a plan to reduce the
number of Police Service Areas (PSAs) and an effort to bypass familiar
Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) boundaries in favor of
little-known “neighborhood clusters.” And CPCA elections. Vote and
meet your officers for '03-'04 (and join them for a Dutch treat lunch at
Nam Viet after the meeting). Be sure to attend and vote for next year’s
officers. Voting will take place at the start of the meeting and
nominations from the floor will be in order. For more information, call
the Cleveland Park Citizens Association, 362-4279.
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Annual Shepherd Park Community Yard Sale, June
7-8
Ralph Blessing, rblessin88@hotmail.com
The annual Shepherd Park Community Yard Sale will be held on Saturday
and Sunday, June 7th and 8th, 9 to 3 each day. It consists of more than
fifty individual yard sales throughout Shepherd Park and Colonial
Village. List of sales and directions can be found at http://www.alixmyerson.com
or at participating yard sales. Homes with yard sales are in the area
north of Walter Reed Hospital to Eastern Avenue between Rock Creek Park
and Georgia Avenue.
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DC Bicycle Master Plan Rides and Workshops,
June 7 and Later
Lyn Stroesen, lynstroesen@hotmail.com
The DC Department of Transportation is undertaking a comprehensive
update of the city's thirty-year-old bike plan. Bike rides and workshops
are planned in Wards 1 and 2 in June. Everyone is welcome to join the
rides and come to the meetings to hear about the new bike plan and offer
suggestions. We will mark maps with commonly used routes and areas
needing improvement. Come out and get involved in making DC a better
bicycling city.
Ward 1 ride, Saturday, June 7, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Meet at Columbia
Heights Metro, west side bike racks. Ward 2 ride, Saturday, June 7, 1-4
p.m. Meet at Dupont Circle Metro, bike racks at Q St. Exit. Ward 1
workshop, Tuesday, June 10, 7-9 p.m., St. Stephens Church 16th and
Newton, NW. Ward 2 workshop, Tuesday, June 12, 7-9 p.m. Johns Hopkins
University Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. For more
information, http://www.bikemap.com/dcbikeplan
or Jim Sebastian, DC Bicycle Program Manager, 671-2331, jim.sebastian@dc.gov.
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Neighborhood History in DC Workshop, June 17
Matthew Gilmore, dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu
Matthew Gilmore, coeditor of H-DC, Washington DC History E-list and
web site, will be offering a workshop for doing neighborhood history
June 17, 2003 -- offering research techniques and describing the
sources. The workshop will take place in the Washingtoniana Division of
the DC Public Library, 901 G Street, NW, Room 307, from 6:30 p.m. to
8:00 p.m. A tour of the division will follow and a chance to work with
some of the sources discussed.
Mr. Gilmore, formerly a staff member of the Washingtoniana Division,
will highlight the variety of tools and sources (maps, microfilm, books)
available for documenting neighborhoods in Washington, DC -- both in the
Washingtoniana Division itself and at a number of other institutions
throughout the city. The workshop is intended to complement programs and
workshops at the new City Museum which deal in depth with sources in
that collection. Mr. Gilmore has been offering workshops since 1997. For
a peek at some of the sources discussed, check out: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~dclist/neighNew4.pdf.
This is the first in an ongoing series of workshops which will also
cover with building and family history. The workshop is free but
registration is requested, so that enough handouts can be prepared. For
more information and to register, please E-mail dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu.
The Martin Luther King Library is at 901 G Street, NW and the
Washingtoniana Division on the third floor in room 307. The phone number
for the Division is 727-1213.
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“Ghosts” at Shakespeare Theatre, June 18
Robin Larkin, rlarkin@footlightsdc.org
“Ghosts,” by Henrik Ibsen, depicts the agony of a philanderer's
widow — long protective of her late husband's reputation — who must
now confront his legacy of disease, both physical and spiritual. The
New York Post called “Ghosts” “one of the most powerful and
disturbing plays in dramatic history.” The New York Times
called it “one of the greatest tragedies of all literature.” This
week, the Shakespeare Theatre will open a new production of
“Ghosts,” starring Jane Alexander and directed and adapted by Edwin
Sherin (“Law and Order,” “The Great White Hope”). Footlights —
the DC area's only modern-drama discussion group — has a handful of
deeply discounted tickets for the Saturday, June 28 matinee. Normal
price is $49. Our tickets are $26 -- less than you'd pay at TICKETPlace.
The deadline for receipt of payment is this Friday, June 6. Send your
check, payable to “Footlights,” to Robin Larkin, 5403 Nibud Court,
Rockville, MD 20852 (301-897-9314 and rlarkin@footlightsdc.org).
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CLASSIFIEDS — FREE JUNK
I have just put out a bunch of old furniture and sports equipment and
other junk -- warning, it's old stuff, but if you want it, it's yours.
Tomorrow it should stay dry, so come on by anytime before it rains
Tuesday: the rear of 3522 of Davenport, just west of Connecticut.
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CLASSIFIEDS — WANTED FREE
I need a free computer monitor.
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CLASSIFIEDS — HOUSING
Environmental planner seeks to share with over-forty by July 1 Either
a place you already occupy or let's look together. I need to be within
easy access of I-295 and the Blue Line to Largo, hence Stadium-Armory or
Potomac Avenue Metro areas are best for me. I am an eco-oriented vegan
female with energy for gardening and community stewardship projects. I
prefer to share with someone over forty who is into a "living
lightly" lifestyle -- i.e., frugal with resources such as water,
energy, and paper products. Lifestyle more important than age, however.
Call me at 301-883-5983 at work or 301-772-9276 at home and let's talk,
or E-mail via Craigs List DC.
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CLASSIFIEDS — HELP WANTED
Full-Time Legal Assistant
Jon Katz, jon at markskatz dot com
The Marks & Katz law firm seeks an additional legal assistant.
Legal Assistant work at Marks & Katz, LLC, requires successful prior
relevant legal experience, strong caring for our clients and for work
well done; strong oral and written communications skills; working well
and thriving under tight deadlines; flexibility and strong interest in
learning new types of work and projects; intelligence and strong common
sense; and working independently. Pluses to your application, although
not necessarily required, are a strong, brief writing sample not edited
by anybody, a college degree or demonstrated similar intellectual
achievement, and fluent Spanish. Please send a strong application
(one-page resume, cover letter specifically addressing your strengths
for and interest in this position (designating “Full-Time Legal
Assistant”), and salary history and pay preference to Jon Katz, Marks
& Katz, LLC, 1400 Spring St., Suite 410, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Fax: 301-495-8815. Please do not send E-mail attachments. For more
information, visit http://www.markskatz.com.
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CLASSIFIEDS — RECOMMENDATIONS
Contractor Recommendations
James Treworgy, jamie@trewtech.com
We have an informal list — really a discussion — of
recommendations and/or warnings from Mt. Pleasant residents (that I am
sure is applicable citywide) at http://www.mtpleasantdc.org/forum/list.php?f=141.
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