I got married on the Cherry Blossom paddlewheel boat. If you're docked in Alexandria, you need a VA marriage license, on the river it's a DC license (before the WW bridge, MD license south of the bridge).

That's the rapidly rising home values from the subprime mortgage bubble that popped in 2007, right? Bubble was concentrated in residential homes, so that the % grew in comparison to the others

Agreed. The lack of traffic outside of rush hour makes it very easy to speed. Should be one lane in each direction with dedicated bike lanes and parking on both sides.

How's WMATA bus ridership doing after the network redesign?

Could easily be the administration extorting the funds given they are doing that elsewhere (tariffs). Not sure why you're ruling that out and assuming this is voluntary

Shy Jones voters...

The dissonance of corporate media ignoring all the crazy stuff Trump and his MAGA crew are saying while trying policing dems language is really something

I don't think you even have to nationalize it. Just revoke Musk's security clearance because of his drug use/bizarre behavior, appoint a Govt overseer, IPO in a year and everyone will be Elon who?

Ugh. One should be skeptical when an article bases its entire premise on an anonymous quote from a doctor on starting salaries for some undefined ER position. And why give the salary per month? Temp work? BLS has a median salary of $306k/yr for emergency medicine physicians...

But you should 100% blame China for COVID anyway. Every expert on pandemics said keeping multiple species in close contact in wet market conditions risked an outbreak. I half think the lab leak conspiracy is a Chinese op to muddy the waters so people forget that...