DC Blogs Noted
Food Stamps: The Economics of Eating Well is the title of a piece in the New York Times that the blogger at A Mile of Another’s Shoes contributed to. The blog was about a recent month long challenge to eat well and healthfully on the maximum allowance for food stamps.
More on the issue of healthy eating: What Killed The Anacostia Farmers Market? The Slow Cook.
The see-through characteristics of some types of clothing aren’t always apparent, writes Word Perv in The Day I Flashed My Office.
Photo report: Holiday Cheer in Columbia Heights or the triumph of commercialism. Plight of the Pumpernickel .
The infamous ANC 8C Office. See what $900 a month gets you in commercial real estate on MLK Ave. Congress Heights on the Rise.
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space notes the closing of Lambda Rising and the broader issue of saving a loved retail business. Revitalization managers are often caught short by these retail closing, he writes. Excerpt: The frustrating thing is that a lot of time the business owner never reaches out for help–until it is too late, when most of the options and tools you have to work with are no longer available, or aren’t available because of the accelerated time frame that you have been presented with.
Thinking about parking in DC, Yglesias writes: Making parking cheap somewhere where lots of people want to park doesn’t actually make cheap parking widely available—it just creates a parking shortage.
DC Blogger Meetup is tonight at 7 p.m. at a new venue, a Dupont Circle watering hole (near Metro). RSVP. By 4 p.m. NotionsCapital has details and links.
