To everyone complaining about RCN increasing their rates: keep track of what verizon and other providers are offering in your area (i get frequent fliers) and call RCN to threaten to switch if they don’t roll back your increase. I’m still paying the intro rate i got when i signed up four years ago. this year verizon had a really good offer and i was tempted to dump RCN anyway even after they rolled back the increase, but i got lazy and decided to keep them for one more year.

Add it to the tracker

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/10547wd/restaurant_service_charge_tracker/

No. That’s insane. A pickup restaurant shouldn’t be charging tip. If they can’t make it, they should just up their prices by twenty percent.

Becuase restaurants are businesses and businesses pay taxes. It's a much better use of land than the net cost drain street parking is on the city.

Isn’t that the point? How is it helpful to just let them continue to live like that? Ignoring the problem by not doing anything is just going to make the conditions worsen further and further.

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So they should take one of those vacant shelter beds, right? There is a whole pathways to housing track available for the temporarily unhoused that is completely separate from the waiting list for affordable housing.

Had a great experience with Capital Oral and Facial Surgery (Dr. Rostami). Helpful staff, relaxing office, and Dr. Rostami was very attentive both pre- and post-operation. Got all 4 taken out at once and had almost no bleeding or pain after 24 hours. All around as good as it gets for wisdom teeth

Best satire post I’ve seen this week

Teehehe.

Not uncommon for email blasts (that go to everyone) to come from a different email address than account-specific messages

Just from a sanitation point of the view, the camps do need to be periodically cleared. Otherwise, they fill up with garbage and human waste, which is a health and safety hazard.

I think the argument could also be made that having many smaller encampments is preferable to one large one, both from a crime and sanitation perspective. Having that many unhoused people together just exacerbates any potential safety concerns.

I do agree that permanent camp clearance doesn't solve the root of the problem though. Unfortunately, this isn't a problem that you can just throw money at to have it go away. There's really no good way to handle the mentally ill and drug users, who make up a disproportionate amount of a camp's longterm population. Even if you provided them an apartment, just keeping them in it would be a challenge without treating the underlying condition. NYC is looking to try to involuntarily hospitalize these people but what happens when they inevitably get out? You can't force people to take their meds or continue rehab. There's also not enough social workers to ever hope to keep up with a population of that size.

I honestly don't know what the answer is here. Even with sufficient resources, I don't think it's realistic that they'll be able to house all of them due to the above. Ceding parks to them doesn't seem a like a solution either.

You haven’t heard it because it isn’t true.

Maybe it means we're finally getting more widespread 5G Ultrawideband coverage.

Nope. I’m good.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, which clearly you haven’t, the mayor has been lobbying the president to force suburban commuters to return to the office. And I live in northwest and your muthas house.

“Being a person who residents blame when they have to start commuting again — let alone being a blue-city Democrat who makes strange bedfellows with GOP ultras — is the sort of thing usually avoided by a pol skilled enough to win a landslide third term as mayor, as Bowser just did.

But the way the local government sees it, something has to give or else the city is in deep trouble.

There are days when downtowns in other American towns can almost look like they did before 2020. In the 9-to-5 core of Washington, though, there’s no mistaking the 2023 reality with the pre-Covid world. Streets are noticeably emptier and businesses scarcer. Crime has ticked up. The city’s remarkable quarter-century run of population growth and economic dynamism and robust tax revenues seems in danger.

Officials now privately worry about a return to the bad old days when the District, unable to pay its bills, was forced to throw itself on the mercy of Newt Gingrich’s Congress. And while some of the broad factors that caused the whipsaw change from municipal optimism to civic anxiety are beyond any local pol’s control, bringing Uncle Sam’s workers back is something denizens of D.C.’s government think mayoral cajoling might affect.

According to census data, Washington has the highest work-from-home rate in the country. Week-to-week numbers from the security firm Kastle Systems back this up: The company, whose key fobs are used in office buildings around the country (including the one that houses POLITICO), compiles real-time occupancy data based on card swipes in its 10 largest markets. D.C. is perennially dead last.

“It is a challenge to have a quarter of the economy sitting on the sidelines,” Falcicchio says. The total number of jobs has dropped significantly, notably in hospitality. “We think that’s because those jobs are really kind of indirect jobs that are somewhat dependent on the vibrancy that the federal government being in the office offers.”

“Or another way to look at it is Metro,” the regional transit system, he says. “It’s about a third of what it used to be.” When rider revenue plunges, the local jurisdictions have to make up for it out of their general funds — money that could otherwise go to schools or public safety. It’s a dangerous cycle for any municipality.

In the local nightmare scenario, a downtown that’s perpetually short of workers has disastrous knock-on effects: Taxes on retail sales and commercial real estate don’t come in, public services get cut back, transit gets slower, empty streets feel increasingly scary, and the capital regains its 1980s-era image as a place people flee.”

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Because they are a far more efficient and pleasant use of land than more on-street parking (which there is already far too much of).

Is there a way to do the opposite of sign this petition?

Yes, Xfinity just did this in Baltimore. 2 hours in the middle of the day...while working from home :)

I'm not sure wtf this has to do with the homelessness issue but if you want to start a completely separate discussion about it:

• Yes absolutely those should be brought up to some sort of code and all the ones I've seen lately (I live near a lot) have been reinforced to be safe, heated structures protected behind concrete barricades
• Many people are in favor of moving away from the uniquely American concept of letting car use take over such significant portions of our cities. Letting restaurants expand patios brings us in line with the rest of the developed world.
• There's real economic benefit to it (increased restaurant capacity, pandemic safe seating for local businesses) and the amount of parking spaces they take away is negligible
• I could keep going but its not really worth it, since your red herring of a comment barely deserved this much effort and you've probably stopped reading anyways.

You don't actually live in D.C., right? Guessing you commute from NoVA. Also, "looming fiscal crisis, LOLOLOLOL.

I already get texts from Verizon about my account (like automatic payment received, etc) so I would’ve expected it to come from that number!

Mine just went out for an entire night and I thought I had bumped into the router but then I checked my apartment portal two days later and everyone had been complaining.

The email went out shortly after lol

Same here, would have been nice to know rather than restarting my router and modem about 10 times, swapping out switches to see if that was the issue, and starting to consider swapping out ethernet cables. Grrr.