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Child Care or Redskins Tickets?
POLITICO’s Erika Lovley: Finding Hill day care not child’s play Congressional staffers compare getting child care on Capitol Hill to landing season tickets to the Redskins: nice idea, never going to happen. With two waiting lists a total of 345 families long, admission delays at both the Senate Employees Child …
The Timing of Political Points
Our time line got several thousand extra views last week – with a few new readers visiting FamousDC from NYC. We believe you should always keep a good thing going. We’ll continue to update the time line as the story develops. Please let us know if you see anything interesting …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
What an exciting week! The SEC doubled down against Goldman, Patrick O’Connor welcomed Sam O’Connor to the world, Shira Toeplitz and Kim Hart are joining POLITICO, God’s quarterback is heading to Denver, Ali McSherry has visited 40+ restaurants this year, GOP.gov went platinum, Marco Rubio was endorsed by a broom, …
Congressional Baseball 2.0
The new Congressional Baseball Game website is live h/t – RST RELATED: Congressional Baseball Game Changer
NRCC Video Guy Continues Hot Streak
The ongoing lesson in how to produce good web videos continues… It’s all about the Irish Whiskey…
Beautiful Washington, D.C.
We sometimes forget to slow down and soak in the city we all get to live and play in. Luckily for all of us, Mr. Jeff Urbanchuk took that break and captured some amazing shots. Please let us know if you have DC photography to share with the FamousDC community.
Goals for Good Charity Lacrosse Game [4/24]
Goals for Good will be an annual event held to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association right here in Washington, DC. Each year, the fight against Alzheimer’s disease becomes more critical. Every 70 seconds, a new individual is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Association is committed to finding a cure …
Magic Mike Gets the NY Times Magazine Treatment
NY Times Magazine: Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To Political insiderdom — or the illusion thereof — has moved from Georgetown salons or cordoned-off security zones to a mass e-mail list administrated by a never-married 45-year-old grind known as Mikey. Congratulations to Mr. Allen and the …
The Timing of Political Points
Tuesday, April 20 Things are heating up. Daily Finance: Goldman Sachs Earnings Double to $3.5 Billion as Firm Faces SEC Suit Embattled Goldman Sachs (GS) said Tuesday that thanks to its trading and investing prowess, its first-quarter profit doubled to $3.5 billion, easily beating analysts’ expectations. Matt Drudge is still …
Huff Post Hill [4-20]
Still Pond is running the Huffington Post. Huff Post Hill Blanche Lincoln is bogarting the spotlight with the derivatives bill she’s rolling out tomorrow. Mitch McConnell thinks Wall Street reform is totally skunked, but is considering one more toke. The D.C. voting rights bill is completely cashed. Oh, and Kumar …
The Timing of Political Points
We can’t get enough of this story so we are going to post an update each morning of the latest developments. We will continue to update the full time line. Monday, April 19 Don’t call it a comeback. Politico: Spitzer: Goldman suit no coincidence “This was not a coincidence,” asserted …
Think About This
Today … Someone is starting a job and wore his best suit. Someone is getting up the nerve to tell the boss they need a raise. Someone is hungover from Sunday- funday. Someone ran three miles before work this morning. Someone worked all weekend. Someone spilled coffee on their tie. …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Jack Smith has an awesome Twitter background, did this guy finally get a day off?, we’re going to visit asteroids, hanging with Ali McSherry must be fun, Mark Knoller trends on Twitter, Shira Toeplitz loves 90s rap, Anthony Weiner tea bags tea partiers, Justin Ross opened Justin’s Cafe, can a …
Beautiful Washington, D.C.
We sometimes forget to slow down and soak in the city we all get to live and play in. Luckily for all of us, Mr. Jim Swift took that break and captured some amazing shots. These were all shot with a cheap plastic HOLGA camera, which you can buy on …