Friends 1. Clubs. Southern. Friends 2. Tesla Motors Considering K Street Location - DCist. Who says the electric car is dead?
The Washington Post is reporting that California-based Tesla Motors is close to leasing space on K Street for a dealership and service station. Tesla, founded in 2003, is a maker of luxury electric cars. The company raised more than $200 million with their IPO earlier this year. Tesla told the Post the location they are considering is at 1050 K Street, NW. Tesla cars are not cheap, with prices starting at over $100,000. The District is poised to become a showplace of electric car technology, with both Nissan and General Motors planning on unveiling their offerings here in the near future.
City officials are jumping at the chance to get a deal inked for Tesla. Protecting Your Bike. ‘Next time, lock up the entire bike’courtesy of ‘billaday’ I love bike riding.
And I love bike riding around DC. It’s truly a fantastic mode of transportation, whether you’re headed to work or play. Since moving to DC in 2006, with my Cannondale in tow, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the amount of bike traffic. I’d most likely attribute this rise to 1) increased Metro fares, 2) the addition of numerous bike lanes and bike racks, in part spearheaded by the WABA, and 3) the increase in popularity of road biking.
Mike’s first nugget of wisdom is for all riders to buy a U-Lock and cable combo. When it comes to other types of locks on the market, Mike says heavy chain locks (like the BEAST series) offer a good, but second best level of security, and that cable locks should be avoided because it can be easily and quickly cut through. Once you’ve got your U-Lock and cable combo, the next step is learning how to use it to secure your bike properly. Rebecca Johnson. The non-circles of Washington: Part 2. History by Geoff Hatchard • August 24, 2010.
@alexpriest @DCeventjunkie Downtown #DC wants to check in! DC Wins “Race To The Top” ”courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ It’s a good day for Michelle Rhee.
Just one day after the school year began, DC and nine other states (Maryland included) have been named winners of the Department of Education’s Race to the Top grants. The grants will disperse roughly $3.4 billion to the winners, though no word yet on how much DC will specifically receive. Winners were chosen based on their commitment to school reform. This was demonstrated through the creation of tools to measure students’ success, preparation of students for college and the workplace, hiring and retaining effective teachers, and improvement of poorly performing schools.
Other winners in this round of competition included Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island. Rebecca Gross. Massive chunk of ice breaks off Greenland glacier - Capital Weather Gang. Posted at 2:15 PM ET, 08/ 6/2010 By Brian Jackson NASA MODIS image from Aug. 5, 2010, shows a large chunk of ice has broken away from Greenland's Petermann Glacier (iceberg is just to the right of center).
Credit: NASA NASA's MODIS satellite sensor, which has a history of providing breathtaking shots of our planet, was at it again yesterday. A large -- approximately 97-square-mile -- chunk of ice broke away from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland. PRSA-NCC. The Prevent Cancer Foundation 5k. Bike of the Day: 8.24.10 (Seattle) DCRA rulemaking in action: Food trucks vs. BIDs. ‘my lobstah roll’courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Those of you who love food trucks (and who doesn’t, really?)
Have probably heard by now that there are some dealings afoot that would restrict where food trucks can park and potentially threaten the ability of food truck proprietors to operate. The regulation in question is Title 24, Chapter 5 of the DC Code. Right now, most of those regulations pertain to stationary food carts, the ubiquitous hot dog stands. Aside from rule 516, which specifies that a mobile vendor can’t stay in one place longer than it takes to complete the transaction with a customer and that businesses like ice cream trucks that attract children have to park near crosswalks when possible, there’s just not that much attention paid to mobile vendors. So DCRA has proposed a bunch of new rules that would, among other things, specifically accommodate mobile food trucks. Among the must-see spots in the nation's capital: the cupcake queue.
Behold the power of Georgetown Cupcake: One sweltering day this month, a young woman was baking in the sun on 33rd Street NW, waiting in the long queue to buy some of the bakery's signature sweets, when she fainted on the sidewalk.
An ambulance rushed to the scene, but she declined to go to the hospital. Of course she did. "She didn't want to get out of line," explains the voguish bakery's co-owner, Katherine Kallinis. Driving Is Why You're Fat. GW relinquishes ‘most politically active’ title in annual Princeton Review rankings - Beyond the Books Blog - The GW Hatchet. Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 2:16 p.m.
Mad Men Season 4 Premiere Tweetup (via @alexpriest) Washington D.C. Wins the Pay Gap. According to the New York Times, the District of Columbia has the lowest pay gap between male and female workers in the country, compared to the 50 states.
From NYT: "in the District of Columbia, the median weekly wage of full-time women workers is 96.5 percent of that for their male counterparts, far and away the most parity in the country. " The U.S. average is 80.2 percent; Louisiana women are trailing the rest of the country, making only 65 percent of men's wages. Some other local stats: Virginia women make 80.4 percent of what Virginia men do; Maryland women make 87.3 percent. Of course, in this contest, we're a tiny urban area competing with states filled with urban, suburban, and rural areas—so this is likely more a triumph for cities than it is for the District. Photo via George Eastman House.
The DCeiver. DC Bikes. DC. Craigslist. We Love DC. The DC Concierge. DCist. VolunteerMatch. Greater Greater Washington. DCInterns Blog. Why.i.hate.dc.