by Alison Bass | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before I retired, I enjoyed teaching journalism at West Virginia University. I had some truly motivated and gifted students and I liked most of my colleagues, a talented bunch of former journalists and public relations professionals. But I’m glad I’m no...
by Alison Bass | May 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
As a sexual assault survivor myself, I followed the Carroll vs Trump trial with great interest. Would a jury finally believe a sexual assault victim who didn’t scream or go to the police? When I was raped in London during my junior year abroad almost 50 years...
by Alison Bass | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
As you may recall, shortly after I moved to DC and before I had a chance to get my District license plates, I was slapped with two hefty speeding violations within two weeks while driving along the same stretch of road in NE Washington. Each were for $100. I...
by Alison Bass | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
I just got back from a two-week trip to Italy, where a friend and I met up with my son and daughter-in-law (they’re spending the year in London on post-law and post-doc fellowships). We flew into Rome, spent a night catching up on our sleep, and then took a...
by Alison Bass | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
As you may recall, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the District of Columbia’s Department of Motor Vehicles last November after receiving two photo-generated speeding violations on the same stretch of road in DC. I wanted to find out if the...
by Alison Bass | Mar 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
I took the Metro to Macy’s in downtown D.C. yesterday on my way to meet a friend for dinner at my favorite Chinese restaurant. I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I did have a brief conversation with a young man who was camped out next to the...
by Alison Bass | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Did you know the District of Columbia, a territory that is denied full representation in Congress and is almost completely controlled by the federal government, is a vestige of the post Civil War era when southern Democrats were desperate to keep freed blacks from...
by Alison Bass | Jan 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
We drove down to Naples, Florida to get out of winter, like hundreds of other retired snowbirds. And what did we find? Fresh evidence of devastation from Hurricane Ian, at least along the coast just north of Naples on up through Fort Meyers. Life just a mile inland...
by Alison Bass | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
As you may have heard, Kroger, which is already the largest grocery chain in the country, wants to merge with Albertsons, creating a food behemoth that will almost certainly reduce competition and drive up food prices for anyone who shops at Kroger, Ralph’s,...
by Alison Bass | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the reasons I love living in Washington, D.C. is because it reminds me of home, or more precisely, the community that I grew up in. Bryn Gweled was (and still is) an intentional community founded by Quakers with the twin ideals of diversity and sustainability....
