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....
by Alison Bass | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Within weeks of moving to Washington, D.C., I received not one but two notices of speeding violations in the mail. I was flummoxed, having never been pulled over speeding in the city. It turns out that both speeding violations were on the same stretch of road —...
by Alison Bass | Nov 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few days ago, I drove back to Morgantown, West Virginia to visit friends and family and pick up a lamp that had been left behind when I moved in August to Washington, D.C. It felt good to be back for a visit — almost as if I had never left, like slipping on a...
by Alison Bass | Nov 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
In her new book, The View from Third Street, long-time journalist Anita Harris writes about the trial in 1972 of the Harrisburg Eight, a group of anti-Vietnam war activists including the priest Philip Berrigan who stood accused of planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger...
