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...
