One if the things I learned when researching my house history book was the number of women who were involved in Real Estate, whether as partners to their spouses, executors of their husbands’s estates, or on their own. At least on the Hill, the concept of the stay-at-home wife who was responsible solely for the [...]

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The list of people who have grown up or stopped through Capitol Hill as a young person and then returned later to be honored in one way or another is long. Rare, however, is the tumult that greeted aviator Charles Lindbergh when he returned to the United States from his record-setting flight that forever gave [...]

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The Hill Center had its grand opening on November 19, showing to the community the results of the amazing amount of work that has been done there over the past years. Obviously, the open house was about the future, not the past, but to me, there’s always some history that can be found there. So [...]

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Electronic voting as a means of choosing elected officials has not taken this country by storm, and in fact may be on the wane. Issues with accuracy and transparency have dogged these machines from the outset. But there is one group that has been using such automated systems without problems for over 40 years: Congress [...]

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Hurricane Irene has come and gone, leaving a fair bit of cleanup in its wake. Some people went out to find their cars had been destroyed by trees, others simply had to sweep up a few extra leaves that had been blown around. Jeremy Kenney and Megan Smith were among the latter group, and were cleaning [...]

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