Last week, we looked at Thomas Edison’s failed attempt to get Congress to change its ways and vote electronically. Nonetheless, it was clearly an idea that needed to be implemented at some point, and so today we’ll look at some of the further attempts made to improve the way that Congress votes.
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Lost Capitol Hill: E-Voting in the Capitol, pt 2.
October 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
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Lost Capitol Hill: E-Voting in the Capitol
October 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
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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Lost Capitol Hill: The Columbia Street-Railway Company
September 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill
Last week’s H Street festival showed, once again, what a vibrant neighborhood this has once again become. Still missing in the picture are, of course, the light rail cars for which the tracks have been laid. And that’s a pity, because it was street cars that made H street what it was originally. Today, we’ll [...]
Lost Capitol Hill: The Standard Bottling Works
September 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
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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Lost Capitol Hill: The Great SE Earthquake of 1918
August 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
I know, I know, right now, it’s all hurricanes all the time. But try to cast your mind back to, oh, last Tuesday, when the city was rattled by an earthquake. It was a startling event, but, as GreaterGreaterWashington showed, hardly unique in the history of DC. Obviously, I was intrigued – was there a [...]
Lost Capitol Hill: Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace
August 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Two weeks ago I wrote about the background of the Lincoln Emancipation statue and how it came to be. The Lincoln Statue is one of two important statues on the Hill, the other is the statue on the top of the Capitol, and this is my subject for today. It is also relevant to me [...]
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Lost Capitol Hill: The Wreck of the Federal
August 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill North, Union Station/NOMA
Today, when we speak of train wrecks on Capitol Hill, it usually refers to some blunder made by Congress. However, not so long ago, there was a real train accident that took place at Union Station. Read today about the wreck of the Federal, and the surprising aftermath thereafter.
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Lost Capitol Hill: Thomas Ball and his Emancipation Statue
August 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
The statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park is not only one of the most iconic images of Capitol Hill, but almost certainly also its most controversial. From the moment of its unveiling by President Grant in 1876 until today, people have puzzled over the image of a crouching slave towered over by the tall [...]
Lost Capitol Hill: The “Drifting” of Population
July 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Ask any Capitol Hill resident as to the major changes that have occurred in this part of town, and they will tell you of the great upheavals that shook the neighborhood in the 50s and 60s, and of the large number of people that moved either to NW DC or to the suburbs, and that [...]
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Lost Capitol Hill: Life After Death for the Washington Canal
July 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill South
Two weeks ago, we looked at the old Washington Canal and its short and unhappy life, by the end of which it was an open sewer. Today, we will look at its life after death, how the land on which it was originally built was used since.
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