Comments on: Lots of Coffee News

By: carn

carn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:27:47 +0000

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:30:27 +0000

Coffee news is always good news.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:19:24 +0000

Rock on…I work across the street from Miss Pixie’s (can see it from my window). We’re in need of a good little place around here!

By: Pennywise

Pennywise — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:01:19 +0000

ontarioraoder, it was Patrick Mara that said that I believe.

re: DCRA, a fun challenge is to ask them about re-lining a chimney. Not a rebuild, but a re-lining. Try and get one singular answer from them within, say, five business days. They are lost and incompetent, no one set of rules that they all have access to. They were part of a Famous Fenty Foto-Op a couple years ago, where he says something like “we made it better now its better and we’re done” before running off to the next Foto.

By: saf

saf — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:33:08 +0000

Anon – there’s also good deli stuff available at Wagshal’s, up Mass Ave by the AU Law School.

And as for DCRA, Fenty thinks he’s fixed it. He’s wrong, but…

By: New2CH

New2CH — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:32:09 +0000

The owners of Tynan are speaking at the next NCHA meeting, April 1, 7:00 at Park Triangle community room — so if you have suggestions for them, drop by!

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:43 +0000

Noone is surprised when a report comes out that Zimbabwe has terrible drinking water, corrupt gov’t officials, AIDS epidemic, or inept gov’t. So why are people in such an uproar when it happens in DC?
DC gov’t is one of the biggest impediments to the city. It’s the people. Now how do you go about getting rid of the bad ones without being tarred as a racist?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:17:30 +0000

regarding the DCRA, it seems like this could be so easily remedied — lots of problems in the city require a lot of cash to fix, but not this one, just a manner of streamlining, simplifying, firing people who are incompetent, just making the whole process more user-friendly, web-accessible / based, etc. Has anyone heard if Fenty admin. gives a damn / is working this? Since city council seems unable or unwilling to do anything on the biggest issues (crime and education) perhaps they could at least take a shot at fixing the permitting system …

By: anon

anon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:15:50 +0000

Mmmm, that Parkway looks stellar … alas, I don’t have a car . I would KILL for a place like that in Columbia Heights or Petworth … maybe the rents are just too damn high right now, because one thing is for sure: there is a ton of vacant space in C.H. in particular, and none of it seems to be attracting any businesses …

By: ontarioroader

ontarioroader — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:53:52 +0000

Unless you’ve spent [read: lost] a day or more of your time to DCRA you really have no idea how hard it is to open or run a business here. Ask any bartender with a ‘managers license’ here about just getting or renewing their license – it’s an unbelievable convoluted and complex process. Wasn’t it someone in the city council or mayor’s office who said [optimistically] “this is the 51st worst state in the country to try to open/start a business”? They’re right.