Archives: October2006

  • THIS JUST IN!!!

    You heard it here FIRST!!
     HOOD RICHARDSON ARRESTED ON HALLOWEEN!!
    WHY? For illegally distributing campaign materials — he did it on a high school campus — specifically at a Southside High School football game. Ahhhh, allegedly, that is.
    Couldn’t you just die? Isn’t that just too too rich?
    Now read the post below, our real post for today…  [...]

  • Don’t stop now!!! Sign the petition! And more fun news of the local type.

     We’ve got over 135 signatures on the Save the Pure Oil Station petition. Come on! Help us get 200… tell you friends, hell, tell your enemies, to sign it! Read the comments on the signature page, they’re pretty darn skippy. And don’t forget to ask Judy Jennette why she fubarred the whole presevation deal… yup.
    Petition [...]

  • Judy Jennette and the Pure Oil Station

     So, here’s the skinny on the Pure Oil Station sale. Not rumor. Fact.
    A couple of years ago, the Washington Area Historic Foundation Board  met and decided to ask Mr. Parvin, about-to-be former owner of the Washington Pure Oil Station and to include protective covenants in the sale of the gas station. Provisions that would prevent [...]

  • an open letter to the Washington Daily News

     In response to today’s misguided editorial commenting on the efforts to save the Pure Oil Station.
    A plan? Here’s a plan… cash offers have been made to buy the building. CASH. Offered by people who want to save the building, whether it be to move it or keep it in its present place. Read the [...]

  • Perpendicular crosswalks through the Washington wetlands area?

    To the City and Progress Partners: So, we as taxpayers, citizens, and, apparently, the great unwashed masses, are not now –nor have we ever been– allowed any access to the wetlands area on the north side of the estuary boardwalk yet the condominium owners –as well as Lucy Grist and her band of merry men– [...]