Aaron Morrissey

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• Posted Are the Redskins Actually Less Popular This Year? to DCist
  Photo by frank.thorp. The first paragraph of Reed Albergotti's Wall Street Journal story today about the decline in popularity of the Washington Redskins tells you pretty much all you need to know about what he thinks, at least of our city.In a town drawn up by a Frenchman, a place brimming with people who hail from somewhere else and who don't agree about much of anything, the Washington Redskins managed to attain something any...
• Posted Last Night's Action: D'oh, Canada to DCist
  Semyon Varlamov couldn't stop this Mike Fisher deflection as the Caps fell in overtime.(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)Senators 4, Capitals 3 (OT): If you had cobbled together a team of professional hockey players from Eastern Canada and were looking for the opportune time to play the Washington Capitals, well, it's now. The Caps dropped their third straight game to a team from either Ontario or Quebec on Monday night, losing an overtime decision...
• Posted The Hi-Lo: Season Tip to DCist
  Photo by ohad*. Leaves have fallen and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. You know what that means -- turkey! Also, it's time to get back to the hardwood. Welcome to the first edition of The Hi-Lo, DCist's new roundup of the week that was in DMV college hoops. College basketball -- unlike any other widely beloved American sport -- opens with such little fanfare that you could be forgiven for completely forgetting about...
• Posted Increased Urban Walkability For The Win to DCist
  Walking to The Passenger last night, my mind drifted toward thoughts about the development of the area north of H Street along 7th Street NW. Perhaps it was destiny, then, that I stumbled over this photograph of Mt. Vernon Square taken in 1992 by Jack Boucher for the Historic American Buildings Survey of the Library of Congress, which DCist flickr contributor rockcreek shared with our image pool yesterday. It's a good reminder of how...
• Posted Early-Out/Easy-Out At Core Of Latest Fenty/Council Spat to DCist
  Photo by LGography. Should the District's early-out/easy-out retirement payments be considered a "bonus"? This is the debate in the latest chapter of the overarching tiff between the Fenty administration and the D.C. Council. The Examiner's Michael Neibauer reports today that four District employees have been denied such exit payments by the Department of Human Resources, after the Council approved a 2010 budget which outlaws all "bonuses and special payments" to District employees. Employees enrolling...