>IME sushi can be either "cheap" or "good," but never both.

Agree wholeheartedly.

>Will probably get a Michelin star in the next edition.

Yup. Michelin released their "cited" list (Stars + Bib Gourmands) and Causa is already on the list.

We went to Causa last weekend and it was fantastic.

>I'm a serious meat eater and Oyster Oyster was still one of the best meals I had all year.

Agree. We went last fall, and are going back in April to try their spring menu.

I too would have crazy eyes trying to brave the crowds at the Tidal Basin near full bloom

From trying to navigate DC Health's website, there hasn't been an update on their healthcare facility mask guidelines since 2021?

>he was wearing three masks (two surgical and one N95) and a face shield.

Could make sense if he was high risk I guess, or was going to do a high-risk procedure on you.

I just enjoyed not getting upper respiratory infections from patients over the last three years. Will probably keep wearing N95s from the start to end of the winter.

CDC dropped the mask mandate in healthcare settings last fall but left it up to individual health entities. Most, especially with those treating high-risk populations left them in place.

Link here

this is changing at the end of April in Maryland iirc.

Yes, we explicitly sent Ukraine GLSDBs.

Centrolina is supposed to be fantastic and right in City Center.

Ours are optional for patients.

Kaiser, at least the northern MD part, is also making them optional for patients as well.

Yeah, I was hoping that the USAO would be called.

However, would there be jurisidiction issues? If they are federal prosecutors, wouldn't they have to be called by the Judiciary Committee?

>A misleading word salad

Cut and pasted from WaPo? Are you really saying that they are taking cues from the GOP? Or that the GOP reads WaPo as gospel?

>Homicides are up 19 percent over the same time in 2022, when D.C. for the second year in a row surpassed 200 killings, something it had not done since the early 2000s. Overall crime is up 23 percent, driven in large part by a spike in auto thefts, though violent crime is even with 2022, a year that saw decreases.

>Other distinct challenges specific to D.C. have also emerged: Federal prosecutors — who function as D.C.’s local prosecutors in the federally funded D.C. Superior Court — recently reported they are declining to prosecute roughly two-thirds of arrests, raising questions about prosecutors’ standards for accepting cases and the evidence in the cases police bring. With the D.C. crime lab shut down, prosecutors are also having to outsource processing of evidence to other labs, also potentially affecting decisions about which cases to pursue, as the office has noted.

Either of these are enough to have a hearing over imho.

A sitting House rep being assaulted in the lobby of her building, and the staffer of a US Senator being stabbed on H Street in the span of 6 weeks isn't concerning?

While every politician lobbies or grandstands, these people and their staffers live in the immediate vicinity for at least a third of the year.

There were a lot of people having tea in the atrium of the Waldorf.

Beautiful lobby when sunny

You don't math or read.

As above, property taxes in TX are much higher. As are sales taxes (8.5% v 6.25% in MA)

For our friends (dual income, 3 kids) taxes were a wash.

You can't escape taxes. "No income tax states" will get their pound of flesh somehow.

lazy political take.

Every locale will get their pound of flesh.

987K apartment on Capitol Hill: $5.6K property tax

1025K home in Dallas: $13k property tax

Know this in that we have friends who moved from the Dallas burbs to Newton MA. We asked how much more they were paying in taxes going from TX to MA and it was a wash; higher income taxes in MA were offset by lower property taxes.

Cross the line into VA or MD.

Online sports betting went live Thanksgiving Weekend in Maryland.

Fanduel, Draftkings, MGM and Caesars.

Caesars has garbage new account bonuses; MGM is the most generous (lots of free bets for deposits).

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Getting Dom for the price of 3 Buck Chuck is still wrong

Some of these bottles MSRP for $100-$200.

They sell for $1-2k on trading/auction sites.

Using your government office to benefit yourself should absolutely be stamped out

I like Del Mar and Moon Rabbit at the Wharf