From: KPW
To: ward5 @ yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012
fewer
voters, less clout in spingarn area
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From:
Debbie Smith-Steiner
To:
ward5 Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 10:53 am Subject:
RE: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012
What
about the carbarn issue. I guess that is
not important?
From: WKPW3@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:31 -0400
Subject: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012
Excerpt
from article for those who want to know exactly where Bloomingdale is
Bloomingdale
is an increasingly popular neighborhood south of McMillan Reservoir and north
of Florida Avenue. It abuts North Capitol Street on its eastern edge and is
bisected by Rhode Island Avenue, a main corridor that was plagued by rushing
water and stranded vehicles during bouts of rainfall in late July.
In the midst of the power outages and flooding, I had a epiphany when I realized less than 5 ppl were tweeting from/about Eckington. Here we are virtual neighbors, yet the outcry from bloomingdale was louder. Do we suffer an inferiority complex to our identical twin neighbor, where we don't want to claim we live in eckington? I love my hood, the new & the old parts. Are we in eckington less technologically savvy? I have facebok, twitter, instagram, pinterest AND a website. *shrug*. Should I not follow @bloomingdaledc and only follow @eckingtondc...oh wait, that's an egg w/no tweets. Even #eckingtondc gave me little to few results. Yes bloomingdale is a bit more "diverse" -white...than eckington -for now..but does it really come down to that? Yes in many ways it does. Bloomingdale residents weren't born & raised there. They aren't used to the status quo. They come fom a place and mindset that if something is wrong...goddamit it should be fixed, sooner than later. We, on the other side of the road have "lived" thru just about everything the city can throw at us. We go inside, close the doors, and tend to our "own" home. It's that post City Under Seige mentality...oh you didn't know? Google it. Before Cops...DC had its own show. Any who...I digress. Anybody mad at Bloomingdale, is mad for all the wrong reasons. Galvanize your neighbors, attend meetings, talk to each other...hell I've talk to my neighbor 3 times this week...and we've never met face to face. The internet is wonderful thing. I fell in love with my hood by virtue of the internet alone. Real talk. And remember, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
ReplyDeletePeace,
@InTheGreatRoom
...ps @bloomingdaledc, ur so on point when it comes to bloomingdale, would u consider taking ur twin brother under ur wing ;-)