S***** Neighborhood Rallies Against A****** Developer

In the late 1990s when I worked in television, I had a tv entertainment concept show about DC that was part Melrose Place and part West Wing (although not focused on the Executive Branch) that I called "Capitol Streets." Unfortunately, lousy shows like "The Monroes" and a show called "D.C." with Mark-Paul Gosselaar (from "Saved by the Bell"), not to mention "The District" with Craig T. Nelson, and truth being stranger than fiction during the Clinton Adminstration doomed the concept at that time.

The Onion has a piece that Ken P. and others have called to our attention, another case when fiction has plenty of real life examples throughout most any major center city...

Click here for the article.

Other fun Onion stories from the past include:

-- Sometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood
-- Many U.S. Cities Losing Battles to Preserve Their Burger Kings
-- Detroit Sold for Scrap
-- FEMA Calls Rebuilding Complete As New Orleans Restored To Former Squalor.