The next time the Federal City Council tries to sell you a project...

The Federal City Council is the power behind local politics, the organization that links business, political, and powerful nonprofit elites (such as all the city's universities) into the "governing coalition" that urban regime and Growth Machine theory posits as the local leadership united on a local growth agenda.

According to the Washington Business Journal, a project pushed by the FCC for many years, a "National Music Museum," has gone belly up, with a bunch of debts. See "Plans for national music museum come to a coda."

I always thought that a "National" Music Museum could have been tested in the confines of the Uline Arena, a coliseum located a few hundred steps from the New York Avenue Metro station, and where music really happened, ranging from the Beatles first public concert in the U.S., to performances ranging from Paul Robeson to Bob Dylan to the Supremes to Go Go. And being in close proximity to XM Satellite, it struck me as there was a natural partnership...

(3rd Street entrance to the Uline Arena/Washington Coliseum.)