SPECIAL THIS MONTH
24 Election Watch • by Mark Segraves. Is there a conspiracy to get rid of Carol Schwartz (R-At-Large)? “Absolutely,” Schwartz said in an interview, “it’s being organized by one of my colleagues.” | PDF only
38 Reviving America’s Greatest Game • by Stephen Monroe. It never occurred to us black boys playing baseball on the D.C. playgrounds in the 1950s and 1960s that we were a dying breed. For us, playing baseball in those days was something that would go on all our lives, and for the kids after us. We would never have imagined that one day the black youth of the city would have lost interest in the game. Now, the Nationals, countless baseball fans and the City council have been mobilized to revive that America’s “Greatest Game.” | PDF

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
12 East Washington Calendar | PDF only
20 Bulletin Board • by Peter Vankevich | PDF only
24 Election Watch • by Mark Segraves | PDF only
28 The Numbers • by Ed Lazere | PDF only
30 Neighborhood News • by Virginia Avniel Spatz and David G. Garber | PDF
34 Meet Your Neighbor – Jamil Hamilton aka DJ Jahsonic • by Maceo Thomas | PDF
36 Is DCPS Prepared for the New Year? • Virginia Avniel Spatz | PDF

EAST WASHINGTON LIFE
38 Reviving America’s Greatest Game • by Steve Monroe | PDF
42 North East Flair • by Khadijah Ali-Coleman | PDF
43 Meet Aaliya Muhammad, Ward 7’s Brave New Arts Administrator • by Deidre R. Gantt | PDF

BODY & SPIRIT
44 United Medical Center: The New Greater Southeast Community Hospital •
by B. Michelle Harris McQureerir | PDF
46 A Lesson from “Who Moved My Cheese?” • by Rev. Kip Banks | PDF
48 Going Green When Your Pockets are Lean • by Khadijah Ali-Coleman | PDF

KIDS AND FAMILY
50 The Future of UDC: Does the District need a Community College? •
by Michelle Phipps-Evans | PDF
52 Achievement Prep Academy • by Natasha Abbas | PDF

REAL ESTATE & FINANCE
54 You Might Have a High Cost Mortgage If... • by Frank Demarais and Lewis Smith | PDF
55 Changing Hands • by compiled by Don Denton | PDF only
56 Blue Plains: A Neighborhood for Miscellaneous, Institutional Uses • Hayden Wetzel |
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58 Building Wealth • Armstrong Williams | PDF only
59 Semi-Detached Beauty in Near SE • Jillian P. Brown | PDF

CLASSIFIEDS
60 The Classifieds | PDF only

THE NOSE
63 The Nose Knows • by Anonymous | PDF only

July 2008 East of the River Cover, Contents and Masthead | PDF only