Tom Wolfe is not pleased with your rebuilding efforts

Today is the one-year anniversary of the fire that ripped through Eastern Market, the District’s premier farmer’s market. DCist reflects on reconstruction delays affecting the Market, while City Paper’s Jason Cherkis says “I’ll hit Whole Foods instead. Thanks, though.” Last year, the Voice ran a cover story on Eastern Market after the fire.

All this talk about Eastern Market can’t convince me it’d be too much of a hassle to get groceries from there instead of at Safeway.

-Will Sommer, Blog Editor. Picture by Emily Voigtlander. 

The District’s Department of Transportation has partnered with Clear Channel Outdoor to bring Smart Bike, North America’s first bike sharing program, to DC. Starting next month, program members will be able to borrow bicycles from ten locations around the city for a maximum of three hours at a time. Membership costs $40 for the year, a comparatively small sum for unlimited transportation use during a time of oil price increases.

But the limited number of rental stations may not make this the most convenient mode of transportation for many in DC, especially Georgetown students. The closest Smart Bike docking points to Georgetown are in Dupont Circle and at George Washington University—yes, they get their very own station at Foggy Bottom.

If Georgetown can’t manage to secure a Metro station, you’d think we could at least get some free bikes. To learn more, check out Smart Bike DC online.

- Lynn Kirshbaum, Photo Editor. Photo of Paris bike share from Flickr user rekha6.

Vox Populi’s kissing-cousins at The Hoya’s blog The Saxa recently made a bold move to divide their blog between regular news (Leavey421, in subtle homage to The Hatchet) and sports news (TheHoyaParanoia). But the Saxa’s editors have something else in store for us: a terrible, terrible pun. From Google Reader, an administrative post reveals as-yet-unmade third section:

Leavey421
- The Newsroom
TheHoyaParanoia
- Sports
Hoya Gonna Vote For?
- Election 2008

It replaces the crime blog, Hilltops and Robbers.

-Will Sommer, Blog Editor

People on the southern part of campus (Village A, New South, that sort of thing) heard a circling helicopter from around 12:30 to 1 this morning. The helicopter was beaming down a search light. Hoping for more Georgetown crime, your intrepid blogger followed the light until the woods on Prospect. I’m betting there was an accident in the Potomac. Anyway, I hit up MPD and will be back with the results later today. Ideas on what the helicopter was looking at?

-Will Sommer, Blog Editor