“Dear PoPville,

I live in Capitol Hill between Eastern Market and Union Station and starting Wednesday night my cell signal only has one bar, at best. I can pick up a call, hear the other person, but they never hear me, and then call eventually drops. This is the case on both my personal and work phones, one AT&T and one Verizon. Both companies saying “no outages or issues reported.”

I’ve noticed new towers installed by the Capitol– I’m assuming that’s the cause? Is anyone else experiencing this? Should we assume this will be the case for the next week?”



Photo by Geoff Livingston

“Dear PoPville,

I’m wondering whether you can ask the community about people’s experience with the airbnb ban next week. There are some foreign journalists who have had a reservation to stay at my house through inauguration week (the reservation is still active) and I’m wondering when it will be canceled as it’s supposed to be. Have others had their cancellations already?”


Photo by Joanna Hiatt Kim

From the National Park Service:

“Pursuant to 36 CFR § 1.5(a)(1) the National Capital Area is implementing temporary closures of National Park Service public facilities, parking areas and roadways in response to real and substantially likely threats to visitors and park resources. (more…)



Photo by Libbey Castle

Libby sends the above from the Hopscotch bridge at H Street, NE around 8am.


Photo by Reema Hibrawi

Reema writes at 8:55am: “So…this just happened. Lots of police on horses passing the Omnishore hotel in Woodley headed towards the Capitol I’m guessing”

And the video of the Guard this morning is something: (more…)


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