Photographs courtesy Stephen Gutowski.
Most reporting on guns has problems, Stephen Gutowski says. Mainstream outlets understand the politics involved with firearms, but their reporters rarely understand guns or gun policy. Pro-gun outlets understand firearms and gun owners, but they tend not to understand how Washington, DC, works. “I have the ability to bridge both of those worlds,” Gutowski says.
That’s why the Washington Free Beacon reporter is putting his livelihood on the line his last day at the conservative outlet was Friday. As of today, he’s started the Reload, an independent publication based on the Substack model, where people subscribe directly to his reporting. But Gutowski, who’s a certified firearms instructor and who has been one of the best reporters to follow about the NRA’s turmoil, isn’t leaving the Beacon for Substack. He’s built the Reload himself for a couple thousand bucks his biggest expense was buying the URL and living on money he sa
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The District of Columbia plans to restart enforcing parking regulations on June 1. Also, if your license expired during the pandemic, you’ll have to renew it before July 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in a news conference Monday.
The District suspended enforcement of most parking regulations at the outset of the Covid crisis last year and began to ease back into ticketing violators in certain spots last month. Bowser also announced a ticket amnesty program. Rates for residential parking permits will change: Permits will cost $50 for a household’s first car, $75 for the second, $100 for the third, and $150 for the fourth.
Photograph by Andrew Beaujon.
Arlington County will consider buying two pieces of land in South Arlington, near Four Mile Run, to aid plans for an arts and industry district. As ARLnow reports, such a sale would likely mean demolishing the building that’s home to Inner Ear Recording Studios.
Inner Ear moved to the site in 1990 from owner Don Zientara’s Arlington house. In both locations, Inner Ear has been where some of the most famous music from the DC area has been recorded, including some of the first Bad Brains recordings, most of Fugazi’s work, and the Dismemberment Plan’s album
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The Gutenberg Bible in its new case. Photograph by Shawn Miller, via the Library of Congress Life Flickr page.
Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable metal-type printing to Europe, thus beginning that continent’s era of mass communication.
And one of only three perfect vellum copies of his Bible is here in Washington.
German craftsman & inventor Johannes Gutenberg forever left his imprint on the world
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The Library of Congress purchased its copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was owned for five centuries by Benedictine monks, thanks to an act of Congress in 1930. In non-pandemic times, the Bible is usually on display in the Great Hall of the LOC’s Jefferson Building. (The Library of Congress is currently closed due to Covid concerns.) In 2018 the Library installed a new dis