The sound you hear would have been excessive snarling traffic, if such weren't already the norm for inside-the-DC-beltway:
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Wal-Mart will be allowed to open its first store inside the Capital Beltway under plans approved by the Prince George's County Council....Wal-Mart is inching every closer to DC, the center of the national anti-WM movement.It allows Wal-Mart to build a store that will sell food at the Capital Plaza Mall in Landover Hills.
Here's the location of the proposed Wal-Mart at the Capital Plaza Mall:
Posted by Kevin on October, 12 2005 at 12:11 PM
Center of the anti-Wal-Mart movement?!? wrote:DC is the center of the anti-Wal-Mart movement? What about Inglewood, CA, New York City, or other cities and towns that have voted down Wal-Mart stores?
Don't you live in the DC area yourself? Isn't it a little silly to mock an area that you've chosen to make your home?
-- October 13, 2005 01:10 AM ∞
Kevin Brancato wrote:What about Inglewood, CA, New York City, or other cities and towns that have voted down Wal-Mart stores?
The two major national organizing-lobbying groups, Wake Up Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart Watch, are in DC, not far apart from one another, in fact.
Don't you live in the DC area yourself? Isn't it a little silly to mock an area that you've chosen to make your home?
I live in Northern VA, just outside of DC. I'll mock the place when it deserves it. Two words: Marion Barry
-- October 13, 2005 07:57 AM ∞
Bobby wrote:I was living and working in DC when Barry, who was the mayor at the time, got arrested at the Vista International Hotel.
I'll never forget the oh so classic lines he uttered there on videotape when he got arrested. The next day I saw people selling t-shirts around town with those lines printed on them.
-- October 15, 2005 09:43 PM ∞
