Opinion: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do  
• May 14, 2025

Not even Google can have it all. Shortly before launching their Initial Public Offering in 2004, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, distilled their mission to a […]

Downtowner News: EV Stations, Walkability, Safe Dating and School Vaccines
• August 15, 2022

Adams Morgan Street to Be Periodically Closed for Events   In an effort to help foot traffic, 18th Street between Columbia and Kalorama roads will be shut down on a few […]

Downtowner News Briefs: June 6, 2022
• June 6, 2022

“Shaming Renaming” Gets D.C. Council Member Banned from Russia  D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), helped name a block outside the Russian Embassy after a dissident the Russians are […]

GMS’s Melanie Hayes Excited by 2022 Opportunities  
• February 9, 2022

As the new chair of Georgetown Main Street (GMS), Melanie Hayes – Vice President, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty – is enthusiastic about her GMS team and their group’s mission to […]

Covering Zuck in a Suit on the Hill
• April 12, 2018

Some media focused on the threat of future regulation of Facebook. “Mark hints at future fees,” some ominously noted. Others warned about or recommended “comprehensive” legislation.

Startups Big and Small: Halcyon’s New Cohort
• September 14, 2017

At the Sept. 12 event introducing the fellows, Erin Egan, Facebook’s vice president and chief privacy officer, policy, reminded them and the other attendees that Facebook also began as a startup.