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Washington Post’s FreeRide has a nice article on a new art gallery that is opening in our neighborhood! The gallery is called Civilian Art Projects.
Filing District Taxes Online Is Free And Similar To Using TurboTax
This blogger was pleasantly surprised to find that the District has completely digitized the tax filing process. All you have to do is complete your federal tax form (1040) and log into DC’s Individual Income Tax Online Filing website. You use the site kind of like TurboTax – just enter in numbers that are already on your federal 1040 tax form and all of the number crunching is done by the website. After entering numbers on about 20 web pages, you file your return electronically and download a PDF of your completed return. Print it out and smile at how much time you saved doing your taxes online!
It’s completely free to all District residents – even if you are using the full D-40 form (not just the EZ one).
Sexy Back Alert
On a lighter note, a short reminder that Justin Timberlake will be at the Verizon Center tonight bringing sexy back. Pink is also on the bill. More importantly, watch out for the hordes of teenagers (and grumpy parents) invading 7th Street.
How the City of Barcelona Deals With Nuisance Crimes
Edit: Here is the official info page on Barcelona’s website.
Source: Barcelona Metropolitan
Almost 1 year ago, Barcelona, Spain adopted something called Ordenanza de la Convivencia, or “Ordinance for Living Together”.
In a nutshell, the Ordinance sets up a number of infractions and their corresponding fines, distinguishing in detail between ‘light’, ‘serious’ and ‘very serious’ violations, often of the same offence. Offences can include begging aggressively, putting up posters or leaflets, offering or participating in street gambling, unsuitable play in public spaces, offering or requesting sexual services, noise pollution, urinating in the street, the improper use of public space, drinking in public, vandalism, hawking, attacks on a person’s dignity (e.g. against ethnic minorities or disabled people) and offering or using unauthorised services.
Even if the infraction is light, the fine is not: up to €750 can be charged for buying beer or urinating on the street, and up to €1,500 if the latter is done against a monument, when it becomes a serious violation. Putting stickers on street signs or practising paid-for sexual intercourse in public are considered very serious infractions warranting fines of up to €3,000.
“We want to maintain our model of integrated, open and dense urbanism,” Councillor Asunción Escarp, one of the driving forces behind the Ordinance, told Metropolitan. “Public space is for everybody, and we have to delineate very clearly where the rights of one person end and those of another begin.”
This blogger has a copy of the English version of the pamphlet which we’ll post soon.