According to news reports, President (and New York Knicks fan) Donald Trump was booed at Madison Square Garden when he attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals earlier this week. Whether it was a full-throated mass booing or scattered booing wasn’t clear, although they could’ve been saying BLUUUUUEEE! to indicate their support for the upgrades to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Another notable upgrade in D.C.: the Columbus Fountain, outside Union Station. Today, it gleams, and get this: Water actually comes out of it again. The fountain had fallen into disrepair and hadn’t shed a drop since 2007. In 2016, it was named as one of the national park historic sites competing for a $2 million spiff-up grant. It lost to sites like “Denali National Park (Alaska) Superintendent’s Office.” It seemed wrong to pit our historic sites against each other, scrambling for crumbs. Why not, you know, just fix it?
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