Alex Kasner

DC trial and appellate litigator with a foot in the Bay Area; alum: CA7, W&C; native Sacramentan; honorary Hoosier; Stanford football fanatic.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@SukritGanesh And deal with low-hanging fruit, like getting the Wawona Hotel back up and running—if not expanded.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@kenyanmcduffie Speed cameras save lives. Drivers in DC are reckless, dangerous, and underpoliced. It is horrifying. If we are not going to do officer-based traffic enforcement, we need mechanisms to slow traffic. What is your alternative to speed cameras?

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@billyez2 Also a REALLY good theater scene for a city its size. Go to Music Circus or B St.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@billyez2 As a native Sacramentan, this makes me so sad! Stroll the Fabulous Forties. Get dinner in midtown (Waterboy, Zocalo). Bike ride is discovery park. Have brunch at Magpie overlooking Fremont Park on a warm day. Temple coffee while wandering farmers market in lavender heights.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@maustermuhle Agree with this. But the issue for e-bikes is the infrastructure. Potholes in bike lane are dangerous at 20mph. Lack of protected lanes scary with car doors. Or worse, no lanes at all. Don’t feel safe going East to West.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@JeffDLowe Eggers over Gerwig / Coogler / Chazelle is a big miss.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@mattyglesias What an oddly shallow bit of criticism. As a work of craft, SN is peak of powers for Fincher, Sorkin, Reznor/Ross, acting. As biopic, it invents as all biopics to do, for truth over pure accuracy. As critique, it captures the dead-eyed ego of modern tech oligopoly and alienation

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@PoPville This signage has been up close to a year with no change. Wouldn’t bet on this ever coming to fruition, like the three blocks of H St development that have stalled out and are now vacant blocks.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@812filmreviews I truly do not understand what I am supposed to find insightful or laudable about this Brody’s review. As someone who loved the movie, this review points to nothing in particular that causes me to pause, reconsider, or reflect. It’s just weird, mean, prickly.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

1000%. I know elected leaders like @charlesallen do what they can, but H street needs basic city services. Traffic enforcement. Trash pickup. Better zoning. Public safety. One-off festivals with out-of-town vendors do nothing to engender business stability.

[Eat DC @eat_dc]

I think H St NE has the best collection of diverse, quality restaurants in DC. It's too bad there are so many vacant, neglected buildings in between them and that the city doesn't appear to be doing much to champion/beautify/protect the area outside of a once a year festival.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@eat_dc It’s so disappointing and maddening as a nearby resident. City is unwilling to beautify, or do routine traffic enforcement, or trash pickup. Developers sitting on vacant blocks. So many residents want and expect better and can see that in action at Eastern Market/Union Market.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@BarredinDC It puzzles that Union Market seemingly can’t stop developing, but H St can’t get these things going. Scale of projects?

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@BarredinDC Not surprising. Good that there’s some formalization of what we have known, given lack of movement. H St can’t dig out of this hole until there is building on the three blighted blocks waiting for their developers to act, plus Hechinger. Aggressive thinking needed to spur this.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@charlesallen We have at least 3 housing developments on H that have completely stalled out and turned into vacant lots and blight. Need to think about how to revitalize and seize the opportunity with RFK and surrounds.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@charlesallen Awesome work! Looking forward to aggressively working on how to turn H St and Hechinger Mall and Benning into world-class corridor connecting Union Station to RFK. Continues to lag the city in development, and great place to largely start from scratch for new housing.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@charlesallen Ward 6 resident agreeing to disagree with you on this one.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@CMRobertWhiteDC @Kazmanian_Devil Then you should make DC attractive enough that the team voluntarily puts its HQ in DC. Dictating that the team must locate its offices where you say is commandeering. And they’re already leaving MD; it’s fair to be cooperative and give MD at least something.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@CMRobertWhiteDC Absolutely not. This is nonsense. The team is fully within its rights to locate its HQ where it wants. And why should individuals whose home values skyrocket not be subject to a (capped) increase in property taxes? It’s just a windfall provision.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

@BarredinDC @DDOTDC This city has no interest in making H St conducive to its local residents. H St should not be a car thoroughfare, nor a DoorDash parking lot. I understand scrapping dedicated lanes, but seems like a step back in terms of creative thinking.

[Alex Kasner @CardinalLawyer]

A serious conversation needs to be had about why H St repels longevity. Developers can’t sit on whole blocks, leaving them vacant. Non-restaurants need to flourish. Pedestrians need to be prioritized. X2 needs to be better. Pressure needs to be put on Hechinger site.

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

Filipino spots Hiraya and Kayu are closing on June 30.

“This isn’t goodbye — just a pause. I’m already dreaming of Kayu’s next chapter in NW DC,” says chef Paolo Dungca