Neighborhood in the News: Rock Creek Horse Center, Comet shooter, Carter remembered

Riding horses in snowy Rock Creek Park. (January 2018 photo)

The future of the Rock Creek Horse Center is in flux. “Those who use the facility say they’ve been told by employees that changes are coming, and it is possible the horses would be relocated and the facility would be likely to close as soon as the end of February or March,” reports The Washington Post. Meanwhile, the National Park Service is “‘striving to ensure the long-term sustainability’ of the center…” which has existed since the middle of the last century.

The gunman who fired shots inside Comet Ping Pong in 2016 was killed in January during a police stop. Police in North Carolina say Edgar Maddison Welch pulled a gun on officers.

Welch went to Comet in December 2016 because he believed the “Pizzagate” political conspiracy theories that drew threatening phone calls and far-right protesters to businesses on the block. Eight years later, conspiracy theories still fly across the internet, but Politico reports “years of litigation against online lies — and also thanks to some less-noticed changes in the far-right ecosystem — that means the advent of the second Trump era is not accompanied by the same paranoid fury that eight years ago turned unlikely spots like Comet Ping Pong into giant targets for armed gunmen.”

“He got the whole world to melt except you.” The day of President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral, WUSA9 went to Forest Hills of DC Senior Living to interview residents about his life and legacy. Two had met Carter. WUSA9 has also posted the full interviews.

Legacy-building efforts at UDC. Washingtonian spoke to UDC President Maurice Edington about his vision for the university: “I want to be best-in-class.”