In Washington DC they have a shiny new baseball stadium. That's the good news. The bad news is that everything else in the city - which, let's face it, was never in great shape to begin with - is deteriorating rapidly.
Matt Welch of Reason Magazine discusses the rat problem that is plaguing the city:
Washington, D.C., is lousy with rats, and not just of the human variety. I knew that before moving here—you’d always see them scampering around sidewalks and alleys when walking around town—but it took living full-time in the city to appreciate both the awe-inspiring magnitude of the infestation and the jaw-dropping indifference of a municipal government more focused on giving free money to billionaires than addressing the capital’s legendary civic rot.
