Ice melt at D.C. rink leaves skaters longing for colder winter

By 蜜桃视频app Staff
December 27, 2015 | 5:54 AM

Thanks to days of rain and abnormally high temperatures, the ice isn’t what it ought to be Canal Park Ice Rink in Washington, D.C., as seen in this **photo take Dec. 26, 2015. (蜜桃视频app/Allison Keyes)**

By Allison Keyes

WASHINGTON 鈥� Normally at this time of year, the Canal Park Ice Rink and other outdoor rinks in the D.C. area are packed. But this holiday weekend, thanks to days of rain and abnormally high temperatures, the ice isn’t what it ought to be.

“Right now the ice is kind of melted,” says Mariame Diallo, an employee at the rink. “We have some spots that are kind of gone so you can see the concrete.”

Employees were spraying the ice with a hose, but there were so many bare spots the rink was closed part of Saturday.

One mom, who brought her two daughters to skate, said she was disappointed and isn’t pleased with the warm weather.

“I like it cold for Christmas, for ice skating and snow,” she says.

The rink on M Street Southeast is set to be open, ice permitting.

Fired opinion writer still waiting for call from Washington Post after arbitrator ordered reinstatement, back pay

By Neal Augenstein
August 25, 2026 | 1:59 PM

Several days after an arbitrator ordered the Washington Post to reinstate fired opinion writer Karen Attiah, she told 蜜桃视频app she's still hasn't gotten a phone call about returning to work. "I'm waiting to hear from the Washington Post as of this morning," Attiah said. "I'm willing to go back to the work that I was doing as a columnist and as a writer particularly focused on race, gender and international rights." A Thursday ruling by arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to fire Attiah over social media posts about violent white men following last year's killing of Charlie Kirk, and ordered the Post to award Attiah full back pay and lost benefits. "So, the Washington Post has its marching orders, let's see if they follow them," said Attiah, who described her reaction to arbitrator's ruling as "vindicated, slightly tired, really happy about the decision and reinstatement, plus back pay, of course."