Ward 6 resident and community blogger extraordinaire Jacqueline Dupree is the focus of this week’s Distict Extra in the Washington Post. For full disclosure, she’s also an employee of the Post. As it became clear that the near Southeast and Southwest neighborhoods were about to undergo a radical transformation, Jacqueline began her blog to keep the community updated on progress, as well as track the changes taking place around her. Armed with a digital camera, her website has become an amazing resource for the neighborhood. She has patiently documented several before, during and after projects by taking pictures from fixed locations as the development takes place. Frankly, I’ve talked with several District officials and developers that regularly read her blog and cite it as being the most comprehensive, as well as most up to date, information regarding the area’s growth.

We have her blog linked from our website in the Links category and I hope you all check it out. As she says herself, her blog is "a web site that shows what happens when someone armed with a digital camera gets way too interested in goings-on around the neighborhood." Well Jacqueline... we happen to think its a good thing.