CNET and CBS News have posted some very interesting satellite pictures of crowds at the National Mall for President Obama's inauguration…

See photos from the crowds awaiting the inauguration of Barack Obama. Read more...

While millions of people crowd into the National Mall on Monday and Tuesday for the inauguration of Barack Obama, buildings around the area will be eerily empty, all in the name of security.… Read more...

Washington isn’t often a city completely filled with joy, laughter, and crowded streets of smiles. Today, I watched the Lincoln Memorial Inauguration Concert on HBO. If you didn’t get to see it – you missed the most amazing sight (see the video and a great slideshow on HBO's Web site). What I saw today walking the streets toward the national mall and on television was a true picture of the American family. I saw faces of all colors and people all ages and realized again that we are made up of so many strands, each of us so… Read more...

I leave for the nation’s capital in less than six hours – by car from Princeton, NJ – and dreading the traffic I’ll undoubtedly encounter. It will be unlike the Big-I at its worst, or Avenida Cesar Chavez just before the UNM vs. NMSU basketball game, or morning rush hour at Coors and Paseo Del Norte. Traffic will be snarling. And once I’m there I’ll have to travel by foot for days. Friends who live in DC have told me that they are already watching up to five metro trains pass them, with no room for additional passengers, during their… Read more...