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Mount Pleasant's Growing Pain
An Outdoor Trash Bin At a Latino Restaurant Proves an Unlikely Trigger Of an Ideological Clash In a D.C. Neighborhood

I live across the street from Don Juan's, the Latino restaurant at issue in this article. I've been there and like the place. Of course, I'm often awoken by the sounds of drunken arguments and vomiting in the street when Don Juan's and the other bars close. But unlike certain members of the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance, I always chalked that up to what happens when you live on the main drag of a neighborhood full of bars.

Is the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance racist? There certainly seems to be an element of that. But I suspect that if the rowdiest bars in Mt. Pleasant were frequented mostly by college students, they'd be anti-college-student instead. I'd characterize them more as "anti-party" and encourage them to move to Ballston if they have a problem with life in a real city.