(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) The President – through his Department of Interior – has made a concerted effort to revitalize much of Washington’s long neglected fountains, public parks, and other architectural displays. Beyond just the ballroom and triumphal arch, these smaller renovation projects store dignity upon a city that has in recent decades been victimized by bureaucratic malaise and has thus fallen into disrepair. One such example, newly reopened, is the Columbus fountain right outside Union Station. Union Station of course serves as the gateway to America’s capital city. Alas, for so many years, the first sight recent arrivals had of the imperial city was a crumbling fountain, often spray-painted with profanities, and doubling as a homeless shelter for drug addicted vagrants….
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