Posts by Eric Fidler — Contributor
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Schools and taverns can coexist
The Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board will grant a license for All Souls, the proposed restaurant to occupy the long-vacant storefront at 725 T Street NW in the Shaw neighborhood. While most liquor license applications face protests over noise and trash, several residents had objected on the grounds that children at the school across the street would be harmed by merely… Keep reading…
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A moratorium will stifle new restaurants and lower service
There is yet another movement afoot for a liquor license moratorium (and thus a restaurant moratorium) on U Street. This moratorium is a bad idea, and some other residents have created a petition to oppose it. A resident on 13th Street is behind the latest push; she proposes the moratorium for all new liquor license applications within a 1,800-foot radius of Ben’s Next Door. Keep reading…
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Experimental real-time transit screens come to Arlington, DC
If you go into the Java Shack coffee shop near Court House in Arlington, or walk past the Red Palace bar on H Street in DC, you will see a new experimental project from the Mobility Lab: Digital screens showing real-time transit arrivals and Capital Bikeshare availability. At Java Shack, customers waiting for coffee or sitting at a table can see the next Metrobus, ART, or Orange Line… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome and unwelcome guests
Developer wants bus stop gone; Wells wants DC United to stay; What to do with Union Station? Tour buses?; DC United not considering Prince George’s; Inflation applies to Dulles tolls; Protest updates; Cyclists’ Ed. comes to elementary school; Test scores and the achieve gap rise; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sports talk
Skins envy explained; DC to get a velodrome; Streecar stop stops moving; Memorials are stubborn things; ICC pays homage to history; Company helps riders dodge fares; Ethics bill passes; Housing costs change poverty stats; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Federal raid roundup
Feds raid councilmember’s house; Structure sparks conflict in McPherson Sq; Group questions NPS contracts; Antis get their just desserts; Johnson sought quid pro quo; Parking at all costs; Public spaces require good design; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Recent ideas reconsidered
How will the streetcar connect to Union Station?; WMATA may simplify and raise fares; BRAC traffic study was far off; Few complain about Metro formally; Montgomery rejects curfew and anti-loitering bills; Cuccinelli runs for governor; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Emergency responses
Major changes for firefighters; Metro braves the snow; Traffic cameras to find terrorists; Is Georgetown really in trouble?; Downtown residents face unique problems; Line forms for apartments; Wells of 2 minds on bundling; Put all the states on your wall; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: That will cost you more
Taxi rate increase uncertain; Is a Metro fare hike on the way?; Child poverty rates climb regionally; WMATA tries to lure federal tenants; Metro suicides failing lately; Thanksgiving enforcement jumps; Montgomery challenges ballot question; And…. Keep reading…
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Black Friday links: Think of the small businesses
Shop small businesses, avoid dangerous parking lots; How to keep Latino character amid growth?; Few constituents receive money; Walmart CBA: All for show?; Gray talks streetcars, stadiums; Bag taxes may expand in Maryland; Criminal record may join race, sex, religion; Protests run up bills; And…. Keep reading…