Posts about East of the Anacostia
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Ask GGW: Where do you enjoy the outdoors?
With spring weather almost here, it’s time to get out and enjoy the less concrete-filled parts of our region. We asked our contributors to tell us about their favorite outdoor spots and why they love them. We also gave bonus points for places you can get to by transit! The answers were as wide-reaching as our contributor base itself, but the District had the highest concentration… Keep reading…
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For one group of kids from Anacostia, a dream deferred is turning into reality
In 1988, a DC philanthropist promised a group of low-income 7th-graders in the Anacostia neighborhood that he would pay for their college educations. What’s happened to the kids since then shows that the presence of a caring adult can alter a child’s life trajectory. A thought-provoking new documentary called Southeast 67 will be screened at the DC Independent… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Blowing snow
Snow day; Slow to upgrade; Highway builder, transit killer?; Give it a chance; Competitive race; Tunnel roadblock?; History collapses; Washington Monument gets smaller; Nothing nice to tweet; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Falling Starr; Coming out of retirement; A representative scofflaw; Gentrification in Ward 8; Wells’s environmental vision; An urban state?; Rail smash; More housing for NYC; Google that ride; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Neighborhood shifts
Ye olde Georgetown; Moving east; Office flips; Homeless crisis; Working together; Budget bites; Which neighborhood?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Purple Line hopes and fears
Purple Line signs; Add value off the bus; DC’s own Kirby Delauter; Different rules for Uber; Free parking myth; Free transit myth; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Accumulation
Storm’s a-comin’; When was “peak car”?; Mixed results for mixed-income; Charge on I-95; More than one way to zero; School cuts; Redevelopment in trouble; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tunnel and surface
Anomalies in our tunnels; Better buses in Tysons; VDOT likes toll lanes; It’ll stay short; Powerless merger; New versus old; What’s the answer?; Where it is; How will we change?; Slow train to LaGuardia; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The good, the bad, and the ugly
No ‘free-range’ kids; Legalize Airbnb; Old school or new school; Higher wages for VA; A safer Prince George’s; Proxy War; Parking oversupplied; Retire to NYC; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Out in the cold
Deep freeze; Kicked off the bus; More housing, please; Olympics decision coming; Hogan’s picks; Never change; A better Penn?; Driving forecasts change; And in politics…; And on the streets…. Keep reading…