Posts tagged Jack Evans
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Breakfast links: Contributions
No vote on corporate contributions; Invest yourself; A green Anacostia; Heating plant to park; Who needs a truck?; Walk around, win stuff; And…. Keep reading…
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Evans move cuts Shaw parking privileges
Shaw residents will soon not be able to enjoy resident parking privileges in Logan Circle, while far more distant residents of neighborhoods like Georgetown and Kalorama will get special entitlements. That’s the consequence of the recent redistricting and Evans’ successful fight 2 weeks ago against a bill that would have kept parking zones from changing. Shaw… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rolling in
Arlington chooses streetcars; Too white to be mayor?; Housing Authority looks for breach; Georgetown University comes downtown; Groupon kills business?; New York City opens remedial bike classes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the brink
CMs call for Gray resignation; Keep it simple; Number of cracks grow; Sidewalk or trees; DCU inches toward stadium; Wheaton Costco ban his snag; BRT creep in California; And…. Keep reading…
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Evans withdraws ticket plan, blasts criticism
Thanks to the many of you who sent letters yesterday, Jack Evans decided not to propose his budget amendment to allocate free sports tickets among councilmembers. Evans is also, not surprisingly, displeased that I compared his attitude over tickets to malfeasance from Harry Thomas Jr, Kwame Brown, and Harriette Walters. Primarily, he argues that it was inappropriate to criticize… Keep reading…
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Free sports tickets show DC politicians’ sense of entitlement
DC Councilmember Jack Evans wants to enshrine into DC law modify DC’s law to further codify the current practice that politicians get free sports tickets. This sends exactly the wrong message to DC residents frustrated with corruption and rampant cronyism in government. It tells voters that Jack, and anyone else who votes for this idea, share the sense of entitlement of far… Keep reading…
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Holiday links: Memorial
It’s never too early; Uber legal; Stay away from Wegmans; What DC was like in 1940; No trouble with the maples; How and why of opposition; And…. Keep reading…
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What can DC learn from its successful subsidies?
New data from the Office of the DC CFO reveals that the initial wave of development subsidies, such as Gallery Place, have repaid to the city well ahead of schedule. While excellent news for the city’s finances, these subsidies also provide important lessons that some present-day corporate subsidies don’t always follow. The hefty return to the city’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sharing
MD funds bikeshare; Holds now barred; Give up cars; Baltimore’s green line; Protests need permits?; More diamonds diverge; A little goes a long way; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The end
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Scandal rocks Draft Wells campaign: The nascent campaign to draft Tommy Wells for mayor in 2014 has been suspended amid new allegations that under Wells’ oversight, DC Public Libraries has been blatantly allowing people to use its books for free. The US Attorney is probing similar conduct at the Department of… Keep reading…