Posts tagged Anc
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Our 2020 Advisory Neighborhood Commission endorsements in wards 1 and 2
The GGWash Elections Committee circulated questionnaires to all candidates for Advisory Neighborhood Commissions across the city. We received 192 responses. Here are the ones for wards 1 and 2, with our recommendations in contested races. Keep reading…
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Want to know how your ANC candidate feels about transit, housing, and development? We’ll ask for you.
GGWash sent questions to each ANC candidate to give them an opportunity to share how well they align with our beliefs and principles. Here’s are some of the questions we asked. Keep reading…
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What neighborhood controversies should we ask ANC candidates about?
Besides voting for the office you hear all about in the news this November, DC residents will select hyper-local Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners. There are 299 seats in 40 neighborhood commissions spanning the city, and Greater Greater Washington will soon be asking candidates about their views. What should we ask them? Keep reading…
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This new website makes it easier to get information about your local ANC
As the ANC election season ramped up, I started to see that there were some barriers to participation in these elections, both for candidates and voters. With OpenANC you can access a map that is updated daily with a list of commissioners and candidates. Keep reading…
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Why I’m not running for ANC commissioner again. And why you should.
It was October 24, 2018, less than two weeks before Election Day, when I decided to fling myself at a then-empty ballot as a write-in candidate for Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Edgewood. What followed was 19 months of meaningful, exhausting, and important work that reflects the complex, juxtaposed nature of ANCs in DC. This fall, I won’t be running again - it’s time for a break. But you should (consider it, at least)! Keep reading…
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Events: Is it time for a serious conversation about DC statehood?
Is DC statehood really possible? Join GGWash to learn about the ANC process and how being a commissioner works. Find out the future of automated vehicle technologies, and more in this week’s urbanist events. Keep reading…
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Lessons from an unlikely community organizer
In 2005, Malissa Freese took an eye-opening trip in search of a new home. Coming off DC’s Interstate 295, she hit the block of Benning Road NE that houses a Pepco facility and made a left turn on Anacostia Avenue into River Terrace, a cul-de-sac neighborhood that sits along the Anacostia River (where, full disclosure, this writer grew up). Keep reading…
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Have you ever thought of becoming an ANC commissioner? We have a training for that.
On Thursday, July 16, at 6 pm, join GGWash for a training on how to run, and how to be, an ANC Commissioner. Keep reading…
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It’s time to pick up ANC petitions for the 2020 election
Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats are DC’s most local elected office. ANC commissioners are nonpartisan elected officials who serve two-year terms and represent about 2,000 constituents in a single-member district. And as of June 26, you can officially run for an ANC seat. Keep reading…
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Hear it from a commissioner: Why you should run for ANC
Have you ever thought about being an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner? You should run. But, don’t just take our word for it. We reached out to several ANC commissioners who we endorsed in 2018, and who we’ve worked with since then, to ask them to share their experience. Keep reading…