Posts tagged Bureaucracy
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Breakfast links: Dear Current, please get a real Web site
Sidewalks, assured; Don’t drive? You must not live here; These go to Elevenleytown; Tall TOD at PG Plaza?; Days since last injury: 1; Metro keeping its escalators; Cowening before trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Breafast links: More sustainable practices
5 cents for a bag here and elsewhere; Metro challenges include ridership crunch, “reputation deficit”; DoD budget includes Medical Center Metro entrance; DDOT will also improve 6th and Florida; Police under pressure to write tickets; Highway fund out of money, again; Rethinking the mall, or not; BaltWash SmarTrip. Keep reading…
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DC youth employment programs should focus on quality, not quantity
Martha Ross is Deputy Director of Greater Washington Research at Brookings. She’ll be starting to post about some important issues to our region and Brookings’ policy analysis. Welcome Martha! Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not an accident
Police won’t charge Swanson’s killer; Really not an accident; They need Leon; ZipSegwayCar?; Kauai residents repair road themselves; Vacant schools draw bids; Splitting comments should be fixed. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: on and on and on
Columbia Pike streetcar gets design money: Arlington has approved funding to design and plan a Columbia Pike streetcar. This $3 million will let the county work on figuring out how to come up with the rest of the money they need to actually build the thing. (How about having VDOT use more transportation dollars for streetcars instead of all highways all the time?) P.S. I call on all DC… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: the march of technological progress
Fighting Maryland’s Luddism: Legislators and constituents have organized a Facebook campaign to overturn the Maryland General Assembly’s recent ban on using Facebook. Keep reading…
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You’re not the public, says WMATA
“The websites [infosnack.org and greatergreaterwashington.org] do not serve to provide information to the general public, therefore we find that you are not a representative of the news media.” Keep reading…
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My wish for the holidays: development review filings online
One of the most important and contentions issues in any community is new development. ANCs spend a great deal of time discussing development proposals. We discuss them extensively, along with the zoning and historic preservation implications, on Greater Greater Washington. Several key boards make the big decisions in the District of Columbia. Yet it’s still extremely… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: making an impact
She’s welcome to post on GGW: Michelle Obama told 60 Minutes the Obamas hope to “have an impact” on DC. DCist will believe it when they see it, remembering that Bill Clinton briefly visited Georgia Avenue after his election and that was about it. Keep reading…
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WMATA says blogs aren’t news media
Are blogs journalism? This perennial question generates heated debate around reporter shield laws, press passes, and the Freedom of Information Act. Most non-lawyers would say that some blogs are definitely media (like the NY Times’ City Room), and some blogs are really not (like your friend’s LiveJournal about what he eats for breakfast each day). The Federal Election… Keep reading…