Posts tagged Cat:meta
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Alienation and inclusivity
This year’s campaign season and election have been very divisive, and has left many members of our community feeling alienated. This includes people of many races, national origins, sexual orientations or identities, religions, or other qualities. Our hearts are with you today. Whatever happens in years to come, we want to emphasize at this moment in history that we strongly… Keep reading…
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Thank you for a great 8th birthday party!
Thanks to all of you —our readers, friends, and donors—who celebrated our 8th birthday last week! Keep reading…
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Here’s Greater Greater Washington’s budget for 2016
Our goals for 2016 include targets for raising more money, including from our upcoming reader drive, foundations, and corporate sponsors. When we posted the goals recently, some of you asked to hear more about our budget and why it’s getting bigger. Last spring, Greater Greater Washington was in a very different place financially. We had just formally set ourselves up… Keep reading…
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How to blog effectively
Begin with your most important point. Use short sentences and clear, non-jargony language. Remember your end goal. These were among the tips BeyondDC creator and Greater Greater Washington (GGW) blogger Dan Malouff imparted at a recent lunch talk at the Mobility Lab. Malouff discussed how to blog effectively and get published on websites such as GGW. Keep reading…
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Support us and you might get a Metro map hat
Have you become a Greater Greater Washington supporter yet to help us afford our new Associate Editor? Michael Perkins has offered to make a Metro map hat for the first person to give $250 or more. Keep reading…
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Topic of the week: Greater Greater 2024
Wednesday marks the start of 2014, but what about further into the future? We asked our contributors what they hope to be writing and reading about on Greater Greater Washington in 10 years. Dan Reed: I’d like to write about how the region’s ethnic enclaves, from Langley Park to Annandale, have become the new hot spots, drawing investment from around the globe as the… Keep reading…
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AAA “apologizes for comments,” says taken “out of context”
AAA Mid-Atlantic just posted the following statement on Twitter: The remarks attributed to John Townsend reported in the City Paper article are inappropriate, and in no way representative of AAA Mid-Atlantic’s views. Mr. Townsend apologizes for comments attributed to him that were offensive. It was never Mr. Townsend’s intention to be insulting and agrees… Keep reading…
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Thanks for the foolishness yesterday
We hope you enjoyed yesterday’s April Fool joke posts on Greater Greater Washington and Greater Greater Education. Our April 1 edition was a true team effort, with significant writing, editing, and image creating by Andrew Bossi, Jessica Christy, Tim Krepp, Dan Reed, Miriam Schoenbaum, Jim Titus, and Steven Yates. Many, many more contributors and volunteers also assisted… Keep reading…
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Three years ago, GGW was born
Greater Greater Washington started publishing three years ago yesterday. What were we writing about then? Quite a few things that were still relevant today. Parking policy: Tommy Wells spoke at a Coalition for Smarter Growth forum about parking and how he himself became a convert on performance parking because of all the cars the baseball stadium was going to bring to his… Keep reading…
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You know you’ve arrived when…
Greater Greater Washington is the subject of the cover story in this week’s City Paper, about how our little ragtag band of bloggers here is getting to be a little bit influential. If you’re visiting us for the first time after finding out about us in the article, welcome! The best way to stay on top of what we’re talking about is to subscribe to the RSS feed, sign… Keep reading…