Posts tagged Crime
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Breakfast links: Higher (power, costs, buildings)
Pope likes transit (not gay marriage); Wait longer for College Park CaBi; Do height right; Working overtime; Population boom continues more quietly; Bad review for new map; Mixed uses stop crime. Keep reading…
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Tackling truancy, part 2: Why won’t they go to school?
Truancy is a massive obstacle to many DC kids getting a good education. Punitive threats to parents and children might be able to suppress some symptoms of truancy, but to reduce the core desire of the child to miss school we must dig deeper, and understand its cause. There are three chief categories of inputs in a child’s life: their own circumstances and self-image, their… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ride and learn
Better understand the Silver Line; Gripes on the Metro; Transfer delays dissuade transit riders; Drive-by wounds 13 in NoMA; KIPP wants to build at Randall; Too many schools?; Washington isn’t richest; And…; And and…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro plan reactions
Can Metro get its billions?; Build high to dig deep; Police harassed sexual assault victims?; Alexandria to ax bike registration; Cafritz in trouble?; Credit card readers delayed; Hill East gets one bid; Oregon Avenue won’t get bike path; Runaway train never going back; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Legislators propose
Miller’s transportation plan; Punish parents of truants?; Learn how not to cheat; Words from the mayor for life; DC leads in transit planning; MoCo BRT study funds halved; Next ride is private?; And…. Keep reading…
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Let’s Choose DC posts candidate answers on crime
This week, Let’s Choose DC — a partnership of Greater Greater Washington, DCist, and PoPville — asked candidates for the April 23 at-large special election about crime. We asked the candidates: Chief Lanier and Mayor Gray have made a lot of the drop in homicides, but other crimes — assaults, robberies — remain stubbornly high. How should… Keep reading…
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Can we get more proportionality in criminal justice?
I was heartbroken to read that Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet freedom activist, author of RSS, and Reddit cofounder, killed himself on Friday. I’d met Aaron a few times; on April 6, 2009, he emailed me to ask about books he should read on city policy issues. Aaron clearly suffered from depression, but his family, law professor Lawrence Lessig, and many others are also… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Whether to build it
Tysons trees safe?; TOD for New Carrollton?; No bowling alley for Georgetown?; 2013 critical for Purple Line; Silver Spring parking more pricey; What’s changed in Ward 3; Market answers for urbanism; Thank lead for crime wave; And…. Keep reading…
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Condos rise on corner once mostly known for its crime
At the intersection of 17th and Euclid Streets in Adams Morgan, adolescents making hand-to-hand drug sales and running up to cars with out-of-state license plates are long gone, as is a corner market. In its place will be 19 new condominiums, scheduled for delivery this spring. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome to 2013
Tejada to focus on affordable housing; Dispute brings down NextBus app; Talk ped safety in upcounty MoCo; 2012’s many bar closures; A political 2012; Free transit on big days?; Black gentrification vs. white; And…. Keep reading…