Posts tagged Crime
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Breakfast links: The security-industrial complex
For and against bag checks; TSA in trouble with Amtrak; Don’t single out DC’s students; “Public space” still private; Wells, Brown oppose late-night cuts; Sulaimon wants Congress involved; Why bike to work?; Wisconsin Ave Giant could start soon; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Motion in Maryland
Why Maryland kids don’t walk or bike; Two PG Metro board members named; Residents want station shuttered; Biddle knocks off Patterson, not Weaver or Mara; Park Police confront food trucks; National Bike Summit comes to town; DC’s AIDS progress slipping; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety on board
Guardian Angels upping Metro patrols; Safety issues on Metrobuses; Can the Mayor overrule HPRB?; Changing ways at Wilson Building?; CaBi posts impressive numbers; Make sure density helps all incomes; What it takes to save solar in DC; Giant globe may become giant baseball; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: What are we paying for?
VDOT leases cheap spaces, builds expensive ones; Police search bags while mob attacks riders; Senators ask for Florida HSR money; Philanthropy in all the wrong places?; Community garden plots in demand and disrepair; DC’s arena might have gone to the suburbs; Driver mows down Critical Mass riders; “War” rhetoric over half a percent; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pandemonium
A crazy day in the Wilson Building; ANC 7B opposed to visible buildings; Students to get SmarTrip IDs; Alexandria ponders CaBi entry; Bus pickups move; How state DOTs are bad, like Virginia’s; Harriet on Kojo; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxes get plaudits
Bag tax doesn’t harm DC business; Tax hikes on table in MD; Georgetowners want “sanctions” against students; Gray backs Rhee’s firings; City vehicle leases get scrutiny; Two options for Union Station entrance; Sea level rise worst in Chesapeake; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tackling crime
Electronic thefts up on Metro; To catch a Metro thief; Bollards not boutiques for Poplar Point?; Cab fares won’t be capped; Wells investigating city vehicles; Howard County proactive on aggressive driving; Maryland considers reckless driving bill; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the streets of Arlington
Cyclist doored, police don’t take report; Arlington rejects design by fire truck; Is Rosslyn evolving?; Klein defends DDOT; Businesses fight late-night cuts; Various guards don’t know you can photograph buildings; Coucil may raid solar rebates; News without wires; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unfortunate discoveries
When your landlord meets foreclosure; Culture of pilfering?; Near SE Whole Foods worth $8M?; Take a virtual bike tour of DC; Minimums inflate parking spaces; Glaeser v. planners?; What’s in Obama’s 2012 transportation budget; Unemployment down, oil imports up; And…. Keep reading…
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Crime remains high, police understaffed east of the river
The recent murder of Billy Mitchell at the corner of North Capitol and Florida Avenue reminded many of the violence that dominated the DC headlines from the mid-1980’s until just a few years ago. East of the Anacostia River, however, residents don’t need a reminder that violent crime remains a big problem. Homicide rates have stayed high in those parts of DC, and the… Keep reading…