Posts tagged Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Weekend links: A city oozing like batter
Stretch taller strategically; Or maybe keep it on the DL; Put some places first; Biking costs cities less and more; Vegas markets places, not neighborhoods; Seattle’s food forest; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The end
This article was posted as an April Fool’s joke. Scandal rocks Draft Wells campaign: The nascent campaign to draft Tommy Wells for mayor in 2014 has been suspended amid new allegations that under Wells’ oversight, DC Public Libraries has been blatantly allowing people to use its books for free. The US Attorney is probing similar conduct at the Department of… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Speedwalking
Racial differences in walking; Lots of heat in education debate; Drawing great teachers to bad schools; Bethesda’s new gateway; A fight for DC’s memorial; Georgetown needs a plan; One City Summit for the masses; How blogs influence planning. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Oldest inhabitants
DC wants to keep its WWI memorial; Audit for Union Station management; Death in Rockville crash; Shady deal in Catoe’s Metro; An avalanche of tickets; Think of the tourists; Madrid swaps highway for park; Battle of the buses; Core capacity for BART. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: NPS is naughty and nice
Plan improves Rock Creek trails; Norton wants peace between pedicabs & NPS; DC buys 2 more streetcars; MD, VA forgo millions in gas tax; Big box development coming to NE DC; NTSB calls for cellphone ban; Food trucks activate vacant storefronts; Build down instead of up?; Pedestrian bridges fail in India. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ethics and apathy
Ethics reform matters; Scandal? Who cares?; Orange line disruption botched; Save money, share a stadium; Protestors create mini-city; AAA-OK with gridlock; MetroAccess customers get ride coupons; Norton supports realtor memorial; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crumbling no longer
Walmart site was “land banked”; See National Cathedral’s damage; Metrobus steps up tracking; DC’s GU campus posture unfair; DC has deadliest week this year; Middle schools inequitable across the river?; NPS working with pedicabs; And…. Keep reading…
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Talk DC parks with the Park Service on Saturday
Do you have thoughts about how your local federally-controlled park could be better? Have you tried to organize any activities and run into a bureaucratic brick wall? Or does your park just not serve the needs of your community? Chances are, if you live in DC, your local park is run by the National Park Service. It’s an agency that makes few efforts to reach out to local communities,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deck party
OP wants to restore a L’Enfant avenue; Sidewalk cafes bloom downtown; Walter Reed charging forward; Metro counts bikes; SUVgate, Congressional edition; DC strikes oil in burgers; Discuss R Street bike lane, east of river Circulator; And…. Keep reading…
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Park Service inflexibility draws criticism from Congress
Last night, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) brought up the pervasive problems with the National Park Service through an Interior Appropriations amendment. It was withdrawn as an unpermitted earmark, but Reps. Jim Moran (D-VA) and Mike Simpson (R-ID) both expressed support for ending the Park Service’s “one size fits all” approach to urban parks. You… Keep reading…