Posts tagged Elections
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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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Breakfast links: How to use public space
Fairfax against Tysons road; Hyattsville boosts public parking; Cracking down on loitering; Don’t congregate near Andrews; DC sees more Ward 6 voters; Arlington cab drivers protest; How New York recovered; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast results: Less Brown, more rainbow
Grosso beats Brown; Voters say yes; Capitol Hill upholds Hine; Students do well; Euille and Dems win Alexandria; Rail wins in Hawaii; All the transportation votes; Lines were long. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Elect
Vote now; Transportation on other ballots; Time change leaves Metro riders stranded; Storm gives New York temporary BRT; Accessory apartment for rent?; Less driving not just the economy; And…. Keep reading…
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DC Home Rule almost had… nonpartisan elections
During Hurricane Sandy, I passed the time by reading the legislative history of the DC Home Rule Act. This 1973 bill, which gave District residents the right to vote for local leaders who can make local laws for the first time in 99 years, established the system of government DC has today. But what might have been? Congress considered a lot of different alternatives for Home Rule. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Votes and taxes
Online voter registration?; Commuter tax for DC gov workers?; Norton skeptical of autonomy referendum; Bag fee helps clean up Anacostia; Finish the trail; Corcoran interior a landmark?; DC’s offices the fullest in the nation; MARC World Series?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What to do
Everywhere the sign regulations; But is it uphill both ways?; Vote on this and that; Just crash at my place; Convention, meet city; More or less money?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Contributions
No vote on corporate contributions; Invest yourself; A green Anacostia; Heating plant to park; Who needs a truck?; Walk around, win stuff; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rolling in
Arlington chooses streetcars; Too white to be mayor?; Housing Authority looks for breach; Georgetown University comes downtown; Groupon kills business?; New York City opens remedial bike classes; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Down, not out
Gray blasts critics; BRT decades away?; Height limit rising?; Thompson leaves his firm; New York goes further up; Council approves Walter Reed plan; Making a new Southwest; And…. Keep reading…