Posts tagged Elections
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Breakfast links: Hot metal
Derecho caused chaos; It’s hot, slow down; More time for special elections; Reform outdated marriage laws; DC could have had small housing; No more going to the store?; Transpo bill looks even worse. Keep reading…
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Holiday links: Memorial
It’s never too early; Uber legal; Stay away from Wegmans; What DC was like in 1940; No trouble with the maples; How and why of opposition; And…. Keep reading…
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Nonpartisan DC primary would give winners more legitimacy
Since the 2010 general election, DC has had 3 council elections where the winning candidate gained less than 50% of the vote. Our current system too often hands a victory to someone who most voters vote against, in elections that too few voters participate in. “The way District residents elect a mayor and Council members needs to change,” Chuck Thies noted this week. … Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deeply divided
Virginia Senate divided over Silver Line; Maryland divided over special session; Council vs. mayor; LivingSocial gets LivingSocial-type deal on taxes; Buses down; Taller building gets OK; Kids allowed to walk to school; Fix DC elections; Peck wrongly sent packing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Raise the roof
Raise the height limit?; Wish list would restore cuts, maybe; Metro no, rural roads yes; Innovation gets grants; Forest Glen zoned for failure; Easy as 3-1-1; Back to the land in the city; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Election day
Make your voice heard; Knowing fraud; Defense cuts will hurt region; Institutionalization on the street; Metro police aren’t so great; Chicago pushes ahead without feds; A real frequency map; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Help wanted
Help wanted at Metro; Help wanted on ethics board; A blanket of traffic cameras; Henderson is chancellor, not Kwame Brown; No Bethesda vs. Wheaton; Cars over veggies; Affordable housing needed; Garvey wins; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
See Orange’s money orders; More in campagn finance; Election needs money; Nats Park area gets pop-up retail; Wheaton gets more residential; Help seniors with smart growth; Love bicycling and water infrastructure?; We’ve drunk our milkshake; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Mixed-use, not sports practices; Food trucks on the Mall?; Creep on the CCT?; Georgetown vacant lot hard to build on; Who hates, who likes Ike’s memorial; Better buses; Manhattan to the limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Unfortunately expected
Hurt cyclist ticketed for nonexistent violation; Costco “beautiful,” says Kwame; Let’s loosen the numbers; Evans has Logan Circle parking plan; Want a grocery? Add housing; Hidden urbanism; Sprawl is really quite big; Promise and peril in public housing; Elect the regionals?; And…. Keep reading…