Posts tagged Georgetown
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Breakfast links: Winning
Olympics in DC 2024?; Region wins grants; Wins for economy, baseball team; Britain doesn’t want helmet laws; On the ethics of bicycling; Get low; And…. Keep reading…
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Is Washington falling behind on medical education and care?
Is the quality of medical education in Washington worse than in other metropolitan areas? Looking at the rankings of our medical schools compared to other regions, it seems that we’re behind. According to a number of people in the medical profession, the general consensus in the field is that DC has fewer very experienced doctors in many specialties. Primary care physicians… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stops
Trains stop; Graham killed project; Cheaper Uber; Purple Line brings growth; Privately-developed maglev?; New pedestrian only avenue; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What a compromise
Verdict: Transpo bill pretty terrible; Bill adds oversight for Metro; What’s going on in Loudoun?; Mendo for less density; What a house costs; Relief for water; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No silver bullet
Loudoun may opt out, wants more time; GSA changes course; Illegal to do radio interview while driving; Bike planning guide ignores cycle tracks; APA for unnecessary parking?; Hollywood grows up; Should transit networks decentralize?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Drugs and gambling
Pot dispensaries inch forward; National Harbor gambling will rake it in; Council will go with Mendelson; ANC supports Hine; ZC is next; Sharrows point to nowhere; Arlington, Alexandria to join on streetcars; GU students want right to live where they wish; Detroit goes for cheap; And…. Keep reading…
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Georgetown and neighbors agree on residential campus
Georgetown University and leaders in surrounding neighborhoods have reached agreement on a groundbreaking campus plan that envisions a more residential campus. Leading universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton have adopted a similar residential college model, which integrates students’ intellectual and residential life while creating fewer impacts… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The end for Kwame
Brown resigns; Chair Mendo?; Reactions; Silver Line union preference gone; Metro works way out of way out problem; GU and neighbors agree; Anacostia’s value and brand; Bradbury foresaw future without pedestrians; And…. Keep reading…
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Don’t waste public money to woo Bloomingdale’s
Both Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chair Kwame Brown may want to use tax increment financing to lure a high-end tenant like Bloomingdale’s to the Georgetown Park mall, the Current reported. That’s a foolish policy. In tax increment financing (“TIF”), the city issues bonds for a particular project and gives the money to a private developer. A portion… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fewer buses
Don’t need BRT?; Bye dangerous buses; Red Line was almost really red; NoMa gets a sort-of-park; Cool house; All not well with transpo bill; Who is Michael Sindram?; And…. Keep reading…