Posts tagged Government
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Breakfast links: Shaken up
Keep Catoe; What about those feds?; More open data and cool ways to use it; Groups criticize CoStar tax break; Not so many taxi tickets; Kwame is sorry for speeding; Architizer or starchitizer?. Keep reading…
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Directly shape DC transportation policy
Want to put what you’ve learned on Greater Greater Washington into real-world practice? Have 12 hours a week to do some work for the DC Council (but without getting paid)? Keep reading…
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ODMPED suddenly very eager to develop Dupont tunnels
After years of inaction, DC economic development officials want to quickly find use for the long-empty streetcar tunnels under Dupont Circle. At the Dupont Circle ANC (2B) meeting last night, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (ODMPED) representative Neil Goradia said that they have finally worked out the legal issues around the lease, and are… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Senatorial outrage
Mikulski wants a change; Coburn “doesn’t get bikes”; Not enough time for peds and drivers; How about an app for that; Ticket yourself; Bike into the office. Keep reading…
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Distribute enforcement camera money to residents, Alaska-style
Whenever speed cameras and red-light cameras go into a city, many people loudly object. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Debating density
Four stories? Professional offices?; A walkable Herndon?; Good questions; I-66 metering now two-way; More water for bank deserts?; Locking the canal again; Free car with condo. Keep reading…
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Will tax incentives make food deserts bloom?
With hunger spreading across America at levels unseen since the Great Depression and with low-income urban communities continuing to be disproportionately affected by a lack of access to healthy food, many are asking questions about the best way to reach communities without adequate food sources. One option that has been tried in many places, including Washington, DC, is… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cutting the bureaucracy
No Mo’neme II; Ask about buses; Less red tape, more food carts; CHRS now really opposes wires; Neon coming back; The state of sprawl; Enough industrial plants?. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Everything that’s not the Metro budget
Big space, little space; No more mobile lounges; News flash: There’s lots of traffic; From hostile shortcut to “entrance to a park”; “Beauty and the Bike”; Sorry, we spent your savings; Senator’s daughter carjacked. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Give thanks you survived
Really mean holiday streets; Traffic cameras blah blah blah; We’re paying for their cars; Youth pushed into train; ‘Round about Loudoun; Jim Lehrer, transit aficionado. Keep reading…