Posts tagged Government
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Revenue increases should also internalize environmental externalities
This week, the DC Council will decide how to close a $190 million shortfall in the FY2009 budget, and discuss how to begin tackling the additional $150 million projected gap for 2010. Lawmakers are inevitably going to look for a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases. This morning, Jenny Reed suggested ending the special tax exemption for other states’ municipal bonds as… Keep reading…
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Live chat with Tommy Wells
Welcome to our live chat with DC Councilmember Tommy Wells, Chair of the Committee on Human Services and an advocate for “livable, walkable communities.” Keep reading…
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Live chat: Tommy Wells, today at 3 pm
Please join us and bring your questions this afternoon at 3 for a live chat with DC Councilmember Tommy Wells. Wells serves as the chairman of the Committee of Human Services and is a major advocate for bicycling, walkable communities and Smart Growth. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Round and round the debate goes
Reengineer the city around cars, or…; Rounder, safer, better; Cheap gas = obesity; Blumenauer pushing green commuting incentives; Too expensive to serve the poor; Co-op living, corporation tax structure; Stop giving money to gas guzzling states. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Maryland train to crazy town
Red and Purple together; Single tracking??!?; MTA out of the spying biz; Crime down, experts happy but baffled; The street e?; 1000s in train middles not a new idea; Walk or bike to Metro?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Benefits not always visible
iSee subway stations; Oh, there’s a Metro station there?; Cantorism in NoVA; Hands off our pike; Medical Center Metro entrance lives to fight another day; Nobody wants to live here, except lots of people; Don’t drink and dial; Underground pipe to waterfront park. Keep reading…
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Make developer tax breaks more transparent
by Liz Williams New legislation introduced in the DC Council this week would put important limits on efforts of developers to get large tax breaks for their projects. This long-overdue bill would require developers to show exactly why they need a tax subsidy from the city, and what they’ll offer as community benefits in return. It couldn’t come at a better time. It’s a… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Peas and carrots
Building a hotel? Build a bike station too; Council holds land deals; Spoil the land for the greater good?; Hope Park?; Don’t close ‘em, add concessions; Old buildings are green; Parking around the globe; Just a little bit. Keep reading…
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Montgomery removing one useless underpass while planning another
Montgomery County will likely remove a dangerous, unused pedestrian tunnel in the 1960s planned community of Montgomery Village. Redevelopment along the road will create a more walkable retail center, and planners hope to replace the tunnel with a safe and lively pedestrian crossing. At the same time, county leaders seem to be pushing ahead with a pedestrian underpass at Medical… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Watch out
A new low; New bus bunching watchdog; Obama park?; Dangerous or uninformed?; If all spending were that dumb, we’d all agree to cut it; Portland to copy us; Boo for ghostboxes. Keep reading…