Posts tagged Government
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Dinner links: Around and about the Beltway
Wheaton is smart; Hyattsville is getting smarter; East County loses again; Tuss recovers from EDJS, CCT still ailing; Don’t carpool; you might cost Virginia money; The best car; Good ol’ WSJ; What do futures traders know about oil?. Keep reading…
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Evans aide drowns
Councilmember Jack Evans’ Director of Communications, Desi Deschaine, may have drowned in the Baltimore harbor over the weekend. He went for a walk Sunday evening, and authorities believe he may have fallen off a dock. The Blade has the story. Feel free to ignore the Blade’s annoying habit of making it sound as though the sexual orientation of every person is the most… Keep reading…
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Breafast links: Mostly Metro
$150 million one step closer; Backups: Good for your photos, good for Metro; Stand clear; It’s not the texting, it’s that he got caught?; Tarnished silver; Virginia, others underfund bikes and peds again. Keep reading…
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Regional plan recommends regional bike sharing but disjointed bus improvements
The K Street Transitway, a network of priority bus corridors, regional bike sharing, a few Metro station improvements, and two freeway bus lines in Virginia will make up the DC region’s application for the competitive “TIGER” grants that USDOT will award from the federal stimulus. Keep reading…
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Street cleaning tickets have a real purpose
Sometimes, the most heroic of politicians get fooled by proposals that sound like they’ll save the world but turn out to be terrible policy. The political organizers-in-training running mock superhero campaigns for DC Mayor fell into this trap, as many of them hastily jumped on a proposal from Adam Green Goblin to eliminate street cleaning tickets in DC. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Feel the power
It runs on STEEM; House not so into sharing; Loudoun cyclists get lower fines; Virginia’s 15th Beltway, 2135?; Zero texting tolerance; Barclays-Atlantic-Pacific; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public spaces, open spaces
Retail blinders at Eastern Market; Gehry insulted to hear criticism; Save Our Memorial; Fenty signs bag bill; Right not to look at art; Kiss-and-TOD at Herndon; People still want to build houses near Cumberland?. Keep reading…
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Reserve public land for a street connection at Minnesota and Benning
The DC government is getting ready to sell Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Decongesting our politics and our roads
Barry back in the news; We’re still riding, still need Metro; Bus locations copyright NextBus?; Chicago parked itself into a corner; It’s working for Philly; Paging Jim Graham; Paging Barbara Mikulski; Just National?. Keep reading…
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Bike news
The DC Bicycle Advisory Council met on Wednesday, and DDOT revealed lots of interesting news, which WashCycle kindly wrote up in great detail. Some of the highlights: Keep reading…