Posts tagged Harry Thomas Jr
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Breakfast links: Time to go
Metro closes @metroopensdoors; Elections chief quits; Wells calls for Thomas to resign; Hope for the Anacostia?; Montgomery approves first charter school; No free parking on commercial street; We don’t spend a lot on gas; A look inside Metro; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Provocative suggestions
Move the jail to Buzzard Point?; Allow bottled water on Metro?; 2 Councilmembers call for Thomas to resign; Charlottesville getting bad bypass; Driver killed cyclist in hit-and-run; Historic trolley station to be preserved; Explore interactive census data; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trouble with the law
93 days in jail for a vegetable garden; Are strip clubs good neighbors?; Black women bike, too; Scandals complicate economic development pick; Too many boards and commissions?; Two approaches to solving regional congestion; 4 stories shockingly massive; Chairs vanish where immigrants gathered; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…
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DC officials tweet, but with varying enthusiasm
Twitter can be a powerful tool for politicians and government agencies to connect with constituents. Many of DC’s elected leaders are on Twitter, but they use their accounts to widely varying degrees. Their tweets also vary in frequency and quality, and some officials tweet personally while staff send out tweets for others. Which are the best and the worst? Tommy… Keep reading…
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Real ethics reform goes beyond rearranging the deck chairs
The District of Columbia is in an ethical crisis of unparalleled proportions thanks to the DC Council’s pitiful standards. Real reform needs to address some of the serious problems, including members holding seats on nonprofit boards, having jobs which create conflicts of interest, and accepting nearly limitless corporate contributions. Councilmember Mary Cheh… Keep reading…
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Public officials choosing private schools: is it our business?
Several members of the DC Council don’t send their kids to public schools. Should voters care, or is it a private matter? These important private choices of public officials do tell us something about the beliefs of our elected leaders, but we shouldn’t read too much into them. The Washington Examiner recently pointed out that Councilmembers Vincent Orange and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Half-measures disappoint
Thomas rejects chair, keeps seat; Graham rejects bribe, keeps mum; Weekend trains won’t be cut; Add extensions to Metro map?; Wells suggests escalator contracting; Live buses on Google Maps; Bank regrets leaving city for suburbs; At least we’re not Staten Island; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad old days
Scandals are the 80s all over again?; Thomas, get out; Hit and run, alcohol and PTSD; Where are the rent controlled apartments?; Pile of twisted metal or triumphal arch?; New Hampshire may weigh in on DC statehood; HOT builder bowing out?; Gabe putting in bike lanes; Auto executives for higher gas taxes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: True and false
LaHood bikes to work; Times criticizes bikeshare based on false info; Thomas’ corruption chronology; The budget’s not over; Norton for dancing, sitting; Wyman chats; Metro morsels; And…. Keep reading…