Posts tagged Howard County
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DC has almost no white residents without college degrees. (It’s a different story for black residents.)
One of FiveThirtyEight’s great interactive features looks at voters in different groups (college educated whites, Hispanics, etc.) and their effect on the Electoral College. One part graphs each group and its prevalence in various states. This graph really stuck out for how unusual DC is: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Can you park here?
No more parking fraud (downtown)?; Clues for Purple Line in Charlotte; Monday morning problems; Vulnerability in Ellicott City?; Changes for Watergate lookout spot; Late-night for London; Future residents unite; Housing: a Presidential issue; RIP. Keep reading…
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This suburban house is big, cheap, and ripe for innovation
Suburban building types like McMansions and strip malls are often derided for being cheap and disposable. But those things also make them great place for innovating in food, music, or even technology. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Flood’s fury
Devastation in Ellicott City; Derailment investigation; SafeTrack comes to the Red line; More respect for Metro workers; The Flats at WMATA HQ?; Questionable urbanism; Fired up over fire station; Millennial affordability; AC catch-22; And…. Keep reading…
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Bikes are taking a front seat in Howard County
Maryland’s Howard County is taking serious steps to become a more bike-friendly community. With a new bike master plan and a pilot bikeshare system, the future is promising for people who want to get around on two wheels. Keep reading…
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Baltimore’s problem is sprawl, not a bad economy
The city of Baltimore has over 20,000 vacant row houses and 300,000 fewer residents than at its peak. Governor Larry Hogan recently announced funding to demolish whole blocks of them. A common narrative outside Baltimore is that the city is in collapse thanks to manufacturing jobs leaving, as in many Rust Belt cities. But that’s not the biggest problem. Suburbanization is. Keep reading…
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Your transit map could look like this if Maryland builds the Red and Purple Lines
Within ten years, you could be able to take trains from West Baltimore to Tysons Corner in Virginia, or go from Bethesda to Fells Point along the Baltimore waterfront without detouring through downtown DC. If, that is, Maryland still builds the planned Purple and Baltimore Red light rail lines. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: So much transportation
Streetcar to National Harbor?; Tolls for interstates?; Already raising fares?; Train bridge banished; Columbia yesterday and today; Struggles for suburban office markets; Google congestion pricing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bowser, Nadeau beat incumbents
Bowser is the nominee; Nadeau beats Graham; What took so long?; Transit center in 2014?; Circulator extends hours; Transit partnership will save money; Congress discussing transit benefit again; Too many tickets amid blossoms?; DC region is a flop for investors; No snow day exception; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shhh…
Shhh… Spy Museum plans move; Looming government shutdown; PenPlace wins approval; Capital Bikeshare turns 3; NYC bike mode share hits 1%; New head for Metro oversight group; Arlington is the richest; Americans prepare for climate change; Traffic is you!; And…. Keep reading…