Posts tagged Labor
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Breakfast links: National FAA outage disrupts local and national air travel
National FAA outage disrupts local and national air travel. Loudoun County transit workers strike in response to lost health benefits. House Republicans want federal employees back in the office. Keep reading…
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Ray LaHood recommends dedicated Metro funding, a smaller board, and poorly-thought-through bus fare hikes and service cuts
There's no need to recommend cutting bus service and reducing riders to save money, but improving things takes political will — which LaHood's report was supposed to aid with. Keep reading…
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This exhibit shows how you can build a high-rise out of…wood?
“Timber City,” an exhibit on the second floor of the National Building Museum, lets visitors go hands-on with the new “mass timber” technologies that have made wood construction trendy again. The exhibit closes next week, on September 10. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A scary ride?
Seeing red on the Red Line; How to be a bus rider; Union opts for re-training; Mixed-use outcry madness; MoCo’s land swap; Dog park drama; Gentrification of the sausage. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rollback on Walmart
Walmart, not a Prince George’s savior; Preserve Emerald Street?; Turf wars in Alexandria; WMATA’s labor problem; FCC says keep the WiFi; Beach Drive takes a vacation; Housing insecure, still; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pause on paid parking
Parking still free in Reston; SafeTrack slips on quality; Protected bikeway to Foggy Bottom; More units than occupants, lower rents?; DC house prices boom and bust; Lessons from 40 years of Metro funding woes; Fewer job seekers in the region; Lookout to dorm to luxury apartments; A less vague “Share the Road”. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: WMATA Board demands answers
Answers, Metro. Now.; Too many rods for safety; Workers and managers all do horribly; Shelter opponents sue; How kids get to school; Where we work, where we live; Anacostia going over asking; The playground thief; And…. 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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Breakfast links: Beating the heat
It’s getting hot in here; Had it with hot cars; Metro’s bad budget news; Can you hear me now?; Abandoned home angst; Hardly a plan in Arlington; Fuzzy math on robberies; More bus bays for King Street; This week in approvals; Big sales in the suburbs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro’s making an effort
SafeTrack doesn’t fix it all; Metro’s back-breaking backlog; Metro money land; Uber for the commute; Co-working works; AirBnB argument; Chicago’s conundrum; Stadium parking racket. Keep reading…