Posts tagged Politics
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Breakfast links: Light rail designs
Envisioning the Pike streetcar; Trail won’t go in Purple Line tunnel; Not so fast; RAC wants less disruption on minor holidays; DC is mid-peloton; DoD loosens security standards; Board wants dedicated transportation funds; Mixed-use for teachers; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The last vote
Council votes; Barry’s ex-con law fails; Step back for campaign finance; Frederick, Howard tops in schools; Build high in Pentagon City?; Calling all car apps; LA approves 1st area without parking minimums; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bound to happen
Where the rubber meets the road; No Alexandria streetcar?; 2 candidates announce; Improve before CaBi; More taxes, please; Passenger could reopen after a ride; Someone’s listening; Toll debt; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Votes and non-votes
DC Council votes; Tysons tax vote pushed back; Olson “too Arlington” for PG?; Gray not into autonomy vote; L Street lane opens, M is next; A “bike beltway” for Towson?; Court hears psychic’s zoning challenge; Not throwing stones; More infrastructure $?; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery County has changed. Has Doug Duncan?
Montgomery County’s feeling nostalgic for former county executive Doug Duncan, who announced earlier this week that he’ll run for a 4th term in 2014. While he presided over 12 years of prosperity and growth, it’s worth asking whether he’s prepared to guide a county that looks quite different than it did just a few years ago. Duncan’s long list… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: See progress
Turn off the dark; Anacostia loses grocery store; No one wants to run trolleys; A few speed limits rise; Get stuff for more height; Frumin running at large; Where will the FBI go?; We can learn from Barcelona; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Warnings of trouble
Shuster gets transportation chair; WMATA warned on cell service timeline; Transportation, housing add up; U-turn on Penn, pay $100; On the Riverfront; Arlington may go private; SW buys a screen; Fewer will be WorkingSocial; What if feds had fewer offices?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to use public space
Fairfax against Tysons road; Hyattsville boosts public parking; Cracking down on loitering; Don’t congregate near Andrews; DC sees more Ward 6 voters; Arlington cab drivers protest; How New York recovered; And…. Keep reading…
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DC Home Rule almost had… Congress decide all criminal laws
This is part 5 in a series on the legislative history of the 1973 Home Rule Act. See previous parts on the act’s bipartisan support, nonpartisan elections, the police chief, and judges. Congress decided not to keep the police chief federally appointed when it gave the District home rule, but Congress did initially restrict DC’s ability to change its own criminal… Keep reading…