Posts tagged Politics
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Breakfast links: Location, location, location
Find some ped safety projects, quick; The cupcake shop doesn’t own the sidewalk; Sustainable federal sites a little pricier; Incentives to move CaBis where needed?; Wisconsin Giant about to start; Got $648 million? Want a building?; Orange lied about gay marriage opposition?; Bus driver charged in crash; And…. Keep reading…
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Vote Bryan Weaver for DC Council at-large
The Greater Greater Washington contributors took an internal poll and found that we had a clear consensus in favor of Bryan Weaver. Therefore, we are endorsing Weaver for at-large councilmember in Tuesday’s election. Here is Jamie’s take on the reasons to support him. Next Tuesday, April 26th, voters in the District of Columbia will vote to fill the at-large council… Keep reading…
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Redistricting Game results, part 4: The most popular changes
So far, we’ve looked at fun maps, what residents of each area want, and how much to change the wards. Now it’s time to look at the real meat of the issue: which areas could switch wards. We can generate some maps that average out all of the recommendations and let us view them graphically. Here is a map for all respondents, one for just residents, and one for residents of each ward showing… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s in a number?
Streetcar almost done; Affordable housing takes hit; Pentagon fudged on BRAC numbers; Bike thefts growing problem; Mixed neighborhoods are prefered; From one election to another; Drivers apparently oblivious; CaBi data dump; And…. Keep reading…
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Will the real education candidate please stand up?
Several weeks ago, we asked the major candidates for the April 26th at-large DC Council special election to answer a set of eight questions about a councilmember’s role in specific education policy issues. We received answers from four of the candidates: Alan Page, Vincent Orange, Bryan Weaver, and Sekou Biddle. We reviewed the responses to see how well the candidates… Keep reading…
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Redistricting Game results, part 3: How much change?
One of the biggest questions before the Council is how much to make the wards even versus minimizing the amount of change. They could make minimal changes, just taking about 1,200 people out of ward 2 and adding less than 1,000 to wards 7 and 8 to get all to acceptable sizes of plus or minus 5% from the average of 75,215. Or they could bring all wards within about 2% of the average, which… Keep reading…
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Redistricting Game results, part 2: Where people want to live
How can we derive useful information from 3,981 maps that could help the DC Council make choices? We could simply give everyone a vote and see which areas get changed in the most maps, but that wouldn’t be very fair. Many people just switched areas that looked best on a map. Some folks definitely do know the area, though: people who live in that particular area. What did… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Things on the rise
Dulles station debate heats up; Carol Schwartz is fed up; Georgetown waterfront flooded; MoCo council members fighting Costco; DDOT to plan more streetcars; Cap Crescent and Purple Line are friends; Nats, DC fight over late service; Amtrak puts railfans to work; And…. Keep reading…
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Redistricting Game results, part 1: The fun part
3,981 maps solving DC’s redistricting puzzle were created using our Redistricting Game. What did people choose, and what conclusions can we draw? How should the DC Council redraw the ward boundaries? The Redistricting Game wasn’t just a game, and a lot of people made very serious maps trying to solve the redistricting problem in a realistic way. We’ll take… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing the status quo
How about some rights?; Does DC have enough police?; Alexandria struggles with waterfront plans; Could mortgage interest deduction go?; PG raises Purple Line gentrification fears; MWAA mandates union hiring; University neighbors have mixed feelings; WABA, FABB join up; And…. Keep reading…