Posts tagged Politics
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Standard voting creates strategic quandary for at-large race
I’d love to see Sekou Biddle, Patrick Mara, and Bryan Weaver all get seats on the DC Council. All three are smart and have generally good policy ideas. I’d vote for any of the three over at least half of the incumbents. Unfortunately, only one can win on April 26. Or, very possibly, none of these will. For the many residents who’d prefer one of several candidates… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tough questions
Bikesharing no simple task; How to really answer a gentrification question; Struggling with higher gas prices; Region’s homeless count grows; Restaurants raise bar higher on food trucks; Gray all for TOD; Alexandria shares Mark Center blame; AdMo gets limted-time pop-up shop; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Danger ahead
Fairfax and Loudoun threaten Silver Line; NTSB report questions 1000 series; Gray, Norton mixing messages?; Driver strikes cyclist, gets tickets; Budget includes money for NoVa, MoCo roads; VRE adds seats for rush hour; Online gambling now legal in DC; Chicago Walmart portends problems; And…. Keep reading…
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Mayor, Councilmembers arrested; what’s next?
Mayor Gray, Kwame Brown, Tommy Wells, Muriel Bowser, Yvette Alexander, Sekou Biddle and Michael Brown were arrested by Capitol Police along with several other activists today, protesting Congress’ abusing their power to step on DC’s rights to make its own governance decisions. Keep reading…
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Anthony Williams should run for president for DC rights
I want former DC Mayor Anthony Williams to run for president. I don’t actually want Williams to be the next president. Nor do I want him to seek the nomination of either party or run a national campaign. I want him to run to win the 3 electoral votes for DC, and only those votes—as a protest against, and to draw attention to, the secondary status of DC residents. Framed as… Keep reading…
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Term limits are a dangerous policy
At a recent forum, 8 of the 9 candidates for DC Council at-large endorsed legislative term limits. This is a bad idea. It’s true that DC’s voters did institute term limits, but then the Council simply overturned the referendum. That’s a shame. But it’s also a shame that voters went for this shortsighted policy. Term limits are generally popular,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Nothing is the same
Downtown a different place today; Hine gets even smaller; Student street parking gets harder; Train operator puts out track fire; What is WMATA worth?; Bike to work in May; More news on bikes; Parking is big government; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Good choices
GSA picks retail over barricade; Making the case for trains in Va. Beach; DDOT will be all together in SE; Library renovations through 2017; Maryland will build even more roads to Konterra; Pop-up canal announced; Not a joke: George Will takes train. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People want a city, are getting a city
It’s development utopia again; People really want more restaurants; Recession worse for suburbs; Retail begins in Metro stations; Georgetown students deserve 2 ANC seats; Bethesda gets pay-by-phone; Another lousy parking “privatization”; Bike lanes make crazy writers really crazy; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: For real
Late-night service likely safe, other service not; Pass the negligent driving bill; 2 of 4 HPRB nominations may cause problems; UDC wants to grow in people, not cars; Drivers are safer, other road users…?; Tysons Corner 22102; Kidical Mass in 3 weeks; And…. Keep reading…