Posts tagged Race
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Breakfast links: Getting going
Live social on late Metro; Metrobus gets more efficient; Metro wants help planning for the future; DC gets whiter and moves downtown; DC fails elderly, disabled?; Pepco gets rate increase; Louisville plans to build more urban highways; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rolling in
Arlington chooses streetcars; Too white to be mayor?; Housing Authority looks for breach; Georgetown University comes downtown; Groupon kills business?; New York City opens remedial bike classes; And…. Keep reading…
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An attempted murder kindled DC’s first race riot in 1835
The 1830s are not a well-known period in Washington’s history. Too late for L’Enfant and too early for Lincoln, they are a mystery to most residents. But hiding beneath the quiet surface were rising racial tensions, as vividly described in Jefferson Morley’s new book, Snow-Storm in August. Morley brings the 1830s to life with an account of dramatic events… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Prince George’s future
Prince George’s casino still possible; More white families moving into Prince George’s; Reckless councilmember, light punishment?; Bellevue library is pretty great; Feds ignoring homeless?; Traffic noise can give you a heart attack; Deregulation cut bus ridership?; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: More muck
Yet another investigation; End entitlement, end tickets; The occupation is over; Some parts of DC get whiter; Metro becoming paperless; Bag searches catch nobody; TBD Off Foot; Time for a freeway’s exit; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Come see DC
DC almost top vacation spot; Right-wing group fighting Silver Line; Take the boring out of transit; Kwame divides, Brown unites; Restaurant pavilion right for St. E’s?; Who doesn’t want Alexandria bikeshare?; Fewer, smaller gulps?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New food
Fish not in the ‘hood; District can’t afford planned taxi reform; Growth has unequal effects; What is suburbia?; “Dumbest column” hates CaBi; Mechanic hit, trapped under train; Richmond’s booming, too; Subways take similar shapes; In defense of white Girls. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Guilty
Charges in Gray investigation; Barry’s improbable Monday; Where the murders were; Keep your balance, CaBi; 4th best bike city; Not loving the car; Fort Walkable; The cul-de-sac tower; Quality beats quantity in transit; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s divide need not be black and white
The DC Council passed a budget unanimously, approving most of Mayor Gray’s initiatives and adding a few of its own. Kenyan McDuffie won an overwhelming victory in a special election, more than double any other candidate’s vote total, in a ward that mixes young and old, black and white, urban and suburban. Keep reading…
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“Degree density” maps show region’s east-west divide
What’s the difference between Friendship Heights and Capitol Heights? The number of people with college degrees. Keep reading…