Posts tagged Redskins
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Gray administration holding up Reservation 13 for Redskins
Mayor Gray’s office is stalling any progress on a plan to build a new mixed-use neighborhood that has widespread community support, because they’d rather turn over the land to the Washington Redskins for a practice facility that won’t do anything for the community or DC. 7 ANC commissioners met last night with Victor Hoskins, DC’s Deputy Mayor for… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Goodbye thieves; Post Office Trumped; Bus burns again; New plans for waterfront; CaBi brings in capital; Evans won’t let go of ‘Skins; Where the poor live; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome and unwelcome guests
Developer wants bus stop gone; Wells wants DC United to stay; What to do with Union Station? Tour buses?; DC United not considering Prince George’s; Inflation applies to Dulles tolls; Protest updates; Cyclists’ Ed. comes to elementary school; Test scores and the achieve gap rise; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sports talk
Skins envy explained; DC to get a velodrome; Streecar stop stops moving; Memorials are stubborn things; ICC pays homage to history; Company helps riders dodge fares; Ethics bill passes; Housing costs change poverty stats; And…. Keep reading…
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DC is better off without Redskins stadium or practice fields
Changes may be coming to the location of facilities for 2 DC-area sports teams, the Redskins and DC United. But while soccer is getting the cold shoulder, leaders are trying to entice a football team that won’t help DC at all. They’d do more to help DC by urging the Redskins to keep their practice facilities and stadium away. DC United Major League Soccer is surveying… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Signs of the times
Ugly signs protest development; Will Capitol surface parking ever go away?; Route 1 to be more friendly; Take MLK from MLK to MLK; The Ward 4 WMATA Board; CaBi sets records on the 4th; Amtrak privitization faces the 5th Amendment; Bike bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of contradictions
VA wants cheap Dulles station; Robbery footage released; Manufactured bike lane opposition; Health impact of SE bike lane; Metro to lengthen some trains; Liberal NIMBYism in our back yard; NFL owners forget public financing; Landover Redskins?; And…. Keep reading…
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“Excitement” not worth $1B stadium
Mayor Fenty wants to bring the Redskins back to DC, calling it “a big mistake” to let the team move to Landover in 1997. Why does Fenty want them back? Civic pride. Fenty told the Post, Keep reading…