Posts tagged Taxes
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Breakfast links: Permission
Tax on downward facing dog?; Get a pass; Marines chill on security; Bikes can be…somewhere; Bury the problem; Let’s go to the mall; Not New York; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The right parking
DC plans Chinatown performance parking; Medical Center elevators get funded; Escalator snag trips 5; Street width creates parking; Rockville pushes back; Commercial properties get lower assessments; Driver lawbreaking behind most crashes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More, more, more
More night buses, please; VRE gets stuffed; Hoyer hates commuter tax; Big box can be urban, or not; No transit is more dangerous; Standards hamper New Haven; Sunroof for the subway?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Heat wave
Heat to blame; Wave bye to heat wave; I70 turns in sigs; Another tech tax break; Wild city; Bike more places in parks; Less smart growth; And…. Keep reading…
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Don’t waste public money to woo Bloomingdale’s
Both Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chair Kwame Brown may want to use tax increment financing to lure a high-end tenant like Bloomingdale’s to the Georgetown Park mall, the Current reported. That’s a foolish policy. In tax increment financing (“TIF”), the city issues bonds for a particular project and gives the money to a private developer. A portion… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new era in Ward 5
Councilmember McDuffie; Metro opens doors?; Res. 13 starts slowly; Budget harmony; Roads getting safer; Tweaks to Ike Memorial; Speed camera torched; Norton not allowed to represent; New Urbanists are the adults in the room; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Blame it on the alcohol
Closing time; A dryer U St.?; Where the bars are; How to succeed in coffee; Good and bad for WMATA transparency; Watch out for the tracks; Arts District tops; Gas mileage performance parking?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Purchase power
It’s quite fare; Never mind the fines; More on the height limit; Think regional?; Streetcars and bikes don’t mix; Existential transformations; Rail demand just keeps rising; Bikes rule Mexico City Sundays; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Back to normal
Nats Park neighborhood on the upswing; Chaos to blame?; Showdown at the border; Urban renewal now old; Privatization a mistake?; Fast becomes slow; Density good for revenue. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Punt it
Extended play; Congressional meddling to get behind; Streetcar comes up short; Schools face cuts; Bar owners back their best interest; DoD choice worsens traffic; Bike sharing a ripoff? Expand it!; Formalize the informal street; And…. Keep reading…