Posts tagged Terrorism
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Breakfast links: Emergency responses
Major changes for firefighters; Metro braves the snow; Traffic cameras to find terrorists; Is Georgetown really in trouble?; Downtown residents face unique problems; Line forms for apartments; Wells of 2 minds on bundling; Put all the states on your wall; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ethics and apathy
Ethics reform matters; Scandal? Who cares?; Orange line disruption botched; Save money, share a stadium; Protestors create mini-city; AAA-OK with gridlock; MetroAccess customers get ride coupons; Norton supports realtor memorial; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Remembering and moving on
Memories stay secure; “Mile-high club” couple triggers scare; Emergency response still muddy; Financial disclosure or erosion of home rule?; Is this development crime-resistant?; Car-free easier and more popular; New MLK road signs confusing; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: 10 years later
Lower Manhattan on the rise; Security barriacades proliferated; Pushing driver identified, defended; Snyder drops suit; Parks relieve stress; Ride Amtrak the luxury way; Almost-freeway replaces freeway; Sadik-Khan’s legacy: Lots of road projects; Boston bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Quick expiration
Once you pop, the scandals don’t stop; Driver intentionally hits cyclist; House bill doesn’t cut Metro funding; Silver Line snippets; Don’t photograph anything in DC; Mark Center: planning disaster, terror disaster; Cathedral crane crashes; Great Streets delay elicits ire; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: It’s all about security, or something
Bike lane now a security threat?; Amount of Capitol parking is secret; Congressman discovers life without a car; Unlikely alliance opposes federal transportation cuts; NY state assemblyman micromanages parking; New York discovers single-line maps; Waistlines explode; Alexandria suspends taxis; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unfortunate contradictions
Cyclist killed in Arlington; Arlington, DC really friendly; Walmart a wash for jobs; Schumer wants Amtrak ‘no-ride’ list; More rest for operators?; Council divided on Gray budget; PATH crash injures dozens. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Jobs and education for DC
Ensuring jobs for DC’s own; Graduate School to anchor waterfront; DC area dorms among best and worst; Metro faces serious backlog; Zero real plots against Metro; ANCs eschew liquor bans; PG may lose development oversight; From the desk of Vince Gray; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Be thankful
DC becoming bike-friendlier; A lot to be thankful for in DC neighborhoods; Breakthroughs in 2010; Bike hit-and-run in Mt. Vernon Triangle; Gray’s slow transition irks some; Full body scanners on the Metro?; BWI rail platforms reopen; Is there a subtext to parking debates?; And…. Keep reading…
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Overreactions already beginning to nonexistent bomb plot
Following news that the FBI orchestrated its own, fake Metro bombing plot to catch a potential terrorist, Metro transit police are already pondering instituting useless “security theater” methods like random bag searches. Bag searches look good but don’t do anything. Anyone can simply turn around and enter a different station. If someone wanted to bomb… Keep reading…