Posts tagged Virginia Legislature
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Breakfast links: Pointing fingers
Official scapegoats Smart Growth; Leggett reprimands council; Election results still not all in; DNC contradicts DC Democrats; Charters gain increasing share; All options on the table for the FBI’s HQ; Are the police choking or pushing?; And…. Keep reading…
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GAO says clarify WMATA board role, don’t restructure
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-awaited report on WMATA governance this morning. The report concludes that the board lacks clarity about where its role begins and ends, but rejects some of the drastic structural changes that have been proposed, instead arguing the board can and should fix problems itself. An ambiguous definition of the board’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting what you want
McDonnell gets his WMATA seat; DC readies for shutdown; Dulles station criticism takes off; Security can’t help us; Rental vacancies low in DC; Cities growing out and up; Denver kills diagonal crossings; And…. Keep reading…
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McDonnell trying again to take WMATA seat from NoVA
The Virginia Senate rejected Governor Bob McDonnell’s attempt to move control of WMATA down to Richmond, but he’s trying again with a budget amendment. Meanwhile, the Maryland Senate didn’t act on Governor O’Malley’s bill that would have set up some good rules and also some bad ones for appointing Maryland board members. McDonnell wants state… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
NPS rejects BikeDC; Leggett proposing bag fee; H Street NE gets new trees; Biddle challenges signatures, some oddly; Steps to govern DC; Legislative shenanigans; Buses up for cuts; NYC wrestles with tour buses; And…. Keep reading…
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Virginia Senate kills bad anti-livability, WMATA board bills
The Virginia Senate’s finance commmittee killed three bad transportation-related bills, all of which would have transferred decision-making over transportation in Northern Virginia to Richmond and away from the region’s counties and cities. HB2000 would mandate that Governor McDonnell’s representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Symbols of sprawl
Walmart reveals suburban site plan; ICC not (yet) causing sprawl; Kwame Brown insisted on “fully loaded” SUV; Get hit in PW, get a ticket; VA legislature has no time to hear from you; T is for trouble; Conservative columnist supports rail spending. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Legislators taking action
Rosapape supports marriage equality; Protestors visit Boehner; Drinking? Sarles doesn’t want you; Ticer retiring; Evans pushes smoking; Iraq wants compensation for security walls; PAYD bill becomes PAYD anti-disclosure bill. Keep reading…
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Where’s Bob? McDonnell MIA on Metro funding
Congressional Republicans are trying to take away the federal contribution to fixing Metro’s safety problems. While he’s clamoring for a seat on the WMATA Board, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is staying silent slow to speak up equivocating on this crucial need, as is Republican Rep. Frank Wolf. Soon, the Senate Finance Committee will consider HB2000, which… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro security, safety and ingenuity
Bag searches before Board this morning; ATU skeptical about Metro safety progress; Metro “MacGyvers” SmarTrip sensors; Montgomery now majority-minority; VA Senate passes distracted driving bills; Arlington may get hotel tax surcharge after all; White House proposes $53 billion in 6 years for high-speed rail; MD, VA, Feds looking at wind power; And…. Keep reading…