Posts tagged Voters
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Breakfast links: Youth today
Drive less; Tech, don’t drive; The youth vote; Fire on the train; Height limit heats up; Taxis pass those with disabilities; We will bury you!; Phase 2 builder selected; Korean Embassy offers up land; And…. Keep reading…
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Students: Don’t listen to the Hoya, vote in DC
Yesterday, the Georgetown Hoya student newspaper published a provocative editorial calling on students to not vote in DC, and rather vote absentee in their home states. That’s terrible advice. The reasoning behind the piece was that with DC disenfranchised in Congress and its 3 electoral votes guaranteed for Obama, students would “get more bang from their ballot”… Keep reading…
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Voting in DC is not a waste
A former Washington City Paper reporter intern says he never registered to vote in DC while living here, because his vote doesn’t count. This is an all-too-common attitude among many residents. But your vote does count in DC, in a great many important ways. Matt Bevilacqua, who now writes for Next American City in Philadelphia, wrote today that it took him 2 whole afternoons… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Contributions
No vote on corporate contributions; Invest yourself; A green Anacostia; Heating plant to park; Who needs a truck?; Walk around, win stuff; And…. Keep reading…
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Kwame did some good, and voters enabled his wrongdoing
Now that Kwame Brown has resigned as DC Council Chairman in disgrace, he is being called “dim,” a “tyrant,” and all kinds of other unflattering things. Brown is a flawed man, but we cannot pin this all on him alone. DC voters bear responsibility for ignoring the red flags about Brown early on. At the same time, Brown did some things right that we should… Keep reading…