Posts about Budget
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Breakfast links: What’s affordable?
Housing project not-so-affordable for DC; To close a tax loophole?; Growing groceries; Got Metro opinions?; Jury’s still out on Sulaimon; A greenway isn’t enough; High(line) aspirations; Double-edged referendums; And…. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Bike to Work, Bike DC, Bikeshare expansion
It’s National Bike Month, and there are a lot of great bicycling-related events coming up as well as a few non-bicycling related ones. Bike To Work Day is next Friday, and the Bike DC ride is the following Sunday. WMATA’s budget hearings are also happening next week. Tomorrow is a conference on bicycling in Montgomery County, sponsored by the Montgomery County Civic… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: There’s still hope
Can bike lanes keep proliferating?; Alexandria still pondering CaBi; DoD could hold BRAC moves; Issa would help DC; Hand wringing over gas prices; Marylands tolls cheap, need raising; Blumenauer wants better commuter benefit; Big racial gap in housing, here & elsewhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Destruction is nigh!
14th & T will be destroyed!; Knight Rider roams Nevada; Nobody uses CaBi, it’s too crowded; Local officials partly to blame; A corner store does not a food desert make; Hug a tourist; Vibrant neighborhood keeps a local employer; Senate plugs in; And…. Keep reading…
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Tax cuts and tech jobs won’t solve DC unemployment
Technology investor Mark Ein thinks high taxes and costly office space are the only things keeping DC from being a high-tech hub, thus keeping more of its residents employed. If only it were that simple. If the major tech companies that started in the District hadn’t left, the city’s crippling unemployment problem would be addressed, Ein posited before the DC Chamber… Keep reading…
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Wells would keep Circulator fare, expand CaBi, and more
Tommy Wells would like to keep the Circulator fare at $1, add 40 more Capital Bikeshare stations, hire needed people at DDOT including a parking czar, set up performance parking on H Street, fund green alleys, and more. Increased residential parking fees, including for households with extra vehicles, and some higher fines will pay for these priorities. These are some of the recommendations… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still wanting
USDOT disses Union Station; CMs want more money; Wolf wants VA control of MWAA; All curbside buses at Union Station?; DCPS waiting lists growing; Montgomery to raise parking fees; Few driving the ICC; Metro adding more hybrid buses; Traffic tragedies at all ages. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts all around
Cuts could kill?; DCPS cuts 660 jobs; Metro shuts markets; A gentrifier comes to Rosedale; CaBi keeps growing; WABA keeps low profile in Wards 7 & 8; Peds struck, one killed in Loudoun; Federal government to sell property; 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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Weekend links: Higher or lower
The rent’s too damn high; And…; Lewis: Ease height limits; Preservationist frets over views of fat sunbathers; Musicians soundtrack the Mall; Bus helps tardy man arrive on time; No more ped-bike funding?; Jakarta goes car-free some days. Keep reading…