Posts about District of Columbia
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Breakfast links: Reckless resolution
Plea for hit-and-run; Sidewalk success; Give the people what they want; The social stoop; Forget the flag; Words were involved in an article-related incident; Metro systems by the numbers; And…. Keep reading…
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This map takes another look at “urban” vs “suburban”
Last month, I used housing density to map the real boundaries between “urban” and “suburban” in the DC area. But what if you took other factors into consideration? This map looks a little different, but still shows that there’s more “city” in the region than what’s inside the DC line. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Squeezed out
Market changes; Slow commute; No rent control; Die, die, die; Safer for all; Write-in for mayor; The voice; Sue the suburbs; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new path for WMATA
Sayonara; Changing course; Time to say goodbye?; Help needed; Taking the leap?; Experimenting; Planning for tomorrow; A new challenge; And…; Thank you. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on the Pike?
Plans for the Pike; Loss of communication; Schools, the commute killer; Quarry’s coming; I believe in MPD; Behind Marriott’s move; Suburbia, socially engineered; Cruising out of style; And…. Keep reading…
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Here’s a map of… something in DC. Can you guess what?
Last month, we posted about a map of Georgetown that was unclear about what, exactly, it was mapping. We eventually got to the bottom of it, but the experience gave us the idea to create a mystery map of our own. Can you guess what this one is showing? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: One step forward
Her plan for the homeless; Teach a kid to bike; Fixing the finances; Bike share pick; Sue me, SSTC; School’s out forever; Mapping our history; The Lance Armstrong Effect. Keep reading…
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Van Ness residents say their neighborhood isn’t safe for walking
“My biggest concern at Van Ness is pedestrian safety. I feel my safety is constantly at risk,” Benae Mosby said at a recent meeting of the Van Ness Main Streets board. As the communications and community relations manager at WAMU, whose headquarters are at Connecticut Avenue and Windom Place NW, Mosby walks this troubled intersection daily. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Help wanted
Job unwanted; Slow MoCo; Vote of no confidence; Merger short-circuited; Watch your step; Beyond White Flint; Region is changing; Bridge to the new; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Reality bites
Millennington; The more Shaw changes; Even better than Frager’s; Act regionally; Tragedy in Bethesda; You can have it; Katrina reactions; The decider. Keep reading…