Posts about Government
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Breakfast links: News not to overlook
Get your SmarTrip history; Street vendor patron?; Most of us don’t exist to POLITICO; Overlooked site for Latino museum; Both exits are pleasant; Bicycle “superhighways” nice but not so super; New meaning of “airpark”. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Against freeways
Anti-freeway on the radio; A really long block party; Google deletes a freeway; Tear down I-10 in NOLA?; Diets work, on roads; Let’s prevent ten 9/11s; Clever subway ads. Keep reading…
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Knee-jerk liquor license opposition undercuts credibility
If a sidewalk cafe is open late at night but nobody is around to object, does it make a sound? And should the local ANC just fight the plan anyway on the assumption that someone must mind? Lydia DePillis reports a particularly contentious liquor license debate from last week’s Dupont Circle ANC meeting. P.J. Clarke’s wants to open a sidewalk cafe at 16th and K, a corner… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Council politics to development politics
Weaver’s ad; Kwame drowning in debt; Metro morsels; More highways; Tysons vs. whom?; Cooler buildings; In development, or not. Keep reading…
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Where should the Latino museum go?
Congress has declared the National Mall a “completed work of civic art” and declared that future museums and memorials should go on sites outside the Mall, but that hasn’t stopped them from making exception after exception. Now, the planned National Museum of the American Latino wants to be on the Mall, too, and looks likely to get it. After all, the National… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving earth
Politically in PG; And…; Did you feel it?; The line on Purple; An urban Wal-Mart?; Obama vs. sprawl; Oregon to bag the bags?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: One step forward, one step back
Good and bad news for Ward 7 development; Germantown ghost bike, investigation; Judge’s ignorance used against cyclists; Moses’ legacy alive at NY state DOT; More in New York; Our artiest, decoest building; Councilmembers Michael Brown?; Way too hot. Keep reading…
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Design-build may look like lack of planning, but isn’t
Is DDOT under Gabe Klein dismissive of planning, throwing caution to the wind as it builds a bike lane here and a streetcar line there? Or does this objection reflect an outdated view of how project planning should be done? Gabe Klein comes from the business world and has said several times he wants to run DDOT like a business. To understand how he might do that, we should… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Map to the secret
Amtrak as a subway; The secret’s out; “Sweeperscam”? “Robo-snitch”?; Norton news; Use creativity, not ART; Still off the MARC; “Increasingly difficult” to keep up; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go for safety
Safety fixes approved; Bus thief made a convincing driver; Hot and on the wrong track; East Falls Church accepted; Riemer only endorsed challenger; Parking czar?; ARTful improvements; Public street, no photography. Keep reading…