Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Taxes break
Taxes for truck tacos; Give me a break; Are mobile cameras about revenue?; Alerts for buses; Good plan sails through; More roads still needed?; DC cleaner than burbs; Photography still legal; And… Keep reading…
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Takoma Park progressives are for progress
Tim Male, a City Councilmember in Takoma Park, Maryland, sent us this response to Dan Reed’s recent article, “Sometimes, it’s okay for progressives to embrace progress.” Dan Reed wrote recently about the link between development and progressiveness in and around the area of Takoma Park, but the narrow coverage missed the real story of what is going… Keep reading…
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Liquor laws, lacking nightlife hurt Silver Spring bars
Last weekend, Piratz Tavern, a pirate-themed bar in downtown Silver Spring, received a makeover from the TV show Bar Rescue and re-opened as a more conventional hangout dubbed Corporate Bar & Grill. While host Jon Taffer and many customers say it failed because of bad food and poor service, there are other factors that sunk this ship. For starters, Montgomery County makes… Keep reading…
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Montgomery faces a hard decision with Bethesda tunnel
It’d be very expensive to keep the Capital Crescent Trail and the Purple Line in the same tunnel in Bethesda. The Maryland Transit Administration analyzed some options, but there is no silver bullet. The Montgomery County Council will have to make a tough choice between spending a lot of money or taking the trail out of the tunnel. The Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) runs in… Keep reading…
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It’s time for a statewide bag fee in Maryland
DC’s 5¢ bag fee is now 2 years old, and it has unquestionably achieved its goals. Shoppers have overwhelmingly switched to using reusable bags to carry their purchases, and fewer plastic bags are polluting the Anacostia River. But we all live downstream of somewhere, and bags and other trash continue to come in from Maryland and tarnish DC’s waters. Montgomery… Keep reading…
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It’s not Wheaton vs. Bethesda, but smart growth vs. bad
Montgomery officials say there isn’t enough money in the capital budget to pay for both a new Bethesda Metro entrance and redeveloping Wheaton. But there is plenty of money, if only the county deferred some of the new and wasteful highways that will only worsen sprawl and shift the county’s growth away from the places that can best accommodate it. Wheaton residents… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Affordable
Time to study affordable housing; No vacancy at shelters; How would you fund Metro?; Stop harassment on Metro; McDonnell for DC autonomy; Crosswalk faces hurdles; Google goes real-time; Mayors on transit. Keep reading…
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Feds, Maryland examine widening Balt.-Wash. Parkway
Widening the Baltimore-Washington parkway would let it carry more vehicles, but would not make traffic any better. That’s the conclusion from a federal study that looked at adding a third lane in each direction. The study, by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), looks at widening the parkway between Route 50 and the Baltimore Beltway. FHWA will be sending the results… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Phones
Pay phones don’t pay; Another use for pay phones; Get off the phone; Forget you!; Don’t shut the door; Second look at suburbs; And…. Keep reading…
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Sometimes, it’s okay for progressives to embrace progress
Takoma Park has long been known for civic activism, dating back to the freeway fighters who stopped I-95 and I-270 from cutting through the area 40 years ago. But that culture of resistance to change could prevent the community from allowing positive improvements to take place. Writing in Utne Reader, the same publication that once called Montgomery County the “Most Enlightened… Keep reading…