Posts about Maryland
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Breakfast links: Bills, bills, bills
FTA could regulate transit; McDonnell doesn’t get everything; HUD helps PG; Gray holds One City summit; Little help from Obama; BW bike trail?; Lobby for Maryland equality; In Arlington…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Pluses and minuses
Meet “Rush Plus”; Less entrance, more closing; No decision on campus plan; No more fund; Cities should pay more?; Super walkability; And…. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s bag fee not dead, but needs your help
On Wednesday, a preliminary vote on the Prince George’s County disposable bag fee failed to move the measure forward. The Washington Post’s article explained many of the dynamics, but the headline suggested the bill was dead. It’s not, but it needs residents’ help to pass. Unlike in Montgomery County, where a 5¢ fee began last month on plastic… Keep reading…
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The Anacostia River can again be swimmable and fishable
The Anacostia River is widely called DC’s “forgotten river,” a term coined by Anacostia Watershed Society’s founding president, Robert Boone, to reflect the river’s second-class status in our nation’s capital city. The Anacostia should be a community asset: a river safe for swimming and fishing, per the federal Clean Water Act. In… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bag fee blockage
PG bag fee loses vote; Don’t live free; Hard to drive 55?; More camera controversies; Bite your tongue; Defaulting Thomas; New plans for NoVa; Unaffordable affordable housing; People want walkable; And…. Keep reading…
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Raise Maryland’s gas tax? Only if it’ll be spent wisely
Would you give away your money if you had little idea where it was going? Probably not. But that is what could happen to Maryland residents if the General Assembly passes a gas tax bill that doesn’t give us a better plan for how our transportation dollars are spent. Right now, Governor O’Malley is working on a bill to levy a 6% sales tax on gasoline, adding about 18¢… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Goodbye thieves; Post Office Trumped; Bus burns again; New plans for waterfront; CaBi brings in capital; Evans won’t let go of ‘Skins; Where the poor live; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery and DC inaction threatens the Met Branch Trail
The Metropolitan Branch Trail has been gradually becoming a reality, but now its future is threatened at both ends: in the north from the Montgomery County Executive’s short-sighted budget decisions, in the south by the District’s laissez-faire protection of trail users. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett wants to eliminate funding to complete the trail… Keep reading…
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Montgomery needs to retain young residents
MoCo planning director Rollin Stanley recently posted a video with some findings his staff made in the 2010 Census. To be honest, it doesn’t look good for Montgomery County: closing businesses, high housing prices, and an aging population. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Need space
Can’t get there; BRT will need land; Cafritz gets OK; OK to tailgate bikes in Virginia; Not so super or grand; Cars make room for humans; Bet on downtown Vegas; Walk like an Englishman. Keep reading…