Posts about Politics
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Morning links: Politics in the press edition
National pols ignorant of DC politics: No surprise here: they’re DC superdelegates, but many don’t know the name of their City Council member. (I can forgive them for not knowing all the shadow Senators.) The Post popped them with a pop quiz and got many failing grades. Keep reading…
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Obama-Biden: the train ticket?
The completely ridiculous VP press buzz has flitted away from Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and alighted on Delaware Senator Joe Biden. Matt Yglesias has the same reaction I did: whatever you think Biden would help or hurt the ticket on foreign policy, based on his longtime advocacy for Amtrak, Vice President Biden would be great for passenger rail policy. Keep reading…
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Council race coverage roundup
Lots of new coverage of the Council races. Keep reading…
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Evans-Silverman: two worlds, two boxes of tools
Interviewing Jack Evans and Cary Silverman, the candidates for the Ward 2 DC Council seat, one could think the two are running for completely different offices. Evans seems to be running for reelection as the Council version of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, devoting his energy to financing deals that will stimulate development throughout DC. Meanwhile,… Keep reading…
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Thoughts on bicycle safety
If you’ve missed the comment threads here and here about yesterday’s bicycle fatality, here’s a quick guide to some important points. Keep reading…
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Ask the Ward 2 Council candidates
The DC primary for local races is Tuesday, September 9. One of the most interesting races is the primary for Ward 2 Councilmember, where Cary Silverman, president of the Mount Vernon Square Neighborhood Association, is challenging 17-year incumbent Jack Evans. If you’ve been anywhere in Ward 2 (Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, Dupont, Logan Circle, Shaw, Mount Vernon Square,… Keep reading…
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MoCoCo picks developer over transit-oriented activist
The Montgomery County Council narrowly passed over Action Committee for Transit President Ben Ross, a Smart Growth advocate as well as the leading Purple Line activist, for a spot on the Montgomery County Planning Board. They instead elected Joseph Alfandre, developer of the New Urbanist but non-transit-oriented Kentlands community in Gaithersburg. Maryland Politics… Keep reading…
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The first metropolitan President
… was probably JFK, who hailed from Boston and without whom Washington Metro wouldn’t exist, but Barack Obama is contending for the title of the 21st-century Eisenhower and Kennedy in one with his speech on metropolitan policy yesterday: Keep reading…
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Donna Edwards: for better buses, against National Harbor
There’s a good profile of future MD-4 Congresswoman Donna Edwards in the Post. Edwards beat incumbent Al Wynn in the primary last spring, and is expected to win a special election Tuesday to finish the last few months of Wynn’s term. Keep reading…
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Roll call vote on Amtrak
Here’s the roll call vote on the Amtrak bill. All House Democrats voted for it (except ten not present), as did 87 Republicans. From Virginia, the Democrats (Moran, Boucher, and Scott) were joined by NoVA Republicans Tom Davis and Frank Wolf, as well as Cantor, Drake, Goode, and Goodlatte, while Forbes and Wittman voted no. Maryland’s Democrats (Ruppersberger, Sarbanes,… Keep reading…