Posts about Public Safety
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Breakfast links: Urban features come to Montgomery
Streetcar to Silver Spring?; Berliner against anti-urban Walmarts; Mall owner prefers a town instead; Jobs outstrip housing; Parking meter aesthetics matter; HPRB nominees: 6 months later, no changes; Food stamps down in DC, up in MD, VA; WMATA questions 14-hour workdays; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New uses for old buildings
Another Mall museum?; Lincoln Theatre gets new management; Abortion provision kills nascent bill; BRAC increases traffic in Bethesda; Montgomery wants inside-the-Beltway CaBi; Tregoning shows NYC how it’s done; Speedier bus increases ridership; Metro goes after bike thieves; CBS to jump into windshield perspective radio market; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting what you don’t want
Friendship Heights gets power, not residents; Congo gets a protest over front yard; Issa giveth and taketh away for DC; Gray supports globe on freeway idea; Deal makes Silver Line to Dulles likely; Windshield perspective gets creative; Bad trail; Keeping up on corruption; And…. Keep reading…
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Uniontown drug charges stymie Anacostia’s hope for renewal
Residents of Anacostia, hopeful that a sit-down restaurant represented a turning point in their neighborhood’s longstanding struggles, were shaken by news that the proprietor of that restaurant was charged in a federal drug trafficking case in Maryland and Texas. The Washington Post reported that Natasha Dasher, owner of Uniontown Bar and Grill, was charged after… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Prince George’s reflects on past and future
Odds set against gambling ban; Design matters for successful TOD; Maryland town sees a demographic shift; Alley dispute hinges on a 1789 deed; Some Metro workers need a break; Drug allegations crush Anacostians; Streetscapes: worth it?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: World-sized ideas
Will giant globe perch over freeway?; Dupont underground movies?; What agencies say about buildings; Petition against the sidepath law; Height limit = high prices in one city; Traffic is bad for you, biking good; The decline of pedestrian rights; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pointing fingers
Official scapegoats Smart Growth; Leggett reprimands council; Election results still not all in; DNC contradicts DC Democrats; Charters gain increasing share; All options on the table for the FBI’s HQ; Are the police choking or pushing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Do your civic duty
VA party control in the balance today; Senate transpo bill has good and bad; Homeless Orleans on the ballot; Occupiers protest MPD; From food court to grand court?; Dutch kids get drivers’/cyclists’/peds’ ed.; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumper weekend
Driver strikes 3 protestors… intentionally?; WMATA wants to break radio silence; Borrowing is the new stealing?; Attend a town hall by hashtag; Gentrification, or more diversity?; DC Democrats become less democratic; RI Ave ped/bike bridge moving forward; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Patience is a virtue
Slower speeds may come to DC; Bag fee increases shoplifting?; One man owes $17 million in back taxes; Bike “garage” slated for Franconia; Struggle on the waterfront; BRAC bits; Utah entitled to Arizona highways; And…. Keep reading…