Posts about Public Safety
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More and varied nightlife can make Silver Spring safer
For many communities, the closure of Borders means one fewer place to read books, hear music and drink coffee. For downtown Silver Spring, whose branch anchors the redeveloped area around Ellsworth Drive, Borders was one of the neighborhood’s few nightlife options. That’s especially relevant right now as residents discuss imposing a curfew on Montgomery County… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time to go
Metro closes @metroopensdoors; Elections chief quits; Wells calls for Thomas to resign; Hope for the Anacostia?; Montgomery approves first charter school; No free parking on commercial street; We don’t spend a lot on gas; A look inside Metro; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harder to breathe
Nostalgic for Snowmageddon; Cycletracks cut the gender gap; New Metro features coming soon; Is gentrification all about displacement?; Flash mob protests Walmart; DC’s techies selective with neighborhoods; Virginia has a bastion of traditional family; Population mapped to the block; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep us safe
Police brutally tase pedicab driver; More crime on the MBT; Should trains carry chemicals through urban centers?; More tweeting @metroopensdoors; Homeless to build homeless housing; Might TIGER support TOD?; No enforcement leads to parking anarchy; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Old dominion, new rules
Arlington scrutinizing big box stores; BRAC moving faster than expected; Fairfax to require permits for pick-up games; 2 visions for St. E’s; Police suggest making speeding mandatory; DC urged to perform landlord stings; Why aren’t the hip new restaurants in Georgetown?; Georgia convicts pedestrian of vehicular homicide; And…. Keep reading…
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Teens need things to do, not a curfew
Yesterday, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett proposed setting a curfew on teenagers under 18, raising concerns about how young people are treated here and around the country. Expedited Bill 25-11 (PDF) would bar minors from being in public in Montgomery County after 11 pm on weeknights, and after midnight on weekends. Exceptions would be made for young people coming… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not welcome here
Barry wants ban on apartments; Park Police ruin a family’s 4th; Do we need a cyclist anti-harassment bill?; Alexandria pushing wider roads for Mark Center; No tax breaks for facadectomies; London bike sharing turns one; Metro morsels; And…. Keep reading…
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HDR time-lapse shows Washington in a new light
Photographer Drew Geraci created this great sequence of time-lapse HDR photos around the District (and surrounding jurisdictions). Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trouble with the law
93 days in jail for a vegetable garden; Are strip clubs good neighbors?; Black women bike, too; Scandals complicate economic development pick; Too many boards and commissions?; Two approaches to solving regional congestion; 4 stories shockingly massive; Chairs vanish where immigrants gathered; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…