All Opinions Are Local: June 20, 2010 - June 26, 2010
Corey Stewart wants Virginia to be Arizona
Once again playing the wedge politics of fear and discrimination, Corey A. Stewart is beating the drum for Virginia to adopt Arizona-style immigation laws. The chairman of the Prince WIlliam County Board of Supervisors has been on Fox News...
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June 25, 2010; 12:00 PM ET |
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No K Street 'Feet in the Street'
DDOT will not be holding a Feet in the Street walking and cycling event on K Street because D.C.'s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency won't allow a special event with any cross traffic. Cities around the world, from...
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June 25, 2010; 6:00 AM ET |
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Parole didn't cause this tragedy
By Rick Binetti Towson In a June 20 Local Opinions commentary, “A tragic reminder of Maryland’s broken parole system,” former Maryland Division of Correction employee Hal Riedl offered a misleading account of how much time Cyril Cornelius Williams, the suspect...
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June 24, 2010; 6:43 PM ET |
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Metro dodges the death spiral
At approximately 2:25 this afternoon, the WMATA board approved next year's budget, including the assortment of fare hikes that were proposed in May and designed to maintain the system and avoid cuts to service. The fare hikes include across-the-board...
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June 24, 2010; 3:00 PM ET |
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A price tag for the Hurt Home
Would you sell a palatial mansion in Georgetown for only $1.37 million? Well, you're about to. The District is proposing to sell the historic Hurt Home building in Georgetown to a private developer to convert into condos. The price...
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June 24, 2010; 2:24 PM ET |
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McDonnell commission has chance to recycle
Will Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s government reform commission become anything more than a moderately impressive bullet-point on its members’ resumes? Initially, the commission seems to have two strikes against it -- or at least against how it is perceived....
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June 24, 2010; 11:49 AM ET |
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Manute Bol's other legacy
By Robert McFarlane, Arlington Thanks for your generous tribute to Manute Bol, who died on Saturday in Charlottesville at 47 [“Former Washington Bullet was a singular force in the NBA,” Metro, June 20]. Although I followed Mr. Bol’s career as...
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June 23, 2010; 8:41 PM ET |
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This year in global warming
Spring 2010 was officially the warmest on record both for Washington, D.C., locally and Earth as a whole. Deniers can bicker about how inconvenient it all is, how it may or may not be due to human interference, or...
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June 23, 2010; 2:00 PM ET |
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Is The Post too negative on Metro?
Tuesday was the first anniversary of the Metro crash, and The Post came out negative on the year's safety developments. The headline said efforts have "lost momentum" and the lede said there has been "too little progress." There could...
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June 23, 2010; 11:57 AM ET |
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Virginia must keep its Metro funding pledge
By Catherine Hudgins and Chris Zimmerman Virginia’s transportation secretary, Sean T. Connaughton, has informed the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission that he will not honor the state’s commitment to provide $50 million annually for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board’s...
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June 22, 2010; 8:20 PM ET |
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Richmond's rail dilemma
As in many cities, some Richmonders are caught up in the new urbanist wave, dreaming of living without cars close to downtown offices, restaurants and intra-city transportation. A big part of that involves the ornate, Renaissance Revival Main Street...
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June 22, 2010; 5:00 PM ET |
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Today is the day we fix Tysons Corner
The maddening thing about Tysons Corner is that it isn't dense enough. Really. There's a minimum density threshold that communities have to reach to make walking and transit viable alternatives to driving. Tysons isn't there yet. It has about...
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June 22, 2010; 2:13 PM ET |
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Virginia gives lobbyists some wiggle room
Despite recent changes, reporting requirements for Virginia lobbyists may not not be comprehensive enough.
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June 22, 2010; 6:59 AM ET |
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A flawed plan for Tysons Corner
The Planning Commission did the right thing in rejecting the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce's development plan for Tysons Corner.
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June 21, 2010; 6:23 PM ET |
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BP spill affecting local seafood prices
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill hasn't hit Virginia's coastline, but its effects are hitting the local seafood industry.
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June 21, 2010; 3:41 PM ET |
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More than one missed opportunity
Friday's Washington Post features a cautionary tale of real estate greed, in which the owner of a Massachusetts Avenue building who wanted to cash in by selling to developers demanded such outrageous prices that the suitors dried up and...
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June 21, 2010; 11:53 AM ET |
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Excellence in D.C. schools
While we are trying to create high achievement in all D.C. schools, we need to salute it where we have it.
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June 21, 2010; 9:40 AM ET |
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