Family Biking Matters: Biking in the cold – Greater Greater …
Dec 5, 2024 · Capitol Chill: the author's family bikes near the Capitol on a cold day. Welcome to Family (Biking) Matters, where guest columnists from the group Hill Family Biking answer all your questions about biking with family members.
CaBi is a huge success. Will the program structure allow it to keep ...
Dec 2, 2024 · Capital BikeShare docking station outside Van Ness Metro Station. Image by Bossi used with permission. Capital Bikeshare is soaring to new ridership heights: the system has hit new monthly ridership records for six months and counting, and year over year, ridership jumped up a whopping 47.7% between October 2023 and October 2024. The growth is driven in part by local governments’ investment ...
DC’s public housing agency is making halting progress, but much …
Oct 10, 2024 · DC Housing Authority opened up a downtown office earlier this year. Image by DC Housing Authority.. In October 2022, a damning audit of DC’s Housing Authority identified 82 violations of federal policies. Two years later, the DCHA is making only halting progress.
People asked questions about zoning reform in Montgomery …
Nov 5, 2024 · Before his appointment as Planning Board Chair in 2023, Artie Harris was the vice president of real estate at Montgomery Housing Partnership, Inc. (MHP), a nonprofit real estate development organization based in Silver Spring, MD, that creates affordable communities in Montgomery County and surrounding jurisdictions.
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Breakfast links: Arlington looks for new housing programs in 2025. Links By Eleanor Barker (Contributor) January 3, 2025. Arlington looks for new housing programs in 2025. After a judge ruled certain portions of Arlington’s Missing Middle program invalid, county staff are trying to address the housing crisis with new solutions.
2024 Elections Hub – Greater Greater Washington - ggwash.org
2024 Elections Hub. You’ll find here information about Greater Greater Washington’s political work in 2024 elections in the District of Columbia and Virginia, including resources about voting and candidates, candidates’ responses to our questionnaires, our endorsements, and how you can help our endorsed candidates win their elections.
Decode the interstates: What highway numbers actually mean
Sep 12, 2019 · Image by the author. Why is I-95 named I-95? What about I-395, or I-270, or I-66? There’s a logical system behind it all, and it’s easy to learn.
Breakfast links: Virginia lawmaker takes on hedge fund …
Dec 2, 2024 · Prince William County Board of Supervisors approves public-private partnership on “town center” development. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors gave the green light to move forward with establishing a public-private partnership to design and advance the development of a “town center” on a 60- to 70-acre plot of land along I-95 near Telegraph Road.
The Covid relief cliff is real, and it’s here
Oct 9, 2024 · Georgetown’s “graffiti cliffs”. Image by xmeeksx used with permission.. Residents of the Greater Washington region are struggling to catch up and keep up financially. New data gives us a window into the lives of our region’s residents, and the precarity they face at a time we all hoped would be more prosperous.
A safer, more affordable DC begins with a plan to move beyond gas
Oct 8, 2024 · Gas meter for a DC home. Image by Martin Bartholmy used with permission.. All summer, DC residents were forced to crank the air conditioning to endure heat wave after heat wave, facing record-breaking energy bills to keep cool amid record-breaking temperatures.. But as fall sets in, higher energy bills could become a year-round feature, as gas customers face a second double-digit rate hike ...