By Nick Sementelli (Advocacy Committee) • February 18, 2020
The District Department of Transportation is bringing long-awaited traffic-calming measures to First Street NW. Opponents say they’re getting in the way.
If union negotiations with Giant and Safeway grocery stores to roll back cuts to benefits and secure affordable health care coverage, funded pensions, and dependable schedules are not successful, workers will vote to strike Wednesday. (Melissa Howell / WTOP)
The Alexandria-based group’s 1,500 members opposed traffic calming on Seminary Road. Now a group administrator and several participants plan to fight other so-called “bad ideas” that don’t prioritize vehicle traffic at the city council level. (James Cullum / ALX Now)
A group of Montgomery County middle schoolers called on the school board to develop better polices to evacuate students with disabilites, who are now required to wait for first responders to arrive and assist them during an emergency situation. (Caitlynn Peetz / Bethesda Beat)
City Manager Mark Jinks proposed the increase, along with others, to fund schools, park fields, and new court systems. Jinks has said he will propose tax increases every other year in order to pay off Alexandria’s debts and raise money for planned capital improvements. (Patricia Sullivan / Post)
Arlington county may overhaul the 2006 Clarendon Sector Plan in order to accomodate new growth in the neighborhood, since there are nine developments that have been approved or are seeking approval to build there. (ARL Now)
Councilmember Robert C. White, Jr. proposed a bill to require lead tests on all DC-owned playgrounds made with synthetic materials after testing last year found elevated lead levels at 17 school playgrounds. (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)
Transurban, the company that runs the combined I-395 and I-95 toll lanes in Virginia reported that they made $58 million from tolls for a $17 million profit in the last six months of 2019. (Max Smith / WTOP)
