By Canaan Merchant (Elections Committee) • October 21, 2019
VDOT is thinking about the future of Arlington Boulevard/Route 50 through Falls Church, and it created a survey to understand what the public thinks and wants to be done in the area.
Greater Greater Washington endorses Virginia Onley for mayor and Mark Pierzchala, James Hedrick, David Myles, and Cynthia Cotte Griffiths for the other seats on the five-member City Council. All are running together as the “Team Rockville” slate.
By George Kevin Jordan (Editor and Correspondent) • October 21, 2019
In Prince George’s County and Montgomery County’s pedestrian fatalities are on the rise. The number of pedestrian fatalities in PG county has steadily ticked up from 20 in 2015 to 27 by 2018, according to data from the Maryland Highway Safety Office and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We mapped out the pedestrian deaths for 2019 to date.
By Jane Green (Development Director) • October 21, 2019
Join Georgetown University for a webinar from 12-1 pm on Friday, October 25 to find out how its Master’s in Urban & Regional Planning will prepare you to solve the critical challenges facing urban communities around the world.
Since 2008, almost eight million square feet of office space in the Washington region has been converted or is being converted into residential dwellings, including 21 buildings in DC, 21 in Northern Virginia, and 11 in Maryland. (Kathy Orton / Post)
Since September 26, the 270 patients and 700 staff at St. Elizabeths, DC’s only public psychiatric hospital, have been unable to wash their hands in the sink or drink tap water despite ongoing attempts to remediate legionella and pseudomonas bacteria in the water supply. (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)
The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking public input for a safety review of US Route 50 in Falls Church as part of a $280,000 study of the area between Wilson Boulevard to Jaguar Trail. It includes the intersection where a Fairfax County police officer fatally hit Carlos Romeo Montoya with his car early on Sunday morning. (Dick Uliano / WTOP)
The Arlington County Board approved requests from eight childcare providers this past weekend to expand the number of children they can care for. Previously they faced caps on the number of children allowed, in part, due to zoning regulations requiring more parking. (Airey / ARLnow)
JPMorgan Chase awarded a $5 million grant to three nonprofits to combat gentrification along the 16-mile Purple Line route aimed at preserving or creating 1,000 affordable homes, backing small-business loans totaling $900,000, and paying for bilingual technical assistance. (Robert McCartney / Post)
The DC Council heard testimony from parents and students from the private Maret School defending a no-bid arrangement that gives the school near-exclusive access through 2029 to a public field and limits access to public school students at nearby Hardy Middle School. (Fenit Nirappil / Post)
The story of a 32-week pregnant Congress Heights woman who waited 31 minutes for an ambulance to take her to the hospital before giving birth to her stillborn son highlights how dangerous childbirth is for women of color to in a city where 75% of DC mothers who died of pregnancy or childbirth complications were black. (Amanda Michelle Gomez / City Paper)
Following the proposed removal of an elevated highway that damaged a predominately black neighborhood in Syracuse, some residents are advocating for reinvestment as a form of reparation for the half-century of damage it wrought. (Robert Samuels / Post)
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