Posts by Melissa Lindsjo — Contributor
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Tenants in Brightwood Park are refusing to pay rent in their decrepit building
Residents at a Brightwood Park building say their apartments are infested with bugs and rodents and badly needs maintenance, but instead of making fixes, the landlord is trying to raise rent. Now some tenants are refusing to pay until conditions are better. Keep reading…
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Anti-immigrant flyers are popping up in Ward 4. Neighbors are fighting back with chalk.
A rash of hateful flyers denigrating illegal immigration and DC's status as a sanctuary city has popped up in Brightwood and Takoma, but neighborhood residents and elected officials have been quick to condemn the signs, and some neighbors are fighting back with messages of love written on sidewalks in chalk. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A certain mindset
What the Olympics bring; Don’t put fear first; Stay cool on Metro; Why the resistance to larger boundaries?; Silver Spring gets connected; Not preserved in Chevy Chase; Now change the name?; Goats help landscape vacant lots; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxi tactics
Taxi access; Uber fights at home and abroad; Food trucks out of Rosslyn; Vacant lot transformed; How big is White Flint?; Two-way New Hampshire; Political pieces; Solar comes to Blue Plains?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better input
Vote for AG; Bringing color to Silver; Closing DC General the answer?; A better traffic light?; A better bar crawl?; Do meetings matter?; Change in Del Ray; And…. Keep reading…