Flickr highlights and a CSG internship

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Flickr highlights and a CSG internship

by Aimee Custis • March 15, 2013 3:15 pm

Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region. Plus, want to be an intern at the Coalition for Smarter Growth this summer?

National Arboretum. Photo by caroline.angelo.

Greenbelt-bound Green Line train near Lake Artemesia in College Park. Photo by railsnroots.

Dalecarlia Tunnel along Capitol Crescent Trail, Montgomery County. Photo by afagen.

Standard (14th Street). Photo by Joe in DC.

National Cathedral, view from Kennedy Center. Photo by ekelly80.

Got a picture that depicts the best or worst of the Washington region? Make sure to join our Flickr pool and submit your own photos!

Do you have a passion for advocacy, writing and making a difference in the Washington DC region? If so, we might be looking for you! The Coalition for Smarter Growth has started its summer intern selection process—and we do a lot more than assemble Flickr pictures. Read the full program description. I hope you apply!

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Aimee Custis is the Communications Manager at the Coalition for Smarter Growth. A policy wonk by training and a public transportation advocate by profession, she moved to DC in 2008 to learn everything she could about walkable communities, transit, and public policy. She's also a photography nerd and contributor at YPT Voice.

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Aimee (and CSG),

Please insure that this unpaid 'internship' is in full compliance with U.S. labor law.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf

Please do not abuse workers.

Nick

by Nick on Mar 15, 2013 4:23 pm • link • report

Hi Nick!

Thanks! Yes, we work very hard to make sure we're in compliance with US DOL's internship rules and I'm thoroughly familiar with the 6 criteria they provide. A great reminder, though!

by Aimee Custis on Mar 15, 2013 4:31 pm • link • report

Glad to hear it, Aimee. Thanks.

by Nick on Mar 15, 2013 4:47 pm • link • report

I also don't approve of unpaid internships, for a number of reasons. I hope CSG rethinks their position on this. It's not right.

by TakomaNick on Mar 15, 2013 5:02 pm • link • report

Eh I'm mixed on unpaid internships. As long as they are not used for cheap labor and are genuinely education, I'm all about them. I learned more in one internship than I did in many classes I took.

by Alan B. on Mar 18, 2013 4:45 pm • link • report

I agree, Alan, with a caveat. When I was a student, people did one, *maybe* two internships (away from campus for a summer or quarter, maybe another over a summer or nearby campus while still taking classes...I did one quarter away and a summer in a low-paid position that looked good on a resume). When that's what's expected, so long as the experience is educational (mine certainly was, and I *also* made some VERY valuable connections that I use for networking to this day), then it's fine not to pay or to offer just a few benefits (paid Metro, housing, whatnot). Nowadays, our interns are talking about how this is their 5th or 6th internship (because we expect our interns to do real work and learn something, we tend to hire upperclassmen and grad students). As someone who HAD to work for pay while in school, and went to school in a remote location, I could have never swung that many unpaid positions or afforded to skip summer classes/60+ hour PAID work weeks for so many years (I mean, if I wasn't taking classes, fully half my income for the year was earned over breaks by working 2 or 3 jobs). I'm so glad I'm old enough that some semblance of sanity still reigned when I was a student...

by Ms. D on Mar 18, 2013 7:45 pm • link • report

Re : Dalecarlia Tunnel

Part of a bike trail from Georgetown to Bethesda (paved) and on to Silver Spring (crushed stone).

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalecarlia_Tunnel

by Ted K. on Mar 25, 2013 7:48 am • link • report