Posts tagged Civil Liberties
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Here’s a timeline of local LGBTQ places and history
This interactive maps out the places and spaces that have been important to DC's LGBTQ community for more than 50 years. Keep reading…
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Check out this map (and history) of DC’s LGBT places and spaces
Pride week starts on Thursday! This interactive maps the places and spaces that have been important to the DC's LGBT community for more than 50 years. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New homes and homeless
Housing vs plaza; Maker space and more; Homeless in Georgetown; Metro passes for students; Click for paratransit?; Purple Line details; Rail not welcome; Where Williams works; Crime down; Raiding the wrong house. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Turning it around
A park for Silver Spring?; Plow the trails, Arlington!; Pause for Montgomery’s urban roads bill; Democrats embracing urbanism?; Historic and empty; How boring; No biking for you… ever; Camera clips; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where and how the people go
People up, driving down; Baltimore wants to “poach” residents; Now white and black people lose rights; Bases get smart (growth); Metro intercoms sort-of-broken?; Is it gentrification?; Congress Heights needs food options; Fighting continues at Manassas; And…. Keep reading…
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Metro bag searches aren’t always optional
If you refuse a bag search at a WMATA subway station, Metro Transit Police may follow you if you leave and even if you board a bus. That’s what happened to me Tuesday morning in Shaw. I entered the Shaw Metro station with a bag containing my lunch and my laptop. An officer waved me aside on the north mezzanine and told me to put my bag on the table for inspection. Stunned that I was… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Know your rights
Public or private?; Legal video; How downtown is like Downton; Sequestration looms; Fairfax trail closed a year; A studio in Fairfax; What’s in a license plate?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Too conventional?
Gray misses statehood talk; Democrats quiet on transit; DC feeling the heat; Even hotter?; Let the best rise?; MPD folds special unit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The battle is joined
Cameras: the next bike safety feature?; McDonnell stops faking bipartisanship; Sulaimon Brown arrested, does one thing right; Metro morsels; Small savers get a slide; Architects pick box for big prize; NYC parking spaces to become parks; Ride with a bell or get strip searched?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburban traffic engineer follies
Fairfax proposes deathtrap at Wiehle; MCDOT speeds cars, makes area unsafe to walk; Arlington making Glebe safer; Tourmobile going, eventually; Wells hits deer; NYC bike lane survives lawsuit; Park ideas bloom; In mob news; And…. Keep reading…