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Tony West -- Confederate of Willie Brown and Kamala Harris -- Under Scrutiny

Leslie Brodie 4.8.12 4:30 AM | Tony West -- United States Department of Justice Third-in-Command -- Confederate of Willie Brown and Kamala Harris -- Under Even Greater Scrutiny Re Sham Non-Profit CaliforniaALL Amid New...
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Money and myopia: what’s hurting healthcare reform

The 28th Amendment 8.11.09 9:46 PM | There is nothing un-American about people who are opposed to the healthcare reform legislation. They have a right to be skeptical about how their current coverage will be affected,...
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Passenger Flow for Individual Metro Station

Track Twenty-Nine 8.10.09 10:19 AM | _Crossposted at Greater Greater Washington_ In late July, I wrote about passenger flows on the Metro system. Unfortunately, the study had to cope with limitations in the data from Metro....
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Washington Streets

Track Twenty-Nine 8.7.09 12:15 PM | _Crossposted at Greater Greater Washington_ Visitors and residents of Washington, DC know, to one degree or another, about the city's street naming conventions. Most tourists know that we...
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Urban Thinking

Track Twenty-Nine 8.7.09 10:38 AM | Planetizen is trying to figure out who the top urban thinkers are. If you'd like to vote or nominate your own favorite, check it out: Planetizen.
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Cash for Clunkers extension should be scrapped

The 28th Amendment 8.3.09 9:27 AM | I am in favor of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. I believe that carbon emissions from human behavior are warming the planet and will cause drastic climate changes in years to...
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Republican Healthcare Speech Template

The 28th Amendment 7.30.09 7:55 PM | Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to HR 3200, the so-called healthcare reform bill. It is clear that this bill will ( raise taxes / kill jobs / kill puppies ). This bill,...
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Debunking GOP healthcare smears

The 28th Amendment 7.28.09 9:29 PM | Republicans are trying their best to kill health reform and extinguish President Obama’s credibility. They say they want to improve health care—just not in its current form. Well,...
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Where the Metro Riders Are, and Aren't

Track Twenty-Nine 7.28.09 10:05 AM | Crossposted at Greater Greater Washington. How full are Metro’s trains at any point in the system? What routes do riders take when confronted with a choice between two transfers, or between a...
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Slight overreaction to Kaine’s Travelgate

The 28th Amendment 7.27.09 7:12 PM | Poor Tim Kaine: the recession has gotten so bad that he has had to get a second part-time job—as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It turns out that Kaine’s...
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Delegates bid farewell to “highly organized chaos”

The 28th Amendment 7.26.09 3:36 PM | It’s not exactly news that Virginia’s General Assembly is a mixture of the dysfunctional, the demagogical, and the dedicated—though in varying proportions. The shocker is that there...
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Congresswatch: healthcare (in)action, gun (mis)action

The 28th Amendment 7.24.09 3:32 PM | Members of Congress have one simple responsibility: to make laws. All the other stuff—cutting ribbons at new train stations, getting their pictures taken with Little League...
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OTP

Track Twenty-Nine 7.23.09 10:00 AM | I grew up in North Georgia, not too far from sprawling Atlanta*. Even Atlantans know that it is the poster child for "dumb" growth in America (perhaps in the New World). Yet the region continues to...
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Racial profiling? Or misunderstanding?

The 28th Amendment 7.23.09 12:48 AM | I have to confess a character flaw of mine: I tend to take what people say at face value. That is to say, I trust their motives until they give me a reason to think otherwise. ...
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A Diagram is not a Map

Track Twenty-Nine 7.16.09 1:00 PM | I was reading one of Dr. Gridlock's entries yesterday morning when one of the comments caught my eye. Yesterday, Dr. Gridlock talked about Monday's HOR subcommittee hearing on the June 22 accident...
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Sen. Graham’s obtuse questioning

The 28th Amendment 7.16.09 1:58 AM | It is a cruel twist of irony that Sonia Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearings have actually told us very little about the Supreme Court nominee herself. Instead, we have found out...
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Sotomayor’s confirmation: too staged to be democracy

The 28th Amendment 7.15.09 10:03 PM | “[H]e shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint…Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein...
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Let’s end the lieutenant governor’s race

The 28th Amendment 7.14.09 11:11 AM | Last week, Left of the Hill lamented the fact that both of Virginia’s candidates for lieutenant governor are busy sniping at each other’s records instead of laying out their agendas to the...
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The Metro crash: shocking in its mildness

The 28th Amendment 7.10.09 2:33 PM | When we take a look back at mass murders and tragic accidents—the D.C. Metro and Air France flight crashes of last month or the Virginia Tech shooting of 2007, for instance—what...
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Cartographic Humor: "Patomic"

Track Twenty-Nine 7.10.09 11:19 AM | _I like maps. I always have been facinated by them, and as a result I spend a lot of time looking at them. Occasionally, I come across a bit of funny business. So, I'm starting a new occasional...
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