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It's not ideal that @OPinDC is making policy on the basis of ignorance and superstition rather than evidence. 51st.news/dc-flum-housin…

DC Police announce FIVE new juvenile curfew zones (yet again) in Washington DC this weekend, starting at 8pm tonight: -Navy Yard -Chinatown -The Wharf/Southwest Waterfront -U Street Corridor -Banneker/Howard University This comes after issues with “teen takeovers” previously…

I agree with Janeese's new position that DC needs more housing, faster permitting, and zoning reform that reaches every neighborhood. But her past actions matter. She voted no on the RENTAL Act and when a developer proposed nine units near a bus station in Ward 4, she warned the project would "increase strain on parking." I'm glad she's recently taken a better position on housing, but she's been on the council for five years and I find it hard to believe she's actually fundamentally changed her views (even though I hope she has).

We need DC residents to fill out @OPinDC's survey about their Future Land Use Map proposal. survey123.arcgis.com/share/61f66840…

Newly built townhouse projects don't replicate the street layouts of beloved historic rowhouses neighborhoods, giving you a kind of "worst of both worlds" uncanny valley suburbanism. We need more street grids, fewer paranoid fire codes. slowboring.com/p/make-townhou…

Washington, D.C.'s Metro officially opened a half century ago, on March 27, 1976:

Reading the CFO letter - it’s a dire warning that the DC economy (thus - tax revenues) is tanking worse than we thought. That’s more important than the mayor being late with her budget.

Why do new buildings seem, on average, uglier than old buildings? We discuss some options: - Survivorship bias: only the beautiful old buildings have survived (we reject this option); - Cycles of taste: everyone always finds new buildings uglier (we mostly reject this too); - Ornament became too expensive because of rising labour costs (we reject this); - Ornament became too cheap because of mechanisation and then became low status (we reject this); - Some sort of Protestant or Puritan anti-beauty inheritance (we are doubtful); - Some kind of elite status game, perhaps a response to democratisation or elite overproduction (we think there is promise here, but serious work is needed on the details). I discuss this and more with @Aria_Babu and @bswud. Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/did… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2pIka6… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=qvueKt…

How a ‘Universal Basic Neighborhood’ Can Help Americans Live Longer usa.streetsblog.org/2026/03/24/how…

Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

NO❗️OP's staff was NOT "caught off guard" that OP "didn't upzone enough." In fact people said they wanted "truly affordable and 'right-sized apartments serving families,' senior centers, grocery stores and community services, NOT for higher density throughout the city

My Full statement on the Office of Planning’s draft Future Land Use Map. Rent in DC is still too expensive. Owning a home is still out of reach for too many of our residents. Making it easier to build more housing is essential to solving those problems. Unfortunately, the draft future land use map released this week by the Office of Planning is simply insufficient to the task. dc2050.dc.gov/pages/draft-fu…

Pentagon plans to keep National Guard in DC into 2029, 2 US officials say abcnews.com/Politics/penta…

@billyez2 For more than five years, as MPD staffing has declined, the Council has talked about solutions like this. What’s been missing isn’t ideas — it’s execution and accountability.

A previous DC auditor report suggested more civilian agencies and federal help to close the gap. Maybe we do that!

Something neither DC mayoral candidate has really wrestled with: how we're going to deal with MPD's unsustainable explosion in overtime budget. It burns out cops and it costs the District a ton of money. They've tried to hire more ccops for the last 5 years and it hasn't worked

Veronica Hegens thought she’d made a sound financial decision in September 2023 by renting out her row house in Southwest D.C. Now the retired Army major is in danger of losing the property to foreclosure because of a tenant who hasn’t paid rent since October and who also has no immediate plans to leave. bit.ly/4bfbEC6

Habermas's deliberative democracy stands in contrast with the Abundance crowd who sees democratic deliberation as another red tape that gets in the way of technocratic urban renewal projects

In Louisiana, the Democratic hair braiding licensing bill would require 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, an annual exam, and a fee. The Republican bill would require an annual 20-question health and safety exam and a fee. Why are Democrats like this?

@LAppiah Dpty. Mayor, Ward 1 residents ask 4 the same moral clarity you describe. Will you speak with ABCA Dir. Moosally about stopping the creeping approval of 6AM alcohol service?These hours serve little economic purpose & undermine residents seeking public safety and quiet after 3AM?

We need more leaders with the discipline to not hastily respond to everything and carelessly jump on memes, tweets and rhetoric and the moral clarity and actual conviction to stand and state what is right and wrong regardless of political consequence.

This is excellent, especially the point below. As I’ve written before, I think it’s desperately important for the left and liberals to rehabilitate the idea of human nature and not reflexively eye roll at accumulated, traditional human wisdom as if it’s all mere superstition.

It's probably easy to blame Bowser for the demise of the streetcar; she's killing it, after all. But the story of what the D.C. streetcar failed is *way* more complicated, and Bowser probably did more to save it (but it was probably too late).