With so many candidates and initiatives on the ballots across the country yesterday I thought it would be worthwhile to point out a few items I was watching. Although it was exciting to watch the Democrats take back the House for the first time since 1994, the evening wasn’t without its disappointments. At the top […]
Victory In Shaw
ANC SMD 2C02 Kevin Chapple – 51.79% Leroy Joseph Thorpe, Jr. – 48.00% ANC SMD 2C01 Alex Padro – 70.08% Mary Sutherland – 28.25% Full results on BOEE
Do You Live in ANC 2C02?
In Washington, D.C. the lowest level of elected government are the city’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Created in the 1970s, they were designed to connect the city’s neighborhoods to city government. These bodies are notorious for their NIMBY tendances and colorful personalities. I’ve long wondered why it seemed like the ANC in my neighborhood never seemed […]
John McCain Rated
I am friends with many of the people who work for the political consulting company EchoDitto. They recently asked their CEO to take a leave of absence after he announced on his personal blog he would support U.S. Senator John McCain if he ran for president in 2008. Their actions kicked off a long comment […]
Detroit’s ‘Dream Cruise’
Last Saturday’s Woodward Dream Cruise, billed by organizers as “the world’s largest one-day celebration of car culture,” is a car show featuring over 40,000 cars cruising along a 16-mile stretch of Woodward Avenue through nine different suburban cities. (I was able to catch a bit on Friday when I was in the Detroit area visiting […]
Lichtman for Senate
Trailing behind Kweisi Mfume and Ben Cardin in the Maryland Democratic Party Senate race, underdog Allen Lichtman is scrambling to get voters’ attention before the September 12th primary. Campaigning under the tagline “Too much government intruding in our private lives, Too Little government meeting our needs,” Lichtman’s platform includes withdrawing troops from Iraq and policies […]
Student Housing in Ann Arbor
My friend Dale has just posted a rough introduction to his urban planning thesis to his blog. He is making an ambitious argument — perhaps too ambitious — but I’m interested to see what he uncovers in the process of investigating it. In this thesis, I argue that students individually and collectively were agents of […]