As a follow-up to my July 8th “Urban Forestry Administrator Doesn’t Care About Our Gingko Hell“: A week after the below email (and several others) DDoT Urban Forester Caldwell “stepped down”, suddenly. I don’t know if I had anything to do with that but I hope so. CM Schwartz’s staff said they’d get back to…
Month: August 2005
The Director is a “Financial Guy”
DDoT has not yet spent any of the road and alley funds for fiscal 2005 (which ends in 45 days). If you are sick of having a 4-wheel-drive alley, that complete mis-management should incite you to storm the Reaves Center. They have these beautiful maps of each ward with different color lines on alleys indicating…
“A lotta small cities are actually comic operas with real estate taxes”
Listen to Chris Lydon on Open Source on how local news is changing:Hyperlocal Journalism Terms such as Civics Nerds, the tinfoil-hat-brigade, real estate porn, and the anvil of democracy hit right where I’m aiming.
I just don’t how many times I can say…
I write a lotta emails like this and I’m still unsure whether I ought to be blogging them. —–Original Message—– From: Rob Halligan (ANC 2B01) Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:15 PM To: ‘Mark Bjorge’; ‘Dan (DDOT) Tangherlini’; ‘Bill (DDOT) Rice’; ‘Ramona Burns’ Cc: ‘Carlson Klapthor’; …. Carol Schwartz (carol.schwartz@dc.gov) Subject: RE: Hansen # 994-996,…
A Sense of How Bad…
So far this year Boston has had 41 murders with less than 700 police officers. In DC MPD alone has over 3500 officers and 117 murders so far this year. And we have numerous other policing entities. Boston has more people than Washington. These simple facts give one the sense of what a mess we…