The below piece was in this Month’s DC North. The DC Fiscal Policy Institute does great work pushing the political conversation in a responsible direction. The DC City Council passes 1000 to 1500 laws and resolutions each year. If they would stick to pressing issues, we would see some serious improvements in this city.
Category: DC Activism
FW: How many DC bureaucrats does it take to change a light bulb?
In celebration of DDoT Director Dan Tangherlini’s promotion to interim head of Metro, I resurrect an old email to him. Rob Halligan —–Original Message—– From: Rob Halligan (ANC 2B01 Commissioner) Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:07 PM To: Dan.Tangherlini@dc.gov Cc: Bill Rice; Ann Simpson-Mason Subject: How many DC bureaucrats does it take to change a…
The Gingko Hits the Fan
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…
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…
What’s an ANC Commissioner?
I overheard the neighbor of a Maryland friend of mine ask what an ANC Commissioner does. My friend who often hears me on the phone said, “It seems they try to make people who are getting paid by the DC government actually do their jobs.” I liked that.
Chatty Blather
Now back from the beach with 235 activism emails piled up, I’ve been thoroughly avoiding chasing up any paying work by sending over 50 activist emails a day. ABC/ABRA, DDoT, DPW, MPD, the US Attorney, the Parks Dept, and Robert Bobb have been my targets.
Call to Action on DupontForum
Posted to The Dupont Forum We’ve been having some success calling 727-1000 to report public trash cans overflowing. They have come out right away. That’s really not a long term solution, though. The DCCA Environment Committee that was announced this week will help as well. Our Neighborhood Services Coordinator is making some progress, but he…