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…
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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 ([email protected]) 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…
A Start….
This blog got covered by another blog. That may sound like an echo chamber but that’s a positve thing in the (gag me) blogosphere. I was hoping to keep a separation between my intemperate blogging id and my ANC id but this guy links them: http://www.dcblogs.com/2005/07/dc-blogs-noted_28.html …better to go out with a bang than a…
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…
A Good Example of Activism
There are 18 comments on this post about DDoT not repairing a sidewalk in Ward 4: Petworth News – Wall of Shame