Oct 18, 2024 · Who’s getting your vote for ANC this fall? Image by Adam Fagen used with permission.. As of September 13, 2024, Greater Greater Washington’s endorsements for candidates running for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats in all eight wards are live.

Mar 14, 2024 · The District of Columbia’s 2024 primary election is June 4. Greater Greater Washington will be endorsing candidates in races for council seats in Ward 2, Ward 4, Ward 7, Ward 8; for the at-large majority-party seat; and for United States shadow senator and shadow representative. We’ll also weigh in on the emerging efforts to recall incumbent councilmembers.

Sep 4, 2024 · On Thursday, September 5, the National Capital Planning Commission voted to approve a plan to redevelop Rock Creek Park Golf Course. It prioritizes profits over public interests, riding roughshod over tree canopy, biodiversity, and history. It’s the wrong course.

Jan 8, 2025 · Gridlock on K St NW, Washington, DC. Image by Joe Flood used with permission.. This post is the third installment in a GGWash series, Why Traffic? The first can be found here and the second post here.. Traffic congestion was a $7.5 billion drag on the DC-Baltimore regional economy in 2022—roughly 1% of its economic output.* Under current US transportation policy, this sort of congestion is ...

Jan 13, 2025 · Image by Dan Reed. Weekly, Regional Policy Director Dan Reed and DC Policy Director Alex Baca will share with you an action you can take in the immediate future that has the potential, sometimes great and sometimes small, to increase the number of homes in our region, decrease the trips people take by car, make all of it safer, and not screw people over in the process. This week: it’s okay ...

Sep 19, 2024 · Pete Rodrigue works as a data scientist in DC, though all opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He grew up in Arlington, lives in Lanier Heights, and saves money on groceries with his rudimentary knowledge of edible weeds.

Oct 30, 2024 · Boarding the 36 Metrobus to Potomac Park. Image by the author. Greater Greater Washington and the DC Transportation Equity Network hosted the Week Without Driving from September 30 to October 6, 2024. The campaign invites those with the option to drive to learn firsthand the challenges that nondrivers face to help build more accessible, inclusive communities for …

Mar 8, 2023 · Image by Jamelle Bouie used with permission.. The DC Council’s annual performance oversight hearings for the District’s agencies were this year, in February and early March. Greater Greater Washington’s policy staff testified on behalf of GGWash and the coalitions we manage, the DC Transportation Equity Network and …

Apr 8, 2024 · Monumental’s head of venues talks future of Capital One Arena and downtown DC. Jordan Silberman, the man in charge of venues for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, shares some insights into the plans for Capital One Arena: a possible new arena entrance at the current location of VIDA Fitness, a doubling of premium seats, and the move of back-of-house operations into a portion of the 200,000 ...

Lakeforest Mall, January 2023 by the author. Gaithersburg’s Lakeforest Mall will close in March, the latest casualty in a long line of once-bustling malls that lost their place, and business.The mall is nostalgic for me, and so, wanting to see it again while I still could, I took a few hours on a recent Saturday to visit Gaithersburg and walk the mall.