Category: politics

Inauguration H Street

No jumbotrons on the Mall. Watch Party 1/20/2025 at the Capital One Arena if you were one of the first 20,000 in line
Doors opened at 8:00. Participants had an eight hour day.
The line on H Street was long, overseen by multiple law enforcement folk.
Flagman
Indeed
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Jimmy

Jimmy at the Clamshell
President Carter came to CHO in 1987. I can’t remember the content of his speech, can any of you UVA folk unearth a transcript?
newspaper heralding JEC apothesis
newspaper heralding JEC apothesis
State of the Union? Speaker Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill Jr. in the background.

tribes

Francis Fauquier. An Essay on Ways and Means for Raising Money for the Support of the Present War, without Increasing the Public Debts (1756) : Fauquier wrote this essay, which generated significant public debate, in the context of the Seven Years’ War with France. In it, he argued that the war would be too expensive for the government to finance by increasing taxes on manufacturers or workers, and suggested that taxes be levied on houses instead. In a second edition he added arguments in favour of a capitation tax based on estates and consumption.–Wikipedia

downtown Warrenton

Saturday

every Saturday

Maurice

Maurice D. Cox was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) by Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and confirmed by the City Council  on October 16, 2019.
Celebrated for his experience merging architecture, design and politics through multiple public, private and elected positions, Cox is responsible for leading DPD’s economic development, planning and zoning functions while fostering community-improvement initiatives throughout the city. His primary focus is under-invested neighborhoods on the South and West sides.

• Residents’ voices should be heard for all major development decisions involving new policies and projects at the local level.
• Planning efforts should ensure weaker housing markets should be equitably incorporated in the fabric of stronger markets without causing displacement or gentrification.
• Public safety is essential around the buildings in which people live, requiring the cooperation of social service agencies, schools, youth-oriented agencies and other groups, in addition to traditional law enforcement agencies.
• Policy improvements that aim to ensure neighborhood affordability should include homeownership programs, repair programs, rental assistance programs, and related education efforts.
• Housing efforts should not focus exclusively on units and costs, but also local amenities that overlap with We Will’s other pillars.–We Will Chicago