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  Welcome to Washington

  Ben Adler | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, barack obama, gentrification, washington dc, maryland, virginia, ben adler, politico, nancy pelosi, hiv/aids | 4

  Next American City’s first Urban Leaders Fellow, Ben Adler, will be periodically commenting on Washington, D.C. In his first column, he gives a quick tour of the land.

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• The Daily Report

  D.C. Metro Purple Line: Yes Or No?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, green, transit, construction, 2008, metro, development, maryland, suburb, amtrak, trains, planning, neighborhoods, martin o'malley, purple line | 8

  Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton.

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  Fake Nation: Debauched youth and fake IDs (1st in a 4-part series)

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, maryland, fake nation, fakes, vladimir putin, vodka | 1

  

  Fake ID’s, long considered the province of underage college students, aren’t just for getting drunk anymore. Illegal immigrants are getting them, too, to help secure papers. Many fake-ID producers are attached to legitimate businesses—photo booths, copy centers, even some tattoo parlors. In this series, Next American City investigates the world of phony identification, from immigration to good old-fashioned anthropology (i.e. an excuse for our interns to go club-hopping) and an…

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