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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, transit, green, construction, metro, 2008, 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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• Headlines

  More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, headlines, downtown, cnn, chicago, china, police, paris, protests, sprawl, olympics, suburb, bob king, upenn, washington post, golf, university of penn | 0

  Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines.

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• The Daily Report

  Failures of the Public Participation Process

  Matt Stroud | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: police, suburb, missouri, city council, nate berg, political process, public participation, public opposition | 0

  Public participation turned ugly last week in suburban Missouri, where a man burst into a city council meeting and shot and killed two police officers and three city councilors. At least two others were injured by the gunman before he was fatally shot by police, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

  The armed man was a frequent attendee at city council meetings in Kirkwood, Missouri, and he was known for being a very vocal critic of the council and the city’s mayor.…

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• Headlines

  Bakery corruption, baggy jeans, bike-only parking lots, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, new york city, meredith aska mcbride, suburb, bikes, hispanic, fema, border fence, urban education, egypt, saggy pants, parking lot, bread, trailer | 0

  Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma

  “What is required, educators say, is nothing less than revolutionizing schools built for another century, when a high school diploma was a ticket to social mobility in a manufacturing economy, and students with only basic skills could make it into the middle class. But the task is daunting, and the outcome uncertain, experts say.”

  The Nano Challenge: What happens when the green movement crashes into the anti-poverty crusade?

  “I’m not…

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