August 14, 2008
Go Home Already: Sight Lines
Photo by spiggycat
- A member of local band Junior League may have been deported from China for participating in a pro-Tibet demonstration. [Brightest Young Things]
- Maryland State Police have charged a Gaithersburg man with making threats against Gov. Martin O'Malley, Hillary Clinton and other elected officials. [AP via WTOP]
- Sales and prices of existing homes in D.C., Maryland and Virginia are falling faster than the national average, according to the National Association of Realtors. [Washington Business Journal]
- Takoma Park is considering narrowing New Hampshire Ave. from six lanes to four, adding landscaped medians, and a roundabout at Eastern Avenue. [Just Up the Pike]
- Is it legal to park on Ward
CircleCourt or not? DDOT and DPW can't seem to agree. [Greater Greater Washington] - "A D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles employee was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for illegally doling out about 200 driver's licenses to people not entitled to them." [WaPo]
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Ward COURT rather than Ward CIRCLE.
I was having fun imagining parking on Ward Circle.
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I don't think you meant Ward Circle.
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Dunno how accurate those sales figures are. Single family sales downtown are relatively strong compared to other urban regions. Lumping a crash-and-burn ghosttown like Prince William County kinda skews the average. That's like saying amputees are losing weight at a faster rate than the morbidly obese. Great headline but who cares?
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Very true, Monkey. Real estate in the DC market is so neighborhood-specific, it doesn't really make sense to include Dupont or Penn Quarter and Woodbridge, VA in the same study. Two very, very different markets there.
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The license scam goes only partway toward explaining all the crappy drivers around here. I think there's a lot more of this going on than they've revealed so far.