Martin Austermuhle
- Name: Martin Austermuhle
- Location: Washington, D.C.
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Streetcars will likely survive since the H Street tracks are almost done and the trolleys have been purchased....
Yep, but the House could be sneakier about it and attach a rider to our budget saying we have to hold a vote on marriage equality. ...
Those are the two Barry folks I was referring to. I know nothing about Bernardino, but I recall reading some interesting stuff about Downs in a book Jonetta Rose Barras wrote about Barry's last term. ...
There are 15 people that I counted on the transition team. Only two worked directly with Barry, but that's not all bad. (GGW has a good post on this.) An oddly enough, no labor union presence whatsoev...
Yeah, Alice Rivlin and Anthony Williams are exactly the people we don't need right now....
I'm holding out that the new guy just couldn't care less about the District's affairs. I'd almost rather a Republican who doesn't care than a Democrat who really feels like he needs to legislate on ou...
That actually changed after a bit. We were handed progress reports a few minutes before they were posted once more precincts started reporting. Additionally, I feel like part of experience is the thea...
Steve, I'm not the only one who didn't think they would do this well. I talked to plenty of political types that know about D.C. politics, and they all said that write-ins are very hard and take lots...
DCTransplant, I've made this offer to lots of other folks, and it goes for you too: feel free to email me at martin (at) dcist (dot) com if you have any gripes with what we write, you want to help ou...
It was just last year that the Park Service announced that they wanted to kill 600 of the geese because they were eating and pooping the river area to death. So I do think someone at some level likely...
Nope. I've never worked for any member of the council in any capacity. Someone seems to think I did, though, because this is the second time I hear that I used to work for Cheh. Weird....
Click on the other link in that sentence for a sense of where I was going with the TBD mention....
Also, let me clarify -- I think the local Democratic State Committee is just terrible. I'd be more than happy to just throw out the political parties and have an open primary in D.C....
I'm more than happy that Republicans are running. (I was a big fan of Carol Schwartz, for one.) But it honestly seems like the main Republican races have boiled down to who loved Fenty more. I'm not...
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