Though a lack of funding recently prevented our city from riding on a local bike sharing program, there is a good news to celebrate elsewhere. Last month, a team of recent UMD graduates presented their class project in a manner that would likely earn them an A: they launched their first revenue-generating service of weBike, [...]
The bribery related charges surrounding the Greenbelt Metro station development could be one of the reasons why the current county executive Jack B. Johnson, who will be leaving office after this term, was arrested yesterday. WTOP reported that a source close to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore says the investigation is linked to a [...]
Unlike their neighbors to the south, most of whom oppose the undergraduate housing component of the Book Exchange redevelopment proposal, most North College Park residents gave their blessings to the project. With a few exceptions, that was the general tone of the North College Park Citizens Association’s (NCPCA) monthly meeting last Thursday at Davis Hall. [...]
The proposal to turn the Book Exchange site into a 6-story mid-rise apartment building for students and professionals has stirred quite a bit of discussion among City’s southern inhabitants – University students and Old Town residents. Being so close to the campus, UMD, smart growth proponents and students would love to see this proposal go [...]
Tomorrow is College Park Day. For the first time in its history, the residents of College Park will descend upon one place to celebrate the richness of this city that they call home. Nearly a year ago, when my fellow North College Park blogger Joe Smith and I started writing about the challenges our city [...]
[Update 9/30/2010: This post has been updated with comments from District 4 Council woman Denise Mitchell] The proposal to build a 6-story, 334-unit student housing on the current Book Exchange property may still be in its very primitive stage, yet some City Council members have already started to take sides on this development. Interestingly enough, not [...]
D.C. commuters have been sharing bikes in their streets for some time, but starting yesterday that program is expanding to include Arlington. Funded by the U.S. DOT (Department of Transportation) the program, called Capital Bikeshare , is the largest such program in the country. According to officials, 49 stations are operational and about five are [...]
With County’s Primary elections only two days away, the County’s State Attorney candidate Tom Dernoga came out in defense of his role in opposing a Laurel Church ‘discrimination’ case. In 2008, a federal judge slapped the county with a 3.7 million dollars lawsuit against the Church, called Reaching Hearts. Mr. Dernoga was serving as a county council member (District [...]
