Feds release updated $8.8 billion redevelopment plan for Union Station: The revised vision for the rail station includes less parking, an underground drop-off area, and integrated bus, pedestrian and bike access
"The biggest mistake moderate Democrats are making is that they are governing to preserve institutional credibility while hoping that Trumpism will blow over, rather than preparing with grim fortitude for a society-wide confrontation with a fascist movement playing for keeps. /1 ...
"It's time to understand that the battle isn't just to win the next election. You can't win EVERY election. There are too many variables. Also, the fascist fever isn't breaking. The battle is to stop the coup. That means changing the institutions to make the coup impossible. /9 ...
"That means BIG STRUCTURAL CHANGE, even if it feels a bit destabilizing. It means expanding the court, adding states, ditching blue slips, killing the filibuster, invoking the 14th, adding requirements for police hiring, and honestly talking about what the GOP is doing. /10"
Metro moving toward rail car design that allows for more space: Transit officials visited a rail yard in New York to see subway cars that use the "open gangway” style Metro is considering for its 8000 series cars
D.C. leaders to decide fate of long-planned K Street Transitway project: Amid a tight budget, some lawmakers want to pause one of the mayor’s most prized projects and use the money for other priorities - "A rendering Lott tweeted this month shows a more car-centric corridor, one that critics say goes against the District’s vision for a more pedestrian- and bike-friendly city. The image shows seven car lanes, an expansion from the design finalized in December that sketched five car lanes, including a parking lane.
"'That’s more lanes of traffic than 295, Route 50, or any of our arterial streets,' Allen said. 'They’re putting in a K Street freeway. That’s not what we need.'"
Biden team aims to compete in North Carolina, test ground in Florida: The strategy could provide alternate paths to victory if the president falters in other battleground states
Church and state: Republicans revel in divine plan to turn Kansas into ‘conservative sanctuary’: Weeklong series to examine influence of religious beliefs on policy decisions at Statehouse
Opinion His name is Kennedy. His campaign is pure Trump.
Vietnam is going all-in on a climate-change resistant coffee bean
He defied Alzheimer’s for two decades. Scientists want to know how.: Rare resilient patients may help researchers develop new therapies for the devastating disease
North Carolina beach houses have fallen into the ocean. Is there a fix?: New studies show that both beach nourishments and buyouts in Rodanthe, N.C., will be costly. But no funding for any fix is in sight.
Opinion Why do Americans want guns? It comes down to one word. - "For all the talk of protection, gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States. Yet over and over, people told me they needed their guns to keep themselves safe."
DeSantis might have met his match in Disney’s Iger as both sides dig in: ‘The mouse brought in the big guns,’ a former Democratic state senator said
Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow, and Leonard Leo’s Defenders Cannot Be Serious: Pretending the question here is whether the conservative activists had “business before the court” is absurd.
Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts And Family Payments: The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.
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