Not quite... There are huge chunks of this city where the cost of rehabbing vacants is greater than the value of the house would be if the work got done, hence huge chunks of this city staying blighted

Compare the numbers on carjackings and murders to 1993, I'll wait.

Seriously, we have some problems (which, everyone everywhere all the time has problems of one type or another) but in the grand scheme of things people living in DC have it better than most Americans and objectively like 99% of the rest of the world.

This city is objectively better in just about every measureable way since the 90s

We’re located in the South my guy. Alexandria was one of the leading slave-trading ports in America.

Don’t worry, we will paint another street and that will magically continue rEfOrMiNg MPD I’m sure.

Yeah, it's definitely not the most ideal usage of office space but the flipside is that the flexibility of hybrid makes it easier for them to hire and retain top level talent within their specific industry

In the private sector, absolutely, but this thread is about government workers.

Build more parklets. Close more streets to traffic! Seriously I wish we would build this city to work for the people who actually live here instead of having more parking so people from the counties can come drive their big ass SUVs down into the city 4x per year.

Also, ffs if 85% of people are supportive of parklets and streeteries, I'm really not sure why this is being treated as contentious (lol actually of course I do, this city isn't a democracy but rather a mafia run by like a dozen wealthy families and corporations)

I fucking love this city

I am definitely very sympathetic to the points you make here, and do recognize that this may vary substantially from one team to the next as far as how well remote has been working out.

Tbh I really do personally like hybrid as a sort of "best of both worlds" thing - my wife works for an NGO that I think has a really reasonable approach to it, which is that they have one day a week where all hands are expected to be in office, then it is up to different department heads to determine if and how much they want their teams to be in person. For my wife's team that she leads, she has picked one additional day per week where her people come in which helps with some of the stuff you identified, but still leaves a lot more flexibility in people's lives. In our case, it means that we were able to move further out from the core of DC to somewhere that we can actually afford to buy a house which means that although the commute is longer, because she generally only has to go in twice per week means she spends less total time commuting and has that flexibility to be home with pets, go to appointments, etc. And, in our case, means that we are able to think about having a kid since we know that our jobs now give us the flexibility in our home lives to be able to handle that.

In general though I tend to land on the side that we shouldn't be forcing people who never had to come in person for their jobs to start doing so - I think that represents a bit of an unreasonable modification to working rules which is exactly the thing that unions are supposed to defend against.

If the wheels haven't fallen off of the bus after nearly 3 years of working from home, I'm having a really hard time seeing a good reason for why exactly workers are being forced back into the office. IMO if you want to make new hires come in - person fine, but it's been 3 years now and your existing employees have all made changes to their own lifestyles. This basically amounts to constructive dismissal for many.

I am glad the unions are sticking up for workers here in the face of stupid policy changes.

Yup, that’s <every> local subreddit. Baltimore’s is even worse.

Seriously lol so dumb

I got a couple warnings when they first went in (which I really like that they had that warning period)

bro just make less trash, gg ez

I usually ride the Camden line a couple times per week and usually it is fine, there are occasional delays but typically in the 10-15 minute range

Just because it can be established doesn’t mean it will be… idk I think Second is the right charge if the goal is to actually convict.

Feel like at this point if you actually get onto a jury trying a cop for something you have a moral obligation to vote to convict, I mean imagine how bad whatever they do must be to even get to trial in the first place.

Second degree murder just means that there isn't premeditation. Which is the appropriate charge in this case - it would take proof that these guys all went out there with the intention of doing this. It is the right charge, and overcharging leads to acquittals.

I absolutely agree that there should be an added level of penalty for cops that break the law though.

If you aren’t actively involved in the drug trade, congrats you are almost definitely not going to be murdered.

-Perfectly fine from a safety standpoint especially at that time of day

-Relatively reliable but definitely download the app

1. Your ROI concerns are just stupid if you fail to consider the alternative

2. all money is fungible.

Lol seriously, they are basically saying "We cant build one line because it is too expensive, what we should actually do is build like 3 at once"

I live up by Baltimore and Linwood intersection, so kind of highlandtown adjacent and Love Highlandtown. When I moved here I thought I would be spending all of my time in Canton but lately I have been finding myself drawn over to Highlandtown way more often. There is a ton going on. Bunch of great bars and restaurants, easily walkable/bikeable to Canton, Fells, Patterson Patterson Park. Pretty affordable still, too. Would absolutely recommend it.