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Keep Watering Those Trees
Photo by Jon Hayes Photography.
This isn’t the first time GM has bugged you about it, and it certainly won’t be the last, but despite the cooler weather you still need to keep watering your street trees. The watering season doesn’t end until the end of September, so keep it up.
GM will note that Casey Trees considers this week to be “normal” which means watering is actually optional this week. So don’t worry if you forget, but it can’t hurt to keep tree-watering in your routine in case conditions turn drier later this month. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Anokarina.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Interview with ANC Chairman and VP of Community Relations.
- Of course food trucks should camp out on K St.!
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Actually Students Really Should Register to Vote Here
Yesterday, the Georgetown Hoya student newspaper published a somewhat provocative editorial calling on students to not register to vote in DC and rather vote absentee in their home states.
The reasoning behind the piece was that with DC disenfranchisement in Congress and its guaranteed three electoral votes for Obama, students would “get more bang from their ballot” by voting in more competitive and consequential elections back home.
There’s some undeniable truth to this reasoning, but it’s myopic. The editorial throws a bone to the admirable DC Students Speaks effort, but kicks the legs out of that campaign by stating “it’s evident that poor student turnout in D.C. has been problematic.” In other words, because students don’t vote here, why bother voting here?
The heart of the editorial points to the slim 537 votes that George W. Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida in 200. It notes that 250 current Georgetowners are from Florida and concludes that “you never know beforehand if voting will make a difference.” Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Human remains found in back yard of a house on Q St. The cops say not to worry about it because there used to be a cemetery there. But the cemetery was across the street. How did the bones move!?
- Ribbon-cutting for O and P St. will be September 18.
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Yet Another Bank Moving In
Yesterday, the Washington Business Journal reported that one of the new tenants of the new building immediately south of the Safeway would be a Cardinal Bank branch. WBJ writes that “the 1,900-square-foot branch, which is next to a newly remodeled Safeway grocery store, is expected to open near the end of the first quarter of 2013. It will create four-to-five new jobs.”
Four-to-five new jobs would be good (particularly if the bank takes advantage of the mayor’s One City Hire) but pretty much everything else about this news is disappointing to GM. Georgetown has way too many bank branches, few of which contribute much more than a dead streetscape. And they keep coming.
When the Georgetown Metropolitan first started, there were 9 banks in Georgetown. Since then, 5 new banks have opened here. GM’s no economist, but it’s got to be some form of market failure when multiple companies offering what is essentially the exact same good, crowd out other uses. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Rachel.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt caught this shot on Mass Ave., but doesn’t the rider actually live on Q St. in Georgetown?
- New fountain at the Washington Harbour to stay flowing until October, when conversion to an ice rink will begin.
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