In April, the Post depicted the battle over a new office tower on the Bethesda Metro station as a struggle between Goliaths: the developer proposing the tower and the surrounding…
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Thoughts on the Vice-Presidency
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By Marc Korman. I try to keep my posts limited to Maryland politics, but the national political climate is too exciting to ignore. If you are a political junkie, and…
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What Might Have Been…
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When Senator Patrick J. Hogan (D-39) of Montgomery County stepped down last year, he changed history. We are only now beginning to realize the magnitude of that decision.Senator Hogan was…
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A Better Way to Measure Traffic, Part Three
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In Part Two, we listed four corridors with high volumes and low speeds. Today, we list four corridors with modest volumes and low speeds. While these corridors perform differently than…
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FBI Raids Home of Senator Ulysses Currie
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The Post has details on the raid here. While we do not yet know the reasons for the raid, or even if Senator Currie is the target of of an…
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A Better Way to Measure Traffic, Part Two
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In Part One, we discussed how GPS-based traffic measurement could work on a county-wide basis. The Planning Department has already done test drives on several corridors, plotting out distances, times…
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On Political Pulse
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Maryland State Delegates Brian Feldman (from District 15, which is the Potomac Gaithersburg area) and Tom Hucker (from District 20, which is the Silver Spring, Takoma Park area) will be…
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A Better Way to Measure Traffic, Part One
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In our previous two posts, we outlined the county’s reliance on Critical Lane Volume (CLV) to measure traffic and identify problem intersections. We identified two problems with this system. First,…
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In Part One, we described how Montgomery County’s Planning Department relies on Critical Lane Volume (CLV) to estimate congestion at intersections across the county. Any statistical system that relies on…
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Imagine if we measured the American economy by estimating Gross Domestic Product once every four years. Forget about measuring other things like employment, unemployment and inflation. And forget about taking…