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Dec 22, 2011

The last time we put out a call here for public participation you guys responded with lots of inquiries and helped us recruit some great members for the Region Forward Coalition .

Dec 21, 2011

City rankings are abundant measuring everything from how generous cities are in terms of charitable giving how many dog parks and skate parks there have per capita and how artistic cities are based on concentration of artists.

Dec 16, 2011

One of the best ways to understand the value of something is to take it away and measure the difference. So as part of our “Business Case” for transit study we tried taking away transit to see what happened to the Washington DC region using MWCOG’s Regional Travel Demand Model.

Dec 13, 2011

A Metrorail station can make the land surrounding the station much easier to get to and from. Especially if traffic is bad and parking is costly as often happens in our region a Metrorail station can offer a good alternative means of getting to and from an area which gives the area near rail an advantage over areas farther from rail.

Dec 12, 2011

When beginning any kind of planning process – whether it’s regarding next year’s summer vacation your retirement savings or the growth and development pattern of a state – it’s important to start by identifying your priorities.

Dec 6, 2011

 Justin Antos WMATA Office of Long-Range Planning

Dec 2, 2011

Headlines are currently dominated by major failures on the part of nation-states around the world. Take your pick: there’s the unyielding political gridlock in the United States the relentless attack of markets on countries in Southern Europe and a string of dictators in the Middle East and North Africa using violence to oppress their own people. These depressing realities – and sadly there are many others – lead to the conclusion that something is amiss in the nation-state system.

Nov 29, 2011

With the Occupy Wall Street movement and recent data on income inequality garnering significant news coverage in the last few months the wealth gap is finally beginning to get the attention it demands. Inequality in the U.S. has been intensifying for decades and the wealth gap is particularly severe between racial and ethnic groups.

Nov 22, 2011

Alicia Lewis and Sophie Mintier Housing Planners at MWCOG recently attended PolicyLink’s Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit. The “Dispatches from Detroit” series will provide RF followers a recap of what they learned as well as specific proposals to move our Region Forward. This is part two of Alicia’s report. Read part one here .

Nov 21, 2011

Alicia Lewis and Sophie Mintier Housing Planners at MWCOG recently attended PolicyLink’s Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit. The “Dispatches from Detroit” series will provide RF followers a recap of what they learned as well as specific proposals to move our Region Forward. This is Sophie’s first post in the series. Read other “Dispatches” posts here .