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Disorder | Fare evaders at Columbia Heights Metrorail Station, Washington, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council decriminalizes Metro fare evasion: ‘I’m sad that’s Metro’s losing money, but I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.’ ," Washington Post , 2018, " Metro cracks down on fare evasion in D.C., And it's a point missed by the social justice types who fueled the decriminalization of fare evasion (" D.C.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2561, 2562 (2018). 2012, 2019 (2017). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. 519, 535-36 (2012). See Sause v.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." From the article: According to a 2018 Johns Hopkins University study, every 10% increase where alcohol outlets were located, there was also a 4.2% DC did that in 2009.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Haynes 2012. Gordon 2018. Bird et al.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.