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On the article Pizza Place Coming to Former Professional Coffee Shop
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On the article Hyattsville Sets Budget Proposal Deadline
Michael Theis
11:24 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013
ReplyI'll admit, I had to reconstruct the events from phone interviews with Hollingsworth and Tartaro after the meeting. I had left the meeting early, mistakenly thinking the council was about to wrap up. If this article is vague, that's why. Sometimes, vague accuracy is better than specific inaccuracy, eh?
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On the article Hyattsville Council Attendance Report
Michael Theis
12:33 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013
Yes, this will be updated weekly. It's a bit of a beta right now. As this council racks up the meetings, I'll quickly run out of column space to note them all. I might just have columns for the four most recent meetings, along with columns for totals and percentages. Or, I might migrate the table to Google Spreadsheet and embed it in the article. Either way, future updates to this dataset will be posted on this page. Each week, I'll republish this article to bump it back above the fold.
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On the article University Park Council Disapproves Cafritz Preliminary Plan
Michael Theis
3:26 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Also true. I live right on Queensbury near 41st, and it's bumper to bumper between Queens Chapel and 42nd, but only during rush hours. But the thing is, I don't mind it. In fact, I love it. I have a bus stop practically at my front door for the 86 and F4 lines, serviced by about six buses an hour(four F4s and two 86s), and I love the idea that I can take 20 steps and be at a bar in Silver Spring in 15 minutes or Rhode Island Avenue NE in 30 minutes while spending the entire transit reading as opposed to driving.
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On the article University Park Council Disapproves Cafritz Preliminary Plan
Michael Theis
3:15 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Very well. I'll defer to your memory over mine. As a child growing up on 39th in Hyattsville, my parents used Queens Chapel Road to commute to Holy Redeemer Catholic Church on Sundays before the road was closed. They remain bitter about the whole shebang to this day, and the closure of the road was at least a small motivating factor for my family to move to Berwyn to be closer to the church.
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On the article University Park Council Disapproves Cafritz Preliminary Plan
Michael Theis
1:12 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
It was not always so narrow, however. It was once two lanes each way, if I remember correctly.
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On the article When Suffragettes Rallied in Hyattsville
Michael Theis
11:23 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2013
Misspelled words bother me quite a bit. Which is odd, because I misspell so many of them.
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On the article University Park Council Disapproves Cafritz Preliminary Plan
Michael Theis
5:11 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
ReplyAs a journalist following the Cafritz development saga, I have heard a lot of talk from local leaders, notably on these boards Cron and Ebbeler, about using oversight to ensure that the development is "successful", but often the discussion ends there. How are the elected leaders on either side of the issue of the Cafritz development defining success once Cafritz is built out? I have a hunch that those who are now or were once opposed to the Cafritz project and those who support it have different visions for what a "successful" development on the Cafritz tract would look like.
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On the article County Planning Board Approves Cafritz Preliminary Plan, 4-0
Michael Theis
3:05 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
I don't know what to tell you, Scot Brown and Parachutec. Our moderation queue has no rejected comments from you guys.
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On the article Bike, Ped Improvements on Horizon
Michael Theis
10:02 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
Also, the Phase I Nicholson Street lane stretches from Ager Road to 42nd Ave.
Michael Theis
11:58 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013
Preach it Alex! It's the bread that makes the pizza, IMO. I hate when I get a pizza and the bread has been soaked soggy with oil. A good slice of pizza should be able to be held aloft horizontally by the outer crust with minimal droop of the apex of the slice.