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| 1.29.2008 |
1) There is a major Traffic bottleneck on Pennsylvania Avenue prior to the bridge during rush hour. It can take 25 to 30 minutes to navigate through five blocks. |
| 10.26.2007 |
Expansion of Metro |
| 10.25.2007 |
Affordable housing through shop-tops and outbuildings. |
| 5.09.2006 |
Co-ed public education and violence in the schools. |
| 5.09.2006 |
Improve the response time of emergency vehicles |
| 5.05.2006 |
Volunteer Commuter Subsidy |
| 5.05.2006 |
TRACKING TECHNOLOGY |
| 5.05.2006 |
Stop gouging commuters and residents on parking fees and fines. |
| 5.05.2006 |
How to Improve Student Achievement in the DC Public Schools: The Problem, the Solution and the Benefits |
| 5.05.2006 |
ROBBERY, VIOLENT ATTACTS, AND MURDER IN THE DISTRIC OF COLUMBIA |
| 5.05.2006 |
Attract high tech and alternative fuel companies using a shared revenue model |
| 5.05.2006 |
Virtual Speed Bumps |
| 5.05.2006 |
Solving the Problems of high cost housing and excess schools with a single program |
| 5.05.2006 |
Long-Term Plan for Lowering D.C. Consumers' Electric Rates |
| 5.05.2006 |
DCPS Announces the Creation of the Office of the Special Education Students' Advocate |
| 5.05.2006 |
Truck Traffic and Safety for the District of Columbia. |
| 5.05.2006 |
A Washington Metropolitan Regional Electricity Cooperative
Could Offset Escalating Rates
|
| 5.05.2006 |
Improving the District Public School System |
| 5.05.2006 |
Public Service Advertising Campaign to Call Attention to Blocking the Box, Rubbernecking, and Illegal Rush Hour Parking |
| 5.05.2006 |
Embracing Regional Solutions to Regional Social Services Problems |
| 5.05.2006 |
Electronic "No Stopping or Parking" Signs to Deter Drivers from Parking Illegally in Curb Lane During Rush Hour |
| 5.05.2006 |
Federal employees/contractors work at home |
| 5.05.2006 |
Overrule DDoT: Continue to Expand Metrorail within DC |
| 5.05.2006 |
A Major New 'Industry' for DC: the Science of Living and Dying in America |
| 5.05.2006 |
Increasing Revenues from the National Capital's International Community |
| 5.05.2006 |
DCPS Business Practices Need Dedicated IG and Audit Attention |
| 5.05.2006 |
Patrolling NightClub Areas & DC Public Schools; Tourism
Sprucing up the neighborhoods and Community Centers; and Fixing up the DC Public Schools |
| 5.04.2006 |
Put the "N" Back in the ANC |
| 5.04.2006 |
A Realistic Solution to the District's Gun Problem |
| 5.04.2006 |
A Truly DC Mentorship Program |
| 5.04.2006 |
1000's of new parking spaces at no additional cost |
| 5.04.2006 |
Network and Sustainability |
| 5.03.2006 |
Make DC a More Pedestrian-Friendly City: Create More Public Parking Garages |
| 5.03.2006 |
Bike Parking |
| 5.03.2006 |
And A Child Shall Lead Them |
| 5.03.2006 |
DC Employer Commuter Tax to supplement DC Public Schools |
| 5.03.2006 |
Rock Creek Park |
| 5.03.2006 |
Eliminate left turns in DC at intersections without a dedicated left turn lane. |
| 5.02.2006 |
The Anacostia River Crossing @ South Capitol Street |
| 5.02.2006 |
Pimp My Street |
| 5.01.2006 |
Mentoring programs in every elementary school will provide children individual attention and help them master basic skills for future achievement |
| 5.01.2006 |
A proposal to Enhance the Learning Experience of Students in Poor Performance Secondary Schools in the District of Columbia
by
Marshall J. Spurlock
|
| 5.01.2006 |
Create a 51st state encompassing the current District of Columbia and the contiguous suburban regions of Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland. |
| 5.01.2006 |
GOOD MONEY CHASING BAD IDEAS |
| 5.01.2006 |
Being able to get from "A" to "B" in DC |
| 4.30.2006 |
Adopt a School |
| 4.30.2006 |
DC's Basic Transportation Problem: a Counterproductive, Near-Term, Small-Time Mind Set |
| 4.30.2006 |
Books to Share |
| 4.29.2006 |
Make September 11th First Responders Appreciation Day |
| 4.28.2006 |
Distinguished Service Awards |
| 4.27.2006 |
Chain Bridge at Canal Road left turn lane addition. |
| 4.27.2006 |
DC Has Only One First-Order Problem: Poor Adults
|
| 4.27.2006 |
Provide clear, stark, effective accountability for government bureaucrats, department heads, policy makers, and other officials by publicizing their names and contact information - ESPECIALLY EMAIL! |
| 4.26.2006 |
Traffic Light Notifying Drivers of Oncoming Emergency Vehicle |
| 4.26.2006 |
Orienting Metro users when exiting stations |
| 4.26.2006 |
Offering a Commuter Bus into Downtown DC for Prince George's County residents to save commuters money because of the increasing price of gas. |
| 4.25.2006 |
Hard to identify the appropriate public servant to help with a problem. Publish names and contact info of such officials. Empowers the public. Promotes accountability. |
| 4.25.2006 |
Encouraging Positive Behavior |
| 4.24.2006 |
Parking Tickets- Discount for prompt payments |
| 4.24.2006 |
Restrooms in Metro Stations |
| 4.24.2006 |
Vending Kiosks and small shops in the Metro Rail stations |
| 4.24.2006 |
Fair Taxi Cab Fares |
| 4.24.2006 |
Teaching Topic for Middle and High School Students |
| 4.24.2006 |
Habitat for DC |
| 4.24.2006 |
School-based health clinics for children, families, and adults. |
| 4.24.2006 |
Allow Bikes on Metro During Rush Hour With A "Rush Hour Bike License"! |
| 4.23.2006 |
District of Columbia Office of Community Service and Advocacy
PROPOSAL SUMMARY
|
| 4.22.2006 |
Pic' the trash creators!! The city streets are littered with trash. Solicit pictures and footage of the offending trash creators and publicize the footage. |
| 4.22.2006 |
Policing of our communities is difficult and not usually possible without a strong police presence to curb crime. Volunteer Crime-fighters is the solution. |
| 4.22.2006 |
Protect nightclub/bar patron's safety |
| 4.22.2006 |
Voter Registration deadline |
| 4.21.2006 |
If I Wasn't Supposed to Park There, Then Why Wasn't There a Sign! |
| 4.21.2006 |
AIDS/HIV Education in Exchange for AIDS/HIV Medication, as well as Condom Machines. |
| 4.21.2006 |
What to do with the MLK Library |
| 4.21.2006 |
A New Tax and a Little Tax Relief for DC |
| 4.21.2006 |
Education Can Be the Silver Bullett |
| 4.20.2006 |
Teach the Importance of RESPECT! |
| 4.20.2006 |
Creating Success Through a Involved Democracy. |
| 4.20.2006 |
Give the Schools to the Teachers as the best way to privatize education. |
| 4.20.2006 |
Bringing DCPS up to the year 2006. Taking it by Force for the Children! |
| 4.20.2006 |
Expanded before and after school services in the public schools |
| 4.20.2006 |
Housing for community/health care workers |
| 4.20.2006 |
Make a difference in the drop out rate in school!!! |
| 4.19.2006 |
Working Together For The Common Good of All Men |
| 4.19.2006 |
Repairing DC schools |
| 4.18.2006 |
mega parking garages for free. |
| 4.18.2006 |
More Help Available for Working Families |
| 4.18.2006 |
Simplify Paying for On-Street Parking and Parking Tickets |
| 4.18.2006 |
Metro 2050 - Develop and implement a vision for a dramatically larger (2-3X) metro underground system. |
| 4.18.2006 |
Improving the Streets of DC |
| 4.18.2006 |
Require counseling for people who have been in traumatic situations. |
| 4.18.2006 |
Resolving Traffic/Parking W/I the DC Metropolitan Area |
| 4.18.2006 |
Housing for the homeless |
| 4.18.2006 |
Personal Development For Today's Youth. Enstill power, respect and confidence. |
| 4.18.2006 |
The University of the District of Columbia is not living up to its potential and needs a physical and psychic uplift and expansion |
| 4.18.2006 |
Hang out in the neighborhoods |
| 4.18.2006 |
Involve youth in helping others; employing them in this way will also give them a positive way to spend their time. |
| 4.18.2006 |
Dealing with the problems in Washington, D.C. the Nation Capital. |
| 4.18.2006 |
A Simpler Solution - "Improvement Day" |
| 4.18.2006 |
Making the District of Columbia the 51st state in the United States of America |
| 4.18.2006 |
Putting the School Bus back into School. |
| 4.17.2006 |
Every Child is special and deserves the right to maximize his or her potential. |
| 4.17.2006 |
Parent Education |
| 4.17.2006 |
Tax Incentive |
| 4.15.2006 |
Make DC Teachers retire after 20 years or transition them into role of GUIDE TEACHER |
| 4.15.2006 |
Pay students to attend School |
| 4.14.2006 |
MEDICARE PART D: Recommendations for Policy Revision and Better Implementation |
| 4.13.2006 |
Three Pronged Transit Solution |
| 4.12.2006 |
Plant a radish-gardening in DC schools is fun, educational and healthy |
| 4.11.2006 |
Downtown Pedestrian Traffic |
| 4.09.2006 |
Build a light rail system. |
| 4.09.2006 |
DC is a first class city. The city's management should act that way. |
| 4.09.2006 |
Mixed Land Use |
| 4.09.2006 |
Making Health Care Safer |
| 4.09.2006 |
Saving the Health Care System from Bankruptcy |
| 4.08.2006 |
Mandate that people get paid hourly for the hours they work, so that they would wouldn't waste as much time commuting. |
| 4.08.2006 |
Wave real estate fees for people buying a house significantly closer to work. |
| 4.08.2006 |
A Good Plan for the City, Clean and Simple. |
| 4.08.2006 |
Achieving the goals of tort reform with self-regulation rather than legislation |
| 4.08.2006 |
Balanced Harmony for Traffic and Pedestrians - When traffic and pedestrians clash someone always looses, most times everyone looses, physically, mentally and financially. |
| 4.07.2006 |
Unaffordable housing. |
| 4.07.2006 |
Charge the right price for parking to reduce traffic congestion, improve retail access, and invest in communities. |
| 4.07.2006 |
Computers for Schools meets community service requirements |
| 4.05.2006 |
Recycling in Metro stations |
| 4.05.2006 |
Expand access to higher education by building a higher education center East-of-the-River and creating a need-based financial aid program. |
| 4.04.2006 |
Resolving Homelessness among the city's Elderly and Disabled. |
| 4.04.2006 |
Reaching sexually active Students Early. |
| 4.04.2006 |
Develop a Youth Empowerment Program |
| 4.03.2006 |
Cure gridlock with photo enforcement |
| 4.03.2006 |
Art is meant for everyone! |
| 4.03.2006 |
Keep the dialogue alive. |
| 4.03.2006 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Childrens' Summer Theater |
| 4.02.2006 |
Eliminate Drugs at Home |
| 4.02.2006 |
Build a bubble around the district |
| 4.02.2006 |
"Criminals Beware- D.C.'s Camera-Cops are Watching You" |
| 4.01.2006 |
Snack Tax |
| 4.01.2006 |
City-wide affordable units in luxury condo buildings, extra housing discounts for social workers, teachers and other community service jobs |
| 3.31.2006 |
Make a Real Difference: A Ten Point Plan to Reform Public Education in a Meaningful Way |
| 3.31.2006 |
Reduce school drop-outs by reducing absence and tardiness using enhanced IT systems |
| 3.31.2006 |
Housing needs: Programs based on housing for senior citizens and disabled individuals. Importance of Housing to be provided for individuals with HIV+ or have Aids |
| 3.31.2006 |
A Much Needed Change
Reshaping the Way People live in the District of Columbia |
| 3.30.2006 |
Odd jobs in the community and cash for the homeless |
| 3.30.2006 |
Pride of D.C. Street Cleanup Day |
| 3.29.2006 |
Potholes in the city tear up my nice car! |
| 3.29.2006 |
Lack of affordable healthy food options lead to obesity in communities of color and low-income communities |
| 3.29.2006 |
DC is a trashy place because we throw litter around for someone else to pick up |
