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Ideas By Locale

Ideas are listed below by locale.  Click on the links to view the ideas.  Once you view an idea, you will have the opportunity to comment on it and/or send it to someone.


Ideas from Virginia

3.25.2008 Revamp the entire DC Government!
3.25.2008 Revamp the entrie DC Government!
10.06.2007 Ambulance Dispatch
10.04.2007 Use what we have done previously.
5.10.2006 Mandatory Child-Rearing Classes
5.05.2006 Help abuse Children
5.05.2006 Introduction of Express metro trains
5.05.2006 Home rule government.
5.05.2006 Feed the homeless
5.05.2006 Introduction of Express metro trains
5.05.2006 Quieter School Buildings: Sound-Absorbing Walls
5.05.2006 Paint, mow, plant, and illuminate -- a simple plan to beautify Washington
5.05.2006 Reduce DC Dependence
5.05.2006 Request corporate sponsors to cover schools' basic needs and encourage healthy diets for kids.
5.05.2006 Institute a Program of 'Impact Grants' for Home Purchase Down Payment Assistance to All New Graduates of Universities Based in the District
5.05.2006 Central Grants Administration
5.05.2006 Mayor's Taxicab Seal of Approval
5.05.2006 Sex, drugs, and STDs education
5.05.2006 Affordable housing
5.05.2006 DC Metro is Recycling for Change
5.04.2006 More police!
5.04.2006 Sanitation Workers As Public Safety Officers
5.03.2006 Enhancing Civic Engagement in Children and Youth: Save Our Park! -- a book for children aged 5 to 8 years.
5.03.2006 add metro train departure signs outside of stations. That way I will know when to hustle when I am within sight of the station!
5.03.2006 Blueprint for a Better Region
5.03.2006 Cheaper but Better Selection of Wine, Beer, and Spirits for all DC residents and employees! And SAVE a Tree too!
5.01.2006 D.C. Debunks the Genetic Theory of Disease and Collects the Wisdom of its Centenarian for the Benefit of the Whole Community
5.01.2006 Force public officials to deal with the same problems everyone faces.
5.01.2006 Solve DC's population decline
4.29.2006 STOP SENDING SMALL FORTUNES TO VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND TO PROVIDE LEVEL III, IV, AND V EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
4.28.2006 Turn every school into a charter school, including the parochial schools.
4.28.2006 Urban Renewal to Benefit Neighborhoods (URBN)
4.26.2006 Consider representation through Maryland
4.26.2006 Hold a Ballot Initiative to Expel Congress
4.26.2006 Funnel all campaign contributions through the parties and remove gaflies from the ballot.
4.26.2006 Prune the voter rolls.
4.26.2006 Charter Amendments by Initiative
4.26.2006 Eliminate the income tax and use tax reform to enact a living wage.
4.26.2006 The People's Constitutional Convention
4.26.2006 Audit services to the NCSA and fund them with a no-year appropriation
4.26.2006 Full federal funding of Medicaid
4.26.2006 Regional funding for education, corrections and social services.
4.26.2006 Youth magazine generated by highschool groups discussing problems of violence, teen pregnancy and drugs, providing a forum for understanding and solutions.
4.24.2006 Bring Primary Care to the People: Step-Van Mobile Clinics Make Care Up Close (as in Accessible) and Personal
4.22.2006 Community Good News Networks (version 2)
4.21.2006 Capitol Scholars
4.21.2006 Customer Service Excellence Competition
4.21.2006 Stop Blocking the Box
4.20.2006 How to encourage primary and secondary public school teachers to live and work in specific high cost of housing DC suburbs.
4.20.2006 Saving Energy through the use of Wind Turbines
4.20.2006 Helping Children and Social Workers by Digitizing Foster Care and Social Services Records
4.20.2006 Improving Reading Skills and Sense of Community through Literacy Education
4.20.2006 Questionnaires That Help Build Caring Communities
4.20.2006 Paint-ball Penalties for Stupid Drivers
4.20.2006 Funds for People Who Do Not Receive Paid Sick Leave
4.20.2006 license street panhandlers
4.20.2006 Solving DC's Problems: A Five-Pronged Approach
4.20.2006 Increasing Teacher/Parent Responsibility for Failure/Success of Grade School Students in DC Public Schools
4.20.2006 To get rid of people who ride bicycles without regard to basic traffic laws, pedestrians, and civilized standard courtesies.
4.18.2006 IPCR Journal/Newsletters-- Monthly local community and regional publications associated with The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative
4.18.2006 The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative (Version 2)
4.18.2006 Form the 51st State of "Columbia" from DC and the surrounding Northern VA and Maryland counties.
4.18.2006 MORE METRO LINES
4.18.2006 Metro Station Safety Managers
4.18.2006 Traffic Congestion
4.18.2006 DC Needs Pedestrian "All Walks" - At Least Downtown and in Commuter Laden Areas
4.18.2006 BikeChecks - Allow employers to give pre-tax benefits to promote cycling to work!
4.18.2006 Improving the District of Columbia's Workforce so that the City can Better Resolve its Continuing Issues
4.18.2006 HOUSING
4.18.2006 Crime In The District
4.18.2006 Commuter Tax to Encourage Suburban Families to Return to DC
4.17.2006 How to build a better city.
4.15.2006 Sponsor DC University Technology Research, and Fund Local New Business Startups to Create Productive Jobs, at the Expense of Plantation-like Padded City Bureaucracies
4.14.2006 Departments of Economic and Communtiy Development
4.14.2006 Department of Health reorganization
4.14.2006 Department of Parks and Recreation.
4.14.2006 Department of Sanitation
4.14.2006 Limiting Congressional Meddling in District Affairs
4.14.2006 Stop unsightly and dangerous beverage container litter before it starts by providing a 5 or 10-cent incentive to recycle and a disincentive to litter
4.12.2006 Prevent gang activity now before is too late
4.12.2006 Fixing the Flow of Traffic During Rush Hour
4.10.2006 Billions of Bridges
4.10.2006 Motivate residents to treat the appearance of the District as a personal issue
4.10.2006 Enclosed mall on F and G streets, from 9th to 15th streets
4.08.2006 Community Visioning Initiatives for Peace
4.08.2006 The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative
4.08.2006 Organize Local Scientific Resources to Create an 'Early Warning System' for the Major Tsunami Threat to the National Capital Region
4.08.2006 Community Good News Networks
4.07.2006 Build Airsides "D", "E" and "F" for Reagan National Airport at Bolling AFB, w/ Elevated or Submerged "People Mover" or Tram Tunnel Across Potomac
4.07.2006 Encourage Distributed Manufacturing "Insourcing" by Major Foreign & U.S. Companies Through District-Insured "Work-at-Home" Clearinghouse
4.07.2006 MALL TROLLEY
4.07.2006 Fund Parole Relocation Grants of $10,000 Each to the 2,100 Prison Inmates Released in DC Annually, for Moves Outside the Metro Area
4.07.2006 METRO PARKING
4.07.2006 Parking garage under the mall
4.07.2006 Establish Large-Scale Study & Planning Exercise on Climatic Sea-Level Rise and Regional Impact Negation
4.06.2006 Require the Metropolitan Police Department to Rigorously Enforce U.S. Immigration Law in All Local Law Enforcement Efforts
4.06.2006 "Librariums" to Compete w/ Schools
4.06.2006 Build a New Municipal Parking Garage Over 12th Street, SW, Between Jefferson & Independence to Earn Tourist Parking Dollars and Reduce Mall Traffic Congestion
4.06.2006 Create a Comprehensive Video Database/Catalogue of DC Museums, Galleries, Monuments, Performing Arts, Nightlife, etc. to Help Tourists Spend More Time/Money in the District
4.06.2006 Designate a "social" car on the metro
4.05.2006 Develop Federal Rooftops for NGOs
4.05.2006 Washington's biggest probem is children without proper families.
4.05.2006 Jitney mini busses for D.C.
4.03.2006 Balancing the budget and cleaning the air
3.31.2006 Re-unify the city, make it more liveable and increase revenues without displacing anyone at all ever.
3.31.2006 Stroller, wagon, and bike trailer rentals facilitate more family outings downtown.
3.30.2006 Streamline District Government by Reducing Bureaucracy and Clerical Overhead by 20% of Total Workforce - Apply Savings to Help Furloughed Workers Create New Productive Jobs
3.30.2006 Apply Proceeds of St. Elizabeth's Land, Sold as Homeland Security Headquarters, to Construct New Homeless Rehabilitation Dormatories, Emptying DC Parks of Smelly Bums
3.30.2006 Cover RFK Stadium and Convert it into a Clean Green High Tech Industrial Park for 21st Century Sustainable Manufacturing Industries: "The Anacostia Industrium"
3.30.2006 Require District Power Plants to Burn All Municipal Solid Waste & Sewage Sludge Made in DC as Green Fuels & Reduce PEPCO Bills by Net
3.30.2006 A Few Playgrounds wouldn't hurt
3.30.2006 Public Libraries - Crumbling Resources That Need Support!
3.30.2006 carless streets reserved for bicycles
3.30.2006 High density street user fees for driving in D.C. during high volume hours.
3.30.2006 Developing Students' Basic Math Computation Skills
3.29.2006 Improving Metro commutes
 

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