| BeyondDC has it from an inside source that even the Census never believed their original numbers. To argue that Washington, with its bustling sidewalks, booming housing market, and freshly built neighborhoods full of condo towers, was still shrinking, as population estimates for 2005 suggested, struck even the people making the argument as absurd. But the Census has its formulas, and they can’t deviate without a challenge. Fueled with the knowledge that Arlington and Alexandria successfully contested their estimates a year ago, however, District officials asked the Census to take a closer look.
That was all the pushing the Census needed. Last Friday, federal officials revised Washington’s official population estimate upwards by more than 31, 000 residents, the city’s biggest gain since its population topped out in 1950, and enough to utterly wipe away the supposed losses of recent years.
It’s official, folks. The exodus is past. Washington, DC is growing again.
Thanks to user otavio for the heads up. |
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July 24th, 2006 | Permalink
Tags: government
| According to former WMATA board member Robert J. Smith, Maryland Governor Ehrlich has been “has been stringing [the Purple Line] out for all it’s worth” in a “prolonged attempt to obfuscate, alter, study and delay the project” to hide the fact that “without a tax increase, the project is underfunded” because “all money available is going to the intercounty connector and, indeed, even future federal money has been bonded for that project” to the extent that “the ICC commitment has left the state without capital for [other] projects well beyond the Ehrlich administration, even if it has a second term”.
Or that is to say, Ehrlich has no intention of building the Purple Line because the ICC is eating up all the state’s available transportation dollars, and will continue to do so for years to come. Exactly as BeyondDC predicted.
Thanks a million, Bobby Haircut.
We missed this story originally, but caught it thanks to our good friends at Just Up The Pike and DCist. |
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July 17th, 2006 | Permalink
Tags: transportation
