Posted on 08/24/2019 7:44:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Putting on its Victorian gentleman suit (pace Tom Wolfe), the Washington Post's editorial board tut-tuts a rich part of Washington, D.C. and its political patrons, for pulling out all stops to prevent construction of a child-migrant shelter in its fancy environs.
MANY AMERICANS are rightly outraged by the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children, who have been separated from parents and ill-treated by authorities. Democrats have been understandably eager to distance themselves from such policies — a stance that can result in knee-jerk opposition even to sensible practices in effect during the Obama administration.
That might explain the nearly uniform outcry from Washington-area politicians incensed at federal plans to build new shelters for migrant children in Northern Virginia and the District . The shelters, state-licensed and similar to scores across the county in operation since before President Trump took office, would help move migrant children out of squalid, cramped Border Patrol stations near the U.S.-Mexico border. They would provide a way station for unaccompanied minors while federal officials seek to place them with U.S.-based relatives or foster families.
But local politicians, nearly all Democrats, have balked at cooperating with federal authorities on any immigration matter. They have denounced the proposed new shelters with objections that smack of NIMBYism masquerading as humane concern for children. This month, the administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) enacted emergency rules that blocked a planned federal shelter.
Just some misplaced never-Trumpism, maybe with a whiff of NIMBYism?
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Build it in Martha’s Vineyard next to the Obama mansion they are buying. 8>)
Put them in Speaker Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters offices ...
Obama has a big-assed millions dollar home in NW so why not put them there? I’m sure Michele and her mother and Valerie Jarrett would just love to have some “brothers and sisters from the barrios” as their house guests. NOT!!!
The “City of Takoma Park” was indeed a
nuclear free zone” and its mayor was longtime Communist Party USA organizer/member Sammie Abdullah Abbott. He was a professional rabble-rouse of high quality. The Party taught him well.
He’s dead now but he still stinks of Moscow.
December 15, 1983
The Takoma Park City Council, to the cheers of about 150 persons in attendance, unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night making the city a nuclear-free zone, the second Montgomery County town to do so. The 11-part ordinance, sections of which take effect immediately, bans production, transportation, storage, disposal and activation of nuclear weapons in the populous 2.2-square-mile city, which straddles the Montgomery-Prince George's county line.
The city of Takoma Park, Maryland granted a waiver to its strict Nuclear-Free Zone Act this week in order to use Hewlett-Packard computers in its city library. The city of Takoma Park has been nuclear-free since 1983, meaning that the city is prohibited from supporting companies that work with US nuclear weapons production. HP is on this list of prohibited contractors, so when librarians received the shipment of new hardware for the library's computer learning center, they packed them away and awaited the Nuclear-Free Takoma Park Commitee's decision on the matter. The Committee denied the waiver for the equipment, but was overridden for the first time ever in a vote by city officials.
Tent city on golf course of gated communities. For the children.
Americans demand SHELTERS
for the sickest IMMIGRANTS there,
especially for the poor IMMIGRANTS with
Ebola, smallpox and measles
which the DC Rich imported
only to murder the rest of America.
Hateful leftists are all about NIMBY but they love forcing these kinds of thing into your back yard.
JoMa
would help move migrant children out of squalid, cramped Border Patrol stations near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Well, you could build them in Mexico. Probably cheaper too, using Mexican labor.
Don’t forget to put one on Martha’s Vineyard!
The problem with the privileged they only do everything half a$$. Just pay to make it go away. They don’t want to see the problems of the world.
While the east-wide dynamic is well known, there is an equally dramatic north-south transition as well. The monumental core -- the Mall, the Smithsonian, the monuments and the Capitol complex -- were DC's solid anchor as the city bottomed out in the 1970's. Buzzard Point (outside the Fort McNair fence) and the Anacostia waterfront were pretty grim. It's all now rebuilt; you really need to come visit if you are operating on old impressions. Just to the north, there was downtown (now massively rebuilt and doing well).
North of downtown, Logan Circle and Dupont Circle were hard pressed but never went entirely slum. LeDroit Park hung on by its fingernails as a refuge for the black upper class, but it was surrounded by trouble. Aside from that, going north from downtown -- well, those who paid attention to the urban wars will remember Sursum Corda, Shaw, Columbia Heights, 16th Street Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Lamond Riggs and Brightwood. That takes you up to Takoma, DC, on the DC line bordering Takoma Park, MD. Not so long ago, you would have wanted a police escort to travel in that direction.
Takoma Park, MD is very much a mixed income community, though it has a charming Arts and Crafts era historic district and the Sligo Creek corridor that create its brand. (Takoma DC has neither; it looks a little downscale, more like Fort Totten, Lamond Riggs, and Brightwood.) Takoma Park, MD, blends into Silver Spring, which is another rejuvenation story but which has also passed through tough times. To the east, it borders Langley Park, then Lewisdale, Adelphi Park and Avondale Terrace. We ain't talkin' the Gold Coast here. If you survived that trek, you would reach Hyattsville, College Park and the University of Maryland orbit, which is where things started to look up a bit.
The point is, someone who writes about Takoma DC as a ritzy neighborhood doesn't know what he is talking about. For ritzy, you have to go west, to the neighborhoods along Rock Creek Park and west of the park. The proposal at issue here, however, didn't try to place a shelter in the "good" neighborhoods. It picked an embattled, now slowly improving, area that doesn't need the city or the feds throwing new problems into the mix.
This is a sensitive subject for me because I've lived through the Capitol Hill gentrification miracle. I can recall, 20 or more years ago when the Hill was still somewhat dicey, a similar neighborhood revolt against a do-gooder proposal to dump yet another halfway house for troubled youth onto East Capitol Street just off Lincoln Park, which is geographically the center of the Hill. The dynamic was pretty simple. The city, and indeed the entire metro region, had for decades used Anacostia as a dumping ground. The city had finally realized that throwing more and more projects, halfway houses for addicts and released prisoners, methadone clinics, work release centers, housing for troubled youths, etc., etc., etc., into Anacostia, which was already drowning in a sea of dysfunctional social support facilities, was not a good idea. But where to put them? There was massive resistance in the suburbs. There was massive resistance from the moneyed neighborhoods in the white ghetto west of Rock Creek. So the default choice was to dump new facilities into Wards Four and Six, just across the Anacostia River from Anacostia: i.e, Capitol Hill, Woodridge, Michigan Park and Brookland, embattled middle class neighborhoods hanging in the balance. If you looked at a map of social welfare "support services" that you wouldn't want in your neighborhood, the little red dots in Wards Four and Six looked like a veritable Maginot Line. The disproportion was obvious. We were then as Tokoma is now.
And don't get me started on the fight to force Boys Town to dismantle its newly built halfway house on Pennsylvania Avenue S.E. across the street from a major, troubled public housing project in an as-yet ungentrified section of the Hill.
Siting these kinds of facilities is difficult. But if we've learned anything over the past 50 years, it's that big concentrations of problem cases create a toxic zone that becomes an urban cancer. Such facilities need to be smaller scale so that they don't overwhelm the "lucky" neighborhood that gets them, and they need to be scattered out. In DC, that means the west side needs to take more. And it especially means the suburbs need to take more. Montgomery and Fairfax need to step up. Montgomery is a solid blue county and Fairfax is purple, trending blue. Wealthy suburban liberals should have some skin in the game.
Love it when reality bites libs in their backsides. Clooney is all up in arms because he has to drive past an immigration camp to get to his fancy villa in Italy.
But then it was stupid of him to buy where he did. He has to drive through the parking lot of a dinner theater to get to his house from the street so there’s cars and noise and headlights at night. It’s so close, he can practically have them hand him a beer from the backdoor. On the other side of the villa is a tourist boat rental so the wife can’t lay out sunbathing. On another side, the lake has turned a good portion of their small lawn into swamp. But, hey, it’s a noteworthy property and they’re a noteworthy couple, yawn.
I am amazed at how much DC has changed since 1979, when I spent a summer there with the National Journalism Center, now run by Young America’s Foundation. On one occasion at that time, I walked up 14th St. NW from K St. As I proceeded north, the area got progressively grittier. When I reached R St., the neighborhood looked downright dangerous, with groups of young black men slouching around on the street, so I decided to turn back. I found out later that I was on the wrong 14th St.—the address I sought was on 14th St. SW.
In 2018, I walked down 14th St. NW from U St. to K St.. The slum conditions were long gone and Sette Osteria, an upscale Italian restaurant sits at 14th and R, the dangerous corner where I had to turn back in 1979.
In 1979, I was a regular customer at Roadhouse Oldies, a record store in Silver Spring that specialized in collectible records. Just across from the Metro station in Silver Spring was a diner made from a railroad car and the record store was a few blocks away. In recent years, the diner has been replaced by a McDonalds and the area has become eclectic, with restaurants that serve Ethiopian, South Asian, and other exotic cuisines. Unfortunately, Roadhouse Oldies closed in 2018, most likely a victim of Youtube.
I may be able to visit DC around Halloween, If I make it there, I want to eat at the Florida Avenue Grill and the Hawk ‘n’ Dove.
Why not put them in some of those Beverly Hills mansions, behind walls that will keep them save from angry citizens. <sarcasm
The Wharf District is the old Southwest Waterfront, where the docks used to be. You may remember the Fish Market and Hogate's from your DC days. The Fish Market is still there, but Hogate's and the surrounding 1950's era development are all gone. Parking is mostly underground and is expensive; you might want to consider a cab.
Again, walk along the river side to appreciate it. Phase II is now under construction and will extend the redeveloped waterfront all the way from the Fish Market to Fort McNair on Buzzard Point. Audi Field, the DC United soccer stadium, is across the street from Fort McNair and is just two blocks from Nats Park.
You will be amazed, and not just with the waterfront. Check out H Street N.E.; it's still under development, but the handful of derelict buildings still there are just waiting for the wrecking ball. (The developers probably need to acquire some of the neighboring buildings before proceeding.) Check out Columbia Heights, a shooting gallery (in both senses of the term) just a few years ago, and now a hot Millennial neighborhood.
This is happening everywhere.
Indeed Obama going to need some grounds people and house keepers Michell can’t be expected to cook her own lobsters.
BS. Tacoma Park MD is Berkeley east. They are lunatic liberal hypocrites.
My favorite Takoma Park, MD, story goes back twenty or more years, to the time when the city decided, on humanitarian grounds, to stop putting out rat poison and shift to humane trapping. No one thought to ask what the city would do with the rats once they were trapped. That question naturally came up immediately after the city council had voted. The initial response from someone in city government was that rats were wild animals, so they should be released back into the wild; the spokesman suggested driving them up the road and turning them loose in Frederick County, which still had farms and so could be considered wild territory.
Cooler heads intervened before the shooting started and the city reconsidered humane rat trapping. But you are right about the politics of Takoma Park, MD.
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