New White Flint plan is good for MoCo
I would like to congratulate the Montgomery County Council for adopting the updated White Flint Sector plan, which will provide the county with another celebrated traditional town. The unanimous vote showed great wisdom and a positive vision of a more sustainable future for our county, region, state and country.
Like Tysons Corner in neighboring Fairfax County, the Rockville Pike corridor is currently a mess of automobile traffic. It has too much density to be truly car-friendly, but lacks a human-scale street grid intrinsic to pedestrian-friendly places like Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rosslyn-Ballston and downtown D.C. The new plan will address these challenges and create a place that millions of future Washington-region residents will live, work and play in for generations.
Montgomery County will benefit through additional tax revenue. The free fall of housing values in the exurbs over the past two years and the fact that housing closer to the Beltway in transit-proximate locations has retained its value shows that the market currently values the transit-oriented arrangement over the car-dependent subdivision.
Cavan Wilk
Board member,
Action Committee for Transit
Cartoonist went way over the line I was shocked and disappointed to see a truly bigoted cartoon published in the Washington Examiner on March 30. By stereotyping Catholic priests as child abusers, your paper appeals to a gross anti-Catholic prejudice that has infected portions of the liberal elite in this country.
Recent developments have shown the New York Times was again lying about claims that the Holy Father somehow tolerated an abusing priest. This is patently false. Then-Cardinal Ratzinger did not obtain authority over these types of actions until 2001, more than three years after the miscreant in question died before going to trial. The only story here is the gross corruption infesting the New York Times and its fellow anti-Catholic bigots.
The Examiner‘s editors owe the entire Catholic community an apology. Cartoonist Nate Beeler should do 1,000 hours of community service in a Catholic soup kitchen to make amends.
Malcolm B. Coate
Annandale
