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69 Developers rendering of how the building would look like from the Braddock Road metro station. Courtesy image. City Council voted to rescind its previous denial of a special use permit for a 180-unit multi-use apartment building during Tuesday’s legislative meeting. Council voted 4-3 during the March 13 public hearing to deny a permit from developer West Street Acquisitions, LLC to build the project across from the Braddock Road Metro station. As initially proposed, the project would incl...

Listen • 4:25 Rainelle, W. Va. flooded in June 2016. Years later, the town still hasnt recovered. When large numbers of people dont have insurance or savings after a disaster, the effects can ripple through the community. Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. It had been raining hard all day, filling the creeks and rivers that run through southern West Virginia. In the past, such intense downpours would last only a few hours, but this storm bro...

A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat at 9:02 pm NPR Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. It had been raining hard all day, filling the creeks and rivers that run through southern West Virginia. In the past, such intense downpours would only last a few hours. But this storm brought wave after wave of torrential rain. "You could hear the water up in the mountains just crashing trees," Trigg remembers. Rain...

To the editor: I’m not sure what was most astonishing about City Council’s discussion of the stormwater fee on Jan. 12 – that not one city council member questioned the magnitude of the city’s nearly half-billion dollar stormwater construction proposal, or that no one asked what analysis was done to arrive at an exact doubling of the stormwater fee. In any case, it seems that T&ES has once again been caught with its pants down. How out of touch can a public works department be when it h...