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Accumulating snow coming in on thursday. How are the roads . We have some construction right now. Roadwork right now in northeast washington. A water main break that broke overnight overnight. This is f street northeast between second and third. 66 Virginia Visitor Center everything is running along nicely there. Take a look at 95 as you head northbound. Were nice and clear. Same thing out of town there in virginia. And 95 and maryland cherry hill road everything rolling along nicely. Were watching the closings because of the weather. If you work for the federal court you can take for unschedu...

Harder to gather signatures. I think you know colleagues what happened there were very heavy books that were circulated to collect 31,000 signatures to qualify to place the measure on the ballot to reverse our decision last year, the first referendum on a board ordinance to qualify in more than 20 years. Now given this measure has qualified i think the city will incur massive cost for these handbooks and supervisor wiener and i introduced legislation to reduce the material required to be in the ballot handbook. My legislation would allow the department of elections not to include the full text...

Memorandum that wouldnt inform anybody but unfortunately at the time the developer wanted the full text included to make it harder to gather signatures. I think you know colleagues what happened there were very heavy books that were circulated to collect 31,000 signatures to qualify to place the measure on the ballot to reverse our decision last year, the first referendum on a board ordinance to qualify in more than 20 years. Now given this measure has qualified i think the city will incur massive cost for these handbooks and supervisor wiener and i introduced legislation to reduce the materia...

Go ahead. I agree with supervisor wieners aide that that in his words this is not necessarily a one time issue but i think the intent of the legislation is to address the one time situation that we have here and i fully intend if we pass this at the end of the year to pass legislation at the direction of the Elections Commission to rescind this because this is i think a longer standing policy conversation that we ought to have about what is the most appropriate way for us to educate voters, but i am really concerned that if voters receive a handbook that has the full text of everything but on ...