Liz Essley is a transportation reporter for The Washington Examiner. She also writes Credo, a weekly Q&A about faith, ethics and values.
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By Liz Essley | 05/10/13 06:05 PM
Metro announced six-minute wait times and a "cool" blue design for the Washington area's first bus rapid transit system, scheduled to open in Northern Virginia next spring. The five-mile corridor between the Pentagon City and Braddock Road Metro stations will have four miles of lanes dedicated...
By Liz Essley | 05/10/13 03:00 PM
"Mayor for Life" Marion Barry started his public career as a civil rights activist in the 1960s and later became mayor of the nation's capital. The 77-year-old is perhaps most famous for his 1990 arrest on drug charges, but that didn't stop his political comeback: He was elected mayor again in...
By Liz Essley | 05/09/13 06:30 PM
Metro won't be paying D.C. Councilman Jim Graham's legal bills. The transit agency's board of directors denied a petition Thursday from Graham, the board's former chairman, to pay for his private legal counsel in a $100 million lawsuit over a Metro land deal. An independent review...
By Liz Essley | 05/08/13 04:35 PM
Two mothers filed suit against three Metro Transit Police officers on Wednesday, saying the police brutally beat their 14-year-old children and then improperly charged them with crimes in two separate incidents. "We hope [Metro will pay attention. It seems clear to us their officers need...
By Liz Essley | 05/07/13 06:15 PM
Fifteen percent of Metro employees don't feel free to report safety problems without fear of retaliation, a new Metro survey says. The survey shows Metro still has work to do in building an agencywide safety mindset in the wake of the 2009 Red Line crash and a string of four worker deaths in...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13
Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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