2003 Archive
An archive of National Mall Coalition email newsletters from 2003
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National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) Rejects Park Service Plan
Yesterday’s Washington Post (Friday, December 5th) reports that the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) rejected Park Service plans for security bollards (concrete posts) and the design for 2 new visitor facilities at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Coalition Chair Judy Feldman Featured in Washington Post Article “Preservation Law Puts Leash on Mall Projects”
Today’s Washington Post — District of Columbia Thursday special section — contains a front page story about recent changes to the Commemorative Works Act and a picture of Chair Judy Feldman standing in front of the “Closed” sign at the Washington Monument. Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) is truly a champion of the Mall.
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Post: Veterans Day and the World War II Memorial
This article about the World War II Memorial ran in yesterday’s (November 12th) Washington Post. The online story includes a photograph of the partially completed Memorial:
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Post: Moore Writes ‘Bridging the Difference On Memorials And the Mall’
In an essay published in yesterday’s (Sunday, November 9th) Washington Post on the “Close to Home” page, local architect Arthur Cotton Moore offered a novel approach to future memorializing on the Mall (see below).
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Park Police Install Surveillance Cameras in the Washington Monument
Reporter Al Kamen’s “In the Loop” column on page A29 of yesterday’s (Friday, November 7th) Washington Post has an item about Park Police installation of surveillance cameras in the Washington Monument – and Congressional reaction to it:
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National Park Service Abandons Plans for Underground Visitor Center and Tunnel at the Washington Monument
It’s official! The National Park Service held a press conference yesterday to announce that it has abandoned plans for the underground visitor center and tunnel at the Washington Monument.
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National Capital Planning Commission Responds to Feldman’s “We Must Save America’s Mall”
Why attack the messenger? We wondered what the National Capital Planning Commission’s (NCPC) Executive Director, Patricia Gallagher, had in mind when she penned the personal attack published in today’s Washington Post, copied below.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
We have received word from the Senate Energy Committee that Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton — boss of the National Park Service (NPS) — has formally stopped any additional work on the visitor center and tunnel at the Washington Monument.
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Post Letter: Zigzagging Across the Mall
Letter to the editor regarding Coalition Chair Judy Scott Feldman’s article in the Washington Post “We Must Save America’s Mall”.
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Post Reports on the Political Maneuvering Behind Visitor Center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
In an article in last Friday’s (October 2nd) Washington Post entitled “Scrugg’s Underground Movement,” reporter Monte Reel described some of the political maneuvering behind the scenes between Jan Scruggs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the Congress, and John Parsons (with others) of the National Park Service (NPS), regarding the proposed visitor center/museum for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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