Inaugural Slideshow
Scenes from the swearing in, protests and the public on Inauguration Day.
By Capital News Service Staff
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
UMD Lab Helps Keep Inauguration Traffic on Track
Headed to the Inauguration today? Take a look behind the scenes of traffic control.
WASHINGTON -- A transportation system created by the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park will be used during Monday's Presidential Inauguration to monitor the area’s roads to help local and state agencies react quickly to any traffic problems. The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System plots traffic data onto a map that includes a variety of information about accidents, parking, weather and mass transit updated in real-time. Regional traffic cameras are also linked to the system so that agencies can visually verify the extent of an accident. Public safety employees can access the online tool once they register and are approved. Public safety agencies shared …
PatchTag Project: #Hashtag Patriotism In Your Patch
Post a patriotic photo from your Patch using the hashtag #PatchInauguration on Instagram.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Weekend PatchTag Project: #Hashtag Patriotism In Your Patch
Post a patriotic photo from your Patch using the hashtag #PatchInauguration on Instagram.
We're starting something new here at Patch, borrowing an idea from social media networks. We're calling it the Weekend PatchTag Project. It's simple. Using your Instagram account, post a photo of patriotism in your community—you know, getting into the spirit of a presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tag it with #PatchInauguration and it'll appear in our grid of images on every Patch site in Maryland. It's your chance to show off how patriotic your community is to the rest of the state. Now get to it! Oh, and while you're at it, what's your Instagram handle? Post it in a comment below, and let us know what Patch you live in, and we'll follow you!
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Get Inauguration Tickets, Plan the Trip for Monday
The White House and State Highway Administration offer tips and information on planning a day at President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
President Barack Obama's public inauguration is Monday. Here's information from the White House on how to get tickets, and from the Maryland State Highway Administration on how to navigate the traffic. If you want to watch the event from the National Mall, it is completely open to the public starting at 4th Street NW, according to a news release from the White House. Areas closer to the Capitol are ticketed, it states. To get tickets for Obama's swearing-in or other events, visit the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies information page. Tickets are not needed for the inaugural parade after the swearing-in. But you need them if you want to access the bleachers, the release states. Public access points to the parade are …
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
PHOTOS: Presidential Inaugurations Through the Years
Historic photos depict presidential oaths from bygone times.
President Barack Obama's second inauguration ceremony and celebration Jan. 21 will be a far cry from the inauguration of our first president, George Washington. That ceremony was held April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City, where the federal government was headquartered at the time. Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long—at his second swearing-in, in Philadelphia. One thing all presidential inauguration swearing-in ceremonies have in common, though, are these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States…
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