[2] As his aide, she worked on the creation of DASH bus system, which launched in 1984 and continues to run regular service in the city.
Later in her career she softened that stance and voted in support of a number of large-scale and high-profile development plans even as she remained vocally skeptical of them.
[8] In 2006, Pepper expressed "outrage and disbelief" that the EPA allowed the then-Mirant (now GenOn Energy) coal-fired power plant in Alexandria to increase output.
[5] Pepper was born in Omaha, Nebraska before attending Grinnell College for undergraduate and then graduate school at the University of Wisconsin.
Her father was an Omaha City Council member and he later ran a regional Democratic office around Lyndon B. Johnson presidential campaign.