Yearly Archives

2018

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

Washington Times: Number of homicides in District up 45 percent from 2017

Editor Dec 10, 2018

With three weeks left in 2018, the number of homicides in the District is nearly 45 percent higher that last year’s total, prompting one lawmaker to say the city is in a “state of emergency.”

Washington Business Journal: More details emerge about Providence’s plan to maintain emergency…

Editor Dec 10, 2018

Providence Health System is taking steps to keep its emergency department and needed support services open through April.

WTOP: Opponents vow to fight possible new Redskins stadium in DC

Editor Dec 10, 2018

WASHINGTON — Opponents of a new congressional effort that would pave the way for a new Redskins stadium in D.C. are ready to mount a defensive stand against putting the new facility at the site of RFK Stadium.

Bisnow: Breaking Down D.C.’s $50B Development Pipeline

Editor Dec 10, 2018

The skyline of the nation's capital has been dominated by cranes for the last several years, with development rapidly spreading to new parts of the District, and a new report detailing D.C.'s pipeline shows it is not expected to slow down…

WAMU: Bowser Teams Up With Republicans To Win Control Of RFK Campus

Editor Dec 10, 2018

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s quest to develop the RFK campus and put a new football stadium there is getting an assist from an unlikely but powerful group of allies — the Washington Redskins, the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

DCist: Community Members Launch GoFundMe For Sumah’s West African Restaurant After Large Fire

Editor Dec 10, 2018

A large fire ravaged the entire second floor of Sumah’s West African Restaurant and Carryout in Shaw late last month. Now, community members have set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of the Sumahs to help them rebuild their extensively damaged…

Nick Sementelli in Greater Greater Washington: Tell Mayor Bowser and Jack Evans: No secret…

Editor Dec 10, 2018

Over the weekend, news broke that DC officials may be negotiating behind the scenes with the Trump administration to grease the wheels for a new stadium for the Washington professional football team.

DCist: D.C.’s Liveliest University Meme Pages, Explained

Editor Dec 10, 2018

Words like Wonk Cat, Lau, and Vex might not mean anything to some, but, to many D.C. college students, they’re a way of life.

UrbanTurf: The 6 DC Neighborhoods Where You Paid Above Asking in 2018

Editor Dec 10, 2018

The housing market in the District has been a mixed bag this year, with slight increases in inventory being offset by generally healthy demand and steady price growth.

WAMU: School Districts Expand Gender Options To Include Transgender And Nonbinary Students

Editor Dec 10, 2018

School can be fraught with gender norms. Just ask Addison Moore.

Curbed DC: Activists plan overnight memorial vigil for D.C. homeless who died in 2018

Editor Dec 10, 2018

So far this year, at least 38 people have died in the District “without the dignity of a home,” according to The Way Home, an advocacy group focused on ending chronic homelessness.

Washington Times: D.C. city, fire officials challenge report connecting firetruck shortage to…

Editor Dec 10, 2018

Two D.C. Council members are inquiring about the fire department’s apparatus, as fire and city officials push back against a report in The Washington Times citing senior department sources who said a lack of reserve vehicles contributed to…

WTOP: 30 years later, groundbreaking book ‘Banned in DC’ still reverberates

Editor Dec 10, 2018

WASHINGTON — This week marks 30 years since the public got its first view of a photo-heavy book depicting the earliest days of D.C.’s hardcore punk scene — and its author says the anniversary is both rewarding and disappointing.

Opinion

Barbara Harman: Why giving locally matters more than ever

Commentary Dec 10, 2018

Now that Thanksgiving has passed and what has traditionally been called “the giving season” gets underway, I find myself wondering what local philanthropy is going to look like in the months and years ahead. In a time of relentless breaking…

Washington Post: Students ask George Washington U. not to eliminate a project honoring Jackie…

Editor Dec 9, 2018

More than 20 years ago, a professor at George Washington University interested in the interplay between sports, race and culture started a project to share the story of Jackie Robinson’s legacy.

Washington Post: A new chapter for a neighborhood bookstore that faced extinction

Editor Dec 9, 2018

When he opened his used-book shop 37 years ago in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, Jacques Morgan vowed to remain in business forever, a promise he kept until dying of cancer in 2012.

WUSA9: Rising rents in DC pushes out family run coffee shop

Editor Dec 9, 2018

WASHINGTON -- Rising rent in D.C. is claiming yet another mom and pop business and this time it’s family run coffee shop that is closing its doors after more than two decades.

Washington Post Editorial Board: Negotiations on a new hospital in Southeast Washington have been…

Editor Dec 9, 2018

GEORGE WASHINGTON University’s suspension of negotiations with the District to manage a new hospital in Southeast Washington may send the city back to the drawing board. That should be welcomed. Little thinking went into the politically…

Washington Post: Why a D.C. bicycling group wants to charge cars to enter the city

Editor Dec 9, 2018

Last week, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) issued a comprehensive — and potentially controversial — action plan for improving traffic safety in the nation’s capital.

Washington Post: Initiative 77 backers scramble to collect signatures to put tipped wage hike back…

Editor Dec 9, 2018

Activists are scrambling to collect thousands of signatures needed to revive a law approved by voters but overturned by the D.C. Council that would change how the District’s servers, bartenders and other tipped employees are paid.

Previous 1 … 17 18 19 20 21 … 117 Next

Latest

District Links: New report cites 5.7% drop in DC jobs over past year; OCF investigating claims against Lewis George…

Apr 28, 2026 13

A new report on DC's economic and revenue trends shows a 5.7% drop in jobs over the last year and an increase in the office vacancy rate to 18.3%.

District Links: Bowser resubmits PSC nominations fought by environmentalists; group rejects calls to drop White House…

Apr 27, 2026 13

Mayor Muriel Bowser last week withdrew — and then resubmitted — two controversial nominations for the Public Service Commission that would have otherwise been deemed disapproved at month's end.

District Links: Bowser, Pirro unveil legislation to address rise in domestic violence; Allen bill would enable…

Apr 24, 2026 11

With domestic violence accounting for a growing share of homicides and assaults with a dangerous weapon in the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro today announced new…

jonetta rose barras: Who among DC’s mayoral candidates can help the city fulfill its potential? (Part 1)

Apr 24, 2026 488

A diverse crowd of nearly 300 people squeezed into the auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Monday evening; it was a standing-room-only setting at the latest DC mayoral forum,…

Prev Next 1 of 753