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Tom Davis, Ted Leonsis and Matt Kelly: Let’s get the Georgetown gondola going

Editor Dec 2, 2018

Our region came together this year to secure $15 billion in dedicated funding for Metro, the backbone of our regional transportation network. This historic achievement was a result of bold public leadership in response to a clear public…

Chalkbeat: Indianapolis’s Lewis Ferebee a finalist for D.C. schools chief job, sources say

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Lewis Ferebee is a finalist for the open Washington D.C. schools chief job, according to someone with knowledge of the search process.

Washington Post: D.C. interim chancellor, Indianapolis schools chief are finalists to lead D.C.…

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Two finalists to lead the District’s public schools emerged Saturday after a six-month search for a chancellor, according to people with knowledge of the process: Amanda Alexander, the interim D.C. chancellor, and Indianapolis Public…

Washington Business Journal: Providence to keep emergency services open into the new year

Editor Dec 1, 2018

The change follows last-minute negotiations with D.C. health leaders days before the Northeast D.C. hospital was slated to shut down its ER.

Statement: Providence Hospital to Stay Open Until April 2019

Press Release Dec 1, 2018

For Immediate Release: December 1, 2018 Contact: Nolan Treadway Washington, D.C. – Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie issued the following statement upon the announcement that Providence Hospital will not close its acute care services…

Afro-American: Barry’s Legacy Remembered

Editor Dec 1, 2018

For the fourth consecutive year the legacy of former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion S. Barry was honored by those trying to follow in the footsteps of the man who many believe was the greatest advocate for indigent residents of the nation’s…

The Hoya: Georgetown Launches Inmate Re-Entry and Education Program

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Washington, D.C. residents released from local correctional facilities are eligible for an academic and employment-centered fellowship program.

Washington Informer: Views Vary on Priorities for Ward 8

Editor Dec 1, 2018

A growing number of citizens in Ward 8 agree that time remains of the essence in stopping, or at least retarding, forces that threaten to increase the cost of living for some of the District’s poorest residents and spur inevitable mass…

Street Sense: A woman died from exposure near Union Station during the first hypothermia alert of…

Editor Dec 1, 2018

The morning of Sunday, Nov. 11, when the temperature hovered near freezing, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Denise Rucker Krepp called 911 to assist a homeless woman she came across near Union Station. Krepp described the woman, Helen…

Washington Informer: Residents Wary of St. Elizabeths Development

Editor Dec 1, 2018

The highly anticipated transformation of St. Elizabeths East Campus in Congress Heights continued this week as the Bowser administration broke ground on the Residences at St. Elizabeths, seven historically preserved red brick buildings…

Afro-American: District of Columbia Historian Dr. Janette Hoston Harris, dies at 79

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Dr. Janette Hoston Harris, the District’s first “City Historian, and founder of the Hall of Fame Society, died of cancer November 2, 2018. She is being remembered as an Civil Rights activist, educator and entrepreneur who worked hard to…

City Paper: D.C. Public Schools Employee Used His Position to Drive Business to His Event Planning…

Editor Dec 1, 2018

A support specialist for D.C. Public Schools was found to have used his government job to drive business to his private catering company, according to the D.C. Office of Government Ethics.

Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments

Press Release Dec 1, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 2018 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a series of appointments in her Administration: Dr. LaQuandra S.…

WUSA9: Eleventh hour move keeps Providence Hospital open for now

Editor Dec 1, 2018

D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Doug Buchanan said that a city-wide radio announcement went out Friday afternoon saying that Providence would continue accepting the city's ambulances.

Washington Post: After nine months, D.C. Public Schools likely to get a chancellor soon

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) plans to reconvene the panel advising her on the selection of a schools chancellor this weekend, indicating that a pick to lead the District’s public schools is imminent.

UrbanTurf: The DC Neighborhoods With the Best Price Appreciation in 2018

Editor Dec 1, 2018

As the year comes to a close, UrbanTurf is taking its bi-annual look at the neighborhoods across the city that have seen the highest price appreciation in 2018.

Curbed: Developer to break ground on Fannie Mae HQ redevelopment in Northwest on Saturday

Editor Dec 1, 2018

D.C.-based Roadside Development and North America Sekisui House (NASH), an arm of a major Japanese building company, on Dec. 1 will break ground on the 10-acre redevelopment of the former Fannie Mae headquarters site at 3900 Wisconsin Ave.…

Washington Post Editorial Board: Rhonda Henderson for D.C. State Board of Education

Editor Dec 1, 2018

ELECTION SEASON in D.C. is not over yet. On Tuesday, voters in Ward 4 will go to the polls for a special election to pick their representative to the State Board of Education. The unusual timing — less than a month after November’s general…

Craig Holman in The Post: Ending pay to play in D.C.

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Drain the swamp, and the alligators get angry.

WAMU: Providence Hospital’s ER To Remain Open Through April 2019, Officials Say

Editor Dec 1, 2018

Earlier this year, Providence Hospital announced it would shut down its acute-care services by December 14. Now the hospital’s emergency room will remain open through April 2019, according to the District of Columbia Hospital Association.

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