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District Links: New council bills include efforts to curtail vaping; DC draws flak over developer…

Cuneyt Dil Sep 18, 2019

Happy Wednesday. DC Council members signaled they support drastic cutbacks on vaping, introducing bills with widespread support yesterday to ban the distribution of flavored electric cigarette products and restrict where products can be…

Washington Business Journal: Bowser official warns GSA will ‘rue the day’ it passed on…

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The Trump administration will come to regret its decision to rule out a development site east of the Anacostia River from the competition for a new Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters, a top official for D.C. Mayor Muriel…

WTOP: Washington Monument ready to reopen after 3 years

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The Washington Monument is set to reopen Thursday with a repaired elevator and a new security screening center after a three-year closure.

DCist: How One D.C. Woman Got Her Family Off Of The City’s Electric Grid

Editor Sep 18, 2019

Keya Chatterjee was sick of paying $300 a month in electricity bills. After three years of arguing with Pepco, D.C.’s electric utility, about how on earth her small household could be consuming so much power (all to no avail), she made a…

Curbed: D.C. could extend rent control through 2030

Diane Gross Sep 18, 2019

New legislation would ensure the program doesn’t lapse at the end of next year

Washington Post: D.C. police use District’s ‘red flag’ law for first time to seize firearms

Editor Sep 18, 2019

D.C. police seized a semiautomatic handgun and a rifle from a man earlier this month, using for the first time a new law that allows authorities to temporarily seize firearms from people believed to be dangerous.

Theresa Vargas in The Post: He used to clean Washington National Cathedral. This week, people packed…

Editor Sep 18, 2019

It’s the place where people have come to remember an astronaut, a civil rights activist and a world leader.

Colbert King in The Post: This is D.C. statehood’s only way forward

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The events being staged this week by D.C. officials ahead of Thursday’s House hearing on D.C. statehood are part of a campaign to raise awareness about the injustice of D.C. disenfranchisement. But the key to making this week’s historic…

Press Release: Norton Announces More Than 100 National Advocacy Groups Have Endorsed H.R. 51 Ahead…

Press Release Sep 18, 2019

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton September 17, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – One day before the historic hearing on statehood for the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)…

UrbanTurf: Ping Pong, Shuffleboard and an Ice Rink: The Latest Plans for the Lawn at Walter Reed

Editor Sep 18, 2019

As The Parks at Walter Reed development continues to gain momentum, the development team is returning to the Historic Preservation Office with modified concepts for the project's main plaza.

DCist: The Guy Who Wants To Make D.C. A Part Of Maryland Is Challenging Eleanor Holmes Norton

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The timing of David Krucoff’s announcement that he is running for D.C. delegate is not coincidental.

WAMU: You Can Finally Visit The Washington Monument Again. Here’s What To Expect

Editor Sep 18, 2019

America’s best-known obelisk reopens to the public on Thursday after more than three years of construction on a new security facility and renovations to its elevator system.

Curbed: Pop-up parks will appear across D.C. this Friday

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The city is holding its yearly PARK(ing) Day, a public space event

Books

Podcast gives DC students a chance to share their love of reading

Kate Oczypok Sep 18, 2019

After six years covering Capitol Hill for a Los Angeles public radio station, Kitty Felde found a way to branch out to a new audience: middle schoolers. Once a month on her talk show, adults would be “thrown out” and students would come to…

WTOP: Former Georgetown Morton’s reopens as a French bistro

Editor Sep 18, 2019

D.C. restaurateur Hakan Ilhan — whose restaurants include Mirabelle, Ottoman Taverna and Al Dente Italian — is opening Brasserie Liberté in the former Morton’s The Steakhouse location on Prospect Street in Georgetown.

UrbanTurf: The Nearly 5,300 Residential Units Which May (or May Not) Be Built in and Around…

Editor Sep 18, 2019

Between planned unit development appeals and other hiccups and shelvings, it has been nearly three years since UrbanTurf last updated the large residential developments approximately northeast of North Capitol Street and Rhode Island…

Washington Business Journal: That ballpark food you didn’t buy? The Nationals are giving it…

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The Washington Nationals and its concessionaire, Levy Restaurants, have partnered with a Rockville nonprofit to donate excess food from Nationals Park to people in need.

WAMU: As Small Businesses Face Displacement, D.C. Considers Helping Them Pay Rent

Editor Sep 18, 2019

The District already offers some financial assistance to residents struggling to pay rent. Now your local barber shop could be next.

WAMU: Investors And Developers Can Benefit From Opportunity Zones In D.C., But Will Residents?

Editor Sep 18, 2019

On a steamy summer day in late July, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stood alongside a group of shovel-wielding developers to break ground on a massive new project along Rhode Island Avenue NE. The Bryant Street development will include 487…

Washington Post: David Rubenstein spent $10 million on the Washington Monument, which reopens…

Editor Sep 18, 2019

David M. Rubenstein, one of Washington’s richest men, has lately been in the business of protecting and restoring many of the country’s historical treasures.

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