WTOP: Ex-Georgetown ANC acquitted in threat to shoot restaurant owner
Former Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels has been found not guilty of threatening to kill the owner of a Middle Eastern restaurant in D.C.
Yearly Archives
2019
Columbia Heights vendors push to gain legal vending rights — and protect their place in the…
On an overcast Saturday afternoon, business is starting to pick up at 14th and Irving streets NW across from the Columbia Heights Metrorail station. While some shoppers head into the DC USA mall, others approach the thriving community of…
Capital Projections: Heroes and villains edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
RICHARD JEWELL
There aren’t a lot of leading dramatic roles for an actor…
Associated Press: Appeals court rehears arguments in Trump hotel lawsuit
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A divided federal appeals court spent more than three hours Thursday sparring over whether President Donald Trump is illegally profiting from the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel. The state of Maryland…
Washington Post: Metro’s mobile fare payment system coming in 2020
Metro’s long awaited and eagerly anticipated mobile payment system is coming online in 2020, the transit agency said Thursday.
Washington Post: Metro board wants future ethics investigations to be made public, unlike in Evans…
Metro board leaders on Thursday proposed requiring future ethics investigations be made public, after the secrecy surrounding the recent inquiry into former board chairman Jack Evans drew widespread scorn.
City Paper: Despite Lawsuit, Agreement For New Southeast Hospital Expected Early 2020
Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services says, “Nothing has deterred us from that effort at this point.”
WUSA9: A DC Statehood ‘rap contest?’ You paid for it.
A WUSA9 investigation reveals questionable spending, lack of oversight for taxpayer-funded "Statehood Grants."
DCist: Starting Some Time Next Year, You Can Tap Into Metro With An IPhone
There’s a particular flavor of irritation reserved for the times when you walk all the way to the Metro gates only to remember that you left your SmarTrip card on your dresser, or in your other bag, or in the back pocket of yesterday’s…
Washington Business Journal: Belgium sells its D.C. embassy to another foreign delegation
The Vietnamese government has acquired the Belgian Embassy building in Upper Northwest D.C. for $23 million, the first time the building has changed hands since it was built more than six decades ago.
Washington Post: Trump’s D.C. hotel is at the center of anti-corruption, emoluments lawsuit
RICHMOND — Appeals court judges appeared divided Thursday about whether to take the extraordinary step of dismissing midstream a novel lawsuit accusing President Trump of illegally profiting from foreign and state government visitors to…
Radley Balko in The Washington Post: The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office.…
One major impediment to substantive criminal-justice reform is getting people to understand our legal system’s complicated structural flaws. When it comes to structural racism, for example, the idea that a system can be racially biased…
UrbanTurf: Reconfiguring Residential and Adding a Medical Building: The New Plans at Skyland Town…
The developers of Skyland Town Center are presenting a new vision for the remainder of the project.
DCist: Who Else Is Still Mad About This ‘Stand Left’ D.C. Tourism Video?
We’ve heard it from Metro transit agency’s general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, who said back in 2017 that the transit agency doesn’t promote riders walking on the left side of the stations’ escalators, because it could damage the equipment.…
Press Release: Metrobus service changes effective Sunday, December 15, on selected routes
News Release — Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
For immediate release: December 12, 2019
In an effort to improve service, Metro is implementing changes on 28 routes in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser to Extend MPD Fall Crime Initiative Through New Year’s Day
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and Metropolitan Police Department
December 12, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Dustin Sternbeck (MPD)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the extension…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser and Events DC Break Ground on Streetscape Project at the Walter E.…
News Release — Events DC
December 12, 2019
Project will Reenergize the Exterior of the Convention Center in Shaw
Washington, DC – Thursday, December 12 – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser was joined by Events DC, the District’s…
District Links: Karl Racine and Md. AG make arguments in court for emoluments lawsuit against Trump;…
Happy Thursday. Attorney General Karl Racine and his Maryland counterpart Brian Frosh sought to make the case this morning to save their emoluments lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
Community members ask DCPS to invest in Washington Met, not close it
Students, parents, teachers and community members on Monday night urged against the proposed closure of Washington Metropolitan High School, which some say suffers from lack of investment from DC Public Schools.
“Nobody’s listening to…
City Paper: Lives Lost 2019
Francis Lee Savoy shielded his brother from a sexual predator when they were boys. Davane Williams told his girlfriend he believed in her on a bad day, after she didn’t get a job offer. Corey Farmer supported his friend when she came out…