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WTOP: DC to give some riders free Metro trips as part of study on transit equity

Editor Dec 10, 2019

D.C. is looking into how to create more equity on Metro. By paying some riders’ fares and not paying for others, the new study aims to examine whether subsidies would change how low-income riders use the transit system.

ABC7: DC councilmember moves for answers after 7 On Your Side speed camera investigation

Editor Dec 10, 2019

"I can't help but think that this is, at least in part, about revenue generation," said Ward 3 councilmember, Mary Cheh – who also oversees the Committee on Transportation and the Environment.

WAMU: D.C.’s Old Buildings Get Help Meeting New Energy Efficiency Requirements

Editor Dec 9, 2019

In many cities, new buildings have to achieve a certain level of energy efficiency. Late last year, D.C. became the first to pass a law requiring efficiency upgrades to old buildings as well. The city is working on one piece of that law…

DCist: Street Vendors In D.C. And New York Are Teaming Up To Demand Better Treatment From Police

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Nearly three weeks ago, a 15-year-old girl named Genesis Lemus was hurt in a confrontation with police officers as she sold plantain chips and atole de elote on a Columbia Heights sidewalk with her younger brother nearby. The incident was…

DCist: This D.C. Photographer Captured ‘The Last Of Chocolate City’ In Powerful Black-And-White…

Editor Dec 9, 2019

It’s a mild Sunday afternoon in December, and Steven M. Cummings is relaxing in his converted carriage house in a back alley off H and 8th Streets NE. The cozy space has a loft, self-made art on the brick walls, and a ton of cameras he’s…

Washington Post Editorial Board: Remembering Robert Asher

Editor Dec 9, 2019

ON THE POST’S editorial page, perhaps no writer on state and local topics has spilled more ink, or commanded greater expertise, than Robert L. Asher, who died Friday at age 83. “Some think I have power,” said Katharine Graham, The Post’s…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser to Launch Study on Impact of Income-Based Transit Subsidies on Equity

Press Release Dec 9, 2019

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor, DC Department of Human Services, District Department of Transportation and DC Office of the City Administrator December 9, 2019 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Dora Taylor-Lowe (DHS) …

Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill to Create Local Task Forces on Policing in Wake of Continuing…

Press Release Dec 9, 2019

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton December 9, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she has introduced a bill to establish a grant program from existing…

WAMU: Reduced Fares For The Poor? Metro To Consider Discounts For Low-Income Riders

Editor Dec 9, 2019

There might be some temporary relief on the horizon for the District’s most vulnerable residents who take public transportation, as the Metro board mulls over a proposal to cut fares or provide free transit.

WTOP: Metro considers larger fare hike, major bus changes

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Metro will consider a larger rush-hour fare hike next summer, as well as the elimination of some popular bus routes.

Press Release: Norton Supports Puerto Rican Statehood Bill, Urges 18 Republican Cosponsors to…

Press Release Dec 9, 2019

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton December 9, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter today to 18 Republican Members of Congress cosponsoring the Puerto…

District Links: Report uncertain on benefits of splitting up DCRA as envisioned in council bill;…

Cuneyt Dil Dec 9, 2019

Happy Monday. Here’s a buzzkill: A firm contracted to study whether a bill to split up the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs would improve building code enforcement doesn’t have an answer.

Washington Post: Robert Asher, Washington Post editorial writer, dies at 83

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Robert L. Asher, a journalist who spent decades at The Washington Post writing editorials on issues of local and regional importance such as traffic congestion, the operation, construction and financing of the Metro rapid transit system,…

WTOP: DC Democratic Party to Jack Evans: ‘It’s time to move on’

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Embattled D.C. Council Member Jack Evans could be expelled from his seat on the council as soon as next week, and now the District’s Democratic Party is telling Evans “it’s time to move on” from his role there, too.

Washington Business Journal: Jubilee Housing buys church in Adams Morgan, plans housing for people…

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Jubilee Housing Inc. is buying up more property in Adams Morgan, with plans to convert a church into temporary housing for formerly incarcerated people.

UrbanTurf: Amid Comp Plan Conversation, DC Hosts Forum on History of Disparate Housing Distribution

Editor Dec 9, 2019

In recent months, DC's Office of Planning has hosted a series of open houses on proposed updates to the Comprehensive Plan in DC's eight wards. Immediately following a meeting this weekend at Wilson High School in Ward 3, the city built…

City Paper: D.C. Wants to Shutter Washington Metropolitan High. But Students Value Their School.

Editor Dec 9, 2019

“It’s a really upsetting feeling. I don’t want to go anywhere else.”

WTOP: DC tavern Hook Hall transforms into rustic ski lodge

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Hook Hall — the tavern and events space in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood between Columbia Heights and Petworth — has turned its backyard into a ski lodge for the winter.

WTOP: After 51 years behind microphone, WTOP’s Chris Core set to ‘sign off’

Editor Dec 9, 2019

In more than five decades as a broadcaster, WTOP’s Chris Core has spent most of his life talking on the radio, but next Friday’s “Core Values” commentary will be his last: Core is retiring.

Washington Business Journal: Jack Evans drama consumed the D.C. Council in 2019. The end is all but…

Editor Dec 9, 2019

Jack Evans opened 2019 as the D.C. Council’s longest-tenured member and certainly one of its most powerful and influential, despite a waft of scandal that originated the year before.

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