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Aja Taylor: Why we interrupted the mayor’s State of the District Address

Commentary Mar 22, 2019

As foreshadowed in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s State of the District Address earlier this week, there are some good things in the proposed fiscal year 2020 city budget she unveiled Wednesday morning. The proposed $2.5 million to assist our…

Films

Capital Projections: Life in the fast lane edition

Pat Padua Mar 22, 2019

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. THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT (The Orchard) With the help of director David…

Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. needs a strong ethics board again

Editor Mar 21, 2019

WHEN SHE was on the D.C. Council, a notable accomplishment of Muriel E. Bowser (D) was pushing through legislation that established an independent board to investigate and enforce government ethics rules. Members of the new board were…

Washington Business Journal: ChiKo, storage lockers, credit card-taking concession hawkers among…

Editor Mar 21, 2019

The post-Bryce Harper era is set to get underway for the Washington Nationals.

Washington Post: New at Nats Park for 2019: Steamed buns, pupusas and so many oysters

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd, buy me some peanuts and . . . oysters?!

Washingtonian: Check Out All the New Food and Drink Vendors at Nationals Park This Season

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Eats and drinks from Chiko, Medium Rare, Hank's Oyster Bar, and much more.

Washington Post: Del. Norton floats a new way for District to control RFK Stadium site

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s nonvoting member of Congress, is filing legislation that asks Congress to sell to the city one of the largest tracts of vacant land in the District: the 190-acre RFK Stadium site.

DCist: A Week After Capitol Police Confiscated His Equipment, Protest Artist Robin Bell Is Back In…

Editor Mar 21, 2019

A week after police confiscated artist Robin Bell’s projection equipment and arrested one of his collaborators, the local visual artist has his equipment back and plans to get back in the game, stepping up the number of projections he’s…

Washington Business Journal: The Madison hotel completes $4M renovation inspired by Dolley Madison

Editor Mar 21, 2019

The Madison Downtown Washington, D.C., has completed its $4 million renovation, and from its new cocktail lounge, the Hilton hotel is raising its glass to Dolley Madison, the inspiration for the transformation.

DCist: For The Next Two Weeks, The Kennedy Center Is Going Experimental And Modern For The DIRECT…

Editor Mar 21, 2019

There was a several year period during which the Kennedy Center’s major festivals focused on specific cultural regions, including the Arabian peninsula, Mexico, India, Ireland, and Scandinavia, which is reasonable given the area’s…

WAMU: In Effort To Bring Down Child Care Costs, Bowser Proposes Three New Centers For Kids

Editor Mar 21, 2019

The effort to bring down the sky-high costs of child care in D.C. is getting a partial boost in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget for the upcoming year.

Washington Business Journal: Development forcing relocation of trapeze school within The Yards,…

Editor Mar 21, 2019

The Trapeze School New York is moving within The Yards, again.

Curbed: More D.C. Circulator and Capital Bikeshare service could be coming to the District

Editor Mar 21, 2019

New budget proposal includes funding for additional transportation infrastructure and Vision Zero

AG Racine Introduces Legislation to Protect District Residents’ Personal Data

Press Release Mar 21, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications AG RACINE INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO PROTECT DISTRICT RESIDENTS’ PERSONAL DATA Proposal Creates Stricter Safeguards Against Data Breaches, Protects…

District Links: Phil “Mr. Magoo” Mendelson profiled; long reads on DC’s handling…

Cuneyt Dil Mar 21, 2019

Happy Thursday. City Paper has a cover profile of Phil Mendelson today, with tidbits like this: “Chuck Thies, a local political consultant who ran Mendelson’s 2002 re-election campaign, has long referred to the chairman as Mr. Magoo—a man…

Norton Bill to Prohibit Employers from Asking Salary History on House Floor Next Week

Press Release Mar 21, 2019

March 21, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller Norton Bill to Prohibit Employers from Asking Salary History on House Floor Next Week WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the U.S.…

District Dig: Hollow Promise — D.C.’s management of sexual harassment complaints is full of holes

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Moved by the #MeToo wave that swept America and sexual assault allegations that rocked the Supreme Court confirmation process, the D.C. Council stood in solidarity last fall against sexual abuse in all of its ugly forms.

Street Sense: A Ward 4 church made it possible to build 99 new units of affordable housing

Editor Mar 21, 2019

The Emory Fellowship, a United Methodist Congregation in Ward 4, has been holding their Sunday worship services in a nearby school for more than two years. It was a hardship they knowingly undertook when they decided to build affordable…

Washington Business Journal: First look: Hilton’s Conrad hotel debuts in D.C.

Editor Mar 21, 2019

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.’s modern luxury brand, Conrad, is finally on the McLean hotelier’s home turf. The hotel began welcoming guests in February, and it officially opens to the public Friday.

City Paper: D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson Isn’t Power Hungry

Editor Mar 21, 2019

But he is power-comfortable.

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