2019

Let’s face it. On the proverbial plane of economic development, the District of Columbia is in the middle seat fighting for elbow room with Maryland on one side and Virginia on the other. We have a history of challenging business practices…

Construction is set to begin Friday on a new assisted-living facility for low-income seniors, the first such development in Ward 8.

In 2008, when city leaders passed the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Amendment Act, the District started to build what became the first-ever universal prekindergarten program in the country and allocated robust funding to implement,…

Janel Leppin’s music can sound like something out of a dream. The multi-instrumentalist uses cello and an ethereal voice to weave an uncanny atmosphere on her 2017 solo album American God, released under the name Mellow Diamond. Leppin has…

The D.C. Council held a hearing Thursday to gauge the effectiveness of the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), responding to a city auditor’s report that criticized the agency’s handling of a whistleblower and amid a…

More than a year since the community first heard about a large residential project steps from the Takoma Metro, preliminary plans are being revealed.

A majority of Washingtonians support building a new Redskins stadium on the RFK Stadium site, but most don’t want to use taxpayer dollars to help pay for it, according to a Washington Post poll.

A Maryland-based company that owns an apartment building in Northeast D.C. will need to pay $450,000 to people who lived there because residents were improperly billed for water.

The District’s mental health agency has made staff changes and created a new patient tracking system and plans to hire a consultant after a discharged psychiatric patient with a homicidal history allegedly killed a neighbor in an…

The developer of a low-income Northeast Washington apartment building will pay $450,000 to residents after they were improperly billed for water, prosecutors said Thursday.

Take a stroll through Shaw or Navy Yard, and you’re likely to end up walking past a juice bar, a workout studio or a glitzy new high-rise. The surge of such amenities into previously low-income neighborhoods attests to the fact that the…

AG Pledges to Fight Bigotry

Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city’s largest local LGBT political organization, elected Ward 1 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kent Boese as its new president Monday night at the club’s annual election meeting held…

Buildings are rising, retailers are circling and plans are coalescing at the Parks at Walter Reed, the massive mixed-use redevelopment transforming the old Army medical center campus in Northwest D.C.

Tuesday afternoon started out more or less like any other for 15-year-old Genesis Lemus and her family. While her mother Ana finished up chores and errands, Genesis decided to walk to 14th Street with her 10-year-old brother and spend a…

The District’s top ethics investigator said he may reopen a dormant investigation into D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), the target of multiple probes into the overlap between his public service and his private consulting…

After months of jousting over control of the city’s arts office and arts programming, the Bowser administration and the newly independent Commission on Arts and Humanities have come to an agreement over one aspect of their dispute: the…

As efforts continue to expand food access east of the Anacostia River, a nonprofit is working on a solution.