WTOP: DC parking ticket, towing revenue on the decline
WASHINGTON — Parking ticket and towing revenue collected through the Department of Public Works is on the decline in D.C., continuing a trend of fewer tickets going back about a decade.
Yearly Archives
2019
Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 15, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a series of appointments in her Administration:
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District Links: DC continues case for later Metro hours; officials defend lottery operator; concerns…
TGIF. Advocates for the incarcerated are raising the situation at a facility next to DC Jail, where DCist reports that inmates for the first time in months were allowed to go outdoors.
Washington Business Journal: Appeals stymied its redevelopment. Now, a prime Brookland lot is…
This was not Bo Menkiti’s plan for 901 Monroe St. NE.
Washington Times: Congress to fund D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program despite Trump cut
Congress has included $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program in its appropriations bills, despite the Trump administration having erased the program in its budget proposal.
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: ‘Hail no’ and ‘Hail yes’ to the…
There’s so much that goes into building a new house, superyacht or sports stadium that the average taxpayer can’t even imagine.
Curbed: ‘DeafSpace’ design principles take shape in the D.C. area
A talk in NoMa earlier this week highlighted pioneering projects that promote visual communication
WAMU: D.C. Will Feel Like Mississippi Within A Generation, If We Don’t Slow Climate Change
Want to know what climate change will bring, sixty years from now? To get a taste of D.C.’s future weather, no need to wait. Just hop in the car, hit the road, and drive 970 miles southwest, to Greenwood, Mississippi.
Brianne Nadeau in The Post: End stop and frisk in D.C.
On the D.C. Council, I represent the most diverse ward in the District. I have seen an evolution in the way my constituents think about public safety. As recently as four years ago, a violent incident would have resulted in calls for more…
The DC Lineup for Presidents Day weekend: commemorations, games, engineering and orchids
This weekend in DC provides opportunities to honor President Abraham Lincoln, as well as many other prominent U.S. figures such as descendants of trailblazers from the Civil War, a self-made photographer and Frederick Douglass on his…
Norton Gets Additional Funding for Metro and St. Elizabeths, Blocks USDA Relocation Proposal
Contact: Raven Reeder
February 15, 2019
Norton Gets Additional Funding for Metro and St. Elizabeths, Blocks USDA Relocation Proposal
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that…
District Dig: Eyes Wide Shut — The D.C. Council is over the D.C. Lottery contract
With the future of digitized lottery games and mobile sports betting on the line, one might expect total transparency from a global vendor about to receive a lucrative sole source contract to operate the D.C. Lottery.
JUFJ Campaign Fund Releases 2018 DC Council Scorecard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2019
CONTACT
Sam Baltimore, Communication Manager
The JUFJ Campaign Fund Releases 2018 DC Council Scorecard
Scorecard measures Councilmember performance on racial, economic, and social…
Norton Decries President Blocking Back Pay for Federal Contract Workers, Cites Bipartisan Support…
Contact: Raven Reeder
February 15, 2019
Norton Decries President Blocking Back Pay for Federal Contract Workers, Cites Bipartisan Support for Compensation
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leading…
The Current: Acting Chancellor Ferebee and Deputy Mayor for Education Kinh attend local education…
An attentive crowd of 60 met at the Cleveland Park Library for the Wilson Feeder Education Network meeting on Monday, February 11th. Parents, teachers, educators, stakeholders and at least two students in attendance were eager to listen,…
Washington Business Journal: Target to fill big Tenleytown retail vacancy
The vacancy left by Best Buy’s exit from Tenleytown will be filled by a retailer in D.C. expansion mode: Target.
Washington Post: Where can you hear some of D.C.’s best jazz musicians for five bucks on a Friday…
It’s Friday night in Southwest Washington, and Dick Smith is holding court.
Stephanie Sneed: Mayor Bowser needs to live up to her rhetoric and put people first in upcoming…
“We are only as strong as a city as the ward that struggles the most. You cannot represent the District of Columbia as a whole and not reflect that in your words, actions and budget decisions.”
These were Mayor Muriel Bowser’s words on…
Bloomberg: What Shutdown? Bond Market Sees No Risk as Capital Sells Debt
With the federal government still eyeing another possible shutdown, it wouldn’t have seemed like a good time for the nation’s capital city to borrow nearly $1 billion in the bond market.
Washington Post: Safety at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital questioned after brutal attack on…
A patient’s brutal attack on a nurse at a D.C. government psychiatric hospital has renewed calls for increased security at the facility, with staff and union representatives saying hospital managers have been slow to respond to repeated…