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WAMU: Trees Or Solar Panels? Environmentalists Question Georgetown’s Solar Farm

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Georgetown University has a bold plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: by later this year, it will get nearly half its electricity from solar power. However, building the new solar farm in Charles County, Maryland to power the…

District of Fashion Runway Show Ties District to NYFW

Press Release Feb 7, 2019

CONTACT: Rachel Rose Hartman PRESS RELEASE: District of Fashion Runway Show Ties District to NYFW WASHINGTON, DC—As New York Fashion Week (NYFW) prepared its fall/winter collection season, the District of Columbia's fashion industry…

UrbanTurf: SunTrust to Scottish Rite: The 320 Residential Units on the Boards for Adams Morgan

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Following delivery of AdMo Heights (which replaced a Payless shoe store) and a portion of Modera Sedici (which replaced the former Italian Embassy on 16th Street), the Adams Morgan residential development pipeline has quieted down…

Washington Post: ‘They’re pioneers’: Two women rise through the male-dominated ranks of D.C.’s fire…

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Young cadets Queen Anunay and Kishia Clemencia stood out in their class at the D.C. fire academy as being among the few women in a male-dominated field. Of the department’s 1,550 members at the time, 35 were women.

Washington Business Journal: Local executives prod Bowser to speed up 5G regulations

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Local tech executives are urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speed up the regulatory process laying the groundwork for next-generation wireless networks — especially now that Amazon is putting a portion of its second headquarters in the…

City Paper: ‘To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at’ Is Required…

Editor Feb 7, 2019

The pairing of five never-before-seen Glenn Ligon paintings with wallpaper by Andy Warhol is practically an essay about the National Mall.

Washington Post: Jefferson Memorial to get roof repair, laser cleaning

Editor Feb 7, 2019

The National Park Service said Thursday that it has started a 15-month project to restore the roof and clean the marble at the Jefferson Memorial.

Opinion

Alan Roth: Breaking up DCRA isn’t enough — we need a deputy mayor for urban planning and enforcement

Commentary Feb 7, 2019

DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson recently revived his proposal to break up the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which he first introduced more than a year ago in the previous council period. Under his bill, a new Department…

DISB Hosts Elder Housing Forum for Faith Community

Press Release Feb 7, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 7, 2019 Contact: Paul Drehoff (DISB) DISB Hosts Elder Housing Forum for Faith Community Washington, DC—Today, the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) held its first…

New lighting to be installed at 3 downtown Red Line stations this weekend; buses replace trains…

Press Release Feb 7, 2019

For immediate release: February 7, 2019 New lighting to be installed at 3 downtown Red Line stations this weekend; buses replace trains between Dupont Circle and Judiciary Sq This weekend, Feb. 9-10, Metro will work around the clock…

District Links: Bowser announces new effort to take gun cases to feds, leading critics to blast her…

Cuneyt Dil Feb 7, 2019

Good Thursday morning. City Paper has an interview with the Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott, the former manager of the Park Southern apartment complex in Southeast indicted on federal charges.

Washington Blade: D.C. sees alarming increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes in 2018

Editor Feb 7, 2019

The number of anti-LGBT hate crimes reported in D.C. in 2018 nearly doubled from the number of reported cases in 2016, according to recently released data by D.C. police.

UrbanTurf: This Company Wants to Rent Your DC Home and Lease the Individual Bedrooms

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Traditionally, homeowners hire property managers to rent out their homes, and communal living has occupied its own space on the margins. Now, a new company wants to combine the co-living concept with a property management approach, all on…

WAMU: This Artist Projects Protest Messages Onto The Trump Hotel. Now He Has His Own Museum Show

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Did you see that projection on the Trump Hotel last year that read “Pay Trump bribes here”? What about the one on the Environmental Protection Agency that read “Don’t let a climate denier take over the EPA”? Or maybe you caught the one…

City Paper: A Former Ward 8 Democrats Leader and Minister Faces a Federal Indictment

Editor Feb 7, 2019

From a corner table at the IHOP on Alabama Avenue SE, Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott pleads her case—or some of it anyway.

City Paper: Did a Social Services Organization Serving D.C.’s Homeless Misrepresent Its Legal…

Editor Feb 7, 2019

Trouble continues to roil The Horizon, a Ward 7 homeless shelter that opened just last fall. The Department of Human Services discovered that the social services nonprofit tapped to run the shelter’s day-to-day operations appeared to…

The Current: District inducts first all-girl Boy Scouts of America troop

Editor Feb 7, 2019

On February 2, 2019, a small group of witnesses at All Souls Episcopal Church attended the induction of the first District all-girl troop of Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Troop 248 is comprised of twenty girls, ranging from ten to…

Washington Post: D.C. residents call for a new chancellor to build trust and stability in schools

Editor Feb 7, 2019

This time, they want it to be different.

Chalkbeat: 5 questions on Lewis Ferebee’s record in Indianapolis as he seeks to lead D.C. schools

Editor Feb 7, 2019

As Lewis Ferebee faces confirmation hearings before securing the top job in Washington, D.C., schools, his record as superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools offers insight into how he would lead.

jonetta rose barras: DC inches closer to sports betting

jonetta rose barras Feb 7, 2019

The majority of DC Council members renewed their commitment this week to the goal of making the District the first jurisdiction in the region to offer online sports betting. In a 7-6 vote, lawmakers on Tuesday approved the Sports Wagering…

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Mayoral hopeful Kenyan McDuffie this morning conceded the Democratic primary to Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George, who has 52.87% of the vote in the updated tally released this afternoon by…

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Initial results released last night by the DC Board of Elections show Janeese Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist, with a strong lead in the mayor's race and Robert White with an even…

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DC's Democrats will decide today on their party's nominees to succeed three-term Mayor Muriel Bowser and 18-term DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, as well as two councilmembers who opted not to seek…

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