Curbed: Chinatown’s Friendship Archway will be renovated by next October
The city has awarded a roughly $425,000 contract for the project
Yearly Archives
2019
Bisnow: GSA To Buy Department Of Transportation Headquarters For $760M
A massive Southeast D.C. building that houses over 5,000 public sector employees could soon come under federal government ownership.
WTOP: DC statehood finds support from majority of Marylanders
A majority of Marylanders support D.C. statehood, according to a new poll.
Press Release: Councilmember Vincent C. Gray’s Statement on Recent Conditions at Saint Elizabeths…
News Release — Ward 7 DC Council member Vincent Gray
October 19, 2019
Contact: Takiyah “T.N.” Tate
Washington D.C. – Patients and staff at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, the District’s public psychiatric hospital, remain…
City Paper: She Had a Stillborn Baby. She Faults An Ambulance Delay.
“If the ambulance came on time, I don’t think I would be going through this.”
Curbed: Eckington slice of Metropolitan Branch Trail to reopen this week
After about two and a half months of detours around the construction site for a new park in Eckington, the stretch of the Metropolitan Branch Trail (MBT) between Randolph Place NE and Q Street NE is set to reopen this week. The busy…
Washingtonian: An Indian Restaurant Devoted to Butter Chicken Opens in Downtown DC Today
Bombay Street Food restauranteur Asad Sheikh debuts Butter Chicken Company.
Washington Business Journal: Unizo trying to sell its D.C. office portfolio before the year ends
Unizo Holdings Co. Ltd., the Japanese real estate investor that went on a buying spree of high-profile D.C. office properties just a few years ago, now wants to sell what appears to be all of them.
WAMU: ‘It’s About Human Nature’: What Science Tells Us About Being A Bandwagon Nats Fan
We’ve all done it. We’ve jumped on the bandwagon because something became popular.
WTOP: DDOT to hold public Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge plan meetings
The District Department of Transportation will hold two public meetings about the status of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge project.
Washington Post: ER outreach for opioid users works in many cities. In D.C., it’s off to a slow…
Late last year, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a new program to combat an epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses burning through the nation’s capital.
Washington Post: Marylanders narrowly favor D.C. statehood, unlike Americans overall, according to…
More Maryland residents favor than oppose statehood for the District, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds, in contrast with national surveys showing that most Americans are against making the city the 51st state.
WTOP: Nationals’ Gerardo Parra brings ‘Baby Shark’ energy to pediatric cancer patients
With the Washington Nationals knocking off the St. Louis Cardinals last week for the National League title, there was some free time for outfielder and pinch-hitter Gerardo Parra to visit baseball fans at Children’s National Hospital in…
Northwest Courier: Is Washington, D.C. An Accessible City?
Not all disabilities are alike. Some are more visible than others, but disabilities don’t necessarily require a wheelchair.
Hill Rag: Chander Jayaraman Announces Candidacy for At-Large Council Seat
ANC 6B Chair Files Declaration of Candidacy on Mother's Birthday
Press Release: Statement on Poll Showing Maryland Residents Support DC Statehood
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
October 21, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser issued the following statement regarding a new Washington Post-University of…
An exceptions clause in DC Council’s emergency sanctuary city bill gives ICE access to DOC…
The DC Council unanimously passed emergency legislation earlier this month to patch up weak spots in the District’s "sanctuary city" policies. The new bill forbids officials at the DC Department of Corrections from cooperating with federal…
Washington Post: Chancellor pledges to review D.C.’s controversial teacher evaluation system
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee is vowing to rigorously examine the controversial teacher evaluation system he inherited — a move the teachers union hopes is the first step in redesigning a protocol that it argues unfairly…
City Paper: Getting to First Base — How the deal to bring baseball to D.C. nearly fell apart
What a game. No, not the baseball game on the field. Here on the eve of the Washington Nationals' first-ever World Series, exactly how the Nats got to town in the first place 15 years ago is a story fading into the background. But it’s as…
EdSurge: A New Approach to Discipline Slashed Suspension Rates and Transformed This DC School
WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and she felt she’d hit her stride in the…