City Paper: D.C. to Move Disabled Medicaid Patients Into Private Managed Care Plans
Patients with traditional Medicaid are the most vulnerable. That’s why some advocates are concerned about moving them into private health plans.
Yearly Archives
2019
Washingtonian: Two DC Mothers Are Opening a Massive “Family Social Club” in Ivy City This Winter
The Lane will have chaperoned play areas, an all-day cafe, and much more.
WAMU: Here’s What Rent Control Could Mean For D.C.’s Housing Crisis
Limiting rent hikes keeps some apartments affordable, but does it make others more expensive?
WTOP: Free music, and lots of it, Saturday: Adams Morgan Porchfest
Adams Morgan will host the seventh annual Adams Morgan Porchfest Oct. 5, and there will be more free music than ever this year.
Washington Post: A ‘miracle’ and a ‘shock’: Months later, D.C. woman meets the stranger whose life…
On a balmy summer night about two months ago, Joe Cwiklinski climbed into his car, strapped on the seat belt, and began driving home from a friend’s house in Virginia.
WTOP: ‘Public health approach’, tougher gun trafficking penalties considered to tackle DC gun…
Tougher penalties for gun violations and expanded intervention programs were among the wide ranging topics aired while city leaders considered legislative strategies to help D.C. respond to gun violence.
Washington Post: One of D.C.’s busiest streets will be turned into a car-free experiment Saturday
For four hours, nearly three miles of Georgia Avenue NW will be a car-free zone.
Street Sense: Seeing Double: DC drastically reduces the number of people in shelter as more double…
The Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, the District’s access point to family shelter, opens at 8:30 every morning. Adults with children in tow are assessed, categorized, and sent off. Some are referred to family shelter, which,…
The DC Lineup for this weekend: Ballads, books and blessings
The next few days in the District are full of ways to celebrate nature and the environment, whether it’s identifying trees, taking part in sustainable transportation activities or honoring animals. A recreational 10K run and 2-mile walk as…
Capital News Service: Renovations get major role in 2019 Folger Shakespeare season
The stately gray stone walls of the Folger Shakespeare Library on East Capitol Street have graced Capitol Hill since 1932, when Shakespeare collector Emily Folger saw her husband Henry’s vision of a “gift to America” to completion.
Washington Post: Georgetown students protest, demanding action on reparations for descendants of…
A couple dozen Georgetown University students broke into a chant Thursday outside a meeting of the school’s board of directors, seeking to put pressure on the university to do more to redress historical wrongs.
WTOP: Proposal to ban 3D-printed guns is under review in DC
D.C.’s effort to fight gun violence now involves proposed legislation that would ban so-called “ghost guns” that don’t contain enough metal to set off most magnetometers and are untraceable.
The American Prospect: D.C. Janitors Fight to Keep Up With Soaring Costs of Living
Up and down the East Coast, SEIU’s janitorial contracts are expiring. D.C.’s janitors expect a better one—and if they don’t get it, they’ll strike.
CBS News: Georgetown students push university for action on slavery reparations
Georgetown University students gathered Thursday to protest the university's lack of progress on implementing reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. Students voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plan in a referendum…
Washington Times: D.C. residents plea for lawmakers to address gun violence
The mother of a young man who was gunned down in Southeast in August pleaded Thursday at a D.C. Council hearing for something to be done about the disproportionate amount of violence her community faces and the lack of resources it has to…
Capital News Service: Short films and screenplays highlighted District film festival’s 16th year
It’s a wrap for the 16th annual DC Shorts International Short Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, where once again artists and audiences spent 10 days engaged with the craft of short filmmaking.
WTOP: Running water outage at DC’s St. Elizabeths enters second week
St. Elizabeths, D.C.’s public psychiatric hospital, hasn’t had running water for a week.
Curbed: D.C.-based photographer to be focus of new National Building Museum exhibit
Centered on Alan Karchmer’s architectural photography, the exhibit debuts this fall
Bisnow: D.C.’s Delivery Deluge Keeps Office Vacancy High, But Experts Foresee Development…
Demand for D.C. office space continued to grow moderately in Q3, but that trend has been overshadowed by the influx of office buildings delivering with large blocks of available space, keeping the vacancy rate at record levels.
WAMU: Historic Howard Quad Has Rats, Leaking Pipes And Unfinished Rooms, Students Report
Trinity Pisarsky, a freshman student at Howard University, says she chose to live in the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle (aka “The Quad”), which comprises five dormitory halls, because she’d heard it was the best place to build a sisterhood.