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DCist: Jack Evans Establishes Committee To Pay For Ongoing Legal Woes

Editor Sep 25, 2019

Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans still hasn’t filed for reelection, but the scandal-plagued legislator made his first 2020-related Office of Campaign Finance filing this week: to establish a legal defense committee.

WAMU: Is Shame The Antidote To NIMBYism In The Washington Region?

Editor Sep 25, 2019

Leaders in the D.C. region want to soften resistance to development. Some tactics may work better than others.

Curbed: Check out the tunnels under Dupont Circle Wednesday evening

Editor Sep 24, 2019

The Dupont Underground arts space is hosting an open house

Washington Post: He had ‘goals and a vision.’ Jamel Kirkland is D.C.’s eighth victim age 11 to 17 to…

Editor Sep 24, 2019

Jamel Kirkland completed a five-month residential youth military program in June with a new a sense of purpose.

UrbanTurf: 25 Million Rides, 550 Stations: Nine Years In, Capital Bikeshare by the Numbers

Editor Sep 24, 2019

In 2008, DC became the first city in the country to establish a bikeshare system, laying the groundwork for what would become Capital Bikeshare. The shared transit landscape has changed considerably since then, with the system expanding…

Washingtonian: Home Goods Brand Parachute Is Opening Its First DC Store on 14th Street

Editor Sep 24, 2019

Parachute will be located in the Liz building.

WAMU: Climate Protesters Want To Shut Down D.C. Streets Again On Friday

Editor Sep 24, 2019

Climate protesters shut down multiple key D.C. intersections Monday — and they want to do it again on Friday morning.

UrbanTurf: A Few Changes For Union Market’s Sister Building

Editor Sep 24, 2019

At the end of July, the Zoning Commission set down the new application for a mixed-use sister building to the Union Market building for a public hearing in accordance with a recommendation from Office of Planning (OP) staff. Now, the…

Press Release: DCBOE Releases List of Inactive Voter Records

Press Release Sep 24, 2019

News Release — DC Board of Elections Contact: Rachel E. Coll September 24, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an ongoing effort to maintain the integrity and accuracy of its voter registry, the District of Columbia Board of Elections…

Press Release: AG Racine Leads 24-State Coalition Opposing Trump Rule That Would Take Food…

Press Release Sep 24, 2019

News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General September 24, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications Attorneys General Argue that Proposed Changes to SNAP Would Violate Federal Law; Harm Low-Income Families, Children,…

Press Release: Norton Announces Resolution Designating Mary Church Terrell Day

Press Release Sep 24, 2019

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton September 24, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that she has introduced a resolution that would designate September…

District Links: First debate of 2020 cycle is this Thursday in Ward 2; Bowser talks adding more…

Cuneyt Dil Sep 24, 2019

Good Tuesday morning. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been talking about adding more housing in Upper Northwest, where many residents in low-rise and single-family-home neighborhoods resist tall buildings.

Tom Sherwood in Washington City Paper: Me and Mark

Editor Sep 24, 2019

D.C.’s unique political commentator Mark Plotkin dies

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Awards Over $2 Million to Support Immigrant Rights

Press Release Sep 24, 2019

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor September 24, 2019 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Bowser announced that her Administration will provide Immigrant Justice Legal Services (IJLS)…

Christopher A. Wood in The Post: The Potomac River is an American success story, thanks to the Clean…

Editor Sep 24, 2019

The announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was scrapping Obama-era rules designed to protect small streams and wetlands made me recall a misty morning this spring on the Potomac River above Georgetown. I brought a striped…

Nick Martin in The New Republic: The Argument Against D.C. Statehood Is Rooted in Racism

Editor Sep 24, 2019

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

Jeff Marootian and Scott Kratz on CitiesSpeak blog: In DC, Building Bridges for Equitable Economic…

Editor Sep 24, 2019

The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C.—a planned repurposing of the retired 11th Street Bridge across the Anacostia River between the East of the River neighborhoods and Capitol Hill into a vibrant city park—will connect…

Waging Nonviolence: Washington DC natives fight displacement and cultural erasure to the beat of…

Editor Sep 23, 2019

A go-go music revival is celebrating Washington D.C.'s historic black culture and helping to fuel a movement for racial and economic justice.

Washington Post: Mark Plotkin, D.C. political commentator and statehood champion, dies at 72

Editor Sep 23, 2019

Mark Plotkin, an impish D.C. radio commentator and statehood activist who helped return Washington’s historic city hall to municipal control in the 1990s, and who later spearheaded a campaign to get the slogan “Taxation Without…

Petula Dvorak in The Post: Snarling D.C.’s traffic to protest climate change: Inconvenient and way…

Editor Sep 23, 2019

Amen, protesters. Washington was in complete gridlock Monday thanks to marchers, shouters, interlopers and even a sailboat plopped in the middle of an intersection for the morning commute.

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