District Links: DC ending 2020 with most murders since 2004; council members talk of targeting aid…
Happy New Year's Eve. DC will end 2020 with at least 198 homicides — the highest tally since 2004, when the city recorded 248 murders.
Yearly Archives
2020
Petula Dvorak in The Post: If 2020 had an address, it would be right here in D.C.
The crowds are gone for now, but the cold wind is whipping the flags that remain on Black Lives Matter Plaza — rainbow ones, anti-Trump ones, American ones — marking an ongoing momentum on the last day of a calamitous year.
Washington Post: Charlie Lund, former UDC English professor with a passion for learning, dies of…
Charlie Lund, 82, spent four decades as an English professor in D.C. — a job that he adored. But at his core, those who knew him said, he had always been a student first.
jonetta rose barras: DC Council chaos and control
DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson may have outdone himself this time around with his proposed organization for the legislature as it enters its 24th session. Every two years, with the arrival of newly elected members and what is supposed…
Alan Roth: After Evans, it’s time to strengthen the DC Council’s Code of Conduct
With the end of DC Council Period 23, it’s time to consider the first votes legislators will take as Council Period 24 begins. On Day One, those votes will include adoption of the council’s own Code of Conduct, which needs real…
DCist: D.C. Expects To Begin Distributing Additional Unemployment Benefits Next Month
The D.C. Department of Employment Services said Thursday that it expects to begin distributing additional unemployment benefits in January as part of new federal coronavirus relief legislation.
The DC Lineup for this weekend: Fresh Start 5K, a bell festival and, finally, 2021
It’s far from a usual New Year’s weekend given the ongoing pandemic and associated public health restrictions, but we’ve still managed to put together a top 10 list with a variety of ways to enjoy the first few days of 2021.
Rain is…
City Paper: The Year 2020 in Arts
What happened in the arts scene in a year where museums, venues, theaters, and stages of all kinds were closed?
Washington Business Journal: D.C. releases RFP for Reeves Center redevelopment. A new NAACP HQ is…
The District is soliciting bids to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center at the corner of 14th and U streets NW, where a new national headquarters of the NAACP is envisioned.
DCist: In Year Already Heavy With Death, Homicides In D.C. Hit 15-Year High
Larry Calhoun distinctly remembers August 9. What should otherwise have been just another weekend night was interrupted by word of a mass shooting at a block party in Southeast D.C.
Washington Post: New laws take effect Jan. 1: Equal IVF access for unmarried women and bans on…
The new year brings new laws into effect across the region: Starting Jan. 1, residents can no longer legally hold their cellphones to their ears while they drive in Virginia, sell foam peanuts in the District, or run in Maryland’s general…
DCist: No Late-Night Metro Service, Ride Hail Promotions This New Year’s
This New Year’s, transportation agencies and companies want you to stay home. Metro won’t be running late-night hours for the holiday as it often has in the past, and Uber and Lyft are nixing their typical New Year’s promotions.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Nominates Mónica Palacio as Director of the DC Office of Human Rights
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 31, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she has nominated Mónica Palacio to serve…
Press Release: Norton, Bass Lead Letter to President-Elect Biden on Combating Aircraft Noise
December 31, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, and Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA) led a letter this week urging President-elect…
WTOP: DC moves another step toward Reeves Center transformation
D.C. has begun accepting proposals to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center, on the northwest corner of 14th Street and U Street Northwest.
WTOP: DC revenues could return to normal by 2022
D.C. revenues could return to fiscal year 2019 levels by fiscal year 2022, as vaccines are deployed and the economy recovers.
Washington Blade: Top 10 local news stories of 2020
Of course, COVID-19 looms large across this year’s annual Year in Review issue. From the shocking death toll, to the devastating impact on local businesses, to the cancellation of Pride, coronavirus upended all of our lives. Here are the…
Street Sense: Coronavirus exposes “people that we missed” amid homelessness crisis
At a press conference commemorating Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day on Dec. 21, leaders of the People for Fairness Coalition (PFFC) laid out their demands for D.C.: a $1.5 billion increase in spending on adding and maintaining affordable…
District Dig: Below The Radar — Questionable Bowser board nominee goes unvetted
Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated her most recent political appointee to the Green Finance Authority Board (“Green Board”) based on the candidate’s bona fides in affordable housing and community development.
Press Release: Councilmember McDuffie’s Statement on the December 2020 Updated Fiscal Forecast
News Release — Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie
For Immediate Release: December 30, 2020
Contact: Jonathan McNair
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie, Chair Pro Tempore of the Council and Chair of…