Washingtonian: Run-Ins With Pro-Trump Mobs After Saturday’s Rally
“I Started Getting Punched in the Face and Kicked”
Yearly Archives
2020
Washingtonian: Splurge-Worthy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Takeout Around DC
Restaurants are celebrating with feasts for carryout and delivery.
DCist: Biden’s Inaugural Committee Discourages People From Traveling To D.C. For Ceremony
President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee is urging the public not to travel to D.C. for the Jan. 20 ceremony amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and instead participate from home.
Associated Press: Church vandalism exposes divisions over faith and politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vandalism at four downtown Washington churches after rallies in support of President Donald Trump is exposing rifts among people of faith as the nation confronts bitter post-election political divisions.
UrbanTurf: 60 Apartments, Maybe a Moxy Hotel, and a Market: The New Plans a Block from Nats Park
The development pipeline off South Capitol Street is growing by 11 stories.
City Paper: D.C. Sends $6 Million To L.A. Instead of a Historic Theater
Whose fault is it? Depends who you ask.
Washington Business Journal: Hogan Lovells to shed space in downtown D.C.
Hogan Lovells LLP hopes to shed a large block of space it had been holding onto in downtown D.C., an effort that comes as the amount of empty office space across Greater Washington continues to swell due to factors that include the ongoing…
DCist: Here’s Why You Keep Hearing About Harry’s Bar
As supporters of President Donald Trump took to the streets of D.C. this weekend to demonstrate against unfounded claims of a “stolen election,” clashing with counterprotesters, one local establishment was again at the center of many…
Washington Post: Proud Boys sparked clashes during pro-Trump rally, D.C. officials say
District officials on Monday denounced the violence that erupted in downtown Washington over the weekend, blaming many of the clashes on protesters who refuse to accept the presidential election results.
Washington Post: D.C. region rolls out coronavirus vaccine amid push to reach priority groups
The first doses of a coronavirus vaccine were administered Monday in the Washington region, marking the start of a logistically massive undertaking that officials hope will halt a virus that has infected more than 540,000 residents and…
Washington Post: Tuesday is D.C. Council’s last chance to adjust controversial early-release,…
In its final meeting of its two-year legislative term, the D.C. Council may alter a rule on rehiring laid-off workers that has drawn criticism from the restaurant industry, but seems unlikely to step back from a bill that would grant early…
Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill Allowing Sales Tax at Federal Gift Shops
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
December 15, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced a bill to allow state and local governments to…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Celebrates 10 Years of Bank on DC Program
News Release: DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2020
CONTACT: Paul Drehoff, Public Information Officer
Program Has Helped 10,000 District Resident Get Accessible and Affordable
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Petula Dvorak in The Post: Trump has helped keep the flames of hatred alive. It’s up to us to make…
This weekend, we saw that fire of hatred turning against churches in D.C., including one of the oldest African American churches in the nation.
District Links: Vaccine reaches DC; firefighters to get shots amid efforts to build public…
Happy Monday. DC received its first doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Monday, as cases in the region broke yet another weekly record.
Press Release: Statement by AG Racine on U.S. Attorney General Barr’s Resignation
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 14, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
AG Racine Calls on Leaders to Call Out…
Colbert King in The Post: The Proud Boys really thought they could terrorize our city. As if.
The Proud Boys are as stupid as they look, decked out in their ridiculous yellow-and-black garb and wannabe military gear, if they thought marauding D.C. streets would leave this community hiding behind locked doors. They only managed to…
WTOP: Virginia to send DC 8,000 extra COVID-19 vaccine doses for front-line workers
Virginia is sending 8,000 additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to District hospitals as early as next week, D.C. Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt said at a news conference Monday — more than the 6,825 vaccine doses the federal government…
WUSA9: ‘You’re going to see us come for police unions’ | BLMDC to focus on holding…
Activists with BLMDC reflect on 2020, including growing support for the organization, their accomplishments and their goals for 2021.
WUSA9: Howard University Hospital CEO to take COVID-19 vaccine to send message to Black community
Howard University Hospital will administer its 725 doses beginning Tuesday.