City Paper: Postmates Still Hasn’t Complied With D.C.’s 15 Percent Commission Fee Cap
"I wish everyone would turn Postmates off. Then they'd have to do the right thing."
Yearly Archives
2020
WTOP: Library of Congress cancels events until September; National Book Festival to go virtual
The Library of Congress announced on Wednesday that it’s canceling all of its public events until Sept. 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCist: As Employees Continue Working Remotely, Downtown D.C. Offices Could Stay Largely Quiet
Maya Sapiurka returned to her downtown D.C. office for the first time in three months in mid-May. A scientific policy and training associate at a local nonprofit, she had to pick up some items she’d left when the company moved operations…
City Paper: D.C.’s Not a State. What Can You Do About That?
Here is what three people involved in the fight for statehood say D.C. residents can do.
Washington Post: The White House put up a wall. The people ‘made it beautiful.’
On their fifth day of demonstrations, the thousands gathered to protest George Floyd’s killing literally hit a wall. A tall metal fence had gone up almost overnight to keep them out of Lafayette Square, and away from President Trump.
DDOT Begins Construction on 14th Street NW Bus Lane Improvement Project
News Release — District Department of Transportation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2020
Media Contacts:
Lauren Stephens
Mariam Nabizad
(WASHINGTON, DC) — Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Activates Heat Emergency
Press Release — Executive Office of the Mayor; DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency; and DC Department of Human Services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 10, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Rebekah…
Washingtonian: How Sidwell Friends Is Grappling With Its Campus’s Slave History
Bettye Howe Saunders is a descendant of enslaved people who lived and worked on land that's now part of Sidwell Friends.
UrbanTurf: HPRB Approves Four-Story Design for Mount Pleasant Laundromat Redevelopment
Last week, DC's Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) unanimously voted in support of an alternate design concept to retrofit a Mount Pleasant laundromat into a residential project.
WTOP: St. John’s Church declares support for Black Lives Matter movement
St. John’s Church is speaking out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after being used as a backdrop for President Donald Trump’s photo op with a Bible in Lafayette Square.
Washington Business Journal: Judge mostly dismisses GWU’s lawsuit against its hospital partner
A D.C. Superior Court judge has partially dismissed a lawsuit George Washington University filed against Universal Health Services Inc., its corporate partner at GWU Hospital in Foggy Bottom, alleging UHS inappropriately diverted $100…
City Paper: D.C. Council Passes Police Reform Legislation, Reckons With Calls to Defund the Police
In occasionally tense exchanges, councilmembers demanded answers from MPD Chief Peter Newsham.
Washington Post: Ridership surges from protests and region’s reopening prompt Metro to tweak…
Spurred in part by the surge in ridership from last weekend’s protests, Metro has tweaked its pandemic recovery plan to add capacity on trains and buses as the Washington region continues its reopening.
Susan Rice in New York Times: Washington, D.C., Deserves Statehood
One of my earliest memories is of walking along a burned-out 14th Street in my hometown Washington, D.C., in 1968, holding one parent’s hand as the other pushed my brother in a stroller; I was 4 years old. They took us to witness the…
Washington Post: Two years after her son was shot by D.C. police, a mother hopes reforms bring…
Hundreds of protesters who minutes earlier had been dancing in the street fell silent when Kenithia Alston described the fatal shooting of her son by D.C. police.
Daily Beast: D.C. Mayor: We Had to ‘Defend Our Borders’ From Trump’s Troops
In Ep. 15 of The New Abnormal, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tells Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson what it was like to be under siege from the president—and how she tried to resist.
Press Release: Norton Calls on House to Repeal President’s Authority to Federalize D.C. Police…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 10, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
House expected to pass police reform bill soon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on the…
Washington Times: Muriel Bowser, D.C. Police Union voice concern as council OKs emergency reforms
Union warns of rise in crime, loss of cops
Associated Press: Officials back off removing temporary fencing at White House
The Trump administration appears to be retreating from its commitment to quickly remove most of a new fence blocking demonstrators and other members of the public from in front of the White House.
WTOP: Hospitality and tourism leaders discuss way forward with DC-area reopening
With the D.C. area gradually reopening in the upcoming weeks, hospitality and tourism leaders joined a webinar panel to talk about the current roadblocks for the industry’s recovery and how to keep businesses afloat during the process.