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November 2021

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Press Release: Mayor Bowser and United States Marshals Service Announce Agreement to Address…

Press Release Nov 10, 2021

News Release — Executive Office the Mayor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2021 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Dora Taylor-Lowe (EOM) MOU Signing Signifies Collaborative Understanding on Effort to Improve Conditions…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces $38 Million Child Care Stabilization Grant to Support a Strong…

Press Release Nov 10, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2021 CONTACT:  LaToya Foster (EOM) Fred Lewis (OSSE) …

Press Release: DDOT Offers Option for Dockless Vehicle Operators to Extend Permits

Press Release Nov 10, 2021

News Release — District Department of Transportation FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2021 Media Contacts: German Vigil Mariam Nabizad (Washington, DC) — Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced…

District Links: Council hearing airs stark divisions over encampment pilot; new bill would keep…

Chris Kain Nov 10, 2021

A daylong hearing on DC's homeless encampment pilot project aired stark differences in assessments of the program's primary purpose and effectiveness.

WTOP: Advocates and homeless residents plead for DC lawmakers to stop encampment clearings

Editor Nov 10, 2021

D.C. leaders are grappling with the future of the city’s current plan meant to help homeless residents get off the streets — efforts which dozens of witnesses testified Tuesday have cleared many out of the encampments leaving them nowhere…

WTOP: DC has a new area code: 771

Editor Nov 10, 2021

D.C. had a problem: it was going to run out of new phone numbers later in 2022.

WTOP: DC leaders examine school police pilot program

Editor Nov 10, 2021

A handful of D.C. schools started the year taking part in a pilot program to reimagine police on campus.

DCist: The Era Of D.C.’s New (771) Area Code Has Begun

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Welcome to the… (771)?

Washington Business Journal: National Cherry Blossom Festival organizers reveal plans for 2022

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Event planners aim to hold the National Cherry Blossom Festival in-person next year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the hallmark tourist attraction to pivot to virtual events for the past two years.

UrbanTurf: Old News? 214-Unit Development Proposed for Former Fox 5 Site on Wisconsin Avenue

Editor Nov 10, 2021

After a hiccup earlier this year, plans to redevelop the former WTTG-Fox 5 headquarters site in Friendship Heights are back on track — and a familiar developer is back on the masthead.

Washingtonian: Everything You Think You Know About the (Nonexistent) Georgetown Metro Stop Is Wrong

Editor Nov 10, 2021

The missing station became a symbol of how the city works—or doesn’t work—for its residents.

Axios: D.C. Council questions encampment pilot

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Jamal Thomas, who says he’s experienced homelessness for several years, had to leave the NoMa encampment when it was cleared — and will have to leave yet another encampment in Truxton Circle if a planned permanent clearing happens on Nov.…

DCist: D.C. Officials And Lawmakers Clash Over Efforts To Clear Homeless Encampments

Editor Nov 10, 2021

D.C. lawmakers and activists on Tuesday strongly criticized a new effort by the city to close five large homeless encampments, even as senior city officials strongly insisted that the program is showing success in housing people…

WTOP: Parole board reverses transfer of DC Jail’s new ANC commissioner

Editor Nov 10, 2021

The District’s newest Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner will remain at the D.C. Jail for now, after an effort to transfer him to a federal prison in Pennsylvania was reversed.

WTOP: Pandemic-era changes to DC voting might soon become permanent

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Voting by mail may be here to stay in the District, if new legislation introduced by the city council goes through.

Washington Business Journal: The flexibility built into this one new downtown D.C. lease reflects…

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Skanska will do something this week few other developers are willing to do in this market racked by historically high vacancy rates: break ground on a new office building in the District.

Washington Post: D.C. hires former Philadelphia health commissioner who ordered destruction of…

Editor Nov 10, 2021

Former Philadelphia health commissioner Thomas Farley made national headlines in May when he admitted to ordering the cremation and disposal of human remains that belonged to victims of a 1985 police bombing in West Philadelphia years ago,…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser and District Snow Team Prepare for Winter Weather

Press Release Nov 10, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Public Works FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2021 CONTACT:  LaToya Foster (EOM) Erica Cunningham (DPW) With Winter Weather Dry…

Press Release: Norton Reintroduces Bill to Create Commemorative Coin to Honor Paul Laurence Dunbar…

Press Release Nov 9, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton November 9, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced the Paul Laurence Dunbar Commemorative Coin Act to…

Washingtonian: DC’s New Area Code Starts Today

Editor Nov 9, 2021

People are already hating on 771. We're not so sure.

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District Links: New report cites 5.7% drop in DC jobs over past year; OCF investigating claims against Lewis George…

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A new report on DC's economic and revenue trends shows a 5.7% drop in jobs over the last year and an increase in the office vacancy rate to 18.3%.

District Links: Bowser resubmits PSC nominations fought by environmentalists; group rejects calls to drop White House…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser last week withdrew — and then resubmitted — two controversial nominations for the Public Service Commission that would have otherwise been deemed disapproved at month's end.

District Links: Bowser, Pirro unveil legislation to address rise in domestic violence; Allen bill would enable…

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With domestic violence accounting for a growing share of homicides and assaults with a dangerous weapon in the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro today announced new…

jonetta rose barras: Who among DC’s mayoral candidates can help the city fulfill its potential? (Part 1)

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A diverse crowd of nearly 300 people squeezed into the auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Monday evening; it was a standing-room-only setting at the latest DC mayoral forum,…

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