At first glance, 3025 Buena Vista Terrace in Ward 8 might not seem like much. It’s a rectangular plot of land, filled in the summer with an overgrowth of grass and vines, and in the winter with cobwebs of branches. Driving up 30th Street!-->…
Thousands of the city’s littlest learners were missing from schools last fall. As they now begin to return to classrooms, all at varying academic levels, how will educators handle the fallout from the pandemic’s K-shaped recession?
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 3, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, in response to the death by suicide of the third D.C. Police!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
During the pandemic, families living in rapid rehousing have not been required to move out once their time in the program ends. Now, with the publicly declared health exemption coming to an end, many program participants are growing…
The DC Council put the emphasis on legislators supporting "a combination of strategies to reduce violent crime," via a last-minute budget infusion. The mayor's chief of staff offered an alternative headline: "Council cuts proposal for new!-->…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 3, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Events DC Adds New Food and Retail Options with Ben’s Chili Bowl and Shop Made in DC
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A request from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s for money to hire new police officers over the next year faces a critical vote in the D.C. Council Tuesday, where a pair of lawmakers have already hatched an alternate plan that would give the!-->…
On July 16, workers in the District’s 911 call center received an email announcing changes were coming. Problems staffing the center meant there would be mandatory overtime, even on scheduled days off, and any additional leave would be!-->…
D.C. officials and tenant advocates Monday urged eligible tenants to apply for the city’s rent relief program, before the District’s eviction moratorium expires later this year.
They had planned an October wedding, a culmination of a nine-year courtship that began in the school where they taught developmentally disabled children.
After Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed bolstering D.C.’s police force by rerouting $11 million to new officers in the city’s budget, two members of the D.C. Council on Monday countered with their own approach: using more than half of that!-->…
Metro’s top executive on Monday warned employees that the transit system might start mandatory coronavirus testing if the agency’s vaccination rate doesn’t climb to at least 70 percent.
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 2, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Council Puts Brakes on Free Rides for the DC Circulator
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