Washingtonian: Anxo Cidery Will Close Its Truxton Circle Restaurant and Bar
Meanwhile, the Brightwood Park production facility and tasting room will expand its kitchen and seating.
Yearly Archives
2021
Washington Post: Washington region very close to meeting Biden’s July 4 vaccination goal
The greater Washington region will almost definitely meet President Biden’s goal of 70 percent of adults being at least partially vaccinated against the coronavirus by July 4 — with Maryland already there, and D.C. and Virginia close…
WTOP: DC artist looks to inspire ‘resilience and joy’ with lawn art at National Building Museum
Just in time for Pride Month, a local artist has just completed her biggest work yet, and you can see it and hang out on it on the lawn of the National Building Museum.
DCist: NPS Plans To Expand Deer Hunts To More Parks, Citing Overpopulation
Fifty years ago, it would have been no easy task to find a white-tailed deer in the District of Columbia. The hoofed ruminants, native to North America, were hunted to near-oblivion by European colonists. But in recent years, an…
DCist: After A Year Of Isolation, Kids In D.C. Have A Shot At A Fun Summer
This summer, 8-year-old Madison Palmer has big plans.
Washington Post: D.C. statehood could cost more than $1 billion. City officials aren’t fazed.
Halfway through an April markup on the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, Rep. Frederick B. Keller (R-Pa.) appeared on the Zoom screen with a practical question: How would D.C. pay for statehood?
WTOP: Shuttered Eighteenth Street Lounge reopening in Blagden Alley
Live music and DJ venue Eighteenth Street Lounge, which closed a year ago after more than 25 years in business, has signed a lease for a new space in Shaw’s Blagden Alley.
Washington Post: With evictions set to begin next month, hundreds of millions in Washington-area…
Analysis by The Post finds that officials at federal, state and local agencies have struggled to get funds to renters, mirroring problems nationwide.
Press Release: Norton Announces Application Process for Defense Community Project Funding Requests
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 4, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the process for entities in the District of Columbia to…
Press Release: Norton Receives Response to Request to Limit NPS Helicopter Flights Over D.C.
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 4, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, today said the response from the…
Press Release: Norton, Spartz Co-Lead the Consider Teachers Act
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 4, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (R-IN) today announced that they will be…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Area Dentist Pleads Guilty to Failing to Pay DC Taxes
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 4, 2021
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Dentist Will Pay $286,000 in Back Taxes, Penalties & Interest to Make the District Whole
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Washington Business Journal: The D.C. region needs to repair a lack of trust to work together on…
The entire D.C. region is poised to work together on economic development efforts to reverse its widening gap between the rich and the poor, according to a group of government, business and academic leaders — but the hard part will be…
DCist: Eighteenth Street Lounge Is Reopening In Shaw’s Blagden Alley
The owner of Eighteenth Street Lounge is planning to reopen his iconic nightclub in Blagden Alley, according to an announcement from Monument Retail, the company representing the lounge. The club closed in 2020 after a 25-year run due, in…
Washington Post: Social justice protests have resulted in more police transparency and…
In April, after being chased by police from Alexandria, Va., who thought someone in his car had shot at a building in Old Town, Anthony Louis crashed on a highway overpass in the District and then fled on foot over a Jersey barrier,…
WTOP: Emmy Squared delivers more Detroit-style pizza to DC area
Emmy Squared will bring its Detroit-style pizzas to two more locations in the D.C. area.
Donna Lewis Johnson in The Post: What schools holding on to racist names can learn from D.C.’s…
As two Virginia community colleges — Patrick Henry and Dabney S. Lancaster — plan to keep their names that honor a former enslaver and a segregationist, I now know more than ever that D.C.’s H.D. Woodson High School, my alma mater, was…
jonetta rose barras: Time for a bolder affordable housing approach
This week, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan, holding a series of public hearings slated to continue throughout June. One of the areas expected to receive much…
District Links: Bowser names Philadelphia official as new superintendent of education; lawmakers…
Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated a Philadelphia schools leader to be the District's next state superintendent of education.
Washington Blade: Casa Ruby files complaint against D.C. gov’t agency
Casa Ruby, the D.C. LGBTQ community services center, filed an administrative complaint on March 29 against the D.C. Department of Human Services, charging the agency with ignoring and failing to stop one of its high-level officials from…