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City Paper: Calls to D.C. Child and Family Services Agency Have Dropped, but That Doesn’t Mean Child…

Editor Apr 8, 2021

The District had seen warning signs prior to 2-year-old Gabriel Eason’s death. But after suffering months of abuse at home, in April 2020 Gabriel died from what medical examiners determined was significant head and abdominal trauma while…

Washington Post: D.C. is granted permission to skip national standardized exam

Editor Apr 8, 2021

The Education Department has made an exception to its requirement that states administer annual exams this year and given the District’s public and charter schools permission to skip federally mandated standardized tests. It cited…

Maryland Matters: Quest for D.C. Statehood Finds New Friends and Foes: Other States

Editor Apr 8, 2021

Congress had yet to even schedule a hearing on a measure granting statehood to the District of Columbia when a panel of state lawmakers in Arizona voted in February to take a stand against D.C’s plea to become the 51st state.

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is DC Mayor Bowser executing a political feint?

jonetta rose barras Apr 8, 2021

Responding last week to a question asked during WAMU’s Politics Hour about her political intentions, Mayor Muriel Bowser declined to indicate definitively whether she will run for a third term: "I usually get into a campaign when I know I…

District Links: DC schools forgoing standardized exams this year after waiver; pharmacies directed…

Chris Kain and Cuneyt Dil Apr 8, 2021

DC schools will not administer the standardized PARCC exam for a second year in a row due to the pandemic.

City Paper: Independent Pharmacies Told To Vaccinate Residents Through D.C. Government Portal,…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

The pharmacies get their supply of COVID-19 vaccines through the federal government, not the District.

Washington Post: D.C. leaders question Transit Police tactics after woman is restrained on Metro…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

D.C. leaders on Wednesday criticized the Metro Transit Police after a video on social media showed four officers holding a woman with a bloody lip facedown on a Metro platform.

Laura Richards in District Dig: D.C.’s revised comprehensive zoning plan threatens Black…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

I am a long-time resident of Southeast who is deeply concerned that the amended Comprehensive Plan pending before the D.C. Council will increase racial inequity under the guise of ending it.

Washingtonian: Georgetown Is Installing Deck Panels to Widen Its Sidewalks

Editor Apr 7, 2021

The bigger sidewalks will allow more space for social distancing and outdoor dining.

DCist: D.C. Schools Will Not Administer Standardized Exams This Year

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Schools in D.C. will not administer standardized tests this academic year, marking the second consecutive year students will not have to sit through the high-stakes exams.

Theresa Vargas in The Post: A group is trying to ‘even the field’ in soccer, and life, for…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Molina recalls the day the police showed up at his soccer practice.

WTOP: Metro GM Wiedefeld on budget, control center, ridership and more

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Metro’s general manager on Wednesday spoke about the effect of federal relief money on Metro’s budget, the changes at the troubled control center, what a post-pandemic system will look like and more.

Washington Business Journal: This D.C. university is starting a bachelor’s degree program in a…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Georgetown University will launch a bachelor’s degree program for people incarcerated in Maryland’s state prisons, the school said Wednesday.

Street Sense: Federal government attempt to dispossess CCNV from their property: The shelter’s…

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Starting off as an anti-war and peace movement in the 1970s, the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) transformed the rights of the homeless community across the country. Through grass-roots activism, hunger strikes, and working to…

Street Sense: Residents urge D.C. Health to expand resources for people experiencing homelessness

Editor Apr 7, 2021

District residents, government officials, and health professionals gathered virtually last month for the D.C. Department of Health’s oversight budget hearings for fiscal year 2020 and the first half of fiscal year 2021, where several…

Street Sense: DHS expands PEP-V hotels but caps waitlist for medically vulnerable people

Editor Apr 7, 2021

On April 2, the D.C. Department of Human Services announced that the District will be expanding the Pandemic Emergency Program for Medically Vulnerable Individuals (PEP-V), opening a fourth PEP-V site that will accommodate up to an…

Washington Blade: Casa Ruby appeals for support for new building following landlord dispute

Editor Apr 7, 2021

Ruby Corado, executive director of Casa Ruby, the D.C. LGBTQ community services center, posted a GoFundMe appeal on March 31 asking for financial support to relocate to a new headquarters building following a dispute with its landlord.

Washington Post: Georgetown University to introduce degree program for Maryland inmates

Editor Apr 7, 2021

An initial cohort of 25 incarcerated students are expected to start classes this fall.

Press Release: Norton to Hold Surface Transportation Roundtable Tomorrow, April 8th at 6:00 p.m.

Press Release Apr 7, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton April 7, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee of Highways & Transit of the House…

Press Release: Statement from Councilmember Charles Allen on PARCC testing waiver for DC schools

Press Release Apr 7, 2021

News Release — Ward 6 DC Council member Charles Allen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2021 Contact: Erik Salmi The following statement is from DC Councilmember Charles Allen (Ward 6) on the news that the Office of the State…

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District Links: Officials urge water conservation with new ‘Drought Watch’ designation; Nadeau floats wealth…

Jun 4, 2026 4

DC Water as well as regional officials are urging customers to conserve water in the wake of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' declaration of a Drought Watch.

District Links: Zoning board resumes operations after DC Council confirms two nominees; council votes to halt…

Jun 3, 2026 8

With yesterday's unanimous DC Council confirmation of two mayoral appointees to the DC Board of Zoning Adjustment, the panel is meeting today for the first time since March, when the absence of a…

District Links: Council gives initial OK to extending open meetings changes; National Guard didn’t drive down…

Jun 2, 2026 26

The DC Council voted this afternoon to advance permanent legislation that incorporates the temporary changes to the District's open meetings law in effect over the past year that have allowed private…

District Links: Ward 5’s Parker backs Lewis George in mayor’s race; emergency curfew bill still lacks the…

Jun 1, 2026 8

Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker this morning endorsed Janeese Lewis George in her mayoral bid, becoming the fourth sitting councilmember to back their Ward 4 colleague.

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