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Washington Business Journal: D.C. hands out $66M in loans to support nine affordable housing…

Editor Mar 26, 2021

D.C. will hand out $66 million in loans to support nine projects that could someday result in the construction or preservation of 1,100 affordable homes.

DCist: Local School Systems To Adopt 3-Ft. Physical Distancing, Per CDC Recommendations

Editor Mar 26, 2021

School officials in D.C., Maryland and Virginia say they plan to adopt revised school reopening guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance reduces the recommended physical distance between students in…

Washingtonian: DC Mayor’s Office Donates $10,000 to Chef-Driven Campaign to Stop Asian-American Hate

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate, which launched in early March, is snowballing into a big national effort.

Associated Press: Pelosi taps DC National Guard head to lead House security

Editor Mar 26, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, was tapped Friday to become the House’s first African American sergeant-at-arms as Congress sorts through the grave security…

City Paper: Systems Update Interrupts Unemployment Benefits—Again

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Some people who have been receiving unemployment benefits in D.C. were not able to file on Sunday. As a result, they did not receive weekly compensation that many depend on to afford housing and food. Department of Employment Services…

DCist: D.C. National Guard General William J. Walker Appointed House Sergeant-At-Arms

Editor Mar 26, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she is appointing Major General William J. Walker, the current head of the D.C. National Guard, to serve as the 38th House sergeant-at-arms. Walker will be the first Black man to hold the…

Washingtonian: RIP Larry McMurtry, Whose Georgetown Bookstore Was a DC Literary Center

Editor Mar 26, 2021

The Lonesome Dove author saw himself as "essentially a bookseller."

Washington Business Journal: Georgetown’s public policy school lands $100M donation

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Georgetown University has scored a $100 million donation from sports businessman Frank McCourt. It’s the second $100 million gift from the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose record pledge in 2013 helped create the McCourt…

Washington Post: Here’s why D.C. was excluded from a FEMA vaccine program: It’s for big states

Editor Mar 26, 2021

The District of Columbia will not receive extra vaccine doses or assistance setting up a mass vaccination site from the federal government, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday, because the agency is targeting…

UrbanTurf: DC Councilmember Requests Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola Funds

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Eight years ago, the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) proposed creating an aerial gondola system that would ferry passengers between Georgetown and Virginia.

Washington Business Journal: Townhomes are now on tap for the huge Parks at Walter Reed project

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Townhomes are the next piece of new construction on tap for the massive redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus in Northwest D.C.

Colbert King in The Post: Mitch McConnell needs to remember why Republicans are in such poor…

Editor Mar 26, 2021

“They plan to make the District of Columbia a state — that would give them two new Democratic senators,” said then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), explaining his opposition to D.C. statehood in a Fox News interview two…

Washington Post Editorial Board: Republicans fixate on nonsense arguments against D.C. statehood…

Editor Mar 26, 2021

REPUBLICANS IN Congress did not use to make the case that residents of the District of Columbia deserved no representation in Congress; the issue was only how to do it. “Let’s be real, how can you argue with a straight face that D.C.…

Washington Post: FAA study finds noise from airplanes, helicopters far more annoying than other…

Editor Mar 26, 2021

The first Federal Aviation Administration noise survey in nearly 30 years found more people are bothered by aircraft noise than before, even as planes have gotten quieter.

Press Release: Norton Writes Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, Asks for Funding for Union Station…

Press Release Mar 26, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton March 26, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg asking…

Press Release: Bowser Administration Sponsors $10,000 to Support Chefs Stopping Asian American and…

Press Release Mar 26, 2021

News Release — DC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2021 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, the Bowser Administration sponsored $10,000 to support Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate, an…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces $66 Million Investment from the Housing Production Trust Fund…

Press Release Mar 26, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2021 CONTACT: Susana Castillo (EOM) Richard Livingstone (DHCD) 660 New Homes…

Patch: D.C. Preschool Among First Stops For New U.S. Labor Secretary

Editor Mar 26, 2021

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh visited the Bright Start Early Care & Preschool Thursday to discuss federal aid for small businesses.

Washington Post: Ballistics work at D.C.’s crime lab criticized by forensic experts

Editor Mar 26, 2021

The District’s crime lab erroneously concluded bullet casings found at the scenes of two fatal shootings were fired from the same gun, then sought to minimize the mistake, according to a panel of independent forensic experts commissioned…

City Paper: The State of Capital Pride in 2021

Editor Mar 26, 2021

Cut ties with MPD, virtual events, and simmering tension

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

Jun 4, 2026 6

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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