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Press Release: Norton Announces Details of House Hearing on D.C. Statehood Bill

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton February 22, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR)…

Press Release: Norton Vows to Defeat Lee’s Latest Attack on D.C. Home Rule

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton February 22, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed today to defeat the latest attempt by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) to…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Launches Free Financial Navigators Program to Help Residents Tackle…

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2021 CONTACT: Paul Drehoff, Public Information Officer (Washington, D.C.)—Today, Mayor Bowser and the District of Columbia…

Press Release: AG Racine Leads Coalition of 19 Attorneys General Supporting Fair Resentencing For…

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2021 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications AGs Argue in Supreme…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Applauds President Biden on Reforms to the Paycheck Protection Program…

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2021 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser applauded President Biden for his Administration’s reforms to…

Press Release: AG Racine Announces Two Actions to Stop Discrimination Against District Residents…

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2021 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications OAG Sues Moving Company for Rejecting Wards 7 and 8 Reservations, Secures Guarantee that Home…

Press Release: Norton, Co-Chair of Quiet Skies Caucus, Writes Secretaries of Defense & Homeland…

Press Release Feb 22, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton February 22, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, sent a letter to Secretary of…

Washingtonian: Inside DC’s Secret Covid Morgue

Editor Feb 22, 2021

Last April, the District built a secret disaster morgue, assembled an army of volunteers to staff it, and trained people who had never previously seen a cadaver to care for the dead. This is the story of the morgue—and the quiet force of…

UrbanTurf: DCRA Releases Revised Short-Term Rental Regulations For DC

Editor Feb 22, 2021

DC recently came out with a revised set of potential rules for short-term rentals in the city that clarify and provide more detail about the framework surrounding these rentals.

Washington Post: Bowser will make case for D.C. statehood at congressional hearing next month

Editor Feb 22, 2021

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) will make the case for D.C. statehood to members of Congress next month at a congressional hearing where lawmakers will debate the constitutional and logistical hurdles to making the District the 51st state.

Washington Business Journal: D.C. nonprofit gets $1.7M in backing for grants to Black-owned…

Editor Feb 22, 2021

D.C. business development nonprofit 1863 Ventures is offering hundreds of $5,000 grants to Black-owned businesses across the country.

Washington Post: The Smithsonian is turning 175. It’s celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope.

Editor Feb 22, 2021

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III likes to tell museum visitors that looking to the past can help them understand the future. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Smithsonian is turning that idea on its head by focusing on the…

Robert McCartney in The Post: Law professor who patrolled as a D.C. street cop says police have…

Editor Feb 22, 2021

The recently intensified debate over how to reform policing offers two choices that seem impossible to reconcile.

Press Release: Mayor Bowser to Deploy District Snow Team Ahead of Monday Morning Snowfall

Press Release Feb 21, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor, DC Department of Public Works, District Department of Transportation, DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and DC Department of General Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: …

ABC7: The innovative way a DC bookstore has stayed afloat without any layoffs using a ‘grab…

Editor Feb 21, 2021

Just a short walking distance from the U.S. Capitol building and the Supreme Court, Capitol Hill Books has been around since 1991.

WTOP: Proposed sportsbook on Capitol Hill on hold

Editor Feb 21, 2021

Some residents in the Capitol Hill neighborhood have been trying to get city regulators to deny a liquor license to a Virginia businessman’s proposed sportsbook in Southeast D.C. However, the battle is on hold.

Washington Post: The eclectic estate of Roberta McCain — John McCain’s mother — went up for auction.…

Editor Feb 21, 2021

Roberta McCain didn’t have one string of pearls, she had a dozen. Not one or two cocktail rings, but scores of them — enough to match every outfit. She was a fashionable woman who lived a fashionable life, complete with jewelry, antiques…

WUSA9: Community honors life of DC woman who died in Wednesday’s winter storm

Editor Feb 21, 2021

Dozens of neighbors gathered Saturday evening to remember Angela Hill.

Associated Press: Washington taps pastors to overcome racial divide on vaccine

Editor Feb 21, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stately and deliberate, with a distinctive white streak in his black hair, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith started his Valentine’s Day sermon at Shiloh Baptist Church by talking about love and vaccinations.

Washington Post: He drove a truck in World War II, but he wasn’t allowed to drive a streetcar in…

Editor Feb 20, 2021

Jane Stokes never went to the amusement park at Glen Echo, even after it finally opened its doors to African Americans such as herself in 1961.

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District Links: New WaPo poll shows Lewis George ahead in mayoral race; Trump eyes ‘promenade’ to connect…

Jun 5, 2026 12

With mail ballots already distributed and early voting centers set to open Monday for DC's June 16 primary, a newly released WaPo poll shows Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George with a…

jonetta rose barras: More financial and budgetary mess in DC

Jun 5, 2026 97

Next week, the DC Council is expected to take the first of two votes on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed $21.2 billion Fiscal Year 2027 Budget and Financial Plan. Don’t expect a smooth landing. …

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

Jun 4, 2026 12

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…

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