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Press Release: Mayor Bowser Distributes $13 Million from Rental Assistance Programs to Housing…

Press Release Feb 8, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2021 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Richard Livingstone (DHCD) Up to Eight Months of…

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Trans sex worker advocate supports others facing trauma due to gender and sexual identity or job…

Dionna Duncan Feb 8, 2021

At 15, Tamika Spellman got a girl pregnant. Born a boy in Buffalo, New York, she’d had a pretty “typical childhood” growing up with her parents, she said in a recent interview. But it was around the time Spellman’s girlfriend got…

WTOP: ‘Super’ reward for 3 DC police officers who defended US Capitol

Editor Feb 8, 2021

Three D.C. police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6 riot received recognition at Sunday’s Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.

Washington Post: After eviction, the struggle to find a new home despite ‘a modern-day scarlet…

Editor Feb 8, 2021

Michelle Walston was confused. Did she just hear right?

Robert McCartney in The Post: Historian: Black Power Movement once thrived in D.C., but recent…

Editor Feb 8, 2021

The Black Power movement thrived in D.C. and transformed the city’s politics from the late 1960s to the 1990s. But its veterans worry that era is all but forgotten.

Washington Post: Confusion and chaos: Inside the vaccine rollout in D.C., Maryland and Virginia

Editor Feb 8, 2021

The first precious boxloads of the frozen elixir arrived in December, bearing great promise for curtailing the pandemic that has paralyzed the region and the world.

WTOP: What comes next for protest artwork from Black Lives Matter Plaza

Editor Feb 8, 2021

Plain boards that covered buildings to prevent damage if protests went awry were transformed into art pieces inspired by the protests of 2020.

Press Release: Norton Gets Her Pick to Continue Serving on Committee on Oversight & Reform and…

Press Release Feb 8, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton February 8, 2020 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she’s pleased to continue to serve on the Committee on…

Washington Post: D.C. completes a week of in-person classes: Low attendance, frustrated teachers,…

Editor Feb 7, 2021

The first day classrooms opened last week at Johnson Middle School in Southeast Washington, just one student showed up. By Friday, nine did.

Washington Post Editorial Board: The cautious reopening of D.C. schools should be celebrated

Editor Feb 7, 2021

“IT’S NOT a school unless we have kids here.” That was the principal of a D.C. elementary school welcoming students back to school last week for the first time since March. “I’m just super excited. I could scream at the top of my lungs.”…

Washington Post: Protest art covered shuttered businesses for months at Black Lives Matter Plaza.…

Editor Feb 7, 2021

Months spent in the sun and rain has warped the wooden works of art. They’ve been tagged and scrawled on, disassembled and pulled down from the windows that sat boarded up for months.

Letters to the Editor of The Washington Post: Listen to Frederick Law Olmsted on the Capitol Grounds

Editor Feb 7, 2021

Capitol Police want more security around the Capitol. Rather than listening to them, Congress should pay attention to Frederick Law Olmsted.

Lawrence Roberts in The Post: We can’t let one anarchic mob lead to the forever fencing-off of our…

Editor Feb 7, 2021

On a wintry day in 1968, thousands of women arrived in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. Calling themselves the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, in honor of their leader, the first woman elected to Congress, they planned to march from Union…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces that Vaccination Appointments Will Open for Child Care…

Press Release Feb 7, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2021 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Bowser, DC Health, and the Office of the State Superintendent of…

WTOP: Capitol Police union presses ahead with no-confidence vote in leadership

Editor Feb 6, 2021

The union representing U.S. Capitol Police officers plans to hold a no-confidence vote this week in the department’s executive leadership more than a month after the deadly Jan. 6 riot.

DCist: DC Water Wants To Help Pay Your Rent During The Pandemic

Editor Feb 6, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, and the waves of layoffs and furloughs that followed, many D.C. residents have been struggling to make ends meet. In terms of water bills alone, Washingtonians are collectively past-due roughly $20 million,…

Washington Post: Streetcar from Georgetown to Glen Echo was area’s most memorable ride

Editor Feb 6, 2021

The experience on the No. 20 route was unlike that of any other streetcar line in Washington. And that’s because of where it went: into the wild.

DCist: ‘Jan. 6 Forever Changed This Department,’ Capitol Police Chief Says, One Month After Attack

Editor Feb 6, 2021

Saturday marks one month since a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an insurrection encouraged by President Trump. Since then, U.S. Capitol Police leaders have come under fire for their lack of preparation, despite warnings ahead of…

WTOP: Acting US Capitol police chief speaks out about Capitol attacks

Editor Feb 6, 2021

A month after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the new acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police is speaking out publicly about the deadly incident.

Colbert King in The Post: D.C.’s police came to the Capitol’s rescue. Its taxpayers still aren’t…

Editor Feb 6, 2021

To borrow from the insurance company’s TV commercial, “Like a good neighbor, D.C. is there.”

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District Links: House panel presses DC on use of AI to identify vacant homes; feds sue UDC over in-state tuition for…

Sep 11, 2026 11

A new initiative from the DC Department of Buildings to identify vacant and blighted properties across the city is drawing scrutiny from the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform…

District Links: DC officials celebrate $41M expansion of historic Southeast Library; Virginia senators renew push to…

Sep 10, 2026 16

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined other DC leaders this morning to celebrate the reopening of the historic Southeast Library in the Capitol Hill neighborhood after a $41 million rehabilitation and expansion…

District Links: Expanded news site NOTUS rebrands with sunny new name; interim publisher and CEO lands permanent post at…

Sep 9, 2026 17

After a rapid expansion throughout the spring and summer, the news site NOTUS today rebranded as The Washington Sun, a name selected to reflect the publication's stated aim of boosting DC-based…

District Links: Lonnie Bunch announces retirement from embattled Smithsonian; ousted Kennedy Center chair buys recently…

Sep 8, 2026 24

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution since June 2019, today announced his retirement from the post atop the sprawling museum, education and research complex — an…

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