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Washington Post: D.C. will resume indoor dining Friday as coronavirus cases hover at elevated levels

Editor Jan 21, 2021

The District will allow indoor restaurants to reopen Friday, even as the rate of new daily coronavirus infections in the city has stayed well above the target for such Phase 2 activities for more than two months.

Washington Post: The fortress around downtown D.C. is dismantling. But heightened security may…

Editor Jan 21, 2021

Officials have begun to dismantle the fortress of fences and barricades that took over downtown Washington for Inauguration Day, but remnants of a heightened security presence will remain in the nation’s capital far beyond the tense…

Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill to Create National Commission on U.S. Capitol Attack

Press Release Jan 21, 2021

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton January 21, 2021 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the National Commission on the Insurrectionist Attack…

Press Release: AG Racine Leads Coalition of 18 Attorneys General Defending Key Provision of the…

Press Release Jan 21, 2021

News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2020 MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications AGs Argue That Provision Removes Racial Barriers to Voting Without Infringing State Sovereignty…

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Documentary ‘Painted City’ intimately captures DC’s mural culture

Jennifer Anne Mitchell Jan 21, 2021

Painted City is a charming 26-minute documentary about Perry Frank’s passion for cataloging and preserving murals throughout the District. At a time when gentrification is leading to the destruction of many of these paintings in DC, Frank…

Patch: 2 District Residents Killed In Petworth Rowhouse Fire

Editor Jan 21, 2021

D.C. Fire and EMS responded early Thursday morning to a fire at a Petworth home that left two residents dead and one firefighter injured.

Poynter: How journalists in D.C. made a national story local

Editor Jan 21, 2021

‘It’s one thing to observe these massive, earth-shattering events from a distance, and another thing to live in the middle of it.’

UrbanTurf: DC’s Office of Planning Wants to Mandate Inclusionary Zoning in Almost All Exempt Zones

Editor Jan 21, 2021

The DC Office of Planning (OP) is moving forward with another effort to expand the small-scale affordable housing production tool that is Inclusionary Zoning (IZ).

WTOP: Bridges, some roads reopen as DC cleans up after inauguration

Editor Jan 21, 2021

D.C.’s bridges and some roads are reopening Thursday after the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Washington Business Journal: Security barriers come down, closures ease as D.C. prepares for changes…

Editor Jan 21, 2021

Barriers began coming down in downtown D.C. and roads and bridges began reopening by Thursday morning as the city started to move toward normal after a tight lockdown for Inauguration Day.

Washington Post: All overweight D.C. residents will get priority for the coronavirus vaccine.…

Editor Jan 21, 2021

The District plans to give priority for coronavirus vaccines to the broadest possible swath of people with preexisting health conditions — a decision that will make hundreds of thousands eligible for scarce doses of the vaccine and that…

WTOP: DC indoor dining to resume at 25% capacity

Editor Jan 21, 2021

Restaurants in D.C. can resume indoor dining at 25% capacity after 5 a.m. Friday, when the city ends its ban on indoor dining, according to John J. Falcicchio, who serves as both chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser and deputy mayor for…

District Links: Inauguration runs smoothly as fences begin coming down in DC — fireworks cap night;…

Editor Jan 20, 2021

Happy Wednesday. DC's closures will begin to ease in the coming days as fences come down and roads reopen after the smooth inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Press Release: Statement from Mayor Bowser on President Biden’s Day One Executive Orders

Press Release Jan 20, 2021

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 20, 2021 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser released the following statement on the first Executive Orders…

DCist: Inauguration Fencing And Concrete Barriers To Start Coming Down Wednesday Night

Editor Jan 20, 2021

On Wednesday evening, crews will begin methodically removing the unprecedented security measures that have overtaken the District in the lead-up to President Joe Biden’t inauguration.

DCist: Indoor Dining In D.C. Set To Reopen At 25% Capacity On Friday

Editor Jan 20, 2021

D.C.’s indoor dining ban will end on January 22. Restaurants will be able to return to serving 25% of their regular capacity inside, according to a tweet from John Falcicchio, the chief of staff to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

WTOP: DC makes more COVID-19 vaccination appointments available for certain groups

Editor Jan 20, 2021

The D.C. Department of Health announced that more than 2,000 additional appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations will be made available for residents who are at higher risk of coronavirus infection starting Thursday morning.

DCist: Braced For The Worst, D.C. Sees A Quiet Inauguration Day

Editor Jan 20, 2021

No one scene sums up this year’s Inauguration Day more than the image of nearly 200,000 flags that filled the green expanse of the National Mall on Wednesday. The orderly rows of flags served as stand-ins for the throngs of people who, in…

Petula Dvorak in The Post: For D.C.’s street vendors, this Inauguration Day was barren of customers…

Editor Jan 20, 2021

President Donald Trump was good for business — Mark Gothard had to admit that.

CityLab: Trump Made the Ultimate Case for D.C. Statehood

Editor Jan 20, 2021

The most striking thing about the scenes of Washington, D.C., that filled TV screens as Americans watched the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Joe Biden: the near-total absence of Washingtonians.

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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 15

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 16

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 23

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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