WTOP: Howard University president announces 2024 retirement
Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick will retire by June 2024, according to a school announcement Wednesday.
Yearly Archives
2022
City Paper: Ward 3’s Crowded Council Contest Looks to be Narrowing to a Three-Way Race
The nine-person contest to replace Councilmember Mary Cheh is starting to take shape after a chaotic start.
DCist: Metro’s 7000-Series Wheel Monitoring Plan Needs Careful Scrutiny, Safety Commission Says
Metro seeks to bring back its beleaguered 7000-series trains this summer with the help of a new regular monitoring system — a suite of sensors in the tracks that can measure the distance between the wheels on each train car.
Washington Post: Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick to retire by June 2024
Howard University’s president will retire from his post by June 2024, the school’s board of trustees announced Wednesday.
DCist: In D.C., Preventing Rabies After An Animal Encounter Can Cost More Than $15,000
When a rabid fox bit nine people by the Capitol Hill grounds last week, D.C. Health called on anyone who had interacted with the creature to get in contact to determine whether they should undergo rabies treatment.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces Upcoming Open Streets Event in Ward 8
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 13, 2022
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Open Streets Event in Ward 8 on Saturday, May 21 Will Kick Off a Series of Citywide…
District Links: Domestic violence programs seek city help amid rising need; Greenleaf residents push…
The DC Council finished up its flurry of budget oversight hearings last week, meaning legislators will soon decide whether to alter the mayor's proposals in order to address issues raised by advocates and other witnesses.
Kimberly Perry: We should invest in communities, not double down on tough-on-crime policies
District leaders say they understand how difficult the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic have been for District residents, especially the Black and brown families who have borne the brunt. They say our recovery plans should touch…
DCHA agrees to avoid resident displacement during Greenleaf’s redevelopment
The board in charge of the District’s public housing has renewed a promise to prevent the displacement of residents during the planned redevelopment of their neighborhood in Southwest DC.
Despite the public commitment, residents of…
Washington Business Journal: Union Kitchen is cooking up a new location in Southeast D.C.
Union Kitchen plans to open a new grocery on Barracks Row as it continues to expand its footprint in Greater Washington.
Washington Business Journal: American University gets final OK to move forward on major campus…
American University can now officially move forward with its 2021 campus plan, with the formal blessing from the D.C. Zoning Commission.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Metro is sliding toward a budgetary cliff
Washington’s transit system has been kept alive during the pandemic, barely, thanks to federal relief funds. That life support — about $1 billion in the current fiscal year, split about equally between operating and capital funds — will…
DCist: 9:30 Club, Other I.M.P. Music Venues Drop Vaccine Requirements
A handful of D.C. music venues, including all the venues under the I.M.P. umbrella — 9:30 Club, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Lincoln Theatre, and The Anthem — have dropped their vaccine requirements to attend shows.
DCist: D.C.’s Domestic Violence Services Organizations Say They Face Budget Shortfalls Amid…
Koube Ngaaje, the president and CEO of the District Alliance for Safe Housing, says she feels like her organization has been facing three pandemics: “COVID, domestic violence, and the racial reckoning that we are all living in, with a…
UrbanTurf: A Proposal to Add 81 Townhouses to a Michigan Park School Site
Another Northeast DC institutional site is poised for a large new townhouse development.
City Paper: Anita Bonds Says She’s Never Heard of D.C.’s Massive Housing Voucher Waitlist
The longtime housing committee chair scandalized advocates with comments during a recent hearing.
District Links: American, George Washington reinstate campus mask mandates; Lerner family considers…
Mask requirements are in effect once again at American and George Washington universities as of this morning.
Washington Informer: Howard Nurses Call for Safety, Adequate Pay in Their Strike
Throughout much of Monday, a multitude of nurses conducted a strike and picketed outside of Howard University Hospital (HUH) in the latest round of ongoing efforts to secure a contract that addresses concerns about adequate pay,…
Washington Informer: Public Employees Union Backs Robert White for D.C. Mayor
District Council 20 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees recently announced its endorsement of Robert White to be the next mayor of D.C.
Axios: New Smithsonian exhibit examines the erasure of Barry Farm-Hillsdale
In 2019, the last remnants of the Barry Farm-Hillsdale settlement, a post-Civil War Black community established by the Freedmen’s Bureau southeast of the Anacostia River, was demolished to make way for new development.