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District Links: House won’t vote on DC spending fix before two-week recess; DC Emancipation…

Chris Kain Apr 9, 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser today outlined plans for the District's 20th annual celebration of DC Emancipation Day since its designation as an official local holiday.

District Links: New DC bill aims to crack down on ticket scalping for live performances; 20 MPD…

Chris Kain Apr 8, 2025
With support from a coalition of local venues and others in the music industry, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen today announced the introduction of a new bill to prevent price gouging on tickets for live performances being sold on…

District Links: Bowser renews push for House vote this week on DC spending fix; Trump admin eyes…

Chris Kain Apr 7, 2025
Noting that it's been more than a week since President Donald Trump called on the House to vote promptly on a Senate-approved spending fix for the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser once again urged the House to schedule a vote on the measure…

District Links: Disclosures detail U.S. attorney nominee’s outreach to far-right European…

Chris Kain Apr 4, 2025
A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked $11 billion in public health cuts in a lawsuit brought by the District along with 23 states.

District Links: MPD launches centralized unit to investigate juvenile crime in effort to reduce…

Chris Kain Apr 3, 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith today announced the launch of a new Juvenile Investigative Response Unit within the Metropolitan Police Department in an effort to respond more effectively to youth-involved crime citywide.…

District Links: Senate Dems push for hearing on Trump’s pick as U.S. attorney for DC amid hold…

Chris Kain Apr 2, 2025
A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans last night to place a hold on the nomination of Ed Martin to serve as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — and the committee's other Democrats today called…

District Links: Council votes to amend DC’s open meetings law to enable private discussions;…

Chris Kain Apr 1, 2025
The DC Council voted 10-2 this afternoon to approve emergency legislation to create new exceptions to the District's open meetings law, although Chair Phil Mendelson's amended proposal did narrow the provisions allowing site visits and…

District Links: Council set to vote on new exceptions to DC open meetings law; Trayon White signals…

Chris Kain Mar 31, 2025
The DC Council is expected to vote at Tuesday's legislative meeting on emergency legislation to amend the District's open meetings law to provide new exceptions that Council Chair Phil Mendelson describes as necessary in part to enable…

District Links: Trump executive order to create DC task force draws flak as ‘anti-home…

Chris Kain Mar 28, 2025
Weeks after proclaiming a need to take over aspects of DC's governance, President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order to establish a federal task force to foster his campaign pledges to make the nation's capital "safe and…

District Links: Uncertainty over House action on DC budget fix leads to delay in mayor’s FY…

Chris Kain Mar 27, 2025
Uncertainty in the House over the fate of legislation to avoid forcing the District to make $1 billion in mid-year spending cuts is leading to delays in the preparation and release of Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget for fiscal year…

District Links: House panel seeks to nullify DC law limiting cooperation with federal immigration…

Chris Kain Mar 26, 2025
The GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23-21 yesterday to advance legislation that would nullify any DC laws, policies and practices that limit the local government's cooperation with federal immigration…

District Links: Waymo aims to bring driverless taxis to DC next year; animal-control shift causes…

Chris Kain Mar 25, 2025
The company already operating self-driving taxis in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin is looking to bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to DC by 2026, vowing in an announcement this morning to continue working with…

District Links: Bowser still expects House to take up Senate bill to avoid $1B in DC budget cuts;…

Chris Kain Mar 24, 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed confidence today that the House of Representatives will vote on the measure already approved by the Senate to undo $1 billion in DC spending cuts mandated under the congressionally approved continuing…

District Links: Senate passage offers reprieve from $1B in DC spending cuts as long as House follows…

Chris Kain Mar 17, 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser and other local officials are celebrating the Senate's passage of a bill to allow the District to spend according to its approved budget — thereby averting $1 billion in cuts midway through fiscal year 2025 as long as…

District Links: Advocates of various ages join DC officials in pushing Senate not to force $1B in…

Chris Kain Mar 14, 2025
DC Council members Christina Henderson, Janeese Lewis George and Zachary Parker were among those pushing the District's case on Capitol Hill this morning by visiting Senate offices ahead of today's debate on the stopgap funding bill that…

District Links: Area senators criticize House mandate that DC cut $1B in spending; DC joins suit…

Chris Kain Mar 13, 2025
Virginia and Maryland senators are speaking out against the $1 billion in spending cuts that would be forced on the DC government by the stopgap spending bill approved by the House this week to avoid a government shutdown.

District Links: DC leaders turn to Senate in hopes of avoiding $1B in cuts after House vote; NTSB…

Chris Kain Mar 12, 2025
After House passage late yesterday afternoon of a stop-gap spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, DC leaders are turning to the Senate as they seek to undo a requirement that would force projected cuts of $1 billion to the…

District Links: House panel blocks Norton effort to drop DC cut from stop-gap bill; IG finds crime…

Chris Kain Mar 11, 2025
A united front among District officials wasn't enough yesterday to sway the House Rules Committee to authorize a floor vote on DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's proposed amendment to the stop-gap spending bill — an effort by Norton to remove…

District Links: DC leaders urge Congress not to force $1B in cuts midway through fiscal year; study…

Chris Kain Mar 10, 2025
In response to the stop-gap spending measure introduced by House GOP leaders over the weekend, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is pushing for an amendment to the overall package to avoid forcing the District to revert to last year's spending…

District Links: DC joins lawsuit against mass layoffs at federal agencies; U.S. transportation…

Chris Kain Mar 7, 2025
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb has joined his counterparts in 19 states in filing a new lawsuit that seeks to stop mass firings of probationary employees in multiple federal agencies.
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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 191
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 13
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 9
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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