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WAMU: Want To Be A Housing Inspector? D.C. Considers Uber-Style Plan To Recruit Residents For The…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Think of it as Uber, but for housing inspections.

City Paper: After a Three-Year Absence, The Wammies—The Region’s Long-Running Local Music Awards—Are…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
The music education nonprofit The MusicianShip launches a new and improved Wammies this weekend.

ABC7: DC mayor’s legal aide fired after being accused in child pornography case

Editor Mar 29, 2019
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A now former legal aide to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is accused of Distribution of Child Pornography.

Jeffrey S. DeWitt in The Post: Don’t mind the D.C. auditor; the District is fiscally strong

Editor Mar 29, 2019
In my budget certification letter, I state that the fiscal 2020 to 2023 budget and financial plan are balanced. I stand by that statement.

Washington Post: ‘We’re human beings!’ the homeless woman yelled. ‘Acknowledge us!’ Then people did…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
The city didn’t seem to be doing enough. Neither were the nonprofit groups. But maybe she — as nothing more than another human who cared — could accomplish what they couldn’t. Maybe she could get this couple out of a tent where they’d…

Washington Post: Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ will launch national tour at Kennedy Center;…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — a prodigious Broadway hit this season — will begin a two-year national tour with a launch at the Kennedy Center in August 2020, the show’s producers and the center announced Thursday. …

WAMU: Washington’s Grammys — The Wammies — Have Been Revived

Editor Mar 29, 2019
The local music award show returns this weekend after a three-year hiatus.

WAMU: After Five Years, Is D.C.’s School Lottery Working For Families?

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Along with taxes and cherry blossoms, springtime in Washington brings the results of the city’s school lottery system. The annual nail-biter of an experience lets families know if their child was admitted into their preferred school.

Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: D.C. auditor sends warning about Bowser’s budget

Editor Mar 29, 2019
D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson delivered a critically important message to the public the other day.

WTOP: Metro won’t raise fares and will boost service on some lines. Is that enough to win back…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
In a bid to win back riders who have fled the system in droves, Metro plans to add some rail service this summer without raising fares and does not plan any significant service cuts.

Washington Business Journal: Where does Fifth and Eye’s demise leave its related affordable housing?

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Peebles Corp.’s abrupt termination of a contract to develop city-owned land at Fifth and Eye streets NW leaves many questions, among them, whether it is still pursuing any of the affordable housing projects associated with the hotel…

Washington Times: D.C. attorney general seeks to kickstart Exxon climate-fraud probe

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Karl Racine seeks private legal counsel for "Exxon knew" investigation, potential lawsuit

UrbanTurf: A Closer — and Less Vertical — Look for Union Market’s Newly Proposed Office Building

Editor Mar 29, 2019
At the beginning of the year, we got a first glimpse at how the second phase of the Market Terminal development at Union Market could look, and how one of the buildings would be office rather than residential. Now, we are getting a closer…

DCist: Peak Bloom May Be Fleeting, But It Lasts A Little Longer At The National Arboretum

Editor Mar 29, 2019
The famed cherry blossoms’ peak bloom is just a couple of days away, and everyone knows what that means: a camera-wielding rabble is about to descend upon the Tidal Basin.

Washington Business Journal: Developers plan a pedestrian-friendly ‘gateway’ on the road…

Editor Mar 29, 2019
For the last few years, the road running from the Navy Yard Metro station up to Nationals Park has been a bit of a mess — but that’s all set to change by next season’s first pitch.

DCist: Take Me Out To The Ball Game On … Georgia Avenue? Here’s The Story Of Nats Park’s Predecessor

Editor Mar 29, 2019
Inside of Georgia Avenue’s Howard University Hospital is where forgotten D.C. sports lore lives. Down the main hallway, around the corner from elevators, and next to a bathroom is a batter’s box, complete with a home plate. It was on this…

Washington Business Journal: District finds new home for the attorney general’s office

Editor Mar 29, 2019
The District government has homed in on new space for the Office of the Attorney General, which is being displaced to make way for the Metropolitan Police Department, but Karl Racine and his staff won't have to move too far away.

Washington Post: D.C. officials plan to distribute 76,000 naloxone kits to counter opioid overdoses

Editor Mar 29, 2019
D.C. officials have purchased 66,000 naloxone kits, part of a plan to dramatically increase the supply of a lifesaving opioid-overdose antidote that has been scarce on the streets of a city with one of the nation’s highest rates of drug…

City Paper: Former Deputy Mayor Courtney Snowden Is Now a Lobbyist for an E-Cig Company

Editor Mar 28, 2019
Her time in the mayor's cabinet was marred by ethics investigations.

WAMU: Suffragists Were Responsible For The First Peaceful March On Washington

Editor Mar 28, 2019
A new National Portrait Gallery exhibition explores the untold stories of how women gained the right to vote.
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