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Washington Business Journal: SunTrust and BB&T Bank are merging: Here are all their D.C.-area…

Editor Feb 7, 2019
The $66 billion bank merger between BB&T Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc. — the industry's largest in more than a decade — will create a new top-three bank in the D.C. area and lead to a substantial amount of overlap among its branches.

Curbed: Upcoming National Building Museum exhibit to center on community basketball courts

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Next month, the National Building Museum plans to launch a photo exhibit called “Hoops,” spotlighting work by Bill Bamberger that depicts outdoor basketball courts in the U.S. and abroad. Bamberger’s shoots, which began in 2004, depict…

WAMU: Trees Or Solar Panels? Environmentalists Question Georgetown’s Solar Farm

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Georgetown University has a bold plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: by later this year, it will get nearly half its electricity from solar power. However, building the new solar farm in Charles County, Maryland to power the…

UrbanTurf: SunTrust to Scottish Rite: The 320 Residential Units on the Boards for Adams Morgan

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Following delivery of AdMo Heights (which replaced a Payless shoe store) and a portion of Modera Sedici (which replaced the former Italian Embassy on 16th Street), the Adams Morgan residential development pipeline has quieted down…

Washington Post: ‘They’re pioneers’: Two women rise through the male-dominated ranks of D.C.’s fire…

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Young cadets Queen Anunay and Kishia Clemencia stood out in their class at the D.C. fire academy as being among the few women in a male-dominated field. Of the department’s 1,550 members at the time, 35 were women.

Washington Business Journal: Local executives prod Bowser to speed up 5G regulations

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Local tech executives are urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speed up the regulatory process laying the groundwork for next-generation wireless networks — especially now that Amazon is putting a portion of its second headquarters in the…

City Paper: ‘To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at’ Is Required…

Editor Feb 7, 2019
The pairing of five never-before-seen Glenn Ligon paintings with wallpaper by Andy Warhol is practically an essay about the National Mall.

Washington Post: Jefferson Memorial to get roof repair, laser cleaning

Editor Feb 7, 2019
The National Park Service said Thursday that it has started a 15-month project to restore the roof and clean the marble at the Jefferson Memorial.

Washington Blade: D.C. sees alarming increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes in 2018

Editor Feb 7, 2019
The number of anti-LGBT hate crimes reported in D.C. in 2018 nearly doubled from the number of reported cases in 2016, according to recently released data by D.C. police.

UrbanTurf: This Company Wants to Rent Your DC Home and Lease the Individual Bedrooms

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Traditionally, homeowners hire property managers to rent out their homes, and communal living has occupied its own space on the margins. Now, a new company wants to combine the co-living concept with a property management approach, all on…

WAMU: This Artist Projects Protest Messages Onto The Trump Hotel. Now He Has His Own Museum Show

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Did you see that projection on the Trump Hotel last year that read “Pay Trump bribes here”? What about the one on the Environmental Protection Agency that read “Don’t let a climate denier take over the EPA”? Or maybe you caught the one…

City Paper: A Former Ward 8 Democrats Leader and Minister Faces a Federal Indictment

Editor Feb 7, 2019
From a corner table at the IHOP on Alabama Avenue SE, Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott pleads her case—or some of it anyway.

City Paper: Did a Social Services Organization Serving D.C.’s Homeless Misrepresent Its Legal…

Editor Feb 7, 2019
Trouble continues to roil The Horizon, a Ward 7 homeless shelter that opened just last fall. The Department of Human Services discovered that the social services nonprofit tapped to run the shelter’s day-to-day operations appeared to…

The Current: District inducts first all-girl Boy Scouts of America troop

Editor Feb 7, 2019
On February 2, 2019, a small group of witnesses at All Souls Episcopal Church attended the induction of the first District all-girl troop of Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Troop 248 is comprised of twenty girls, ranging from ten to…

Washington Post: D.C. residents call for a new chancellor to build trust and stability in schools

Editor Feb 7, 2019
This time, they want it to be different.

Chalkbeat: 5 questions on Lewis Ferebee’s record in Indianapolis as he seeks to lead D.C. schools

Editor Feb 7, 2019
As Lewis Ferebee faces confirmation hearings before securing the top job in Washington, D.C., schools, his record as superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools offers insight into how he would lead.

David Zipper on CityLab: Washington Will Decriminalize Fare Evasion. Better Idea: Free Transit

Editor Feb 6, 2019
Evidence of discrimination in enforcement drove D.C.’s City Council to decriminalize transit fare evasion. But cities should consider abolishing fares entirely.

WTOP: DC leans on FBI, ATF to curb city’s rising murder rate

Editor Feb 6, 2019
WASHINGTON — D.C. and federal authorities are cracking down on armed felons in an attempt to bring down the District’s rising homicide rate.

Washington Post: The federal government isn’t funding gun-violence research. Should the District?

Editor Feb 6, 2019
D.C. lawmakers are proposing a new center to study gun violence, a move that would place the District in the vanguard of local governments seeking to fund research that gun-safety advocates say has been neglected by federal officials.

Curbed: Long-awaited day center for the homeless to open in downtown D.C. next week, BID says

Editor Feb 6, 2019
The center will début at a centrally located church on Feb. 12
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