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DCist: D.C. Council Demands Timeline For Delayed DCPS Food Service Contracts

Editor Sep 7, 2023
At a council hearing Wednesday, Chairman Phil Mendelson grilled DCPS officials over ongoing delays in submitting new food service contracts to the council for review, and pushed for a more specific timeline for getting the contracts…

Petula Dvorak in The Post: The key to college success? People have to care about you.

Editor Sep 7, 2023
Apathy — not bad policy or low funds — is what usually derails homeless students. Officials fixed Kamari Felton’s financial aid after his story published.

Washington Post: Police didn’t fully secure murder suspect who fled D.C. hospital, chief says

Editor Sep 7, 2023
A murder suspect escaped from George Washington University Hospital on Wednesday because D.C. police officers did not secure one of his arms to a gurney as they changed his handcuffs in the emergency room, acting D.C. police chief Pamela…

Axios: D.C. still struggling to manage growing migrant crisis

Editor Sep 7, 2023
Migrants are continuing to arrive in D.C., a humanitarian crisis that's also playing out in other big cities and putting pressure on President Biden to do more.

DCist: D.C. School Nurses Say New Staffing Model Is ‘A Recipe For Disaster’

Editor Sep 6, 2023
A shortage of D.C. school nurses has become so critical that about half of public and charter schools will not have a nurse on campus full-time this year.

DCist: D.C. Councilmember Renews Push To Ban Solitary Confinement At D.C. Jail

Editor Sep 6, 2023
Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is re-upping a years-long effort to ban solitary confinement at the D.C. Jail and other facilities operated by the city’s Department of Corrections.

City Paper: Neighbors and Colleagues Accuse Ward 2 ANC Joel Causey, Recently Exposed as a Registered…

Editor Sep 6, 2023
The debate over a new homeless shelter in Causey’s West End neighborhood has brought simmering tensions to a boil, as acquaintances describe years of troubling behavior.

Washington Post: 97 D.C. neighborhood leaders urge change in city response to 911 calls

Editor Sep 6, 2023
Nearly 100 neighborhood representatives in D.C. signed a letter sent to city leaders Tuesday decrying the operations at the city’s 911 center and calling for more transparency.

Courtland Milloy in The Post: Why the racial achievement gap persists in D.C. and how to fix it

Editor Sep 6, 2023
Former schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talks about how to engage children in their own education

DCist: After Delays, D.C. Finally Launches Citywide Curbside Composting Pilot

Editor Sep 4, 2023
After years of studying and discussing the idea of launching a curbside composting program, D.C. officials finally began rolling out a pilot program this month. Roughly 9,000 households will be participating — they’ll get food scraps…

DCist: Two D.C. Pools, Several Spray Parks To Stay Open Past Labor Day

Editor Sep 4, 2023
After what felt like a blissful early autumn week, D.C. is under another hot weather emergency through Thursday. Temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit are expected to sweep the region throughout most of the week, according to the…

Washington Post: As migrants continue to arrive in D.C. concerns remain about capacity

Editor Sep 4, 2023
It’s been about 17 months since Republican governors from Texas and Arizona started sending thousands of migrants to the District and other cities in protest of President Biden’s border policies, but questions and concerns remain about the…

Washington Post: A D.C. grocery store is removing Tide, Colgate and Advil to deter theft

Editor Sep 4, 2023
To avoid shutting down an unprofitable store in Southeast Washington, Giant Food will check receipts and remove products

Washington Post: D.C. spent $4 million for bikes at Union Station. Suit seeks to evict it over $150.

Editor Sep 4, 2023
The complaint also alleges the District Department of Transportation abandoned the facility at Union Station and broke provisions in its lease

Colbert I. King in The Post: It’s not going to be easy to make D.C.’s youth curfew work

Editor Sep 4, 2023
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s partial youth curfew went into effect Friday in areas of the city where police have found patterns of criminal activity by juveniles in the overnight hours. The U Street entertainment corridor in Northwest…

Washington Post: In D.C., test scores improved but achievement gaps widened

Editor Sep 4, 2023
Gaps in performance between White students and children of color have grown larger since 2022

Washington Post: Amtrak launches $1 billion in rail yard upgrades to prep for new trains

Editor Sep 1, 2023
Federal infrastructure funding will be used to modernize D.C.’s Ivy City maintenance yard and five other sites across the nation ahead of delivery of new passenger trains

Washington Post: Owners of pets killed in flood at doggy day care grill D.C. mayor

Editor Sep 1, 2023
Mayor says she is considering restricting use of building where 10 dogs died, according to one dog owner

Petula Dvorak in The Post: His bags were packed for college. Then his financial aid disappeared.

Editor Sep 1, 2023
Kamari Felton has spent most of his life packing his bags.

DCist: D.C. Attorney General Says Financial Elder Abuse Is On The Rise, Encourages Reporting

Editor Sep 1, 2023
Nicole Freeman Smith was working at St. Mary’s Court, a housing development in Northwest D.C. with about 100 affordable homes for seniors, when she gained access to the bank accounts of an elderly resident of the property — a woman in her…
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District Links: Council set to vote on youth curfew with new amendments; MPD probe reportedly implicates at least 15…

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The DC Council is slated to revisit the issue of an expanded youth curfew at Tuesday's legislative meeting, with a final vote on permanent legislation and a rescheduled vote on emergency legislation…

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Earlier this week, Wesley Williams, operations and policy officer for the DC Office of Campaign Finance, confirmed that his agency has opened an investigation into whether the relationship between…

District Links: House Oversight Committee demands records from MPD investigation on crime data; Lewis George, McDuffie…

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The GOP-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is demanding all records from the Metropolitan Police Department's internal investigation into claims of manipulated crime data. …

District Links: Report card gives DC an A-minus on the state of its tree canopy; Bowser seeks authority to buy surplus…

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A newly issued report card on the state of DC's trees offers an overall grade of A-minus — the same as last year — but warns that the city has been losing ground on its goal of reaching a 40% canopy…
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