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UrbanTurf: What’s Next for One of H Street’s Last Large Developable Plots?

Editor Nov 18, 2021
The H Street Corridor has more or less reached a development plateau, but there is one large property along the corridor whose future is a bit up in the air.

Washington Business Journal: D.C. Council members ask Bowser not to end city’s mask mandate

Editor Nov 18, 2021
Ten of the 13 members of the D.C. Council are urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to reverse her decision to drop the city's indoor mask mandate, citing federal guidance and other safety concerns related to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Axios: Exclusive: D.C.’s new handy portal for home buyers and owners

Editor Nov 18, 2021
The District unveiled a new portal that aims to help current and future homeowners pay their mortgages and property taxes.

City Paper: Local Scientists Are Researching How Microplastics Are Impacting the Potomac and…

Editor Nov 18, 2021
Even though microplastics have been found in waterways and other ecosystems around the country, they’re an understudied topic and it’s currently unclear just how many have accumulated in the Anacostia and Potomac rivers.

WTOP: Task force sets out to improve DC’s flood readiness

Editor Nov 18, 2021
D.C.’s multiagency flood task force will spend the next year developing plans for extreme wet weather and its impact on residents and infrastructure, with heavy rainfall events likely to grow worse amid shifting climate patterns.

WTOP: As DC mask mandate ends, here are the new mask policies at grocery stores, retailers

Editor Nov 18, 2021
D.C.’s indoor mask mandate is set to end Monday, Nov. 22 — nearly four months after it was reimposed amid a surge in cases over the summer driven by the more infectious delta variant.

Washington Business Journal: Major Friendship Heights property owners form BID-like alliance

Editor Nov 18, 2021
Major property owners in Friendship Heights, on both sides of the D.C.-Maryland line, have formed a business improvement district-like nonprofit as they aim for a "new vision and refreshed identity" for the neighborhood.

Washington Post: D.C. extends permits for scooter, dockless bike operators through June

Editor Nov 18, 2021
New terms will emphasize stricter parking requirements and better distribution of devices

Washington Post: District names new administrator for fresh food program

Editor Nov 18, 2021
Freshfarm, a nonprofit that runs about 30 farmers markets across the region, will take the helm of the city’s Produce Plus program

WTOP: DC Council members ask mayor to reverse decision to drop indoor mask mandate

Editor Nov 17, 2021
D.C.’s indoor mask mandate is scheduled to be lifted Monday, but members of the city council are concerned about the decision and are urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to reverse course and keep the mandate in effect as the holidays approach.

Associated Press: Review says Pentagon reacted appropriately to Jan. 6 riot

Editor Nov 17, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent review has concluded that the Defense Department and its top leaders acted appropriately before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, despite sharp criticism from some local and…

Washington Post: D.C. delays clearing homeless encampment as mayor’s controversial housing-first…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
The District will delay clearing the homeless encampment that has filled the park at New Jersey Ave. and O Street NW until after the Thanksgiving holiday to give more residents time to move into housing, D.C. officials said.

Washington Post: Pentagon inspector general raises questions about former D.C. Guard commander’s…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
The D.C. National Guard’s commanding general was directed twice by Pentagon leadership to send in troops as violence engulfed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a newly released investigation that appears to undercut the now-retired…

Washington Business Journal: Smithsonian reopens long-shuttered Arts and Industries Building,…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
What does the future hold?

Washington Post: At the Phillips Collection, a visual ‘conversation’ between the art of Europe,…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
European and Africa-rooted traditions converse in Sanford Biggers’s “Mosaic,” the 30th installment in the Phillips Collection’s “Intersections” series. But there’s a surprising third participant in the cross-cultural dialogue: Japan.

Street Sense: Homeless Truxton Circle residents brace for early December eviction amid pleas to halt…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
Fingers trembling on a 38-degree November morning, Glenda Bullock fumbled with the zipper of her shared tent at the New Jersey Avenue and O Street NW homeless encampment in Truxton Circle.

Street Sense: As DC lapses on porta pottie contract, public restroom pilot programs inch forward

Editor Nov 17, 2021
A pilot program years in the making will soon address longstanding problems of access to sanitation and public restrooms for D.C. residents.

DCist: D.C. Council Signs Off On Renaming School After Congressman John Lewis

Editor Nov 17, 2021
The D.C. Council unanimously voted to rename an elementary school in Petworth after U.S. Rep. John Lewis, signing off on a proposal from Mayor Muriel Bowser to honor the trailblazing civil rights leader and Congressman who died last year.…

WTOP: DC Health plans to report coronavirus data similarly to the way it tracks flu

Editor Nov 17, 2021
There are a few big changes coming to D.C. on Monday, starting with the lifting of the indoor mask mandate. The city will also change how it reports COVID-19 data.

WTOP: Metro sees marginal improvement on train times as derailment investigation keeps newer cars…

Editor Nov 17, 2021
Metro said Wednesday that train times on the rail system have improved, albeit marginally.
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