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DCist: This Week Was Already A (Smoky) Bear. Then A Bear Showed Up In Brookland

Editor Jun 9, 2023
On a week when heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires forced many people to take precautions they’re not used to, an animal so associated with wildfire prevention they’re known as Smokey made a visit of its own — forcing people to take…

Washington Post: D.C.’s Black Broadway heyday recalled in plan for U Street development

Editor Jun 9, 2023
She had a favorite spot on U Street back in the ’50s when it was still called Black Broadway: Bohemian Caverns, the basement jazz club beneath a Black-owned pharmacy that had been decked out to feel like you were entering a cave. Virginia…

Washington Post: UDC names scientist and HBCU leader as its new president

Editor Jun 9, 2023
Maurice Edington, a chemist, comes to the D.C. institution from Florida A&M University

Washington Post: As ridership grows, Metro begins to lay out plan to secure funding

Editor Jun 8, 2023
The transit agency is projected to be short more than $700 million next year because of fares lost to telework during the pandemic

DCist: This Week’s Air Quality Was The Worst In Decades. For People Experiencing Homelessness, There…

Editor Jun 8, 2023
In conjunction with its first Code Purple air quality alert in decades, D.C. is advising residents to shelter indoors– a refrain all too familiar after the COVID pandemic. But not everyone has the luxury of having a place to shelter, with…

DCist: End Of The Line? Proposed Eastward Extension Of D.C. Streetcar Delayed Again

Editor Jun 8, 2023
It was just about seven years ago that D.C.’s first streetcar in decades started running again, shuttling passengers along a 2.4-mile stretch of H Street and Benning Road NE. But a long-promised 2.2-mile eastward extension to the Benning…

Petula Dvorak in The Post: Punk’s not dead — especially not at the library

Editor Jun 8, 2023
In D.C., the slam-dancing culture of punk is captured in archives and served up live

DCist: Climate Change Is Making Smoky Days More Likely In D.C.

Editor Jun 8, 2023
We’ve seen the photos from the West Coast for years — orange, smoky skies, everywhere from San Diego to Seattle. Now it’s happening here in the eastern U.S. as well, and scientists say this is probably not a one-off: bad air days are…

DCist: Bowser Taps San Francisco Health Official To Lead DC Health

Editor Jun 8, 2023
Dr. Ayanna Bennett has been tapped to lead DC Health, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office announced Thursday. She will replace Dr. Sharon Lewis, a DC Health veteran who had been leading the agency in an interim capacity following the departure of…

Washington Post: Mayor Bowser names new D.C. Health director after year-long search

Editor Jun 8, 2023
Ayanna Bennett, a pediatrician and health equity officer in San Francisco, will succeed LaQuandra Nesbitt, who resigned last July.

Washington Post: D.C. plan to issue 5,000 security cameras to drivers draws ACLU rebuke

Editor Jun 7, 2023
The ACLU criticized the program, which would give cameras to delivery and ride-hailing service drivers, as a dangerous expansion of government surveillance

Washington Post: D.C. reaches 100 homicides at the earliest time in the year since 2003

Editor Jun 7, 2023
Three fatal shootings Tuesday night and early Wednesday in Southeast and Northeast Washington — including one of a 63-year-old woman — pushed D.C.’s homicide count to 102, the earliest point in the year the city has recorded 100 killings…

DCist: D.C. To Give Rideshare And Delivery Drivers Free Dash Cameras

Editor Jun 7, 2023
Delivery and rideshare drivers in D.C. will be eligible to get free dash cameras through a new government program, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday. The city will use a $500,000 donation from DoorDash to buy about 5,000 dash…

DCist: D.C. Elections Take Center Stage On Capitol Hill, With GOP Bill Set To Target City

Editor Jun 7, 2023
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives vehemently disagreed on Wednesday over whether D.C.’s current elections are a model for the rest of the country — or if Congress should use the city as an example by imposing…

Washington Post: House GOP floats rewriting D.C.’s election laws in latest hearing

Editor Jun 7, 2023
House Republicans examined D.C. election laws Wednesday in their latest hearing digging into the city’s affairs, an opportunity for them to advocate for stricter voting laws in the deep-blue city.

DCist: Ex-Moon Rabbit Workers Will Get Their Union After Wharf Hotel Agrees To Recognize Bargaining…

Editor Jun 7, 2023
D.C.’s Wharf InterContinental Hotel has agreed to voluntarily recognize its employees’ union after cards are checked, which will include workers from the now-shuttered Moon Rabbit restaurant, according to their bargaining agent UNITE HERE…

DCist: D.C.’s Air Quality Is In Code Red. Here’s What You Should Know

Editor Jun 7, 2023
The air quality in the D.C. region reached Code Red — or worse — on Wednesday morning, meaning it’s unhealthy for the general population to be outside, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to waft over the area.

DCist: D.C. Council Passes 6% Cap On New Rent Increases At Many Apartment Buildings

Editor Jun 7, 2023
The D.C. Council unanimously passed an emergency bill Tuesday capping many new rent increases at 6% starting July 1, bookmarking lawmakers’ frantic volley this spring to legislate around historic increases in rent prices.

District Dig: What Was And What Shall Be

Editor Jun 7, 2023
The Bowser Administration commits to a transformative vision for redevelopment of 14th and U

DCist: Affordable Housing Preservation In D.C. Hits Road Blocks As Building Costs Rise

Editor Jun 7, 2023
Fifty-four-year-old Earnest Wilkerson didn’t foresee leading his neighbors through the sale of their apartment building when he moved into Minnesota Commons five years ago.
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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. …
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