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WTOP: DC Council approves $14B budget, splits money intended for new police officers

Editor Aug 3, 2021
After days of back and forth, the D.C. Council on Tuesday landed on a compromise regarding the mayor’s request for money to hire more police officers.

City Paper: What Are Violence Interrupters?

Editor Aug 3, 2021
An explanation of the program due to receive a big boost in funding in next year's budget

Washington Post: In 1947, a D.C. church reached out to a school in devastated Hiroshima

Editor Aug 3, 2021
The photograph that enraged the pastor appeared in The Washington Post society pages on Friday, Nov. 8, 1946, amid items on tea at the Sulgrave Club and tips on removing perspiration stains from silk.

UrbanTurf: Raze Application Makes Way for 90 Apartments Near Howard University

Editor Aug 3, 2021
Earlier this summer, Rock Creek Property Group shared plans for what is expected to be a by-right residential development at Georgia Avenue and Fairmont Street NW (map). Now, the raze permit application that will make redevelopment…

DCist: D.C. Council Approves Plan To Send $500 To Residents Forced To Wait Months For Unemployment…

Editor Aug 3, 2021
D.C. lawmakers have granted initial approval to a budget amendment that would send $500 to laid-off residents who endured excruciatingly long waits for unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

Washington Post: As covid cases rise — again — doctors in D.C. area are ‘holding their breath’

Editor Aug 3, 2021
A month ago, covid-19 wards at hospitals across the D.C. region were empty and doctors said they were finally able to take a breath, some hopeful that increased vaccinations meant the worst of the pandemic was behind them. Now, the anxiety…

Washingtonian: Ben’s Chili Bowl and Shop Made in DC Open in the Washington Convention Center

Editor Aug 3, 2021
Convention-goers can now get a half-smoke and 202 t-shirts.

Washington Business Journal: Marriott ‘grossly mismanaged’ Wardman Park, hotel owner…

Editor Aug 3, 2021
The outgoing owner of the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel says Marriott Hotel Services “grossly mismanaged” the shuttered Northwest D.C. property starting before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new a lawsuit.

City Paper: Restaurants Say Diners Cancelled Reservations in Droves in Wake of Indoor Mask Mandate

Editor Aug 3, 2021
"With the mask mandate and overall concern of what could come next, we don’t feel like hashtag D.C. is open.”

Washington Blade: UDC hit with anti-trans discrimination complaint

Editor Aug 3, 2021
University accused of misgendering student

WTOP: Bowser slams reports she went maskless indoors: ‘If you want to report on the right-wing…

Editor Aug 3, 2021
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday slammed conservative media reports that she went maskless indoors last weekend in defiance of her own mandate.

WTOP: New DC nightclub Sachi ‘a place to kind of get lost’

Editor Aug 3, 2021
Fans of Velvet Lounge and Dodge City are mourning the pandemic loss of those D.C.-area hangs.

City Paper: D.C. Council Caves to Bowser’s Request for More Police Officers

Editor Aug 3, 2021
The Council will spend $5 million to hire 60 more cops by next year.

WTOP: After extensive renovation, DC’s Bombay Club is back

Editor Aug 3, 2021
After an extensive monthlong renovation, power lunch and dinner restaurant The Bombay Club reopened this week.

DCist: ‘Symbolic On All Types Of Levels’: Why These Ward 8 Residents Are Pushing For Their Own Park

Editor Aug 3, 2021
At first glance, 3025 Buena Vista Terrace in Ward 8 might not seem like much. It’s a rectangular plot of land, filled in the summer with an overgrowth of grass and vines, and in the winter with cobwebs of branches. Driving up 30th Street…

The 74: D.C.’s Missing Students and the Rush to Avert a COVID Classroom Crisis

Editor Aug 3, 2021
Thousands of the city’s littlest learners were missing from schools last fall. As they now begin to return to classrooms, all at varying academic levels, how will educators handle the fallout from the pandemic’s K-shaped recession?

DCist: Plan To Hire More Police Splits Top D.C. Leaders Ahead Of Key Vote

Editor Aug 3, 2021
A request from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s for money to hire new police officers over the next year faces a critical vote in the D.C. Council Tuesday, where a pair of lawmakers have already hatched an alternate plan that would give the…

Washington Post: Amid increased leave among staff, D.C. 911 call center institutes mandatory…

Editor Aug 3, 2021
On July 16, workers in the District’s 911 call center received an email announcing changes were coming. Problems staffing the center meant there would be mandatory overtime, even on scheduled days off, and any additional leave would be…

Washington Post: Metro, Capital Bikeshare want to lure back riders: Sign up for mobile SmarTrip and…

Editor Aug 3, 2021
The promotion, available through December, is one more incentive that the region’s leaders are using to get residents back.

WTOP: Free fares on DC Circulator extended through September

Editor Aug 3, 2021
The DC Circulator will remain free through at least the end of September, per an emergency order issued by the District’s government on Monday.
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