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WTOP: With only 40% of workforce reporting vaccination status, Metro prepared to step up testing

Editor Aug 3, 2021
Metro said that it is prepared to ramp up coronavirus testing of its workforce if their vaccination rates do not reach more than 70%.

Washington Post: D.C. officials push tenants to apply to D.C.’s rent relief program

Editor Aug 3, 2021
D.C. officials and tenant advocates Monday urged eligible tenants to apply for the city’s rent relief program, before the District’s eviction moratorium expires later this year.

Washington Post: Two D.C. police officers die by suicide

Editor Aug 2, 2021
A D.C. police officer was found dead of an apparent suicide last week in his Virginia home, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Colbert King in The Post: How many violence-prevention programs are enough for D.C.?

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser appears to have written a check that the D.C. Council won’t cash.

Washington Post: Educator, father of four fatally shot in Northwest D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood

Editor Aug 2, 2021
They had planned an October wedding, a culmination of a nine-year courtship that began in the school where they taught developmentally disabled children.

Washington Post: D.C. Council moves to scale back Bowser’s request to hire 170 more police officers

Editor Aug 2, 2021
After Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed bolstering D.C.’s police force by rerouting $11 million to new officers in the city’s budget, two members of the D.C. Council on Monday countered with their own approach: using more than half of that…

Washington Post: 40% of Metro employees report being vaccinated. Mandatory tests are possible unless…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Metro’s top executive on Monday warned employees that the transit system might start mandatory coronavirus testing if the agency’s vaccination rate doesn’t climb to at least 70 percent.

WTOP: Bowser wants to add $11M to her proposed budget for more police officers; Council seeks $5M…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted her revised District budgets Monday, asking for additional funding to add 170 officers to the police department.

DCist: D.C. Keeps Losing Children To Gun Violence. Their Friends Are Still Healing

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Two years ago, 13-year-old Jahani Hester lost one of his best friends, Karon Brown, after the 11-year-old was shot and killed while trying to flee a neighborhood conflict. He’s still working to heal from that loss.

DCist: Voices of Wards 7 And 8: COVID-19 Vaccinations

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Vernice Puryear, who lives in Ward 7, is supportive of the COVID-19 vaccine. But she says she understands why some other Black D.C. residents, particularly those living in wards 7 and 8, are skeptical about it.

Washington Business Journal: Lawsuits over university tuition, fee refunds are on D.C. court…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
At least seven D.C.-area universities have grappled, some more successfully than others, with a series of lawsuits filed by students and their families seeking partial refunds for tuition and mandatory fees they paid before classes were…

City Paper: Not Excluding the Council

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Advocates continue to push for more funding for excluded workers ahead of tomorrow’s final budget vote.

DCist: More People Ran For Office And Donated To Campaigns Because Of D.C.’s New Public Financing…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
The number of people running for elected office and contributing to local D.C. campaigns increased in 2020, likely because of the city’s new program that offers public financing to candidates running for elected office.

Washingtonian: Mayor Muriel Bowser Under Fire for Allegedly Violating Her Indoor Mask Mandate at a…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
The Washington Examiner writer on the story was not invited to the wedding, an organizer says.

Matt Wexler in The Post: The Adams Morgan Business Improvement District board needs an overhaul

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Because of serious and long-term failures in the governance and operation of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District (BID), several dozen investors in the properties that pay the majority of the taxes that fund the Adams…

Washington Business Journal: A pedestrian tunnel connecting Union Market to the NoMa Metro is on…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
D.C. may be awash in federal funding these days, but one infrastructure project will likely go unfunded in this year’s budget: a pedestrian tunnel to better link the NoMa Metro station to the neighborhood’s booming east side around Union…

Street Sense: DC office for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities likely to secure funding for first…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
The D.C. Council approved an initial budget plan funding the city’s Office for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing (ODDHH) during a virtual meeting on July 20. If left intact during the council’s upcoming Aug. 3 vote, the budget will…

UrbanTurf: A 520-Unit Development Proposed at South Capitol Street and I-695

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Two weeks after developer WC Smith presented plans for a market-rate residential development at 850 South Capitol Street SE, a design review application has been filed with the city, providing more details about the project.

Washington Business Journal: Exclusive: Greater Washington’s localities will work together to…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
Localities across Greater Washington plan to work together to pursue federal funding for regional economic development priorities in a new effort spearheaded by a nonprofit that’s spent the pandemic promoting greater local collaboration.

Washington Post: Latino Museum backers are pushing for a prime spot on the National Mall. But a turf…

Editor Aug 2, 2021
In a recent appearance on MSNBC, actor John Leguizamo made a strong case for supporting the proposed National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in December. In a short but animated segment, Leguizamo, a board member…
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District Links: DC unveils draft master plan for mixed-use redevelopment of RFK campus; July 4 will feature added…

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