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DCist: Til Dance Do Us Part? D.C. Dance Ban Has Event Planners Scrambling

Editor May 5, 2021
Kate Monks pushed back her August 2020 wedding by a year “to keep our friends and family and community safe,” she says. But now, even though the region has seen a marked decrease in COVID-19 cases and increase in vaccinations — and…

WTOP: Children’s National opens vaccine waitlist for children 12 and up in anticipation of Pfizer…

Editor May 5, 2021
Children’s National Hospital in D.C. has established a waitlist for children ages 12 and up as the U.S. waits for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue an emergency use authorization for the vaccine in children.

Washingtonian: President Biden Surprises a DC Taqueria Owner by Dropping by on Cinco De Mayo

Editor May 5, 2021
POTUS visited Las Gemelas taqueria to highlight the Restaurant Revitalization Fund.

DCist: D.C. Inspector General Launches Audit Of City Agency After Persistent Issues With…

Editor May 5, 2021
D.C.’s Office of the Inspector General says it will audit the city’s Department of Employment Services following months of delayed payments and technical glitches that have left many unemployed workers without income.

Washington Post: D.C. police identify officer who fatally shot man wielding gun in domestic dispute

Editor May 5, 2021
D.C. police have publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man wielding a gun during a domestic dispute call Friday night inside an apartment in Southwest Washington.

The 74: D.C. Public Schools Won’t Lose Money This Year Despite Enrollment Loss; Experts Ask: Is That…

Editor May 5, 2021
Despite enrollment loss during the pandemic, D.C. Public Schools will receive at least the same level of funding as last year.

UrbanTurf: Design Revealed For Redevelopment of Shaw Checkers Club

Editor May 5, 2021
The design for the new residential development planned at the former Capital Pool Checkers Association site in Shaw is coming into focus.

Washington Business Journal: Exclusive: Ashok Bajaj lines up new restaurant to replace The Oval Room

Editor May 5, 2021
The suspense is over for people wondering what will fill the void created when The Oval Room closed in November after more than 25 years of hosting countless politicians and celebrities, power lunches and private events.

WTOP: DC commission discusses police reform within communities, schools

Editor May 5, 2021
At a Tuesday panel discussion on the future of D.C. policing, advocates and experts focused on how to realistically implement recent suggestions made by a D.C. Council commission after last summer’s protests.

WTOP: DC Council lays out plans for developing affordable housing

Editor May 5, 2021
With an eye toward advancing racial equity in housing and becoming more inclusive, the D.C. Council voted Tuesday to approve changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a massive document that guides future growth and development in the…

Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove in The Atlantic: Don’t Fall for the D.C. Retrocession…

Editor May 5, 2021
Retrocession is being used to derail what Washingtonians actually want: statehood.

Bay Journal: Kingman, Heritage to become Anacostia’s treasure islands

Editor May 5, 2021
Dredged up, dumped on and overgrown with invasive plants for decades, a pair of islands in the District of Columbia is about to get a long-awaited makeover.

Washington Post: D.C. police identify officer who fatally shot man wielding gun in domestic dispute

Editor May 5, 2021
D.C. police have publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man wielding a gun during a domestic dispute call Friday night inside an apartment in Southwest Washington.

Washington Post: A new exhibit casts legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham as an accidental…

Editor May 5, 2021
In the 2017 movie, “The Post,” Meryl Streep immortalized Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in golden caftan glory as she made the historic and career-defining decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, documents about the secret…

WTOP: DC Police Union says reform has hurt the department, but data suggests otherwise

Editor May 4, 2021
The D.C. Council has taken steps to create more accountability in policing with recent police reform legislation, but the city’s police union says some of those changes have made it harder for officers to do their jobs.

WTOP: DC teacher walking coast to coast to raise money for cancer research

Editor May 4, 2021
A high school teacher at a D.C. private school is currently on the road traveling across the country by foot for a good cause.

Washington Post: D.C. Council refuses to raise funding cap for United Medical Center, triggering…

Editor May 4, 2021
The D.C. Council on Tuesday refused to increase the cap on subsidies for the troubled United Medical Center, a decision that will probably trigger a fiscal management control board that city officials say would be disastrous for the…

WTOP: DC encourages a return to the office to help small businesses

Editor May 4, 2021
D.C.’s government is signaling it wants employees who have been working from home throughout the pandemic to return to their offices downtown, with the hope that it will help small businesses and storefronts in the area.

Courtland Milloy in The Post: Buzzard Point residents have spent years fighting for a cleaner…

Editor May 4, 2021
In the District’s rapidly gentrifying Buzzard Point neighborhood, newly arrived residents jog and bike through the dust of a cement plant, headed to and from luxury apartments along the Anacostia River in Southwest. They can rent for as…

DCist: The D.C. Council Just Advanced An Updated Comprehensive Plan. Here’s What’s In It

Editor May 4, 2021
After years of public engagement, months of white-hot debate, and likely millions of track changes in Microsoft Word, the D.C. Council on Tuesday advanced amendments to the city’s all-important Comprehensive Plan.
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District Links: AG files suit over ‘shocking’ conditions at Ward 5 apartment building; Trayon White’s…

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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb yesterday announced a new lawsuit against the owner and manager of a 10-story affordable apartment building at 1400 Florida Ave. NE in an effort to force immediate…

District Links: DC sees 30% decline in opioid overdoses amid Naloxone distribution; Supreme Court allows White House…

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The Bowser administration is reporting a 30% reduction in opioid overdoses in the District over the past year, attributable in part to the distribution of 510,000 free Naloxone kits with medication…

District Links: J.O. Wilson, Barnard ribbon-cuttings mark first week back for DCPS students; Meta settlement could mean…

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With DC Public Schools back in session this week, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the 2026-27 school year by highlighting newly modernized facilities at J.O. Wilson Elementary in Ward 6 and Barnard…

District Links: Officials mark school year’s start with renaming, expansion of Ward 3 high school; new campaign…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials yesterday celebrated a $91 million expansion of the newly renamed John R. Thompson Jr. High School on MacArthur Boulevard in Ward 3.
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