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Tamar Hoffman and Jack Hsia in The Post: D.C. should partner with universities to provide shelter

Editor May 19, 2020
The tragedy of loss is amplified by avoidability. While student dorms remain empty, the lives of people experiencing homelessness are at stake because they are unable to follow shelter-in-place and social distancing guidelines intended to…

Washingtonian: Should 18th Street Become a Pedestrian Zone as DC Reopens? A New Neighborhood Group…

Editor May 19, 2020
The Adams Morgan Commercial Development Coalition revives plans to transform the historic roadway.

UrbanTurf: DC Mayor’s Proposed Budget Includes Tax Break for Affordable Housing

Editor May 19, 2020
A provision in Mayor Bowser's proposed fiscal year 2021 budget that was released yesterday would trade property tax abatements, lobbied for by developer-led organization DC2021, with DC's larger affordable housing production goals.

WTOP: DC Council passes emergency relief bill; small landlords required to offer rent plans

Editor May 19, 2020
The D.C. Council passed an emergency coronavirus relief bill Tuesday that is aimed at helping residents and businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis as the District’s economy has slammed to a halt.

Bisnow: Bowser Cuts Funding For Affordable Housing, But Keeps Major Projects In Proposed Budget

Editor May 19, 2020
The District is facing major revenue shortfalls as the coronavirus continues to halt economic activity, and Mayor Muriel Bowser Monday released her proposal for cutting the city's spending.

Washington Post: Two states, D.C. plan to sue EPA for failing to enforce Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan

Editor May 19, 2020
Virginia, Maryland and the District say the Environmental Protection Agency has not taken action against two states that polluted the bay in violation of a court-ordered cleanup agreement.

UrbanTurf: The Two Options for Re-Imagining One of DC’s Most Notorious Intersections

Editor May 19, 2020
Two concepts have been presented to re-envision what is one of DC's most notorious intersections.

Greater Greater Washington: Transportation mostly survives DC budget cuts, but planning takes a big…

Editor May 19, 2020
DC will continue most of its existing transportation efforts next year under a draft budget released by DC mayor Muriel Bowser. However, unless the DC Council changes the budget, the District will have somewhat less funding for affordable…

Metro Weekly: Stein Club members deadlock over primary endorsements in three of four D.C. wards

Editor May 19, 2020
Ward 7's Vincent Gray was the only Democrat in a contested race to earn 60% of club members' votes

Washington Blade: Stein Club unable to endorse in three key D.C. Council races

Editor May 19, 2020
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.’s largest local LGBTQ political group, was unable to reach a 60 percent threshold vote needed to make an endorsement in three key D.C. Council races, including the hotly contested Ward 2 race in…

WTOP: Hawk family gives worried Washingtonians a break from pandemic concerns

Editor May 18, 2020
Like families everywhere, Walt and Libby are hunkered down with the kids in their Northwest D.C. home. But they’re not under quarantine.

DCist: Local Attorneys General To Sue EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

Editor May 18, 2020
The attorneys general of D.C., Maryland and Virginia say other states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are not doing their part to clean up the bay. They plan to file a lawsuit to make the Environmental Protection Agency require states that…

DCist: D.C. Is Halfway To Meeting A Key Reopening Metric, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Public…

Editor May 18, 2020
Every morning around 10 a.m., the District publishes its daily tally of new positive COVID-19 cases. If you happen to follow the numbers, you’ll know that there were 152 new reported positive cases last Thursday, 135 on Friday, 171 on…

Associated Press: Maryland, Virginia, D.C. intend to sue EPA on bay pollution

Editor May 18, 2020
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require two other states to implement plans to cut pollution in the Chesapeake Bay,…

DCist: Some ‘Nonessential’ D.C. Stores Can Offer Curbside Delivery And Sidewalk Pick-Up Under New…

Editor May 18, 2020
Starting today, eight local D.C. education and academic retail shops are permitted to operate curbside or sidewalk pick-up, after petitions from local bookstores and nonessential retail shops reached D.C. officials.

Washingtonian: Writing Through the Pandemic: Novelist Thomas Mallon’s Diary

Editor May 18, 2020
Someone's used gloves, birds in the street, and echoes of Pompeii.

Washington Business Journal: D.C. restaurants’ al fresco dining expansion is on hold, for now

Editor May 18, 2020
Anyone hoping to dine in the middle of a D.C. street will have to wait just a bit longer for the chance to do so.

DCist: Timothy Shea Is Getting Replaced As D.C.’s Top Federal Prosecutor After Rocky, Short Tenure

Editor May 18, 2020
President Donald Trump nominated Justin Herdman, the U.S. Attorney in Cleveland, to be D.C.’s top federal prosecutor on Monday. He’s set to replace Timothy Shea, who was installed in late January under the “interim” tag and has had a very…

Washington Post: President Trump to nominate new top prosecutor for the District

Editor May 18, 2020
President Trump will nominate a new U.S. Attorney to oversee the D.C. office, which handles both local and national cases including several high-profile prosecutions of the president’s allies.

City Paper: A Rundown Of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget

Editor May 18, 2020
To avoid tax increases and major programmatic cuts, the mayor relies on past savings and surpluses, as well as hiring and pay freezes for D.C. government employees.
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Since 2020, when Mayor Muriel Bowser and her deputy mayor for health and human services, Wayne Turnage, decided to reorganize the city’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid managed care program in the…

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