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District Dig: License to Ill — D.C. officials allow sports bar owner to turn theater space into…

Editor Mar 10, 2020
A Penn Quarter sports bar that is the first drinking establishment to offer “games of skill” for profit in the District has been operating illegally for the last eight years, according to court documents, public testimony, the D.C.…

Washington Post: D.C. wins lawsuit against digital sign venture that helped spark Jack Evans scandal

Editor Mar 10, 2020
The District has won a long-running lawsuit against an outdoor advertising company that hoped to install dozens of digital signs throughout the city.

WAMU: American University Will Move Classes Online To Contain Spread Of Coronavirus

Editor Mar 10, 2020
American University will suspend classes on its D.C. campus until at least the beginning of April, joining a growing number of colleges and universities across the country working to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Washington Post: National Gallery postpones landmark exhibition; coronavirus crisis in Italy delays…

Editor Mar 10, 2020
The National Gallery of Art has postponed its much-anticipated exhibition “A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750” because of the global coronavirus crisis.

Washington Post: This homeless shelter offers a hot meal, a bed and information about coronavirus

Editor Mar 10, 2020
With a hot meal in their stomachs, the men gathered for nightly chapel service, where the Rev. Ron Stanley told them about the homeless shelter rules — and the coronavirus.

Washington Business Journal: American U. to move all classes online in response to coronavirus

Editor Mar 10, 2020
American University will temporarily move its classes online in response to the growing outbreak of the novel coronavirus, becoming the first college or university in Greater Washington to take such precautionary measures.

Washingtonian: It’s Time for Everybody to Work From Home, the Washington Post Tells Employees

Editor Mar 10, 2020
The arrangement is in response to the coronavirus crisis.

DCist: A Man Rode A Horse Through Northeast D.C. During Rush Hour. He Says He Did It For The Kids

Editor Mar 10, 2020
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s…a man galloping on a horse in the middle of the nation’s capital?!

Washington Post: Georgetown Day closed for cleaning as number of D.C., Md., Va. cases climbs to 16

Editor Mar 10, 2020
The District’s Georgetown Day School said it would close Tuesday for a deep cleaning because it has “community members who are closely affiliated” with Christ Church of Georgetown, which reported a second coronavirus infection Monday…

Washingtonian: Why DC’s Public Defender Service Is Among the Country’s Best

Editor Mar 10, 2020
An interview with Avis Buchanan, who runs the agency.

UrbanTurf: A Brand New Look For 15-Unit Mount Pleasant Laundromat Redevelopment

Editor Mar 10, 2020
While plans emerged for a mixed-use redevelopment of a Mount Pleasant laundromat at the end of 2019, a new iteration of the project will deliver more units and has a brand new design.

Washington Business Journal: 2 Washington Convention Center events canceled; SEC advises HQ…

Editor Mar 10, 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus has led two groups to cancel upcoming events at the Washington Convention Center, while a federal agency has asked all headquarters employees to work from home. They’re both new signs the outbreak is…

Washington Post: Metro, other transit systems on high alert to prevent coronavirus spread

Editor Mar 10, 2020
Sick people are urged to avoid using public transit

WAMU: From Black Tie Parties To Boarded-Up Windows: The Story Of Iran’s D.C. Embassy

Editor Mar 10, 2020
When an owner no longer has use for a building, they’ll typically put it on the market for sale. But what if the owner is a foreign country — and one that’s lost diplomatic ties with the United States?

Washington Business Journal: Metro’s potential restoration of some late-night service a…

Editor Mar 10, 2020
Metro staff is proposing a partial revival of late-night train service, offering to restore about half of the evening commuting hours that were suspended about three years ago, according to a Metro staff report released Monday.

Washington Post: The Georgetown church quarantined by D.C.’s coronavirus outbreak

Editor Mar 10, 2020
Christ Church, Georgetown is usually known for things like sponsoring the posh neighborhood’s garden tour and being co-founded 203 years ago by Francis Scott Key, who wrote “the Star Spangled Banner.”

Washington Post: D.C.-area coronavirus cases spike; hundreds of churchgoers told to quarantine

Editor Mar 10, 2020
Authorities in the Washington area took different approaches Monday as they scrambled to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus: D.C. officials asked hundreds of churchgoers to self-quarantine, while officials in Maryland and Virginia…

WUSA9: ‘Don’t let people doubt you’| DC student-athlete is a teen mom who…

Editor Mar 9, 2020
Tajha Jackson was back on the basketball court just three weeks after giving birth, ending her career as the highest scoring girls basketball player in DC.

Fox 5: Superior court judges are releasing murder suspects from jail, angering DC’s police…

Editor Mar 9, 2020
D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham says releasing murder defendants back into the community is a "relatively new phenomenon" and it's causing him great concern.

WTOP: DC cherry blossoms reach 3rd stage of bloom

Editor Mar 9, 2020
The cherry blossoms in D.C. have reached the third stage of peak bloom: extension of florets.
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