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Washington Post: D.C. Council members question housing authority turnaround team

Editor Nov 30, 2022
On Wednesday, members of a D.C. Council committee tasked with overseeing the city’s housing authority questioned the agency’s plans to lean on turnaround consultants to fix issues identified by federal housing officials.

DCist: D.C. Housing Authority Officials Face Questions And Skepticism Over Plans To Reform Troubled…

Editor Nov 30, 2022
D.C. Housing Authority officials faced more than three hours of questions and criticism from lawmakers on Wednesday, much of which was focused on whether, how, and how quickly the troubled agency will be able to address dozens of…

Washington Post: First lady of France visits Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Editor Nov 30, 2022
Brigitte Macron also visited the famed performing arts school in 2018

Theresa Vargas in The Post: D.C. street vendors sang of their fears and wants. Why that matters.

Editor Nov 30, 2022
One line of the song, which addresses a D.C. lawmaker by name, tells of vendors wanting to work without racist laws and police abuse

DCist: D.C. Street Vendors Stage Pop-Up Vending Zone To Push For Council Vote On Decriminalization…

Editor Nov 30, 2022
Reyna Sosa has been street vending in the heart of Columbia Heights for about a decade. Almost every day, she sells antojitos – snacks in the form of pieces of mango and watermelon, taquitos, yuca with chicharron, and many flavors of the…

DCist: The Washington Post’s Sunday Magazine Is Shutting Down

Editor Nov 30, 2022
The Washington Post will stop publishing its Sunday print magazine after more than three decades. The last issue will be out on Dec. 25.

Washington Post: Phillips Collection hires art historian as new director

Editor Nov 30, 2022
Jonathan Binstock, who has ties to both the commercial and academic art world, will be the D.C. museum’s seventh leader

City Paper: Housing Authority Director Gave Bonuses to Executive Staff After HUD Found Failures

Editor Nov 30, 2022
In a closed session, DCHA commissioners discussed Brenda Donald’s icy relationship with the internal auditor as Donald released the agency’s response to HUD’s damning audit.

Associated Press: Higher food prices worsen hunger crisis this holiday season

Editor Nov 30, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers at Bread for the City, a venerable charity in the nation’s capital, thought they were prepared for this year’s annual pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Helpers food giveaway. The pandemic had faded, but inflation was…

WTOP: Park Service to begin work on dedicated bicycle, pedestrian lanes at East Potomac Park

Editor Nov 29, 2022
In early December, work on plans to have a dedicated bicycle and pedestrian lane will begin in East Potomac Park in D.C.

DCist: Embattled D.C. Housing Authority Says It Is Fixing Problems Found In Scathing Federal Review

Editor Nov 29, 2022
The D.C. Housing Authority says it is undergoing an “urgent transformation” to address a “multitude of inherited problems” with how it manages the city’s stock of public housing, and will soon launch a citywide blitz to inspect and repair…

DCist: Whitman-Walker Health Quietly Drops Mask Requirement, Unsettling Some Patients

Editor Nov 29, 2022
Whitman-Walker Health, the D.C. provider that focuses on caring for members of the LGTBQ+ community, no longer requires visitors and staff to wear masks — a move that unsettled some patients who say the new policy endangers at-risk…

DCist: East Potomac Park Is Getting Bike Lanes In December

Editor Nov 29, 2022
A popular recreation area in D.C. is getting a new traffic configuration.

Washington Post: East Potomac Park to get bike and pedestrian path that will replace 1 car lane

Editor Nov 29, 2022
The National Park Service said it would replace one of the lanes for vehicles on Ohio Drive at Hains Point

DCist: Assault Charge Against Former D.C. Deputy Mayor Dropped

Editor Nov 29, 2022
The Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney on Tuesday dropped an assault charge against Chris Geldart, the former D.C. deputy mayor for public safety who resigned in October amid the charge and questions about his residency.

Washington Post: D.C. Mayor Bowser taps consultants to help city Housing Authority

Editor Nov 29, 2022
DCHA executive staff received salary bonuses this month of up to $20,000, despite HUD findings of inadequate management

Washington Post: Assault charge dropped against former D.C. deputy mayor

Editor Nov 29, 2022
Christopher Geldart resigned in October amid an assault allegation and questions about whether he lived in D.C.

City Paper: Was Christina Henderson ‘Hoodwinked’ on a Teacher Background Check Bill? Some Child…

Editor Nov 29, 2022
Henderson wants to speed up the teacher hiring process, but some fear she’s helping agencies shirk responsibility.

Washington Post: D.C. lawmakers pitch a plan for ‘Green New Deal for Housing’

Editor Nov 29, 2022
Two years after Janeese Lewis George became the only self-identified democratic socialist on the D.C. Council, she is pitching a plan to cut the free market out of part of the city’s housing sector — and finding support for her idea, which…

WTOP: ‘A mess’: Audit finds repair agency for DC needs supervision, oversight, transparency

Editor Nov 28, 2022
The chairman of the D.C. Council fired off a letter last April asking the District’s watchdog, the Office of the D.C. Auditor, to take a look at why many repairs do not seem to get done or completed in a timely fashion in the city,…
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