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WTOP: ‘Nothing else matters’: Climate protesters block Friday morning traffic in DC

Editor Dec 6, 2019
As part of national and global demonstrations meant to call attention to climate change, protesters are blocking traffic in D.C. Friday morning.

UrbanTurf: WMATA Floats New Blue Line with Georgetown Metro Stop

Editor Dec 6, 2019
As Metro explores ways to alleviate congestion on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines, WMATA is putting forth some new (and old) proposals, most of which would add a second Metro stop in Rosslyn, and some of which resurrect the concept of a…

ABC7: Ward 8 ANC commissioner makes shocking allegations about missing $6,000

Editor Dec 6, 2019
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — ANC Commissioners, in Ward 8, went back and forth in a heated public meeting on Monday.

Washington Times: D.C. Council weighs rise in school absenteeism, truancy

Editor Dec 5, 2019
D.C. lawmakers on Thursday reviewed strategies to combat chronic absenteeism and truancy, following a report last week that showed an increase in students cutting classes in the District.

Washington Post: Police raid suspected marijuana shop above Georgetown book store

Editor Dec 5, 2019
For the past two decades, Hamid Savojbolaghi has sold used books out of the basement of his beige and blue rowhouse on a prominent corner in Northwest Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood.

Washington Business Journal: Metro releases six concepts for the Rosslyn bottleneck. A new Silver…

Editor Dec 5, 2019
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has come up with a multiple choice solution for the Gordian Knot that is the Rosslyn tunnel bottle neck.

Bisnow: Douglas Jemal Inducted Into Washington Business Hall Of Fame

Editor Dec 5, 2019
Douglas Jemal this week became the latest D.C. real estate leader inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame.

WAMU: New SNAP Requirements To Cut Off Thousands From Food Stamps In D.C.

Editor Dec 5, 2019
The Trump administration has tightened work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — formerly known as food stamps — which will affect how 688,000 poor and low-income people across the country purchase food.…

Mark Lee in the Washington Blade: Evans expulsion will end an era

Editor Dec 5, 2019
For the first time in the 45-year history of local self-governance, 12 members of the city’s unicameral legislature unanimously voted to expel their remaining, and absent, colleague.

NBC4: Young Men Emerging: Inside the DC Jail’s Experiment to Prepare Inmates for Freedom

Editor Dec 5, 2019
After more than 20 years behind bars, Joel Caston could be months away from freedom. But at the D.C. Jail, where he’s being housed as he awaits final hearings on his request for early release, Caston said he’s already getting a glimpse of…

DCist: A Bowser (No, Not *That* Bowser) Throws Her Hat Into The Ring For Ward 4 Seat

Editor Dec 5, 2019
Since the summer, the story of the primary race in Ward 4 seemed to emerge with clarity: incumbent Brandon Todd, a protégé and close ally of Mayor Muriel Bowser, fending off a challenge from Janeese Lewis George, a former D.C. assistant…

WAMU: What WeWork’s Financial Problems Might Mean For D.C.

Editor Dec 5, 2019
For many white-collar office jockeys in the District, WeWork has been a blessing.

Washington Business Journal: Some of Barry Farm will now be a historic landmark. How much will…

Editor Dec 5, 2019
At least some part of the Barry Farm public housing complex will officially be designated a historic landmark. Now the key question is: how much?

Petula Dvorak in The Post: A city with two political swamps and two political scandals

Editor Dec 5, 2019
The drama in the swamp is thick right now — investigations, hearings, expulsion, corruption, ethics violations — a new twist every day for a nicotine-stain blond, pro-business white man usually seen wearing a red tie.

UrbanTurf: East of the River Food Hall, With Grocery Component, to Break Ground Next Week

Editor Dec 5, 2019
Benning Market, the first multi-vendor market east of the Anacostia River, will move forward this month. Neighborhood Development Company plans to break ground on the Union Market-style project next Tuesday; the market is expected to be…

WTOP: ‘Like it was yesterday’: Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 turning-point show at Georgetown U.

Editor Dec 5, 2019
Local music fans who heard Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town” on Dec. 5, 1975, in a concert at Georgetown University’s McDonough Arena were part of history, but probably didn’t realize it at the…

Washington Post: Climate change protests will surround the World Bank and block traffic Friday…

Editor Dec 5, 2019
Protesters plan to take to the District’s streets Friday morning, blocking roads around the World Bank headquarters and possibly disrupting the commute.

Bisnow: 12-Story Hotel Planned To Rise Above Historic Chinatown Buildings

Editor Dec 5, 2019
A strip of historic retail properties in D.C.'s bustling Chinatown neighborhood have been tapped for redevelopment.

DCist: Effort To Recall Jack Evans Falls Short Of Needed Signatures, D.C. Elections Board Says

Editor Dec 5, 2019
In what has otherwise been a bad week, embattled Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans got some good news today: organizers of an effort to recall him from office over instances of ethical misconduct did not obtain the necessary number of…

Washington Post: Recall of D.C. lawmaker Jack Evans halted due to lack of valid signatures

Editor Dec 5, 2019
D.C. election officials on Thursday halted an effort to recall embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), finding that petitioners did not submit enough valid signatures to force a recall election.
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