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DCist: The Zoo Still Isn’t Sure When Birthday Boy Bei Bei Will Be Leaving For China

Editor Aug 22, 2019
The District’s most widely admired and beloved resident turned four on Thursday, charming hundreds of adoring fans as he ate a delicious frozen cake made of diluted juice, fruit, sweet potatoes, and sugar cane at his party.

Curbed: Capital Bikeshare launches discounted annual memberships for D.C. college students

Editor Aug 22, 2019
The memberships cost $25, versus $85 for regular annual memberships

DCist: There Were Almost 300 Violations On The H and I Street Bus Lanes In A Single Day, Advocates…

Editor Aug 22, 2019
A little over a week ago, Mark Sussman, co-founder of How’s My Driving—a crowd sourced parking and traffic violation tracking app—got an email from one of the app’s users. The person was excited about the dedicated bus lanes along H and I…

WTOP: ‘Bittersweet’ birthday for Bei Bei the giant panda

Editor Aug 22, 2019
Bei Bei the giant panda celebrated his 4th birthday at the National Zoo on Thursday, an occasion that signaled his imminent departure for China.

Washington Post: Neighbors thought they witnessed a tragedy. Then a sign appeared: ‘You Saved My…

Editor Aug 22, 2019
Neighbors were pretty sure the man on the street had died.

WAMU: Should Young Violent Offenders Be Eligible For Early Release? D.C. And The Feds Struggle To…

Editor Aug 22, 2019
When Melody Marie Brown heard that the teenager who killed her husband had been sentenced to 40 years in prison, she felt vindicated. Nothing could bring Jerome McDaniel back after the .22-caliber bullet had pierced his heart, but at least…

Washington Blade: Salon Roi entrepreneur Roi Barnard reflects on five decades in business

Editor Aug 22, 2019
Roi Barnard looks proudly around his eponymous salon at the staircase and wall beside it decorated in images of Marilyn Monroe. 

City Paper: The Plot Thickens

Editor Aug 22, 2019
D.C. was once named the city with the most community gardens per capita, but are these glorious green spaces for the few or the many?

City Paper: A D.C. Contract Employee Accused a Superior of Sexually Harassing Her. She Was Fired. He…

Editor Aug 22, 2019
The accused public information officer at the Department of For-Hire Vehicles continues to work for the agency, earning a salary of $126,000 a year.

WTOP: ‘Forever grateful’: Anonymous ‘Joe’ thanks good those who pulled him from car and gave him CPR

Editor Aug 22, 2019
If you performed CPR on a guy passed out in traffic in D.C. last week, Joe wants you to know he is grateful.

WTOP: DC mayor opens new short-term family housing in Northeast

Editor Aug 22, 2019
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened a new short-term family housing facility in the Brookland area of Northeast on Wednesday.

Washington Times: Jack Evans’ rivals use D.C.’s Fair Elections Program to finance…

Editor Aug 21, 2019
The five Democrats vying to unseat D.C. Council member Jack Evans of Ward 2 in next year’s primary are financing their campaigns under the city’s new Fair Elections Program, which matches every $50 in private donations from residents only…

Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s test scores are up. The credit should go to better teaching.

Editor Aug 21, 2019
THE D.C. school system’s central office has seen a fair amount of turmoil in recent years, with controversies and changes in school leadership. So there was some understandable worry that the troubles might be felt in the classroom and…

DCist: Two People, Including A 9 Year Old, Were Killed In A Fire In An Unlicensed Rental

Editor Aug 21, 2019
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling for criminal investigations after two people, including a nine-year-old boy, died after a house fire in an unlicensed rental property in Brightwood.

WTOP: Prosecutors to look into fatal DC fire at unlicensed apartment building

Editor Aug 21, 2019
D.C. and federal prosecutors will investigate Sunday morning’s fatal fire in an unlicensed apartment building.

DCist: Jack Evans Resigned From The Metro Board In A Cloud Of Scandal. Is D.C.’s Other…

Editor Aug 21, 2019
Back in July, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh voted against emergency legislation that would have removed Corbett Price as D.C.’s voting representative on the Metro Board of Directors.

Bisnow: Developers Under Contract To Buy Hechinger Mall, Potentially Setting Up Huge H Street…

Editor Aug 21, 2019
An 8.6-acre shopping center property on the eastern edge of the H Street corridor could soon become D.C.'s next major mixed-use development.

Washington Post: New tour app seeks to correct the Native American narrative in the nation’s capital

Editor Aug 21, 2019
Native Americans aren’t often depicted as equals in art throughout the U.S. Capitol, a building that is at the heart of representative democracy and the notion that all Americans share the same rights.

Curbed: Which is your favorite (or least favorite) D.C. intersection? It may be in this graphic…

Editor Aug 21, 2019
Artist Peter Gorman designed the print for a series on various cities’ intersections

WTOP: Man trapped in apartment after fire gutted DC senior center files $3M lawsuit

Editor Aug 21, 2019
An elderly man who was trapped inside his apartment for five days after a massive fire gutted a senior living complex in D.C. last September has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the property’s management company, saying he suffered…
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DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson this morning distributed the latest version of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Support Act, which is slated for final consideration at an additional legislative meeting…

District Links: DC touts two-year-old FEMS transfusion program as lifesaving success; record fireworks show brings air…

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The DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department is hailing the success of its two-year-old program that enables paramedics to administer whole blood to critically injured and medically unstable…

Kathy Patterson: The mayor and council are killing a key commission created after 9/11

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The DC Council created an expert advisory panel in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This year the mayor and council have agreed to kill the District’s Homeland Security Commission despite…
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