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Warming winters are making cherry blossoms bloom earlier, potentially putting their flowers at risk

Gabe Castro-Root Mar 23, 2023
When Jeff Reinbold, the National Park Service’s superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, unveiled on March 1 this year’s prediction for cherry blossom peak bloom, he prefaced the announcement with a note of caution. …

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District Links: House panel presses DC on use of AI to identify vacant homes; feds sue UDC over in-state tuition for…

Sep 11, 2026 14
A new initiative from the DC Department of Buildings to identify vacant and blighted properties across the city is drawing scrutiny from the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform…

District Links: DC officials celebrate $41M expansion of historic Southeast Library; Virginia senators renew push to…

Sep 10, 2026 16
Mayor Muriel Bowser joined other DC leaders this morning to celebrate the reopening of the historic Southeast Library in the Capitol Hill neighborhood after a $41 million rehabilitation and expansion…

District Links: Expanded news site NOTUS rebrands with sunny new name; interim publisher and CEO lands permanent post at…

Sep 9, 2026 17
After a rapid expansion throughout the spring and summer, the news site NOTUS today rebranded as The Washington Sun, a name selected to reflect the publication's stated aim of boosting DC-based…

District Links: Lonnie Bunch announces retirement from embattled Smithsonian; ousted Kennedy Center chair buys recently…

Sep 8, 2026 25
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution since June 2019, today announced his retirement from the post atop the sprawling museum, education and research complex — an…
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