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From Howard to the White House? DC campus astir over Kamala Harris

Zoe Poindexter Jul 16, 2019

On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Kamala Harris announced in a TV appearance that she was running for president in 2020. Her next stop was her alma mater: Howard University. Harris, the junior U.S. senator from California,…

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Amid DC’s unemployment problems, training offers ‘Digital Hope’ for homeless

Zoe Poindexter Sep 5, 2018

The Church of the Epiphany looks different on a Saturday afternoon. There are no robed choir members singing hymns. The black iron gate, usually wide open, is padlocked shut, and the only way in is through a back door in the alley, propped…

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District Links: DC officials blast bill to restrict local taxing authority ahead of key vote; House Dems decry GOP…

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Ahead of a key committee vote tomorrow, DC officials are blasting consideration of recently introduced House legislation that would block the local government from imposing or increasing any tax or…

District Links: Judge orders repairs at five buildings in AG’s case against a ‘slumlord empire’; DC…

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A federal judge has ordered immediate repairs to address dangerous and illegal conditions at five apartment buildings owned and controlled by Ali "Sam" Razjooyan and his mother.

District Links: House committee set to vote on bill to limit DC’s ability to alter local taxes; Commanders stadium…

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The GOP chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday introduced legislation to block DC leaders from imposing or increasing any tax or fee — or amending the District's…

jonetta rose barras: Elissa Silverman returns to the DC Council

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It could be, as some people have suggested, that Elissa Silverman's arrival back to the John A. Wilson Building as an at-large councilmember is karma's work. She might claim otherwise, saying that…

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