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Happy Wednesday. The DC Council gave initial approval yesterday to a budget that aims to make up plummeting revenue due to the pandemic in part by increasing taxes on gasoline and some businesses, but lawmakers voted down a proposal to…

Happy Monday. The owner of Washington's NFL franchise, Dan Snyder, announced last Friday the team will review its name, after stadium sponsor FedEx urged a change and Nike wiped out all of the team's merchandise from its online store shop.…

Happy Thursday. FedEx, which has naming rights for the Washington football team's stadium, has announced it wants the franchise to change its name. "We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team…

Happy July. DC statehood doesn't have a shot at passing the GOP-controlled Senate, but Republicans are nonetheless ratcheting up their rhetoric against enfranchising the District's residents, with some comments seen as painting…

Happy Tuesday. The NAACP announced yesterday it will move its headquarters from Baltimore to a particularly meaningful DC location: the site of the building that heralded the rebirth of the neighborhood around 14th and U streets NW.

Happy Monday. Council members had varied reactions today to Judiciary and Public Safety Committee chair Charles Allen's proposed reforms to DC police.

Happy Thursday. The DC Council remains in the early stages of its budget deliberations, but it's already making waves with a $15M cut to the mayor's proposed spending for the Metropolitan Police Department.

Happy Wednesday. Protests near the White House are again setting up a clash between President Donald Trump and Mayor Muriel Bowser over the appropriate response. Hundreds of unarmed National Guardsmen will be deployed tonight to national…

Good Tuesday morning. Police used pepper spray and a low-flying helicopter at Lafayette Square last night to repel protestors who tried to topple a statue of former President Andrew Jackson.

Good Monday morning. DC moves further into reopening today, as limited indoor shopping and dining can resume at stores and restaurants, and gyms and nail salon can also reopen with some restrictions.

Happy Thursday. DC has seen 14 days of sustained reductions in community spread of COVID-19, health officials reported this morning. That's one of the key metrics being used to determine whether the District is ready to move to Phase Two…

Happy Tuesday. This morning's save-the-date announcement from Steny Hoyer garnered local and national headlines for DC statehood.

Happy Monday. Former at-large Council member Vincent Orange is hoping for a political comeback, signing up to run as an independent for his former seat — four years after the longtime Democrat lost re-election.

TGIF. Muriel Bowser will join three other big-city mayors on Sunday for a CNN town hall about race issues.

Good Thursday evening. What's in a name? Amid rising attention to DC statehood, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton joined Rep. Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio in introducing legislation to designate DC's mayor as governor and the DC Council as the…

Happy Wednesday. The DC government is ramping up its contact tracing capabilities, a key aspect of efforts to progress to the next phase in the city's reopening. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC health officials say the earliest the District…

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council voted unanimously to approve police reform legislation, bringing to fruition ideas brought up at public hearings in past years that hadn't gotten legislators' support at the time.

Happy Monday. With the DC Council set to meet tomorrow amid the ongoing protests over police brutality, local leaders are expected to debate and vote on a police reform measure.

TGIF. Mayor Muriel Bowser drew national coverage today when the DC Department of Public Works had artists paint a massive “Black Lives Matter” mural across 16th Street NW and installed “Black Lives Matter Plaza” signs across from Lafayette…

Happy Thursday. She's hardly alone in doing so, but Mayor Muriel Bowser is explicitly tying the District's case for statehood to public objections to the federal government's militarized response to the ongoing demonstrations against…