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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…

Happy Wednesday. Two of the three DC Council incumbents facing challengers in yesterday’s Democratic primary have clearly prevailed — even with potentially tens of thousands of absentee ballots still left to count. The other, Ward 4’s…

Happy Election Day. Voters this afternoon and this evening reported lengthly wait times at many of the District's 20 vote centers as they waited to cast ballots in the primary — with many residents still having to wait in line for several…

Good Monday evening. Moments before the curfew announced earlier today by Mayor Muriel Bowser went into effect at 7 p.m., President Donald Trump vowed "swift and decisive action to protect our capital" — and described the District's…

TGIF. As the District took its initial steps today toward reopening, Mayor Muriel Bowser used the occasion to announce initiatives that she says will "reimagine roads and public space."

Happy Thursday. With Tuesday's primary drawing ever closer, it remains unclear how the pandemic will affect turnout. The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot was Tuesday, but 20 voting centers are open daily throughout the city…