District Links: DC cuts ties with summer jobs provider for youth; Ward 5 family homeless shelter to open next month; and more reads
Good Monday morning. The Ward 5 family homeless shelter will open next month, Curbed reports …
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District Links: DC set to let disability services contract expire despite outcry; Phil Mendelson attends Brandon Todd fundraiser; and more
TGIF! Everywhere-man Bill Rice snapped pix at a Brandon Todd fundraiser last night, with Mayor Muriel Bowser in attendance. Joining the Green Team crowd: Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who called Todd an “important ally,” Rice tweets.
District Links: Local firm faults effectiveness of CBE program in helping local businesses win contracts; Kim Kardashian visits DC Jail; and more
Happy Thursday. DC often touts its Certified Business Enterprise program as helping boost “small and local” companies win government contracts.
District Links: Planning director pushing for more housing faces skeptical Ward 3 Dems; Sibley works with ‘innovators’ to boost health EOTR; and more
Happy Wednesday. DC Office of Planning chief Andrew Trueblood is proving adept at tiptoeing around the city’s development polemics when facing a skeptical, potentially hostile crowd.
District Links: Former Stadium Club owner gets 6 months for illegal campaign donations; DC at 95 murders this year, up 10% from 2018; and more reads
Good Tuesday morning. There is a new citywide tenant union, launched during a town hall at All Souls Church in Columbia Heights on Saturday.
District Links: Illegal guns, repeat offenders blamed after seven murders in four days; Post editorial board weighs in on lottery contract; and more
Happy Monday. At the mayor's press conference today on crime, a reporter counted seven murders in four days — a grim tally that recalls the violence of the 1990s and early 2000s.
District Links: McDuffie’s cousin named on document as head of firm with $3M lottery contract — he denies ties; Grosso challenger drops out; and more
TGIF! Council member Kenyan McDuffie’s cousin is listed on a document as heading a firm that would score $3 million from a no-bid gambling contract, WaPo reported last night.
District Links: Vince Gray confirms re-election bid as Ward 7 race shapes up; Mendelson, Silverman talk more about last week’s strife; and more
Good Thursday morning. The race for the Ward 7 DC Council seat is already shaping up, with two candidates filing papers to run and one advisory neighborhood commissioner with an exploratory committee saying she will decide “very soon” on…
District Links: Sterling Tucker, first chair of elected DC Council, dies; GOP lawmakers on Hill seek more on Metro’s ethics probe into Evans; and more
Good Wednesday morning. Sterling Tucker, the first chairman of the Home Rule-era DC Council, died at 95, the council announced yesterday via Twitter.
District Links: How DC is planning for climate change, which may bring weeks of 100+ degree days by 2050; protests outside Bowser’s home; and more
Happy Tuesday. Last week’s flash flooding highlights the importance of “resilience planning,” the city’s Office of Resilience says.
District Links: A fifth of EOTR residents believe they will be pushed out in three years; 64% of Americans oppose statehood in poll; and more
Happy Monday. In Gallup's first-ever national poll on DC statehood, 64% oppose the idea, according to results released today.
District Links: Feds grow Evans probe with more subpoenas; AG begins investigating NRA; fare evasion costs $36M, Metro says; weekend reads; and more
TGIF! The drip-drip out of the federal investigation into Council member Jack Evans continues, with subpoenas handed out to two Metro board members.
District Links: How Council Chairman Phil Mendelson got his way this week; SUV driver kills two; more on DC’s depleted security fund; and more
Good Thursday morning. You’ve heard of McMillan, the famously stalled redevelopment project that was recently upheld by the DC Court of Appeals. There are lesser-known projects in the District also stymied by neighborhood resistance.
District Links: Vote-trading accusations, Evans ethics dominate last legislative meeting before recess; DC spent $1.7M on July 4 security; and more
Happy Wednesday. Two close votes stand out from yesterday's DC Council meeting: one to narrowly approve a sports gambling contract shrouded in controversy and another that saved Jack Evans from further humiliation.
District Links: Evans set to lose his finance committee as McDuffie gains more oversight; sports betting contract may come down to one vote; and more
Happy Tuesday. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has divvied up the spoils from Jack Evans' soon-to-be-dead Finance and Revenue Committee, and some council members are unhappy with where key agencies are heading.
District Links: David Grosso first council member to call for Jack Evans to resign; Gallup polling nationwide on DC statehood; and more
Happy Monday to everyone but the rain. Amid a flood of new developments on the Jack Evans ethics imbroglio, David Grosso became the first council member to say the veteran Ward 2 legislator should resign from the DC Council.
District Links: DC to demolish, renovate public housing complexes; Silverman seeking to remove Metro board rep who falsely backed up Evans; and more
Happy Independence Day Eve. The Post scoops that nearly $2.5 million will be taken out of the cash-strapped National Park Service budget to pay for Trump’s expanded Fourth of July celebration.
District Links: Jack Evans’ meeting with colleagues fails to stem tide of ethics questions; Mendelson to hire law firm for investigation; and more
Seated in a cramped conference room for two hours today, Jack Evans tried to assuage his 12 DC Council colleagues about his ethical standing in the midst of multiple investigations. But not a single legislator appeared to soften their…
District Links: Details of proposed sports betting subcontractors revealed; Trump wants tanks for Fourth of July; and more reads
Happy Monday. There’s quite a bit still in flux for Trump’s Fourth of July event, including whether there will be parading tanks …
District Links: Grosso gets at-large challenger from Southwest; Evans’ $1.5M loan to repay ex-wife; feds subpoena Metro docs in Evans probe; and more
TGIF! Independent at-large DC Council member David Grosso has a challenger getting started early.