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District Links: Mendelson to introduce reprimand resolution on Jack Evans after three called for special committee; Ferebee confirmation; and more

Cuneyt Dil Mar 5, 2019 66

Good Tuesday morning from the Wilson Building, where Council Chairman Phil Mendelson just announced he will introduce a reprimand resolution today on Jack Evans, condemning him for sending business proposals to lobbying firms.

District Links: DC still working on rollout of solutions for opioid overdoses; Mendelson seeking general counsel’s opinion on Jack Evans; and more

Cuneyt Dil Mar 4, 2019 61

Good Monday morning. Some of the top remedies for opioid overdose deaths announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser more than two months ago remain in the planning stages, WaPo reports.

District Links: Post has emails with Jack Evans offering to provide lobbying advice to firms; “tight” budget after revenue projections; and more

Cuneyt Dil Mar 1, 2019 52

TGIF! The District will face a tricky budget picture after losing $47 million in revenue due to the government shutdown.

District Links: Federal grand jury subpoenaed docs related to Jack Evans, Post reports; Metro keeps current hours for at least another year; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 28, 2019 45

Happy Thursday. WaPo has a copy of a federal grand jury subpoena seeking documents related to Jack Evans and his support of a 2016 bill that would have helped digital sign company Digi Outdoor Media.

District government

After split vote on president, new leadership aims to strengthen State Board of Education’s voice

Taylor Mulcahey Feb 27, 2019 650

A new year means new leadership for DC’s State Board of Education (SBOE), and this year’s selections brought fresh evidence of a change in direction. The board elected Ward 3’s Ruth Wattenberg and Ward 8’s Markus Batchelor to one-year…

District Links: As it turns out, that congressman does want answers on sports-betting contract; Metro GM seeks another year of reduced hours; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 27, 2019 62

Happy Wednesday. After days of silence over whether he had actually dropped his inquiry into DC sole-sourcing a contract for sports gambling, Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay tells WaPo he still wants answers.

District Links: Bernie Sanders talks statehood on CNN town hall; Bowser continues lobbying for extended Metro hours; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 26, 2019 39

Good Tuesday morning. CNN held a “town hall” show with Bernie Sanders last night in DC, where two ANC commissioners in the audience got to ask questions to the Democratic presidential candidate.

District Links: Racine talks national agenda in Politico Magazine; case for DC holding first Democratic primary in nation; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 25, 2019 147

Good Monday morning. The Education Committee this afternoon will move the nomination of Lewis Ferebee for DCPS chancellor, which is expected to pass.

District Links: Bowser renominates GOP lawyer to BEGA who was rejected last year; DCPS releases school budgets; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 22, 2019 35

TGIF! Muriel Bowser is doubling down on her nominee to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, again picking the same Republican lawyer whose nomination Charles Allen, the chair of the council’s judiciary committee, didn’t move…

News

DC’s ‘education Grammys’ offer recognition — as well as calls to action

Jake Maher Feb 21, 2019 810

When DC Public Schools honored teachers and administrators at the Standing Ovation ceremony earlier this month, they capped off a challenging year for the school system. Last year DCPS was at the center of a scandal involving inflated…

District Links: How DC lost a federal grant for lead remediation; opinions galore; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 21, 2019 61

Good Thursday morning. City Paper reports on how DC mismanaged a lead remediation grant from the federal government that was first awarded in 2012. Until four months ago, a DC program called Lead Safe Washington gave assistance to help…

Natural Environment

With DC grant in hand, Anacostia Riverkeeper will deploy volunteers to test water quality come May

Sophie Austin Feb 20, 2019 1,425

Anacostia Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization that works to protect and restore the Anacostia River, will bolster its two-year-old water quality monitoring program in May with the help of a $140,000 grant from DC’s Department of Energy…

District Links: Council authorizes sole-source contract for online sports gambling; funding plan agreed upon for Fort Dupont Ice Arena; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 20, 2019 50

Good Wednesday morning. Snow is forecast to change to sleet around midday, according to the Capital Weather Gang.

District government

Funding plan for Fort Dupont ice arena expansion set after extended fight with city

Cuneyt Dil Feb 20, 2019 1,119

Supporters of the Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Southeast reached an agreement with city officials Tuesday to fund the facility’s long-delayed expansion — provided the arena’s nonprofit operator raises $5 million. Mayor Muriel Bowser…

District Links: Top three education officials all studied at same leadership academy; council to vote on online sports betting contract; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 19, 2019 66

Good Tuesday morning. The top three education leaders in DC all have something in common: They went through billionaire Eli Broad educational leadership program.

District Links: Charter teacher let go amid her growing activism; Trayon White settled civil rights lawsuit against city for $75K; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 18, 2019 51

Good Monday morning and happy birthday to George Washington. A new principal at Bridges Public Charter let go one of the school’s most beloved teachers, Liz Koenig, who also happens to be an activist for greater transparency in charters.

District Links: DC continues case for later Metro hours; officials defend lottery operator; concerns over conditions for DC inmates; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 15, 2019 44

TGIF. Advocates for the incarcerated are raising the situation at a facility next to DC Jail, where DCist reports that inmates for the first time in months were allowed to go outdoors.

District government

Amid upswing in gun violence, McDuffie proposes a center for firearm research in DC

Candace Y.A. Montague Feb 14, 2019 925

Can research play a major part in gun violence prevention? One DC Council member aims to find out with his latest bill. Ward 5’s Kenyan McDuffie, who chairs the Committee on Business and Economic Development, has introduced legislation…

District Links: Brandon Todd asks city to pause building Barnaby Woods rain gardens; tenants worry about future with uninhabitable units; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 14, 2019 72

Happy Valentine's Day. Ward 4 Council member Brandon Todd walked up to applause last night in Chevy Chase, where he announced he wanted the city to temporarily halt plans to build rain gardens in Barnaby Woods following a neighborhood…

District Links: Lewis Ferebee quizzed for hours; neighborhood battle over green infrastructure; a push for transparency at charter schools; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 13, 2019 53

Happy Wednesday. Lewis Ferebee testified for five hours until 11:40 p.m. last night at the last of the DC Council's three hearings on whether to confirm him as DC Public Schools chancellor.

Built Environment

Next to Rock Creek Park, neighborhood resistance to District’s rain gardens on city streets

Cuneyt Dil Feb 13, 2019 4,721

In a verdant Northwest neighborhood named after its woods, residents are vowing to resist the city’s efforts to add more greenage with over two dozen rain gardens on local streets. As part of the District’s plan to clean waterways of…

District Links: DC fire department has no reserve ladder trucks; activist accuses MPD of spying on her in lawsuit; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 12, 2019 41

Good Tuesday morning. DC’s fire chief said his department has no backup ladder trucks even as emergency calls are increasing.

News

Woodrow Wilson High School considers namesake’s racism in mulling name change

James Marshall Feb 12, 2019 3,124

A dozen students at Tenleytown’s Woodrow Wilson High School were playing cards at a high-top table and relaxing on easy chairs in the senior lounge while on break between classes. Alex Wilson, the school’s director of academic development,…

Art

Nationwide campaign to #EndGunViolenceTogether spreads message to DC with two new murals

Jennifer Anne Mitchell Feb 11, 2019 1,650

When the architects of a nationwide anti-gun violence campaign deliver some 720,000 postcards to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning urging universal background checks for gun buyers, it will mark the culmination of a monthslong effort that…

District Links: Lewis Ferebee visits lots of schools; opinions on Bowser’s willingness to take more gun cases to federal court; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 11, 2019 53

Good Monday morning. WaPo’s Perry Stein has been following acting DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee’s visits to schools in advance of the DC Council's last hearing on his nomination tomorrow afternoon.

News

New child care center creates 10-year pathway at Anacostia’s Ketcham Elementary

Jake Maher Feb 11, 2019 1,932

Families in Anacostia will now have convenient access to early education programs for children ages 6 weeks to 3 years, thanks to a new child development center at Ketcham Elementary School, the recipient of multiple awards and honors in…

DC History

New institute will explore impact of local DC history on wider political milieu

Diane Gross Feb 11, 2019 1,754

Amid a roomful of local political and education luminaries, Mayor Muriel Bowser and former Mayor Sharon Pratt recently kicked off the Institute of Politics Policy and History (IPPH), a new scholarly endeavor to be housed at the University…

District Links: Moody’s downgrades its rating of DC Lottery contractor; DC Dems don’t reach consensus on when to hold 2020 primary; and more reads

Editor Feb 8, 2019 32

TGIF! Jack Evans sought to rally DC Dems last night to support an early Democratic primary on April 28, 2020. Instead, no consensus emerged — and a few activists even suggested Evans was seeking the earlier primary to disadvantage any…

District Links: Bowser announces new effort to take gun cases to feds, leading critics to blast her for focusing on incarceration; and more reads

Cuneyt Dil Feb 7, 2019 45

Good Thursday morning. City Paper has an interview with the Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott, the former manager of the Park Southern apartment complex in Southeast indicted on federal charges.

District Links: Bowser, U.S. attorney plan to shift more gun cases to federal court; interim DCRA director nominated to full post; and more

Cuneyt Dil Feb 6, 2019 52

Good Wednesday morning. WaPo previews a planned announcement from Muriel Bowser and U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu today, reporting that “scores of D.C. defendants will be prosecuted for federal gun crimes rather than face local charges in the…

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Independent at-large Councilmember Christina Henderson this morning announced that she has switched her party registration to affiliate once again with the Democratic Party — doing so in the wake of…

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Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground this morning on a $19 million modernization of Ward 4's Upshur Recreation Center and the adjoining outdoor pool — a project that will expand a facility that…

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