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With DC General shelter set to close, Playtime Project opens new doors

Naomi Harris Jul 25, 2018 960

Twenty-four-year-old Sherrice Evans first discovered the room full of toys and children after her daughter ran off to give a stranger a hug. The stranger, who was a volunteer, and the Quality Inn ballroom full of toys were both part of a…

News

DC officials look to hone new school report cards for December release

Taylor Mulcahey Jul 19, 2018 1,010

By the end of the year, parents will be able to compare all the public schools in the District — both traditional and charter — using one tool. But with work on a final design underway, the inclusion of a one- to five-star rating for each…

DC History

Marie Reed students uncover the story of their school

Jennifer Anne Mitchell Jul 16, 2018 2,830

While designing a historical exhibit for their school, students at Marie Reed Elementary School found one particularly rich source of inspiration. Before her death in 1969, Bishop Marie Reed was a powerful force in the civic life of…

Arts and Culture

African American Civil War Memorial and Museum celebrating 20 years

Naomi Harris Jul 11, 2018 2,473

A good preacher would say a story has a beginning, middle and end, according to the founder of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, Frank Smith. For the museum he spearheaded, the beginning came in the 1800s, but the ending…

Built Environment

Iconic Chevy Chase diner closes after 30 years

Kate Oczypok Jul 11, 2018 1,261

The American City Diner has closed its doors after operating for three decades as an iconic destination on Connecticut Avenue NW. Steve Salis, the owner of Kramerbooks & Afterwords and Ted’s Bulletin, is taking over the diner space,…

Jim Knight: Justice Housing Partners Fund will increase equity for families

Commentary Jul 9, 2018 538

Jubilee Housing launched in 1973 when members of Church of the Saviour saw a need to provide clean, safe and affordable housing in their neighborhood of Adams Morgan. Working together, justice-minded community members pooled their resources…

Features

Student journalists at Wilson High’s Beacon look to build on high-profile year

Taylor Mulcahey Jul 6, 2018 1,452

Maya Wilson squeezed through the crowd that packed Pennsylvania Avenue for the March for Our Lives. She was trying to reach the nearest Starbucks — anywhere with Wi-Fi — to send updates to be published on the Huffington Post’s social media…

District government

DC should tie tax breaks to union pay for construction workers, report says

Cuneyt Dil Jul 3, 2018 540

The District is too quick to give tax breaks to developers without negotiating better pay for workers on projects like the multibillion-dollar Wharf, a new report from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute argues. The 21-page report —…

District government

Meditation garden opens as part of efforts to make better use of city’s smallest parks

Samuel Breslow Jul 2, 2018 1,746

When Pierre Charles L’Enfant drew diagonal boulevards cutting throughout his grid plan for DC in 1791, he created hundreds of tiny triangular parks in the leftover spaces near intersections. Ever since, many of these have remained patches…

Homelessness

Gunther Stern: Homelessness is often a symptom of untreated mental illness

Commentary Jul 2, 2018 1,189

More than 3 million Americans — 1.1 percent of the U.S. population — have schizophrenia, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. But within the homeless population, between a fifth and a third are believed to suffer from…

Homelessness

Council honors DC youth soccer team that represented U.S. at Street Child World Cup

Kate Oczypok Jul 2, 2018 582

The U.S. may not have made it to the World Cup this year, but nine DC high schoolers did. The students — all of whom have experienced or been at risk for homelessness — were honored by the DC Council last week for their participation in the…

Built Environment

Vacant Crummell School at center of latest development battle in Ward 5

Cuneyt Dil Jun 28, 2018 1,553

Luxury units and craft distilleries have marked Ivy City’s resurgence, but the Crummell School site, vacant since the early 1980s, remains a vestige of a forlorn period in the Northeast neighborhood’s history. The District plans to sell…

jonetta rose barras: On the border of homelessness

jonetta rose barras Jun 28, 2018 346

She stood at the pay phone booth, near the corner of Missouri Avenue and Georgia Avenue NW. She had been there for more than 20 minutes, negotiating with the telephone company over restoration of services. That morning when she left her…

Homelessness

DC Central Kitchen serves up opportunity even amid search for a new home

Kate Oczypok Jun 27, 2018 810

Founded in 1989 as the nation’s first “community kitchen,” DC Central Kitchen uses food as a tool to build better communities. Each year it serves millions of meals to those in need and trains for culinary careers men and women who have had…

Homelessness

Brian Hart: ‘Don’t just see the light, be the light’

Commentary Jun 27, 2018 648

Imagine if you or your children had to sleep on a bare floor because you lacked beds, or you always ate standing up because you had no table or chairs. It’s not so easy to work or study at night when you have to do everything in your lap.…

District government

Outdoor classrooms, other enhancements slated for Kingman Island parkland

Katherine Saltzman Jun 26, 2018 1,059

Despite extensive collaboration and support among DC officials for the improvement and restoration of Kingman Island in the Anacostia River, some advocates worry that the District’s budget for the construction projects may not cover the…

Built Environment

Shelter construction delays bring questions over vetting of subcontractor

Cuneyt Dil Jun 26, 2018 1,255

DC Council members this week grilled District officials over delays in constructing planned family homeless shelters in wards 7 and 8, while officials maintained both shelters will still open on schedule in the fall. The two shelters…

Built Environment

Long-awaited renovation of historic West End school gets underway

Samuel Breslow Jun 20, 2018 1,459

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined city officials and corporate executives Monday to celebrate the start of long-awaited renovations to the Thaddeus Stevens School in the West End and the construction of an office building on the school’s former…

District government

Wage initiative that most leaders opposed passes while incumbents sweep primary races

Chris Kain Jun 20, 2018 542

The District’s Democrats gave incumbents dominating victories Tuesday even as voters in Tuesday’s low-turnout primary election ignored the advice of elected officials by passing Initiative 77 to eliminate the separate minimum wage for…

District government

Incumbent Nadeau draws three challengers in Ward 1 council race

Cuneyt Dil Jun 19, 2018 844

Following an underdog victory against Jim Graham four years ago, Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau has faced criticism from her opponents for not prioritizing constituent services. Graham, who died last June, drew longtime support…

District government

State Committee races a referendum on DC’s Democratic Party

Graham Vyse Jun 18, 2018 661

Anita Bonds is getting it from all sides. Ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections, the at-large DC Council member and District-politics stalwart is facing criticism from two challengers, Marcus Goodwin and Jeremiah Lowery,…

District government

Combative rhetoric marks challenge to Ward 6 incumbent

Cuneyt Dil Jun 18, 2018 2,250

A year ago, no one would have predicted there was enough anger in Ward 6 for an insurgency against DC Council member Charles Allen — not even Lisa Hunter, Allen’s opponent in the Democratic primary. Hunter jumped into the race because,…

Tipped minimum wage debate momentum could extend to other solutions

Mark Lieberman Jun 18, 2018 148

Debate over the merits and drawbacks of various minimum-wage structures has dominated local political conversation for weeks, if not months. But regardless of the Initiative 77 election outcome and the fate of the tip credit, issues of…

A look at Initiative 77 from those inside the push for and against the ballot measure

Andria Moore Jun 18, 2018 474

Seventeen years in the restaurant industry makes Karim Soumah a veteran in his profession. “There are three types of people in the restaurant industry,” Soumah said. “You’ve got your bar/wine people — they know their drinks better than…

Shadow delegation candidates aim to push DC statehood forward

Kate Oczypok Jun 18, 2018 273

Not everyone takes the positions seriously, but the District’s statehood delegation to Congress is steeped in history. Puerto Rico now has one, and Tennessee, Michigan, California, Minnesota, Oregon and Alaska similarly had elected…

Elections

Education takes center stage at forum on citywide DC Council races

Taylor Mulcahey Jun 17, 2018 263

With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…

District government

Officials cut ribbon at renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library

Scott Nover Jun 17, 2018 1,212

Hundreds of local residents, officials, activists and onlookers crammed into the lobby and second-floor overhang of the renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library on Saturday, awaiting a ribbon-cutting nearly two years in the making.…

Elections

Longtime incumbent Norton squares off against challenger Ford for House seat

Naomi Harris Jun 17, 2018 211

The District’s representative to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing something she has seldom seen in the 14 elections after her initial hard-fought win: an opponent in the Democratic…

District government

Tipped minimum wage debate hails from long-developing advocacy group

Mark Lieberman Jun 17, 2018 460

Voters on Tuesday will decide the fate of Initiative 77, which proposes to gradually eliminate the city’s tipped minimum wage and close the existing gap between tipped and non-tipped workers. The initiative ended up on the DC primary ballot…

District government

Citywide incumbents face challenges from the left flank

Cuneyt Dil Jun 15, 2018 633

Phil Mendelson isn’t interested in hearing his opponent claim to be the progressive candidate in the race. Walking out of a debate where DC Council Chair Mendelson and challenger Ed Lazere traded barbs over education scandals, Mendelson…

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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…

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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…

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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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