Who’s lined up to run in the 2022 primaries?
Nominating petitions for DC’s June 21 primary election won’t be available until Jan. 28, according to the DC Board of Elections calendar. In the meantime, prospective candidates have begun filing with the DC Office of Campaign Finance or,…
Can the mayor deliver on her call for equitable distribution of 12,000 new affordable housing units…
When the District government began planning the construction of a six-story homeless shelter on a publicly owned lot next to a police station in Cleveland Park, some neighbors had concerns. The density of the proposed building, they…
From Howard to the White House? DC campus astir over Kamala Harris
On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Kamala Harris announced in a TV appearance that she was running for president in 2020. Her next stop was her alma mater: Howard University.
Harris, the junior U.S. senator from California,…
Nearly 4 years after initial presentation, ‘Lady Bird’ project in AU Park still struggling to take…
A developer’s plan to build 219 residential units and new retail on the site of a long-vacant supermarket in American University Park is still nowhere close to groundbreaking, stymied by fierce resistance from some neighbors ever since its…
jonetta rose barras: time to rescue traditional public schools east of the river
The Ward 7 Education Council gathered last week to discuss DC Council member Charles Allen’s Public School Transparency Amendment Act 2019. As written, the proposed legislation would mandate public charter schools’ adherence to the same…
jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?
“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…
A Connecticut Avenue apartment complex shows effects of a legal loophole and cracks in city housing…
In recent months, one Connecticut Avenue apartment building has become a focal point for criticism of the city’s subsidized housing programs, with problems reaching the attention of the police and DC Council and spawning debates over how…
Careless employee floods DC’s crime lab, soaking four floors and backing up critical wastewater…
A critical wastewater system backed up and flooded four floors of DC’s $215 million forensic sciences laboratory in Southwest DC after a careless employee left a faucet running, The DC Line has learned.
The incident — which had not been…
As DDOT studies options for Palisades Trolley Trail, questions arise over what’s most suitable
What’s now a grassy footpath along the Potomac River from Foxhall Road to Galena Place NW along the former Glen Echo trolley route could become a full-fledged pedestrian and bike trail connecting Georgetown and the Palisades, depending on…
The DC Lineup for the spring: Learn about world cultures, chocolate, the environment and more
Spring 2019 has finally arrived in the District after a long, stormy winter. For some local residents, it’s the return of baseball to Nationals Park that marked the change in seasons. Others see the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin —…
Groups pursue community engagement after Anacostia River Pool study documents the idea’s feasibility
A new study concludes that a swimming facility in the Anacostia River is feasible, suggesting that community interest should drive the project forward.
The DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) collaborated with the Anacostia…
Officials cut ribbon at renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library
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.…
Long-vacant Truxton Circle school may become community center, Peace Corps museum
Running across a vacant or blighted building in DC isn’t uncommon, much to the chagrin of residents. In May 2016, Greater Greater Washington put the “official count” of vacant and blighted buildings in the city at approximately 1,200, but…
District Links: Council advances bill to revise AC switchover dates in rental buildings; new limits…
A changing climate — and seasonal complaints from residents of multifamily rental buildings over heat and air conditioning — prompted the DC Council yesterday to give initial approval to legislation revising dates for conversion in the…
District Links: AG files suit over lax security at Ward 8 apartment building; judge orders repairs…
Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced a lawsuit against the owners of a Ward 8 apartment building, alleging they have repeatedly failed to implement basic security measures such as safeguarding entrances and vacant units.
District Links: Bowser cuts ribbon on modernized Malcolm X Elementary; DISB approves health…
Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials today marked the $67 million modernization of Malcolm X Elementary School in Ward 8, with a ribbon-cutting that featured the eldest daughter of the school's namesake.
District Links: Bowser prods council to OK priority projects this fall; DC preservation official…
Mayor Muriel Bowser today identified a handful of key economic development projects that she is pushing the DC Council to advance this fall in the final months of her 12-year tenure as the city's chief executive.
jonetta rose barras: Is the DC Council at-large race in the general election mostly a fight among…
Technically, as chair of the DC Statehood Green Party, Darryl Moch is the leader of the city’s oldest progressive political organization. That should give him a leg up in the race for an at-large DC Council seat in the November general…
District Links: Judge orders advance notice of major changes to Kennedy Center amid demolition…
The DC Council returned from summer recess this week, and its first legislative meeting of the fall is scheduled for Tuesday.
District Links: Bipartisan bill would upgrade faded MLK plaque at Lincoln Memorial; former AG…
Amid concerns that a fading, nearly unreadable plaque at the Lincoln Memorial fails to appropriately honor the site's legacy as the venue for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark "I Have a Dream" speech, newly proposed bipartisan…
District Links: Judge again blocks adding Trump’s name at Kennedy Center; new report warns of…
A federal court today ruled against a renewed effort to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center's exterior, with the judge reiterating his earlier ruling that doing so in any form would require congressional approval.
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District Links: Two local landlords reach $9.3M in settlements over AG’s price-fixing…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced $9.3 million in recent settlements with two landlords accused of participating in a price-fixing scheme to keep residential rents artificially high.
District Links: House panel presses DC on use of AI to identify vacant homes; feds sue UDC over…
A new initiative from the DC Department of Buildings to identify vacant and blighted properties across the city is drawing scrutiny from the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its chair, Rep. James Comer of…
District Links: DC officials celebrate $41M expansion of historic Southeast Library; Virginia…
Mayor Muriel Bowser joined other DC leaders this morning to celebrate the reopening of the historic Southeast Library in the Capitol Hill neighborhood after a $41 million rehabilitation and expansion project.
District Links: Expanded news site NOTUS rebrands with sunny new name; interim publisher and CEO…
After a rapid expansion throughout the spring and summer, the news site NOTUS today rebranded as The Washington Sun, a name selected to reflect the publication's stated aim of boosting DC-based coverage of national politics and policy as…
District Links: Lonnie Bunch announces retirement from embattled Smithsonian; ousted Kennedy Center…
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution since June 2019, today announced his retirement from the post atop the sprawling museum, education and research complex — an institution that has come under blistering…
District Links: AG files suit over ‘shocking’ conditions at Ward 5 apartment building;…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb yesterday announced a new lawsuit against the owner and manager of a 10-story affordable apartment building at 1400 Florida Ave. NE in an effort to force immediate repairs to address "severe and pervasive"…
District Links: DC sees 30% decline in opioid overdoses amid Naloxone distribution; Supreme Court…
The Bowser administration is reporting a 30% reduction in opioid overdoses in the District over the past year, attributable in part to the distribution of 510,000 free Naloxone kits with medication able to rapidly reverse an overdose ahead…
District Links: J.O. Wilson, Barnard ribbon-cuttings mark first week back for DCPS students; Meta…
With DC Public Schools back in session this week, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the 2026-27 school year by highlighting newly modernized facilities at J.O. Wilson Elementary in Ward 6 and Barnard Elementary in Ward 4 — two of the latest…
District Links: Officials mark school year’s start with renaming, expansion of Ward 3 high…
Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials yesterday celebrated a $91 million expansion of the newly renamed John R. Thompson Jr. High School on MacArthur Boulevard in Ward 3.
District Links: DC reports modest rise in student test scores; six MPD employees accused of overtime…
The Bowser administration today reported a fourth consecutive year of increased proficiency rates on the annual statewide assessments taken by students in DC Public Schools and DC public charter schools.
District Links: Kennedy Center renovations prompt NSO concert season at Lisner, other area venues;…
The National Symphony Orchestra made headlines today with its long-awaited season announcement, which includes concerts scattered across six regional venues as the Kennedy Center undertakes a two-year renovation that will shutter most of…
District Links: Bowser returns another budget bill unsigned to council; Trump admin asks Supreme…
Weeks after returning DC's local fiscal year 2027 budget to the DC Council unsigned, Mayor Muriel Bowser has done the same with the Budget Support Act, the lengthy annual legislation that contains the legal provisions necessary for…