City Paper: Locker Room Fight Between Cops Raises Questions About Housing Authority Police…
A now-former D.C. Housing Authority police officer believes she was fired for reporting a locker room fight to MPD.
City Paper: Ex-Staffers Say Karim Marshall’s Council Campaign Dogged by Delayed Paychecks,…
Former staffers offer an inside look at Marshall’s campaign, which generated plenty of headlines but didn’t gain much traction.
DCist: D.C. To Pilot Curbside Composting Pickup This Summer
If you’ve ever seen people lugging buckets of food scraps to dump at D.C.’s compost drop-off sites, you know there is a pent-up desire among District residents to recycle their food waste. Last year, 128,000 people used the 10 drop-off…
DCist: D.C. Ends Free COVID-19 Test Distribution At Libraries, Senior Centers
A little over a year after it began, D.C. is ending its free COVID testing distribution at local libraries, according to DC Health.
City Paper: Another Former HSEMA Employee Accuses Chris Rodriguez of Age and Race Discrimination
A new discrimination suit against the HSEMA director echoes a previous complaint about his alleged treatment of older Black employees.
Colbert I. King in The Post: A comedy of errors in D.C., except there’s nothing funny about it
The Keystone Kops were a 1910s silent-screen police force that made up in zeal what it lacked in competence. D.C. government leaders bring them to mind in their response to issues ranging from homeless encampments, to D.C. Housing…
District Links: Wilson pool closed for emergency repairs after DC Health inspection; new lawsuit…
The Wilson Aquatic Center remains closed for emergency repairs days after DC Health inspectors found multiple regulatory violations, and officials haven't provided a timetable for when the popular indoor pool in Ward 3's Tenleytown…
After scathing HUD report, DCHA approves draft procurement policy
DC's beleaguered housing agency is taking steps toward overhauling its contracting policy, following a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) review published last fall that revealed many “systemic problems” with the…
jonetta rose barras: Protecting neighborhood commercial corridors
The disjointed mishmash of architecturally inferior structures mostly resembles a collection of shanties rather than outdoor cafes. There are concrete barriers and bollards that further distort Adams Morgan’s 18th Street NW commercial…
Washington Post: Two-thirds of McPherson Square homeless remain on street, D.C. says
The Park Service shut down the encampment, the largest in the nation’s capital, on Wednesday morning
DCist: Senate GOP Offers D.C. ‘Adult Supervision,’ Pushes To Overturn Criminal Code Bill
Senate Republicans are mounting a full offensive against a bill passed by the D.C. Council overhauling the city’s criminal code, pushing to follow the Republican-led House of Representatives’ move last week to block the bill from taking…
Washington Post: D.C. overpays landlords millions to house the city’s poorest
Paying above-market rents means fewer people are helped by the troubled housing authority
Associated Press: Park Service clears homeless encampment near White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Park Service employees on Wednesday swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House, tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest.
WTOP: Homeless encampment cleared a block from White House; dozens relocated
The National Park Service cleared a D.C. park just a block from the White House, where dozens of people had been living in tents in the small green space.
District Links: Senate fight looms over revised criminal code; WaPo investigation into housing…
The Tennessee senator who is leading efforts to block the Revised Criminal Code Act enacted by the DC Council says he now has the support of all 48 of his fellow Republicans in the Senate — setting up a scenario where just two Democrats…
WTOP: DC mayor proposes student funding increase as council chair criticizes cuts
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans Wednesday to increase per-student funding by about $500 in her proposed budget, detailing a $2.3 billion investment into the city’s more than 100,000 students in public and public charter schools.
Washington Post: St. Elizabeths Hospital settles lawsuit over water crisis, covid
St. Elizabeths Hospital patients settled a lawsuit with the District-owned psychiatric hospital and the city over allegations that the facility failed to provide needed care during an extended water outage in 2019 and the coronavirus…
WTOP: DC settles with St. Elizabeth’s patients after 28-day water outage
Four patients at D.C.’s St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital who lived without water for 28 days and filed suit over the conditions have reached a settlement with the city.
Washington Post: D.C.’s largest homeless encampment is cleared, in shadow of White House
After two weeks of intense outreach and citywide hand-wringing over the future of the homeless campers at McPherson Square, the National Park Service evicted dozens of people from their downtown tents Wednesday morning and arrested two men…
DCist: Bowser Announces Increase In D.C. Schools Spending, But Budget Fight With D.C. Council Awaits
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that she’s proposing a 5.05% increase in the amount of money allocated for each student in the city’s public and charter schools, amounting to an additional $144 million in funding.