WUSA9: ‘They deserve to have a healthy home’ | Poor housing conditions making kids sick…
Yolanda Pinkney said her family has been trapped in a mold-infested home for years. Now, her daughter has asthma that won't go away.
Columbia Heights tenants detail the chronic disrepair and growing frustration that led to their rent…
It is early February and Columbia Heights resident Felipe Salvador says his family hasn’t had functional heating for months.
Instead, he had to buy two portable radiators, one for the bedroom in which his three kids sleep and the…
ABC7: DC makes it hard to fight automated traffic tickets, and makes $113 million in the process
On any given day, about 120 traffic cameras are operating in the District, an area little more than 68 square miles, giving the city one of the highest concentrations of Automated Traffic Enforcement devices, or ATE's, in the country.
Next City: Program Helps DC Homeowners Provide Low-Cost Housing — and Build Wealth
Lawrence Foster lives with his daughter in a three-story rowhouse in Southeast Washington, D.C. The two of them mostly keep to the top two floors of the house, and for a long time, the basement has been unfinished and hardly used. A few…
Washington Business Journal: National Building Museum lays off employees amid financial woes
The National Building Museum laid off 8% of its staff in January to help alleviate financial issues exacerbated by the museum’s temporary closure.
WTOP: ‘Nothing’s guaranteed’: Georgetown coach shares gratitude after heart attack at practice
A Georgetown University coach who had a heart attack during football practice is now sharing his perspective after the near-death experience.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: The Whitelaw gave black people a place to stay when other hotels…
In 1919, a five-story luxury hotel called the Whitelaw opened in the District. Built by black people for black people, the hotel was an elegant response to the entrenchment of racial segregation under President Woodrow Wilson.
DCist: New Bill Would Mandate Lead Testing At All D.C.-Owned Playgrounds With Synthetic Materials
At-large Councilmember Robert White introduced a bill on Tuesday imposing stricter standards on the city to test and remediate publicly-owned playgrounds for hazardous materials like lead. The bill comes in the wake of city analyses last…
DCist: Foggy Bottom Is Getting Its Very Own Food Hall
Western Market, yet another D.C. food hall, is slated to open in the once-struggling interior mall in Foggy Bottom next fall, according to the market’s Facebook page.
Washingtonian: Mayor Bowser Will Sign the Bill Making Go-Go DC’s Official Music on Wednesday
The signing will happen at Culture House, with a celebratory concert to follow.
DCist: Video Exploring Abandoned D.C. High School Prompts Fascination, Concern
A pair of filmmakers who document abandoned buildings and sites have released a video of their visit to Spingarn High School, a D.C. public school with a rich African American history that was closed in 2013.
Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill to Allow D.C. Courts, Public Defender Service to Offer Buyouts…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
February 18, 2020
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to provide the District of Columbia Courts and the Public…
District Links: How DC reformed juvenile detention services to resolve 35-year-old lawsuit; unbuilt…
Happy Tuesday. DC's revitalization can be told through many stories, and one involves the city's juvenile detention reforms.
WUSA9: ‘A complete, full life’ | Family, friends remember DC native, NFL legend Willie…
Wood, 83, of Washington, D.C., passed away February 3 from natural causes.
ABC7: D.C.’s Chief Medical Examiner is also a minister at a Baptist church in Northwest
In churches, you’ll often hear of the pastor referred to as a “Reverend Doctor.”
‘Cherry Blossoms’ captures the history and magic of DC’s floral ambassadors
The 108-year-old gift of more than 3,000 cherry blossom trees from Tokyo to Washington, DC, finds fresh life in a vibrant new keepsake book from Smithsonian Books, Cherry Blossoms: Sakura Collections From the Library of Congress. The slim,…
American Ballet Theatre returns to the Kennedy Center in ‘Giselle’ — and the company continues to…
American Ballet Theatre brought a heartbreakingly beautiful valentine to DC last week. The New York-based dance company performed the classic story ballet Giselle onstage at the Kennedy Center for a seven-day run in a production…
Bisnow: How Rising Sea Levels Threaten East Coast Commercial Real Estate — D.C.: Policymakers Try To…
The District of Columbia, sitting at the nexus of two rivers, has experienced a surge in waterfront development over the last decade, just as rising sea levels have become a larger threat to the city’s riverfront areas.
Washington Post: The enslaved people who built and staffed the White House: An afterthought no more
Three hundred and seven. So far. That’s the number of enslaved men, women and children who can be linked by historians to the building and staffing of the White House beginning in 1792 and lasting through the first half of the 19th…
Washington Post: After 35 years, a lawsuit over ‘inhumane’ juvenile detention in D.C. has led to…
In 1985, when the District was still warehousing juvenile offenders in a pair of decrepit, vermin-infested detention centers — each rife with violence and lacking any meaningful health care or rehabilitation programs — a group of lawyers…