Press Release: New Population, New Year, New Housing
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
January 6, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Recently Released Census Data Highlights Urgency to Build New Housing in DC and Across the Region
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DCist: D.C. Methodists Prepare For Split Of The Denomination Over Gay Marriage
As the United Methodist Church prepares for a historic vote that is expected to officially fracture a denomination already deeply divided over questions of LGBTQ inclusion, D.C- area Methodists are both grieving the coming split and!-->…
District Links: DC Council promised pro-worker measures while overturning Initiative 77, then never…
Not taking the initiative: Just because lawmakers pass a law, it doesn’t mean they also fund it.
DCist: D.C.’s Jewish Community Rallies Against Anti-Semitism Following Recent Attacks
After a series of violent acts sent a chill down the spines of many in the Jewish-American community, more than 100 people bundled against the cold—some wearing yarmulkes or holding Israeli flags—and gathered in Takoma Park on Sunday!-->…
City Paper: Jack Evans Paid the Firm of Former Loose Lips Columnist $4,200 Out of Legal Defense Fund
Former City Paper politics writer Ken Cummins is a longtime private eye. The money was used to pay interns to review recall petitions.
City Paper: Three Men Who Have Lost Loved Ones Have Ideas About Making D.C. Safer
All three men spent time in prison and subsequently completed D.C.’s Pathways Program.
UrbanTurf: MLK Gateway to Break Ground in Historic Anacostia
Groundbreaking is imminent for a new development at one of Anacostia's most prominent intersections.
WAMU: Is Exercise Now A Luxury Item In D.C.?
Inside a narrow room on the second floor of a brick building on U Street, exercise demos are played on loop while a couple dozen adults squat, hoist dumbbells and test the limits of their abs to the pulse of hip-hop-meets-EDM.
WJLA: ABC7 takes an exclusive inside look at the Dupont Underground’s uncertain future
WASHINGTON (WJLA) — The future of Dupont Underground, the abandoned streetcar tunnels turned art and event space, underneath bustling Dupont Circle is uncertain.
Washington Post: D.C. officials passed a law to help tipped workers after repealing a wage increase.…
More than a year after D.C. lawmakers overturned a voter-approved initiative to raise the wages of tipped workers, city officials have yet to implement measures to improve working conditions for food servers and bartenders.
Washingtonian: Woolly Mammoth’s New Leader Wants to Run the Most Woke Theater in Washington
Maria Manuela Goyanes is pushing Woolly to become an artistic standard bearer for the #MeToo, anti-racist era. It’s making some people uncomfortable.
Washington Post: Legionnaires’ disease discovered in D.C. homeless shelter resident
D.C. officials are testing the water supply at a shelter that serves hundreds of homeless men after one of its residents was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease.
Washington Post: Federal officials give green light to red bus lanes
Federal highway officials are giving communities from the District to San Francisco the green light to paint their roads red.
Washington Post: D.C. jail inmates write, take photos and design their own monthly newspaper called…
Warren Allen returned to his classroom recently and sat in front of the computer shaking his head. Allen had been assigned to write a news story on a lecture by best-selling author, preacher and college professor Michael Eric Dyson.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Homicides in D.C. were up again last year. Council members should…
“A CHURCH near my house put up a cross for each of D.C.’s homicide victims this year. And a sign saying 162 homicides happened is already out of date; we’re at 166 as of today.” That tweet from WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle on the last!-->…
Washington Business Journal: The Daily Caller buys new D.C. headquarters out of foreclosure
An affiliate of conservative media outlet The Daily Caller has acquired a downtown D.C. office building via a foreclosure auction, four months after suing the previous owner for a deal that failed to consummate.
WAMU: Bowser Calls For More Affordable Units In New Housing Developments
As part of her goal to build 36,000 additional homes in D.C. by 2025, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration wants to require some new development to include more affordable housing.
Washington Post: Callers threatened to burn down this restaurant with a drag brunch. The queens are…
At exactly 3:01 p.m., Miguel Barajas poured shots of tequila, lining them up on the bar.
Washington Business Journal: National Children’s Museum opening delayed once again
The anticipated opening of the National Children's Museum has once again been pushed back, this time to the end of January.
DCist: New York’s Artists & Fleas, A ‘Maker Marketplace,’ Is Opening In Georgetown
From one trendy New York City export to another, Georgetown’s old Dean & DeLuca space is set to be reincarnated as an artisan market.