Press Release: Celebrate MLK Weekend of Service by Cleaning Up Rock Creek
News Release — Rock Creek Conservancy
DC-Area Volunteers Remove Trash and Invasive Plants from Our Urban Oasis
Bethesda, MD (December 30, 2019) - From Saturday, Jan. 18 to Monday, Jan. 20 Rock Creek Conservancy will host its…
Press Release: AG Racine Leads Multistate Coalition Opposing Trump Effort that Puts Haitian Born…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
December 30, 2019
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
21 Attorneys General Argue in Court Brief that the Trump Administration Illegally Terminated Temporary Protected Status…
District Links: Trump’s limo nixes “End Taxation Without Representation” plates;…
Good Monday afternoon. President Trump’s limos no longer bear license plates with “End Taxation Without Representation,” the NY Post reports.
WTOP: AT&T brings its 5G network to DC area
AT&T’s 5G network is now live in the Washington, D.C. region.
Washington Post: Firefighters help seniors evacuate from major fire in Southwest apartment building
Smoke in the first-floor apartment was so thick that firefighter Ralph Thompson could not see the faces of the man and woman inside, inches from his own.
WTOP: DC might go batty: Public hearing to be held on naming little brown bat as official ‘state’…
A mouse eared microbat with two sets of teeth could be D.C.’s official “state” mammal.
Ken Ludwig’s new play shares how his own parents met — trading letters during World War II
Once you know who wrote the play, there's little doubt about whether Dear Jack, Dear Louise has a happy ending. The playwright — Ken Ludwig, one of DC’s most prolific and most produced comedic theater writers — is the younger son of the…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: A teen with autism got new shoes, D.C. kids saw wishes granted and a man…
Handwritten notes from children sometimes reach Ron Fitzsimmons, and he doesn’t read them.
ABC7: DPW to enforce bike lane fines in new way in 2020
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Cyclists in D.C. are fed up with drivers blocking bike lanes.
Washington Post: Prisoners free their minds in Georgetown University class behind bars
Locked up since he was a teenager, Roy Middleton basked in a moment of renewal one recent evening at a chapel in the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility. He was about to be released after spending more than half his life behind bars for a…
NBC4: Is Rat Birth Control Working? District Still Unsure Despite Company’s Early Claims
It sounded like a crazy idea: birth control for rats.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. is right to remove barriers for selective schools. But they…
D.C. SCHOOLS are making changes to the admission policies for selective high schools so that more students will get a better chance to enjoy those schools’ advantages. It’s good that the system wants to remove barriers to opportunity, but…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Reminds Residents to Schedule Christmas Tree Collection Appointment
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Public Works
December 27, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Reggie Sanders (DPW)
Residents Should Call 311 to Schedule an Appointment with the…
Marc Schindler and Tyrone Walker in The Post: Maryland should follow D.C.’s lead on youth…
The justice system in Maryland continues to be plagued by racial injustice. More than 70 percent of people in Maryland’s prisons (double the national average) and almost 80 percent of people serving at least 10 years are black.
Brian Wheeler in The Post: School closures in D.C. will further traumatize already vulnerable…
In 2013, the PBS documentary “180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School” described Washington Metropolitan High School as “an alternative school with a devoted staff. To district leaders, it is a failure. To many of the school’s…
Washington Business Journal: The next big project at St. Elizabeths East? Parking.
The next big development on the St. Elizabeths East campus will ease the way for all the projects to follow.
Colbert King in The Post: D.C. is closing out 2019 with 163 homicides. When will this violence end?
At least 100 men, women and children who are alive on New Year’s Day 2020 will have been shot, stabbed or beaten to death in our nation’s capital by this time next year.
WTOP: DC’s Newseum enters its final days
If you haven’t been to the Newseum, you only have a few days left.
The DC Lineup for this weekend: finales, free books and family dance
The District closes out the year saying goodbye to two local cultural institutions: the Newseum and the music venue Gypsy Sally’s. Seasonal festivities like a Kwanzaa book giveaway, Christmas donation drive, holiday fundraiser, bar…
District Links: App will let rez report traffic violations, road dangers; WaPo writes about homeless…
TGIF! District residents will soon be able to use a new locally developed app to report traffic violations — and the department that oversees taxis and ride sharing companies will have access to the data, which will go into a complaint…