Washington Business Journal: Jubilee Housing buys church in Adams Morgan, plans housing for people…
Jubilee Housing Inc. is buying up more property in Adams Morgan, with plans to convert a church into temporary housing for formerly incarcerated people.
UrbanTurf: Amid Comp Plan Conversation, DC Hosts Forum on History of Disparate Housing Distribution
In recent months, DC's Office of Planning has hosted a series of open houses on proposed updates to the Comprehensive Plan in DC's eight wards. Immediately following a meeting this weekend at Wilson High School in Ward 3, the city built!-->…
City Paper: D.C. Wants to Shutter Washington Metropolitan High. But Students Value Their School.
“It’s a really upsetting feeling. I don’t want to go anywhere else.”
WTOP: DC tavern Hook Hall transforms into rustic ski lodge
Hook Hall — the tavern and events space in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood between Columbia Heights and Petworth — has turned its backyard into a ski lodge for the winter.
WTOP: After 51 years behind microphone, WTOP’s Chris Core set to ‘sign off’
In more than five decades as a broadcaster, WTOP’s Chris Core has spent most of his life talking on the radio, but next Friday’s “Core Values” commentary will be his last: Core is retiring.
Washington Business Journal: Jack Evans drama consumed the D.C. Council in 2019. The end is all but…
Jack Evans opened 2019 as the D.C. Council’s longest-tenured member and certainly one of its most powerful and influential, despite a waft of scandal that originated the year before.
Washington Post: Business groups that helped win Metro funding launch campaign to improve region’s…
The alliance of business and nonprofit groups that successfully lobbied for last year’s historic Metro funding agreement wants to use its clout to dramatically improve the Washington region’s bus system.
Press Release: DC Democratic Party Calls for Jack Evans to Resign as National Committeeman
News Release — DC Democratic Party
December 9, 2019 | For Immediate Release
WASHINGTON, DC — In response to mounting evidence that DC Councilmember Jack Evans committed serious ethical violations and abused the public’s trust as an!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Washington Post: ‘I’m heartbroken’: Congregants prepare to vacate historic church once attended by…
When the Rev. Brian J. Lee and his congregation began renting Grace Reformed Church in downtown Washington eight years ago, he knew the building’s storied past — that Theodore Roosevelt worshiped there during his years as vice president!-->…
Washington Post: Charter board auditing special-ed services at Southeast Washington school
D.C. education officials are investigating special-education services at a charter school that serves more than 600 students in preschool through sixth grade.
Washington Post: A group of black scuba divers has a message for Dunbar students: ‘We need you’
Jaquan Greene buckled the scuba vest, adjusted his goggles and stuck the regulator — the device that delivered air from the gas tank strapped to his back — into his mouth.
NBC4: Pest Infestations, Unrepaired Damage Inspire Columbia Heights Tenants to Go on Rent Strike
One renter says the strike will continue "as long as it needs to"
ABC7: City freezes ANC 8E’s bank account amid investigation into suspicious transactions
Seven On Your Side has learned Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8E's finances have been frozen, as the city investigates suspicious transactions from the commission's bank account.
Washington Post: Regional coalition wants to grow its trail network to nearly 900 miles
An ambitious plan to complete a network of nearly 900 miles of trails connecting the Washington region could be accomplished with an investment of just over $1 billion, according to a coalition of nonprofits, business and government!-->…
WTOP: Wireless service now available for entire Green Line
Metro announced Friday that full cell service is now available through four major wireless carriers on the entirety of the Green Line.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: The long wait: For years, she’s been hoping to move into a house that…
Fourteen stairs. I count each as Erica Chance and I walk from the first to the second floor of her home in Northeast Washington. In my hands, I hold a notebook that weighs ounces. In her arms, she holds her 5-year-old son, Ayden, who!-->…
City Paper: Jack Evans’ Trusty Sebring Is On Life Support
Please keep Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' ride your thoughts and prayers, D.C. The old girl isn't doing so well.
City Paper: Columbia Heights Apartment Building Launches Rent Strike After Requests for Repairs Go…
"They’ve seen and walked into the units, but they just choose not to repair them."
Press Release: As House Passes Voting Rights Advancement Act, Norton Says D.C. Statehood Cut from…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
December 6, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who strongly supported House passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4),!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
the Wash: Why residents living near a century-old bus barn say they won’t be happy until it’s gone
A controversy swirling around the Northern Bus Garage in Petworth has come to a head at multiple public meetings and residents are pointing fingers at WMATA and D.C. government officials.