Washington Post Editorial Board: It’s time to clear out the McPherson Square encampment
On a February morning, a 54-year-old resident of the McPherson Square homeless encampment shuffles around her tent, grabbing wrappers and dropping them in a nearby trash receptacle. She doesn’t feel comfortable coming out at night, when…
DCist: Hirshhorn Museum Launches Reality TV Show To Find America’s Next Top Artist
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is launching a reality television program called The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist that will air on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel this spring.
DCist: Union Kitchen Workers Win Back Pay In National Labor Relations Board Settlement
Union organizers at Union Kitchen locations in the D.C. region have settled a dispute with the food accelerator and retailer, which officials said had engaged in union-busting tactics outlined in an extensive complaint last fall.
Axios: D.C. mayor stands by as Congress intervenes in crime law
Congress is closer to overturning a D.C. law for the first time since 1991, after the House on Thursday approved blocking controversial reforms to the city’s criminal code. And Mayor Muriel Bowser might be fine with that.
Washington Post: Cities like D.C. have funds to house the homeless. They need staff.
Staffing shortages are hampering efforts to house the dozens of people living in the District’s largest homeless encampment, as the National Park Service readies to shut down McPherson Square at the city’s behest on Wednesday.
District Links: House votes of disapproval spur political, historical explanations; advocates…
With about 100 beds in the city's homeless shelters available but unused each night, the DC Department of Human Services says there's no danger of maxing out the system's capacity, but advocates are predicting that the District may indeed…
DC on path to fill homeless shelters in 2023, advocates warn
Close observers of DC’s homeless services are predicting the city’s shelters may be full by midyear as a potential rise in demand for beds coincides with the shuttering of some shelter programs.
Next week, the National Park Service…
jonetta rose barras: School boundaries are more than just geographic lines
DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson may have been right to persuade his colleagues to use the 2023 Budget Support Act to mandate a DC Public Schools (DCPS) boundary study — but not so much on his narrow perspective on its scope. The resulting…
Colie Levar Long: Listen to a former prisoner — longer sentences don’t work
At the core of opposition to the District of Columbia’s proposed new code of criminal laws — the subject of a mayoral veto overridden by the council, and more recently a resolution of disapproval passed by the House — is a commonly…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: House GOP vote blocking D.C. local bills isn’t politics. It’s prejudice.
The Republican-led 118th Congress blocked floor privileges to D.C. Mayor Bowser, other leaders of color who govern 4.3 million U.S. citizens
City Paper: Bowser Administration Officials Advance McPherson Square Clearing With Help from NPS
Advocates believe officials are rushing ahead with the clearing instead of taking the time to help house the camp’s residents.
DCist: Two Of D.C.’s Violence Prevention Offices To Operate Under One Director
Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed Linda Harllee Harper as the Executive Director of the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement. She will take on the new role while continuing to lead a separate department: the Office of Gun Violence…
Washington Post: Two D.C. public safety agencies will now be under one director
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday that she is shaking up the organization of her public safety agencies, putting the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement under a single…
Associated Press: House votes to overturn DC criminal code and voting laws
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House has launched the first salvo in what could be a long-running feud with the District of Columbia over self-government in the nation’s capital.
Washington Post: House votes to block D.C. bills on noncitizen voting, criminal code
The Republican-controlled U.S. House flexed its power over D.C. on Thursday in voting to block a pair of local bills, with support from dozens of Democrats as well — the curtain-raiser this session in a long history of congressional…
DCist: Republican-Led House, In Which D.C. Has No Vote, Passes Measures Repealing Two D.C. Bills
The Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday approved two measures that would overturn a pair of bills passed by the D.C. Council, one that allows non-citizens to vote in local elections starting in 2024 and another that revises…
DCist: Workers At 28 D.C.-Area Farmers Markets Vote To Unionize
The workers at more than two dozen local farmers markets run by the nonprofit FRESHFARM have unionized with United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400.
City Paper: Racial Disparities in D.C. Homeownership Persist
A new study from the Urban Institute shows a decline in Black homeownership in wards 7 and 8, home to nearly half of D.C.’s Black residents.
DCist: The Percentage Of Black Homeownership East of the Anacostia River Is Declining, New Report…
Wards 7 and 8 east of the Anacostia River have long been majority Black communities, but the percentage of Black homeowners is decreasing, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Meanwhile, researchers found that mortgages…
District Links: House votes to disapprove two newly enacted DC laws as dozens of Dems side with GOP;…
The GOP-led House of Representatives voted late this morning to disapprove two laws enacted late last year by the DC Council, drawing support from several dozen Democrats who sided against calls from their party's whip to object to the…