Press Release: Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
November 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced nominations to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Cora…
District Links: Big Biz for statehood? New org to study statehood’s benefits for business;…
Happy Thursday. How do you win over the business community on DC statehood?
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Owner of Park 7 Apartments Will Return $450K+ to Hundreds of…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
November 21, 2019
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
OAG Settlement Holds District Landlord Accountable for Violating Lease Agreements with 470+ Low-Income and Vulnerable…
Washingtonian: A New Book Examines Black Political Power in Pre-Home Rule DC
Lauren Pearlman's "Democracy's Capital" is out November 25.
WTOP: DC bars, restaurants hope to take bets by Super Bowl
D.C. bars and restaurants could be ready to take your bets by Super Bowl Sunday, even though plans for citywide sports betting have been tied up in the city’s bureaucracy as well as the courts.
City Paper: Mental Health Agency Director Finally Answers For the Water Crisis At St. Elizabeths…
That was one of several tragic crises the Department of Behavioral Health tried to explain last night.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser, Residents, and Organizations Pledge Support to Protect and Help…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Human Services
November 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Dora Taylor-Lowe (DHS)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser hosted a…
Washington Post: D.C. Mayor Bowser has high approval rating, with 52 percent saying she should seek…
Two-thirds of D.C. residents approve of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) job performance and a slight majority wants her to run for a third term in 2022, a Washington Post poll finds.
Press Release: The Bowser Administration Launches DC African American Civil Rights Trail
News Release — DC Office of Planning
November 21, 2019
CONTACT:
Jessica Carroll
Web-based trail features photographs, historical details dedicated to 20th century African American Civil Rights in DC
(WASHINGTON, DC) – The…
UrbanTurf: The DC Opportunity Zones That Saw Home Prices Pop Over the Last Year
Last April, 25 Opportunity Zones (OZs) were identified in Washington, DC, and earlier this year, a study showed an inconsistent, but measurable uptick in housing prices in OZs nationwide. Now, a new report takes a more granular look at how…
WAMU: New Musical About Suffrage Aims To Be ‘Hamilton’ Of Women’s History
The cast of “19: The Musical” is in the middle of a weeknight rehearsal at an Arlington community theater. It’s crunch time: They’re performing in the show’s premiere next week at D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Washington Post: Nationals are D.C.’s favorite team, Post poll finds, as Redskins’ popularity…
A World Series title coupled with years of on- and off-field blunders by the local football team has reshuffled the sports hierarchy in Washington, and the Nationals are now clearly the city’s favorite sports franchise, according to a poll…
City Paper: A Pregnant Homeless Woman Was Turned Away After Requesting Emergency Shelter
Advocates say the Bowser administration’s strict regulations are to blame.
jonetta rose barras: Can the rent control wall hold back rising housing prices?
What were they thinking?
The entire DC Council — led by at-large member Anita Bonds, chair of the Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization — either co-introduced or co-sponsored the Rental Housing Act Extension…
Press Release: Norton Congratulates Carolyn Maloney on Historic Election to Oversight Chair
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
November 20, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today congratulated Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on her historic election as…
Washington Post: The Library of Congress will house the archives of the famous AIDS quilt
Mike Smith remembers how the disease ravaged San Francisco’s Castro district, the heart of the gay community. How you’d pass emaciated men on the street, covered in cancer scars, and how, by the summer of 1987, a thousand men in a 10-block…
Washington Post: D.C. police investigate teen’s claim of injury during street encounter with officer
D.C. police are investigating after a 15-year-old girl said she was injured during a confrontation with officers who stopped her and her younger brother as they sold plantain chips Tuesday evening on the street in Columbia Heights.
Bisnow: Douglas Jemal On Developing New York Avenue, Leasing To WeWork And His Next Move
Douglas Jemal has pioneered the development of booming neighborhoods throughout D.C., none moreso than Ivy City.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Homeless children were struggling to get to school on time. Now, D.C. is…
It didn’t matter that Noreen Beatley didn’t know any of the homeless children. When she learned that they needed to cross two busy roads and then take multiple forms of public transportation to get to and from school, she offered to serve…
Curbed: Popular listing services agree to combat online housing discrimination in D.C.
Apartments.com and Zillow aim to help protect Section 8 participants