Washington Post: Notorious landlord to pay D.C. tenants $1.1 million in city’s largest-ever rent…
One of the District’s most notorious landlords must pay former tenants $1.1 million in what city officials described as the largest-ever rent recovery for residents “forced to live in squalor.”
Curbed: D.C. empowers bike lane enforcement officers to issue photo tickets to drivers
The city is also deploying 26 new officers to keep bike lanes clear of cars
DCist: DC Brau Gets In On The Hard Seltzer Business
In the season of pumpkin spice lattes, a local brewery has found a different way to go basic. DC Brau, which has previously gotten inspiration for its beers from blues rock and 19th century D.C. brewmaster Christian Heurich, is adding…
Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill to Memorialize Women During World War II
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
November 13, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act today,…
Press Release: Bowser Administration To Celebrate America Recycles Day By Renewing Its Commitment To…
News Release — DC Department of Public Works
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 13, 2019
CONTACT: Reggie Sanders
DC thanks residents for recycling right by hosting magnet giveaway.
(WASHINGTON, DC) – The Bowser…
Washington Business Journal: D.C. restaurant lands on top of Esquire’s best new restaurants…
Seven Reasons, the new and increasingly acclaimed Venezuelan restaurant on D.C.'s 14th Street NW, has been named the country's best new restaurant by Esquire.
District Links: Soda lobby launches battle against proposed new tax; AG Racine secures $1.1M in…
Happy Wednesday. Big Soda is gearing up for a fight against a new tax on sugary drinks.
UrbanTurf: The Dramatic New Plans For Union Market
EDENS has big plans to expand its imprint on the Union Market neighborhood.
DCist: Accused Slumlord Sanford Capital Signs Million Dollar Settlement With D.C. Attorney General’s…
One of the District’s most notorious accused slumlords, Sanford Capital, has reached another settlement agreement with the D.C. attorney general, agreeing to return $1.1 million in rent payments to 155 tenants at three properties in the…
City Paper: Slumlord Sanford Capital to Return More Than $1 Million in Rent to Tenants
The settlement with the Office of the Attorney General resolves violations at three properties in Wards 5, 7, and 8.
Curbed: D.C. offers new financial assistance for replacing lead pipes
Residents can apply to recover at least 50 percent of their costs
Washington Business Journal: D.C. Brau joins the hard-seltzer bandwagon
The latest prong in the growth strategy of D.C. Brau, the brewery that practically started a modern craft beer movement in D.C. almost a decade ago, is, well, not beer.
UrbanTurf: Could Carver Langston Get DC’s First RF-4 Zone?
A section of Ward 5 could be the city's first to use a pre-existing, but unmapped, zone identification aimed at maintaining the appearance of the area's existing housing stock.
WAMU: Soda Industry Kicks Off Fight Against Proposed D.C. ‘Soda Tax’
A move in the D.C. Council to impose a new tax on sodas and sugary drinks is drawing pushback from a powerful and well-funded opponent: the soda industry.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Awards $400,000 to Support Underrepresented Entrepreneurs in DC’s…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the Office of the Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
November 13, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Kate Hartig (DMPED)
New Innovation Accelerator Program Will…
‘Trying to reinstill some hope’: A Veterans Day volunteer effort gets care packages into the hands…
Army veteran David Kurtz stands in the parking lot of Shiloh Baptist Church on this brisk Monday morning.
Sporting an army green hat and camouflage jacket, the veteran stands in front of a crowd of about 50 volunteers and bows his head…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Sanford Capital Will Return $1.1 Million to 155 Tenants Forced to…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
November 13, 2019
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Settlement Secures OAG’s Largest-Ever Recovery of Rent from a District Landlord
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Attorney General…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Encourages DC Residents to Get Covered During 2020 Open Enrollment…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority
November 13, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Linda Wharton Boyd (DCHBX)
Residents Must Enroll at DCHealthLink.com by December…
Press Release: DDOT, curbFlow Research Project Finds High Demand for Pickup, Dropoff Zones
News Release — District Department of Transportation
November 14, 2019
Media Contacts
Lauren Stephens
DDOT launches new application inviting more innovative research on District Streets
(Washington, DC) — Today, the District…