Press Release: Norton Introduces Resolution Honoring Two Postal Workers and Three Other Americans…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
October 22, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution honoring the late Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris,…
Bisnow: Here’s What D.C. Looked Like In 1933, The Last Time The City Hosted A World Series
The fall classic is returning to the nation's capital for the first time in eight decades.
Washingtonian: American City Diner: This Is What’s Going Into its Former Space
After a long delay, Steve Salis is opening a branch of his Sidekick bakery there.
District Links: Critics say city doesn’t release body cam footage nearly enough; still no…
Good Tuesday morning. The St. Elizabeths public psychiatric hospital has been without clean running water for nearly a month now …
Curbed: Major landscape architecture firms selected to help preserve the Tidal Basin
The popular basin and surrounding cherry trees face danger from rising sea levels
Washington Business Journal: D.C. was very different the last time it hosted the World Series. Heck,…
What did the Washington region look like in 1933, the last time a local Major League Baseball team was playing in the World Series? For starters, the Pentagon and National Airport didn’t exist. The Arlington Memorial Bridge was all of 1…
WAMU: Critics Question Whether Body Cameras Have Lived Up To Their Promise In D.C.
When D.C. announced a pilot program to outfit 400 police officers with body-worn cameras in September 2014, city officials optimistically said early adoption of the new technology would bring needed public clarity to police work, improve…
Washington Blade: Activists call meeting with mayor, DC Council chair ‘productive’
More than a dozen leaders and members of local LGBT advocacy groups met on Oct. 11 with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) to discuss what they said were challenges facing the most vulnerable…
Washington Times: D.C. police’s refusal to release body-camera footage blasted
D.C. residents fought through tears Monday as they expressed frustration with the Metropolitan Police Department’s refusal to release video footage from body-worn cameras showing officers killing their loved ones.
Washington Post: Jeff Bezos visited a high school class. The students weren’t sure who he was.
Dakota Delaney, 15, didn’t know this bald stranger who bounded into her computer science class at Washington’s Dunbar High School Monday morning and began asking her questions. His name, Jeff Bezos, meant nothing to her.
Washington Post: A private school saved a public D.C. field. Should it get preference for playing…
A dispute over a place to play soccer and baseball in Northwest Washington on Monday morphed into a broad debate about equity in the District, a city with stark disparities rooted in class.
DCist: St. Elizabeths Has Not Had Clean Water For 25 Days, But It’s Still Admitting New Patients
The District’s only public psychiatric hospital has now gone 25 days without potable water, leaving more than 270 patients and 700 staff using portable showers, and drinking and cooking with bottled water.
Press Release: Norton Requests Meeting with Bureau of Prisons Director
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
October 21, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter today to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Kathleen Hawk…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Addresses District’s Preparation for 2019 World Series
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
October 21, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Fans Headed to Navy Yard Encouraged to Use Public Transit Options, Sign Up for District’s Text Alerts
(WASHINGTON, DC) – The…
WTOP: DC police’s body-worn camera program faces criticism
Five years after the District launched its body-worn camera program for the Police Department, the D.C. Council is reviewing how well it is working. And overwhelmingly, those testifying said that it isn’t.
City Paper: Caroline Kipp Is Building a Global, Contemporary Textile Art Collection at GWU
The new curator hopes to raise the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum's standing and broaden its collection.
Washington Business Journal: Jeff Bezos makes surprise appearance at D.C. public school
Despite the presence of a dozen Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees, several media reporters and the school's principal Monday morning, the 20 computer science students at Dunbar High School's coding class could only muster a…
Washingtonian: Here’s What to Expect When the National Children’s Museum Reopens in November
The museum will finally begin welcoming visitors to its new space on November 2.
DCist: By Ratifying New Four-Year Contract, Area Janitors Avoid A Strike
Local unionized janitors have ratified a new contract, avoiding a potential strike that could have impacted more than 1,200 office buildings throughout the region.
WAMU: D.C. Artists Strike Deal To Open Affordable Studio Space In Northeast
At first glance, Randolph Place Northeast doesn’t seem like it has much going on. An uneven sidewalk is lined with a few rowhouses, a nonprofit bike shop and an empty-looking warehouse.