Hill Rag: Chander Jayaraman Announces Candidacy for At-Large Council Seat
ANC 6B Chair Files Declaration of Candidacy on Mother's Birthday
Press Release: Statement on Poll Showing Maryland Residents Support DC Statehood
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
October 21, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser issued the following statement regarding a new Washington Post-University of…
An exceptions clause in DC Council’s emergency sanctuary city bill gives ICE access to DOC…
The DC Council unanimously passed emergency legislation earlier this month to patch up weak spots in the District’s "sanctuary city" policies. The new bill forbids officials at the DC Department of Corrections from cooperating with federal…
Washington Post: Chancellor pledges to review D.C.’s controversial teacher evaluation system
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee is vowing to rigorously examine the controversial teacher evaluation system he inherited — a move the teachers union hopes is the first step in redesigning a protocol that it argues unfairly…
City Paper: Getting to First Base — How the deal to bring baseball to D.C. nearly fell apart
What a game. No, not the baseball game on the field. Here on the eve of the Washington Nationals' first-ever World Series, exactly how the Nats got to town in the first place 15 years ago is a story fading into the background. But it’s as…
EdSurge: A New Approach to Discipline Slashed Suspension Rates and Transformed This DC School
WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and she felt she’d hit her stride in the…
WTOP: After DC student’s death, classmates rally against gun violence
In the wake of last week’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student near Nationals Park, some of his classmates have organized in an effort to stop gun violence and improve safety.
Washington Post: Dilcia Rodriguez was ‘the person people would go to for hugs.’ Few knew she feared…
She was officially called a “data entry specialist,” but what Dilcia Rodriguez did at the 801 East Men’s Shelter in Southeast Washington could not be contained by a mere job title.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘Why would someone shoot him?’: The killing of a caregiver, and the…
Three minutes. That’s how long Lekelefac Fonge was supposed to be gone.
Washington Post: Legionella bacteria remains after flush of St. Elizabeths water system
A District-owned psychiatric hospital is entering its fourth week without potable water after a potentially harmful bacteria in its water system survived cleanup efforts.
WAMU: D.C.’s No-Bid Contract For Sports Betting Is Likely Legal, Judge Rules
A D.C. judge ruled on Friday that the D.C. Council likely did not violate the law when it granted a Greek gaming company a no-bid, $215 million contract earlier this year to run the city’s lottery and create a sports betting app.
Washington Post: Court denies injunction against District’s no-bid sports gambling contract, dealing…
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked a no-bid contract with a Greek gaming company to manage the city’s planned foray into online sports betting.
City Paper: Anacostia High School Students Reflect On Gun Violence and Rally for Change
“It’s become normalized … we need to change, we need to go to councilmembers.”
Washington Post Editorial Board: Thank you, Nats. It was worth the wait.
WHEN THE Washington Nationals succumbed, ingloriously, to the St. Louis Cardinals in the divisional round of Major League Baseball’s 2012 playoffs, Tom Toles, The Post’s editorial cartoonist, captured the city’s misery by drawing a…
Washington Post: D.C. hearing reveals broad support for legalizing short-term rentals in residential…
Airbnb and the District’s hotel industry fought bitterly over a new law limiting short-term rentals, but now they and others have united to support legalization of thousands of such rentals in the city’s residential areas.
DCist: At D.C.’s First Hearing On Sex Work Decriminalization, Everyone Said They Were Protecting The…
D.C.’s tense, first-ever council hearing about the decriminalization of sex work lasted more than 14 hours. While the more than 180 speakers represented views across the spectrum, most of them shared one thing in common: they believed…
UrbanTurf: The DC Neighborhoods At Risk of Flooding As Early As Next Year
This week's release of drafted amendments to the Comprehensive Plan identify several new priorities for DC, including the need to study flood risks in certain swaths of the city. And there is one area that requires immediate attention.
DCist: This Anacostia High School Assembly Was Dedicated To A Slain 15-Year-Old Classmate
Students at Anacostia High School held a vigil Friday afternoon to honor their 15-year-old classmate, Thomas Johnson, who was shot and killed just blocks away from Nationals Park the afternoon of October 9.
WTOP: After DC student’s death, classmates rally against gun violence
In the wake of last week’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student near Nationals Park, some of his classmates have organized in an effort to stop gun violence and improve safety.
Washington Business Journal: District judge strikes down restraining order on Intralot sports…
A D.C. Superior Court judge struck down a request for a preliminary injunction on the District's $215 million sole-source sports wagering and lottery contract with Greek gaming firm Intralot.