District Links: 5 candidates for DC Council sign onto new “No Pepco Pledge”; emergency…
TGIF! Climate activists have a new “No Pepco Pledge” for candidates running in next year’s elections.
Alex Baca on Greater Greater Washington: Draft updates to part of DC’s comprehensive plan are good…
DC’s Comprehensive Plan sets the course for how the District will grow in the next decade, and the Framework at the beginning sets the tone for the rest of the plan. Right now the District is updating this plan, beginning with the…
WUSA9: DC Department of General Services to rush lab test results from lead-contaminated Truesdell…
The department is still finalizing plan to increase maintenance on playgrounds where lead was found, despite all playgrounds remaining open.
Beirne Roose-Snyder and Zoe Bulls in Washington Blade: D.C. Council should decriminalize sex work
Like gay marriage and marijuana regulations before it, across the country, Americans are waking up to our harmful laws against sex work. As they are now, sex work criminalization laws create barriers to access to health services for sex…
Washington Post: Parking-meter prices may rise along the Mall
Rates at parking meters along the Mall and a boating center in Washington may increase under a proposal by the National Park Service.
Press Release: ACLU-DC Sues D.C. for Disability Discrimination Against Medical Marijuana Patient
News Release: American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2019
Contact: Suzanne Ito
Department of Public Works Refuses to Accommodate Employee with Degenerative Back Condition
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City Paper: D.C. to Move Disabled Medicaid Patients Into Private Managed Care Plans
Patients with traditional Medicaid are the most vulnerable. That’s why some advocates are concerned about moving them into private health plans.
Washingtonian: Two DC Mothers Are Opening a Massive “Family Social Club” in Ivy City This Winter
The Lane will have chaperoned play areas, an all-day cafe, and much more.
WAMU: Here’s What Rent Control Could Mean For D.C.’s Housing Crisis
Limiting rent hikes keeps some apartments affordable, but does it make others more expensive?
WTOP: Free music, and lots of it, Saturday: Adams Morgan Porchfest
Adams Morgan will host the seventh annual Adams Morgan Porchfest Oct. 5, and there will be more free music than ever this year.
Washington Post: A ‘miracle’ and a ‘shock’: Months later, D.C. woman meets the stranger whose life…
On a balmy summer night about two months ago, Joe Cwiklinski climbed into his car, strapped on the seat belt, and began driving home from a friend’s house in Virginia.
WTOP: ‘Public health approach’, tougher gun trafficking penalties considered to tackle DC gun…
Tougher penalties for gun violations and expanded intervention programs were among the wide ranging topics aired while city leaders considered legislative strategies to help D.C. respond to gun violence.
Washington Post: One of D.C.’s busiest streets will be turned into a car-free experiment Saturday
For four hours, nearly three miles of Georgia Avenue NW will be a car-free zone.
Street Sense: Seeing Double: DC drastically reduces the number of people in shelter as more double…
The Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, the District’s access point to family shelter, opens at 8:30 every morning. Adults with children in tow are assessed, categorized, and sent off. Some are referred to family shelter, which,…
The DC Lineup for this weekend: Ballads, books and blessings
The next few days in the District are full of ways to celebrate nature and the environment, whether it’s identifying trees, taking part in sustainable transportation activities or honoring animals. A recreational 10K run and 2-mile walk as…
Capital News Service: Renovations get major role in 2019 Folger Shakespeare season
The stately gray stone walls of the Folger Shakespeare Library on East Capitol Street have graced Capitol Hill since 1932, when Shakespeare collector Emily Folger saw her husband Henry’s vision of a “gift to America” to completion.
Washington Post: Georgetown students protest, demanding action on reparations for descendants of…
A couple dozen Georgetown University students broke into a chant Thursday outside a meeting of the school’s board of directors, seeking to put pressure on the university to do more to redress historical wrongs.
WTOP: Proposal to ban 3D-printed guns is under review in DC
D.C.’s effort to fight gun violence now involves proposed legislation that would ban so-called “ghost guns” that don’t contain enough metal to set off most magnetometers and are untraceable.
The American Prospect: D.C. Janitors Fight to Keep Up With Soaring Costs of Living
Up and down the East Coast, SEIU’s janitorial contracts are expiring. D.C.’s janitors expect a better one—and if they don’t get it, they’ll strike.
CBS News: Georgetown students push university for action on slavery reparations
Georgetown University students gathered Thursday to protest the university's lack of progress on implementing reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. Students voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plan in a referendum…