Washington Post: Washington Monument elevator acts up
What appeared to be the first short-lived suspension of elevator service in the just-reopened Washington Monument happened on Saturday.
WTOP: Former residents of DC senior housing destroyed by fire file lawsuit
A year after a fire destroyed the homes and belongings of residents of a senior citizens apartment complex in Southeast D.C., a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the Arthur Capper Senior Public Housing’s 150 residents.
Washington Post: Markus Batchelor announces he will run for D.C. Council
The vice president of the D.C. State Board of Education announced he will run for D.C. Council.
Washington Post: Why some D.C. residents want landmark status for a public housing complex
On a recent tour of the remnants of the Barry Farm public housing complex in Southeast Washington, historians rattled off reasons the city should landmark the property, including that hundreds of freed slaves settled there after the Civil…
WTOP: Elevator down: Visitors stuck atop newly reopened Washington Monument
Issues with the recently renovated elevator at the Washington Monument had some visitors spending a lot more time at the top than they expected Saturday afternoon.
Washington Post: Pushed out
She’d lived on this historically black D.C. block for 40 years. Now the city she knew was vanishing, and so was her place in it.
Washington Post: For two summers, Carter Barron Amphitheatre hosted a ‘symphonic drama’
In the summer of 1950, Washingtonians were excited about a new 4,000-seat performance space set to open. Its name: the Sesquicentennial Amphitheater, “Sesqui” for short.
NBC4: Displaced Residents Sue a Year After Senior Citizen Apartment Complex Fire
A year after fire destroyed a senior citizens apartment complex in Southeast D.C., 150 residents filed a lawsuit Friday.
WAMU: ‘Searching For That Missing Voice’: D.C. Teacher Wins National History Prize
Alysha Butler’s AP U.S. History class is starting at the beginning: a discussion about the Thirteen Colonies. It’s a topic Butler acknowledges is not always a fan favorite.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Breaks Ground on Modernization and Expansion of DC’s Premier High School
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Public Schools
September 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Shayne Wells (DCPS)
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Serves Students from All Eight Wards
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Commercial Observer: DC Housing Chief Polly Donaldson Discusses Her Push for More Affordable Housing
Polly Donaldson, the head of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development since 2015, worked in the non-profit housing sector for almost three decades before taking on her current role — but her best qualification may…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Monitoring First Amendment Activity Likely to Impact Monday…
News Release — District Department of Transportation, DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and Metropolitan Police Department
September 20, 2019
Media Contacts
Rebekah Mena (HSEMA)
Dustin Sternbeck (MPD)
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Press Release: Mayor Bowser Appoints Aly Kaba as Acting Director of the Mayor’s Office on African…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 20, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the appointment of Aly Kaba as the Acting Director…
Press Release: Norton Introduces 10th National Dance Day Resolution Ahead of Celebrations in D.C.…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
September 20, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a resolution to mark Saturday, September 21, 2019, as National Dance…
DCist: What Can Washingtonians Do As Individuals To Curb Climate Change?
Combating climate change on an individual level can feel like a drop in the bucket.
DCist: Here Are The Issues We’re Watching At The D.C. Council
The chill is back in the air and the D.C. Council back to work after its summer recess. A friendly reminder: the 13-member council and the mayor set policy for more than 700,000 people (except for the minority of cases when Congress…
Paul Armentano in The Post: It’s time for D.C. to fully legalize marijuana
The D.C. Council is considering a bill to fully legalize marijuana and regulate the retail marijuana market. The council decriminalized minor marijuana possession in 2014 ; later that year, voters approved an initiative that removed…
James Forman Jr. in The Post: Justice sometimes needs a do-over
Two years ago, I wrote a book detailing how African American leaders in the District and elsewhere helped, sometimes unwittingly, to usher in the mass-incarceration era. Many black judges, mayors and legislators who served during the…
Colbert King in The Post: Will the D.C. Council finally see what’s right in front of its face?
The D.C. Council’s myopic handling of embattled member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) could be dismissed as an exercise in klutziness were the situation not so serious. Lawmakers seem too shortsighted to see the urgent need to resolve the problem…
Washington Post: As cities gentrify and schools diversify, PTOs grapple to ensure all parent voices…
Mike Dixon left his first visit to his son’s new school deflated. The Dixons had scored a seat at a Chinese-language charter school in the District that families clamor to attend.