WTOP: Metro making changes after Jack Evans ethics scandal
In the wake of Jack Evans’ ongoing ethics scandal, the Metro Board is set to change conflict of interest rules to increase required disclosures and promise a public accounting of any future ethics violations.
City Paper: D.C.’s New Naloxone Pilot Wants to End Stigma Around Carrying the Drug
But that doesn’t mean everyone is rushing to the pharmacy for it.
WAMU: Without More Housing Soon, Leaders Fear Declining Quality Of Life
Local leaders want affordable homes near transit. Zoning, NIMBYs, and land costs stand in the way.
DCist: Climate Activists Plan To Bring Traffic To A Standstill In D.C.
As the United Nations Climate Action Summit opens in New York later this month, a coalition of activists plans to bring D.C.’s streets to a standstill by blocking key intersections around the city.
WTOP: Housing crisis: DC area needs 320,000 new homes by 2030, group says
Business is booming in the Washington region. And the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments says the D.C. area needs 320,000 housing units by 2030 to keep up — 75,000 more than originally forecast.
District Links: Law firm’s probe of Jack Evans may be delayed; judge speaks out against law…
Happy Thursday. Columnist jonetta rose barras reported this morning that the law firm hired by the DC Council to investigate Ward 2 member Jack Evans may be having trouble completing its report on time.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Implements Another Patient-Centric Reform in the Medical Marijuana…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Residents Can Now Use Their REAL ID As Proof of Residency
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser,…
Capital Projections: ‘You’re No Good’ edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
A new documentary profile of singer…
Press Release: Norton to Introduce Bill to Create Commemorative Coin to Honor Paul Laurence Dunbar,…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
September 12, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she will introduce the Paul Laurence Dunbar Commemorative Coin Act,…
Press Release: Statement from Councilmember Allen on First Release of Monthly Stop and Frisk Data by…
News Release — Ward 6 DC Council member Charles Allen
September 12, 2019
Contact: Erik Salmi
From Councilmember Charles Allen, Chair of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety:
“On Monday, the Metropolitan Police…
City Paper: You Are So D.C. If…
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Washington Business Journal: Hospitality unicorn Sonder expected to lease planned Truxton Circle…
A West Coast hospitality company that leases, designs, furnishes and maintains blocks of apartments largely in urban settings, and books them like hotel rooms for varying lengths, appears to be landing in D.C.’s Truxton Circle neighborhood…
Washingtonian: DC’s First Rock Climbing Gym Is Going to Have So Much More Than Just Climbing Walls
Brooklyn Boulders will open in NoMa in 2020.
UrbanTurf: Construction Companies Save 17 Percent Through Illegal Worker Misclassification, Per…
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a tale as old as payroll taxes, and the construction industry is no exception. Labor costs are a major facet of the recent ballooning of construction costs nationwide, and now,…
City Paper: A Litigious Dupont Neighborhood Commissioner Launches a Campaign Complaint Over a Tagged…
Ed Hanlon is at it again. Dupont’s litigious advisory neighborhood commissioner, deck hater, and reformed Hummer driver has filed a complaint with the Office of Campaign Finance, alleging that his own ANC’s Twitter account has violated a…
City Paper: D.C. Laws Strip Thousands of Criminal Defendants of Their Right to a Jury Trial. One…
“This is no toy. This is peoples’ lives. Do you know how hard it is to get your life back together when they have you locked up for something frivolous?”
Press Release: Norton Blasts Rooney for Introducing Anti-Union Bill Uniquely Targeting D.C. Unions
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
September 12, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL) for introducing a bill attacking the…
jonetta rose barras: The DC Council’s fall fight
They’re back — almost. DC Council members won’t officially return from their recess until Monday. The heat and controversy are already building over the public policy and political issues that await them. Unfortunately, based on their…
NBC4: Shopper Ticketed for Parking at Mall in DC
A D.C. resident said she repeatedly tried to get a fine overturned after her brother parked her van at the mall where he went shopping and got a ticket.
WUSA9: MPD stopped & frisked almost 1,500 people in one month. 93 percent of them were black
New data released for the first time by the Metropolitan Police Department allows a deeper look into racial disparities in how DC police enforce stop and frisks.