Press Release: DDOT Announces Reduced Capital Bikeshare Annual Membership for DC College Students
News Release — District Department of Transportation
August 22, 2019
Media Contact
Lauren Stephens
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, the Bowser Administration announced that the Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) will offer $25 annual…
Capital Projections: You can’t handle the truth 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.
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
(Magnolia Pictures)
It wasn’t long ago that…
City Paper: The Plot Thickens
D.C. was once named the city with the most community gardens per capita, but are these glorious green spaces for the few or the many?
City Paper: A D.C. Contract Employee Accused a Superior of Sexually Harassing Her. She Was Fired. He…
The accused public information officer at the Department of For-Hire Vehicles continues to work for the agency, earning a salary of $126,000 a year.
WTOP: ‘Forever grateful’: Anonymous ‘Joe’ thanks good those who pulled him from car and gave him CPR
If you performed CPR on a guy passed out in traffic in D.C. last week, Joe wants you to know he is grateful.
WTOP: DC mayor opens new short-term family housing in Northeast
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened a new short-term family housing facility in the Brookland area of Northeast on Wednesday.
Fox 5: Nearly 300 vehicles illegally stopped in dedicated bus lanes in DC, according to volunteers
It’s been more than two months since D.C. rolled out dedicated downtown bus lanes as part of a pilot program, but dozens of bus riders say the new rules aren’t always being followed.
Press Release: Wise Road resurfaced and ready for ‘back to school’ travelers
News Release — National Park Service
For Immediate Release: August 22, 2019
Contact: Jonathan Shafer
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service (NPS) has completely resurfaced Wise Road in Northwest Washington in time for the…
Mayra Cruz: At Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, we strive to build bridges — not a wall
Some Americans hold the misconception that monolingualism is equated with patriotism. Some see speaking Spanish, Arabic, Amharic or Vietnamese at their local grocery store as “offensive” or even “dangerous.” This sentiment is not shared…
jonetta rose barras: Back to school and the same old story?
A few weeks after the DC Council voted, with enthusiastic guidance from Chairman Phil Mendelson, to disapprove the DC Public Education Master Facilities Plan 2018, Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter indicating her “disappointment” with the…
Washington Times: Jack Evans’ rivals use D.C.’s Fair Elections Program to finance…
The five Democrats vying to unseat D.C. Council member Jack Evans of Ward 2 in next year’s primary are financing their campaigns under the city’s new Fair Elections Program, which matches every $50 in private donations from residents only…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s test scores are up. The credit should go to better teaching.
THE D.C. school system’s central office has seen a fair amount of turmoil in recent years, with controversies and changes in school leadership. So there was some understandable worry that the troubles might be felt in the classroom and…
DCist: Two People, Including A 9 Year Old, Were Killed In A Fire In An Unlicensed Rental
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling for criminal investigations after two people, including a nine-year-old boy, died after a house fire in an unlicensed rental property in Brightwood.
WTOP: Prosecutors to look into fatal DC fire at unlicensed apartment building
D.C. and federal prosecutors will investigate Sunday morning’s fatal fire in an unlicensed apartment building.
DCist: Jack Evans Resigned From The Metro Board In A Cloud Of Scandal. Is D.C.’s Other…
Back in July, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh voted against emergency legislation that would have removed Corbett Price as D.C.’s voting representative on the Metro Board of Directors.
Bisnow: Developers Under Contract To Buy Hechinger Mall, Potentially Setting Up Huge H Street…
An 8.6-acre shopping center property on the eastern edge of the H Street corridor could soon become D.C.'s next major mixed-use development.
Washington Post: New tour app seeks to correct the Native American narrative in the nation’s capital
Native Americans aren’t often depicted as equals in art throughout the U.S. Capitol, a building that is at the heart of representative democracy and the notion that all Americans share the same rights.
Curbed: Which is your favorite (or least favorite) D.C. intersection? It may be in this graphic…
Artist Peter Gorman designed the print for a series on various cities’ intersections
WTOP: Man trapped in apartment after fire gutted DC senior center files $3M lawsuit
An elderly man who was trapped inside his apartment for five days after a massive fire gutted a senior living complex in D.C. last September has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the property’s management company, saying he suffered…
Washington Post: D.C. mayor asks federal prosecutors to launch criminal investigation into deadly…
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is asking federal prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation into Sunday’s fire that killed two people, including a child, at a rowhouse crowded with Ethiopian immigrants and lacking approval for rental…