Clinton Lacey in Governing: What Juvenile Justice Needs: Care, Not Cages
We rely too much on incarceration. The pillars of the system should be healing, restoration and renewal.
Washington Post: Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted.
Ashly Taylor was shot for being a lesbian. Then she watched as the hatred that fueled the attack was ignored in court.
Curbed: Bei Bei the giant panda celebrates his last National Zoo birthday Thursday
He’s turning four but will relocate to China in the coming months
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Homeless children in hotels are struggling to get to school, a group…
Before a month’s worth of rain fell onto the nation’s capital in a single hour, flooding her apartment and destroying most of her family’s belongings, Christina Gaddis had a home that offered a washer and dryer and one other important…
Washington Business Journal: Buyer emerges for the Hechinger Mall site in Northeast D.C.
MRP Realty and JM Zell Partners have struck a deal to buy the Hechinger Mall site in Northeast D.C., potentially setting the stage for a major redevelopment of the nearly 40-year-old retail center.
D.C. Attorney General Settles With Company That Wouldn’t Install Windows East Of The River
The District settled a civil rights lawsuit against a window replacement company that allegedly denied service to customers east of the Anacostia River based on crime statistics, Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Wednesday.
Washington Post: ‘It’s disgraceful’: Pressure grows on Metro board member over role in Evans probe
Pressure is mounting on the District’s second voting Metro board representative to resign after allegations that he leaned on the agency’s staff and took other steps to conceal an ethics violation by D.C. Council member and former board…
DCist: Arthur Capper Senior Trapped In Building For Five Days After Fire Sues Management Company
The elderly man who was found trapped in his apartment at the Arthur Capper Senior Center five days after a fire ravaged the building is now suing the senior complex’s management company for $3 million.
WTOP: DC settles with window company in discrimination case
A window company has settled with D.C. after the attorney general’s office accused it of discrimination in not providing service to certain areas, including ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River.
Press Release: While the Federal Government Aims to Warehouse Children, Mayor Bowser Displays Model…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Department of Human Services
August 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Dora Taylor-Lowe (DHS)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon on The…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Will Refer Kennedy Street Fire to DC Office of the Attorney…
News Release: Executive Office of the Mayor
August 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, following a weekend fire at 708 Kennedy Street NW in which two residents died, including a…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Major Window Company to Stop Discriminating Against Consumers…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
August 21, 2019
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Civil Rights Settlement Requires Renewal by Andersen LLC To End Location-Based…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Cuts the Ribbon on Modernized Hyde-Addison Elementary School
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Public Schools
August 21, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Shayne Wells (DCPS)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon at the newly modernized…
Washington Business Journal: Pennsylvania Avenue at White House to close for fence project
The stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue NW in front of the White House will close entirely, effective immediately, to allow for construction of a new, higher fence at the White House.
WAMU: ‘They Ask Me, What Is The Holocaust?’ Teens Connect With Holocaust Survivors Through Art
Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody studies a painting based on her life.
Washington Post: This novel D.C. academy trains people with disabilities to provide paid support for…
For Antonio Myers, life with autism has always felt like sitting in a movie theater.
Washington Post: Giant panda Bei Bei turns 4 this week, but his days in Washington are numbered
Happy birthday to a giant panda.
WAMU: Bowser Blocks Proposed Shelter For Unaccompanied Immigrant Children In D.C.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed an emergency rule blocking a 200-bed shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children that would have been located in the Takoma neighborhood of Northwest D.C.
The Georgetowner: Hyde-Addison Transformed: Georgetown’s Public Elementary School Is Student-Ready
Principal Calvin Hooks smiled broadly late Friday afternoon, Aug. 9, as some 40 parents and children ooh-ed and aah–ed and commented: “Amazing!” Hooks was showing them around Georgetown’s about-to-be-reopened, totally transformed…
Washington Post: Rowhouse where fire killed man and injured child was not approved for rentals, city…
They were strangers when their lives converged at the white-painted brick rowhouse in the middle of Kennedy Street in Northwest Washington.