Associated Press: Migrants dropped near VP Harris home on frigid Christmas Eve
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: They put out an SOS for toys for migrant kids. Thousands responded.
Children who might have otherwise received nothing for Christmas were able to fill their arms with puzzles, stuffed animals and other used toys.
WTOP: Biden signs DC backup drinking water supply provision into law
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced Friday that President Joe Biden has signed into law a provision that focuses on finding a backup drinking water supply for D.C.-area residents who depend mostly — or solely — on the Potomac River.
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DCist: Adnan Syed Now Works At Georgetown University’s Prison Education Program
Adnan Syed, freed this fall after more than two decades in prison, is now working with Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, the university announced this week.
WTOP: Disability rights group blames psychiatric patient’s death on distracted staff
A D.C. disability rights group is blaming the death of a psychiatric hospital patient on distracted staff.
City Paper: D.C.’s Ambitious Climate Law is Still Underway, Despite Hesitation from Construction…
D.C.’s 2018 Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act kick-started its progressive transition to all-electric properties. Four years later, the bill’s worst skeptic is the District’s own electricity supplier.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. testing program to convert existing market-rate units into…
The D.C. government has implemented a pilot affordable housing program designed to convert existing market-rate multifamily units into rent-capped affordable ones, likely at a lower cost than building new affordable units from scratch.
DCist: Report Shows Staff Missed Multiple Opportunities To Prevent Murder Of Patient At St.…
Staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital — the District’s only public psychiatric hospital — should have been able to prevent the murder of a patient in his room in March, according to a new investigative report by Disability Rights DC, the…
Press Release: Norton Announces Her Provisions Authorizing Studies on Secondary Drinking Water…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
December 23, 2022
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Biden today signed into law her provisions…
Press Release: DC 3-1-1 and DPR’s Crank Music Program Integrate Go-Go Music into Customer Service…
News Release — DC Department of Parks and Recreation and the DC Office of Unified Communications
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 23, 2022
Media Contacts:
Michael Tucker Jr.
Anna Noakes (OUC)
Holiday Music Produced by DC…
Washington Post: Fans find nostalgia in the wreckage of RFK Stadium
The decrepit stadium is being torn apart, and those who went to games there are taking home pieces of history.
jonetta rose barras: Mayor Muriel Bowser causes delay of some Medicaid managed care services, again
It’s unsurprising that many of the District’s poor and working-class residents — and their advocates — lack faith in Mayor Muriel Bowser to act in their interests. There have been myriad occasions where she seems to have ignored their…
Washington Post: D.C.’s population grew last year, reversing pandemic-related decline
The District’s population grew slightly last year, reversing the pandemic-related decline from the previous year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.
Washington Post: Fans find nostalgia in the wreckage of RFK stadium
The decrepit stadium is being torn apart, and those who went to games there are taking home pieces of history.
Washington Post: Georgetown hires Adnan Syed after court tossed his murder conviction
Prosecutors have acknowledged Syed, subject of the true-crime ‘Serial’ podcast, was wrongly convicted
Petula Dvorak in The Post: A D.C. mom needed gifts for her daughter. Nextdoor Santas delivered.
After putting away the dishes, Kim Wright finally sat down to write the thing she’d been composing in her head all day.
Washington Post: D.C.’s deputy attorney general will take the helm at Legal Aid
Vikram Swaruup will become the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ person to permanently lead the city’s largest general legal services organization
Washington Post: A battle over an Adams Morgan plaza gains new life with court ruling
A long-standing legal battle over a neighborhood gathering spot in Northwest Washington was extended Thursday when the D.C. Court of Appeals ordered a trial to determine whether the parcel should be preserved as a public plaza.
Washington Business Journal: The District wants to expand its streetcar barn on Benning Road
The District’s Department of Transportation is proposing an expansion of its storage facility for D.C.'s streetcars.
Associated Press: Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown’s prison reform initiative
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s…