Washington Post: Washington Monument, closed for five of the past eight years, will reopen Sept. 19
Eight years after it was rattled by an earthquake and three years after it was closed for elevator and other repairs, the beleaguered Washington Monument will reopen Sept. 19, the National Park Service said Friday.
DCist: D.C.’s Convention Center Is Getting A Facelift. Here’s The Latest Look At The Plans
For many a convention and conference, what’s on the inside has mattered at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. But Events DC., which oversees and manages the behemoth 2.3 million square foot site, is attempting to make the outside…
Washington Business Journal: Johnny Rockets space in Georgetown is for lease
The Johnny Rockets burger chain space in Georgetown is being marketed for lease, suggesting the store could be teeing up a closure after more than two decades in the neighborhood.
DCist: Metro Still Doesn’t Know When The Chillers At Dupont And Farragut North Will Be Fixed
In July, The Metropolitan Transit Authority announced that it was close to fixing its chronically broken cooling systems at Dupont Circle, Farragut North, and Union Station.
WTOP: Washington Monument to reopen to public on Sept. 19
After a three-year closure for renovations, the Washington Monument will reopen to the public Thursday, Sept. 19, the National Park Service announced Friday.
Curbed: Moped-sharing kicks off in D.C. this weekend
New York-based Revel is set to offer 400 battery-powered mopeds in the city
Curbed: City to present traffic safety recommendations for neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park
The project area includes Brightwood, Manor Park, Takoma, and more
Press Release: Bowser Administration Graduates Largest Pepco Training Cohort at DC Infrastructure…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Department of Employment Services
August 16, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Diane Watkins (DOES)
100 Percent of Graduates Offered Jobs with Pepco and Subcontractors
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The DC Lineup for this weekend: Chuck Brown, three-course meals and $3 drinks
This weekend in the District, dining establishments are offering discounted drinks for a cause in Shaw and special menus across the city as Summer Restaurant Week draws to a close. A nationwide adoption drive offers a chance to bring home…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Reminds Parents to Get Their Children Vaccinated Before School Starts
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Department of Health
August 16, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Dr. Kimberly Henderson (DOH)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – As part of #DontWaitVaccinate, today Mayor…
Washington Post: Jack Evans threatened Metro officials’ jobs in an effort to conceal ethics…
Former Metro chairman Jack Evans threatened the jobs of the agency’s top lawyer and board secretary in an effort to keep secret that the panel’s ethics committee had found he committed a violation, according to confidential agency…
Capital Projections: Why is my body changing in New Jersey 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.
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Viveik Kalra (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The unifying…
UrbanTurf: 8-Townhome Development in Bloomingdale Backed By Washington Redskin Breaks Ground
Two years ago, UrbanTurf reported on the sale of the former Medhane Alem Eritrean Church in Bloomingdale. Today, work begins on what will take the place of the church.
WAMU: Artists Take On America’s Biggest Issues At D.C.’s Touchstone Gallery
Street photographer Michael Lang of D.C. stands in front of a framed black-and-white photograph in the Touchstone Gallery in downtown D.C. It’s of a man sitting in a wheelchair on a New York City street. He’s wearing ripped-up clothing and…
City Paper: D.C. LGBTQ Residents Fight Trump Administration’s Rollback of Nondiscrimination Law
“I deserve to have my health care rights protected.”
Ronald Weitzer in The Post: Criminalizing customers won’t help all sex workers
In his Aug. 10 op-ed, “Making D.C. a ‘sex tourist destination’?,” Colbert I. King criticized a D.C. Council bill that would decriminalize prostitution in the District.
Street Sense: This bill would increase pay for more than 4,000 professionals who assist people with…
Thelma Green said her direct support professional of 12 years helps her every day to get in and out of the shower, get dressed, and schedule transportation.
jonetta rose barras: Who should decide the future of digital advertising in DC?
I had gone downtown mostly to run errands. As I was about to head back to my Brightwood neighborhood, I discovered the two signs just inside the overhang between the escalator to the Metro Center subway station and the exterior side wall…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. is right to experiment with mopeds
STILL GETTING used to the electric scooters zooming around D.C. streets? Better gear up. The mopeds are coming.
WAMU: Second Marijuana Dispensary Opens East Of The Anacostia River In D.C.
You wouldn’t be faulted for mistaking Cannabliss for an Apple store. There are sleek sales counters, sparsely decorated walls, and just about everything is a shade of gray. Along one wall, there are three large TV screens with iPads…