WTOP: DC investigating what caused weekend power outage
D.C.’s Public Service Commission is looking into Saturday’s power outage that affected 39,000 customers in Northwest.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Activates Heat Emergency Plan
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
July 29, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Christopher White (HSEMA)
Dora Taylor-Lowe (DHS)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Encourages Residents to Help Build a #SaferStrongerDC by Participating…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
July 29, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Daniel Rappaport (OVSJG)
Mayor Bowser Encourages Residents to Help Build a…
Press Release: Norton Announces New Date for Rescheduled D.C. Statehood Hearing
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 29, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform has rescheduled the…
Press Release: DCPSC Will Examine Root Cause of Power Equipment Failure that Caused Power Outage in…
News Release — DC Public Service Commission
For Immediate Release: July 29, 2019
Media Contact: Kellie Didigu
Pepco required to file report with DCPSC within five days of incident
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Public Service Commission…
District Links: DC cuts ties with summer jobs provider for youth; Ward 5 family homeless shelter to…
Good Monday morning. The Ward 5 family homeless shelter will open next month, Curbed reports …
Curbed: Ribbon cutting for Brookland homeless shelter to take place in August
The project survived a lawsuit by neighbors earlier this month
City Paper: Some D.C. Restaurants Are Prepared for the Threat of an Active Shooter
Pizzeria Paradiso put its free training to use during this year's Pride Parade.
Washington Post: District abruptly shuts down site that provides summer jobs to youths
Kendall Bryan was beginning another day at the summer jobs program he directed in Northeast Washington a couple of weeks ago when two city officials arrived for what he thought was an unscheduled tour.
WTOP: ‘East Coast’s largest’ anime convention draws cosplay crowds to DC
Fans of Asian pop culture convened in the District to celebrate anime, manga, music, movies, video games and more over the weekend.
Bisnow: MRP Breaks Ground On Northeast D.C. Project, Lines Up Financing For Another
MRP Realty is making major progress on its Northeast D.C. development pipeline this month, celebrating the groundbreaking of one project and securing financing that will kick-start construction on another.
WTOP: Power restored to thousands in DC after Saturday outage
About 39,000 Pepco customers lost electrical service for much of Saturday after an issue with a D.C. substation.
City Paper: Ward 7’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Scheduled to Open This Week
“As black people, the cannabis industry is an industry that we’ve been notoriously left out of … This is an opportunity for us to build a special expertise.”
Washington Post: At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems
Sarah Yerkes was in her 90s when a friend invited her to try something new. A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Yerkes had had decades-long careers: first as a landscape architect using brick and stone; then as a…
Washington Post: Power restored after outage affected 39,000 in Northwest D.C. on Saturday
About 39,000 Pepco customers lost power for several hours starting Saturday afternoon, an outage that affected a wide swath of Northwest Washington, including parts of the Shaw, Logan Circle, U Street, Dupont Circle, Woodley Park, Van…
NBC4: A Car Drove onto the Tracks at Union Station, Auditors Say in Report Spotlighting Porous…
"Longstanding security weaknesses remain unaddressed," a report from Amtrak advises
WTOP: Car driven onto tracks at Union Station highlights security risks
A person was able to drive their car across a station platform onto the tracks last winter — and Amtrak security failures are to blame, a report finds.
WTOP: Thousands remain without power in Northwest DC
Around 5,600 Pepco customers in Northwest D.C. remain without power on Saturday evening.
Washington Post: Their music was ready to spill out. All they needed was a piano.
The last drips of sunlight were filtering past the legs of pedestrians and into the basement when the pianist with eight fingers sauntered in.
WTOP: Nationals’ Sean Doolittle shows support for DC’s summer reading program
Sean Doolittle of the Washington Nationals took part in D.C. Public Library’s Summer Challenge Program Saturday and visited Cleveland Park where he encouraged his youngest fans to keep their minds active and engaged through books.