DCist: After Flooding, Stretch Of Canal Road Will Be Closed For Repairs For A Week
Part of Canal Road will remain closed for emergency repairs for at least another week, District transit officials announced on Friday.
Washington Business Journal: Chicago-based coworking firm acquires downtown D.C. office building
Chicago-based Novel Coworking has acquired 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW as part of a larger push into Greater Washington's shared-office market.
Washington Post: D.C. attorney general issues subpoenas to NRA, its charitable foundation
D.C’s attorney general issued subpoenas Friday to the National Rifle Association and its charitable foundation, putting additional pressure on the embattled gun rights organization from nonprofit regulators.
Washington Business Journal: Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce launches with big event…
The Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce commemorated its launch Wednesday with remarks from founders, city officials and honorees directed at building a powerful black business community in and around D.C.
District Links: Feds grow Evans probe with more subpoenas; AG begins investigating NRA; fare evasion…
TGIF! The drip-drip out of the federal investigation into Council member Jack Evans continues, with subpoenas handed out to two Metro board members.
Press Release: DDOT to Continue Temporary Closure Canal Road NW between Reservoir Road and Foxhall…
News Release: District Department of Transportation
July 12, 2019
Media Contacts
Lauren Stephens
Christina Stowers
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Press Release: Mayor Bowser Celebrates the Preservation of Over 1,000 Affordable Homes through the…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development
July 12, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Richard Livingstone (DHCD)
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CNN: Eleanor Holmes Norton’s fight for equal pay in 1970 still resonates today
(CNN) — In 1967, my mother -- then Francie Weinman -- graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
Washingtonian: How This DC Nonprofit Helps Churches Repair Trump-Era Rifts
The Center for Christian Civics is trying to unite parishioners from both sides of the aisle.
Washington Blade: Blade’s Chibbaro named LGBT ‘Icon’
The Equality Forum, an advocacy group that promotes awareness of LGBT history, announced its annual “Icons” who will be celebrated during LGBT History Month in October. Among them is Washington Blade senior news reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr.,!-->…
WAMU: Fare Evasion Could Cost Metro $36 Million. Here’s What The Agency Is Doing About It.
If you hop a turnstile in a Metro station, smile. The agency is testing a new camera system in hopes of curbing an increase in fare evasion.
WTOP: Canal Road to be closed at least 1 more week for repairs
A major commuter route in Northwest Washington is staying closed for another week.
Washington Post: Canal Road in Northwest Washington will be closed for a week
Crews working to repair road after heavy rains and flooding from Monday.
Curbed: 700-seat tennis stadium opens on top of Union Market building July 15
Venus Williams and the Washington Kastles will play there this month
UrbanTurf: Petworth ANC Passes Housing Development Guidelines
As the city contemplates how to update the Comprehensive Plan, one DC Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) is taking a similar approach to development within its borders.
Dani Levinas in The Post: When artists cry out about human tragedy, it’s not politics
Last month, the Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, launched one of the most extensive, ambitious and timely exhibitions in its nearly 100-year history, “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement.”
WTOP: DC’s Humane Rescue Alliance, NJ animal welfare center merge to create nation’s first…
D.C.’s Humane Rescue Alliance, the area’s largest animal rescue organization, joined forces with a New Jersey based center, creating the first multi-state animal welfare organization in the nation, the institutions said Tuesday.
WUSA9: Here’s where in DC you should treat floodwater like it’s sewage – because it…
DC Water says its tunnel system caught 170 million gallons of combined sewage during Monday's extreme rain. But another 50 million gallons overflowed.
Metro Weekly: Gertrude Stein Democratic Club calls on Councilmember Jack Evans to resign
D.C. Council recently voted to remove LGBTQ ally as Finance Committee chair over alleged conflicts of interest
Capital Projections: Troubled couples 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.
MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE
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