The DC Lineup for this weekend: flowers, France and Fort Stevens
Summertime entertainment is in full swing over the next few days with outdoor film screenings and a seasonal flower festival. This weekend, July 12 to 14, you can also taste local beers, learn some history, experience live music and art,…
WTOP: New Metro fare gates raise concerns about accessibility
Metro’s new fare gates set to start rolling out next year include changes the agency hopes will help address a key priority: cutting down on people skipping out on paying fares.
Washington Post: The National Archives’ floating flood wall helped dodge disaster from epic rainfall
Norman Hughes was sitting at his computer in the engineer control room in the subbasement of the National Archives on Monday when his screen flashed an alarm that the building’s flood control barriers had been activated.
Washington Times: GW president seeks 20% cut in undergraduate numbers
George Washington University plans to reduce its undergraduate enrollment by 2,400 students — 20% — in the next five years, school President Thomas LeBlanc revealed this week, saying the school needed to “right-size” after a significant…
Washington Times: ‘Cheers’: National Arboretum Beer Garden impresses craft brewers,…
The National Arboretum Beer Garden isn’t a Bavarian-style setting featuring suds and sausages, but it does offer all the ingredients for a good brew.
Washington Post: D.C.’s premier animal welfare league joins forces with New Jersey operation
Washington’s largest animal rescue organization has merged with a center based in New Jersey to create the country’s first multistate animal welfare group. The union announced this week is designed to consolidate resources and address a…
Washington Post: New subpoenas issued in federal probe of D.C. Council member Jack Evans
A federal grand jury investigating D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) has issued subpoenas for testimony and documents related to a recent separate inquiry in which a Metro committee found that Evans committed ethical misconduct…
City Paper: Advocates Report ICE Raid at a D.C. Indian Restaurant
“Restaurants are hard because in these cases, they’re the heart of the immigrant community.”
Washington Business Journal: Service Bar team opening new spot in Shaw’s Blagden Alley
The owners of Shaw cocktail spot Service Bar have their eyes on expansion in the neighborhood.
Washingtonian: After 15 Novels, Susan Richards Shreve Is Still Nurturing DC’s Literary Scene
At 80, Susan Richards Shreve has long been one of the leading novelists in a city better known for its nonfiction.
DCist: D.C. Council Stands United On … Lemonade Stands
It’s not often that Country Time Lemonade wades into D.C. Council debates. But there’s a first time for everything.
Curbed: Metro suspends automatic door-opening days after starting it
The move follows about half a dozen erroneous automatic door closings
WTOP: Metro to pay for lawyers for board members subpoenaed in Jack Evans criminal probe
Metro will pay for lawyers for board members subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating former board Chairman Jack Evans.
Northwest Courier: Mission-Driven Urban Farms Help Feed, Educate DC
Tracy Knapp, the farm manager at Common Good City Farm in LeDroit Park, came to DC from the Virgin Islands, and before that multiple rural farms in the continental United States. Unlike any of the previous farms she had worked on in the…
WTOP: Metro suspends automatic door operations indefinitely; no timetable for return
Metro has suspended automatic door operations on the Red Line, just days after touting its return.
Press Release: Norton Introduces Bill to Preserve D.C. Region Civil War Defenses
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 11, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton to Speak at Event Marking 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Stevens
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As she prepares to speak at an event marking…
Press Release: Norton, Ruppersberger Introduce Bill to Provide Lifetime Identify Protection Coverage…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 11, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) today introduced the RECOVER Act (Reducing…
District Links: How Council Chairman Phil Mendelson got his way this week; SUV driver kills two;…
Good Thursday morning. You’ve heard of McMillan, the famously stalled redevelopment project that was recently upheld by the DC Court of Appeals. There are lesser-known projects in the District also stymied by neighborhood resistance.
DCist: Two Pedestrians Were Killed By An SUV Driver Who Barreled Into A Northwest D.C. Park
Two pedestrians were struck and killed on Wednesday night in Northwest D.C. when a driver went barreling into a park near Foggy Bottom.
Curbed: Driver fatally strikes two people along Pennsylvania Avenue NW
The victims were reportedly sitting in a park when the crash happened