WAMU: What’s In A Name? Residents East Of The Anacostia River Say, ‘Everything.’
For much of the District’s history, the term “East of the River” was simply a geographical description without particular significance.
City Paper: Key Urban Agriculture Programs Delayed as City Swaps Who Will Manage Them
The Department of General Services says further soil testing is the hold up. Meanwhile, D.C. just established an urban agriculture office under a different agency.
Washington Post: Nearly 1 in 6 D.C. residents ride e-scooters, according to Post-Schar School poll
They’ve been zipping around the District for more than a year, becoming a source of both convenience and consternation. But their ubiquity raises the question — how many people are using electric scooters, and who are they?
Washington Post: The car is still king in the Washington region, Post-Schar School poll finds
Most people in the Washington region drive their own car to get around on a daily basis, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll, indicating that the region’s love affair with the automobile isn’t waning despite worsening traffic…
WTOP: Low and loud: Government to study helicopter noise around nation’s capital
After complaints from residents in Virginia, Maryland and D.C., the Government Accountability Office will conduct a study of helicopter noise in and around the nation’s capital.
Washington Post: Virginia formally urges Metro board to release findings of Jack Evans ethics probe
Virginia on Thursday formally called on the Metro board to make public the findings of its ethics investigation into board chairman Jack Evans, saying the disclosure was necessary for “accountability and transparency.”
District Links: Cars dominate the region’s transportation picture, poll says; Virginia pushes…
TGIF! There’s a new WaPo-Schar School poll that shows most people in the region drive cars to get around, with 64 percent of District residents saying they have driven to get someplace in the past year.
Takoma Park Library prepares for 4-month refresh
For Immediate Release
June 6, 2019
Media Contact: George Williams, Media Relations Manager
Takoma Park Library prepares for 4-month refresh
(Washington, D.C.) - The Takoma Park Library located at 416 Cedar St. NW will close for…
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: To combat D.C. homelessness, fight residency fraud first
Here’s an alert for D.C. taxpayers and other stakeholders — and that includes you. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Wednesday morning that the city is suing six Maryland parents for fraudulently claiming D.C. residency so they…
Washington Times: District joins corporations to create housing, end homelessness
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday a city partnership with the private sector to help end homelessness in the District and create 36,000 affordable housing units by 2025.
Washington Post: District AG sues six more Maryland parents over residency fraud
The District’s attorney general is suing six Maryland parents — including three current or former city employees — for allegedly lying about their residency to send their children to D.C. schools for free.
WTOP: DC moves to make more 24-hour restrooms available to the public
Two 24-hour, stand-alone, public restrooms will be going into still undetermined high-traffic D.C. neighborhoods, where facilities are lacking.
WTOP: Catholic University gets record $20M nursing school donation
The Catholic University of America has received a $20 million donation from William Conway Jr., co-founder of D.C.-based investment firm The Carlyle Group, and his wife, Joanne.
Washington Business Journal: Carlyle co-founder donates $20 million to Catholic University
Bill Conway, co-founder and co-executive chairman of D.C. private equity giant The Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG), and his wife, Joanne, have made a $20 million donation to Catholic University, bringing their total financial support to the…
City Paper: RFK Stadium Will Now Have Turf Fields Nearby
The three multi-purpose turf fields in Northeast are the latest sports and recreation investment the city has made this past year.
WTOP: Maury Wills headlines DCSAA Hall of Fame class
Maury Wills really likes this story. As a teenager, living in the Parkside housing projects off Kenilworth Avenue in Northeast D.C., he would play with a semipro team on Sundays during the summer. That team was the Pontiac Indians, so…
Washington Post: Meet the biggest and smallest dinosaurs in the Smithsonian’s redesigned exhibit
Of all the creatures that have walked, slithered, swum and soared around the Earth over the past, oh, 3½ billion years, dinosaurs are undoubtedly the coolest. That, in any case, is the consensus view of children, and it’s why the newly…
WTOP: DC sues 6 more Md. parents, accusing them of school residency fraud
D.C.’s crackdown on school residency fraud continued on Thursday, with more parents now facing lawsuits from Attorney General Karl Racine’s office.
Washington Business Journal: D.C.-based Mischo Beauty finds a place on Macy’s shelves, with…
D.C.-based Mischo Beauty’s line of luxury nail lacquer is now available through Macy’s online and retail stores, with an possible expansion to Bloomingdale's and Macy's Bluemercury brand by early 2020.
DCist: D.C. Dyke March Faces Controversy Over Banning Israeli And Nationalist Symbols
On the eve of D.C.’s first Dyke March in more than a decade, organizers have found themselves responding to allegations of anti-Semitism after they announced that Israeli and other nationalist symbols would not be allowed at the march on…