jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?
“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…
Washington Blade: Trans sex worker advocates arrested at Freedom Plaza
U.S. Park Police officers on Monday arrested two members of the local LGBT protest group No Justice No Pride after they attempted to hang from two flagpoles in Freedom Plaza a large banner calling for decriminalization of sex work in D.C.…
Washington Blade: Hundreds of thousands expected for Capital Pride
More than 400,000 people are expected to turn out for D.C.’s Capital Pride Parade, festival and other events this weekend from the D.C. area and Mid-Atlantic region to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New…
Washington Blade: Permanent Pride banners to be displayed on 17th Street
At the request of gay Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Randy Downs, city officials have approved the installation of 20 rainbow and transgender flag banners to be hung from light poles along 17th Street, N.W. near Dupont…
Washingtonian: Meet Pepper, DC Superior Court’s New Assistance Dog
DC Superior Court got a four-legged addition to its ranks on Wednesday, when two-year-old black Labrador Pepper started work in Magistrate Judge Mary Grace Rook’s courtroom.
Washington Informer: Local Attention Pivots to Gun Violence
As they prepare for a student-led march scheduled for Thursday afternoon, friends, family and members of the Somerset Prep DC Public Charter School community remember slain teenager Maurice Scott as an honor roll student and rising high…
Washington Informer: Community Members Defend Sankofa at D.C. Council Hearing
In the weeks leading up to what would be an emotionally charged D.C. Council hearing, droves of community members took to group email lists, social media, local radio programs and the streets in support of a bill that would alleviate…
Washington Informer: Task Force Questions Racial Disparity in City Contracts
An ad hoc group of African-American entrepreneurs have organized to request the D.C. government produce a study on how many Black businesses and firms are getting city government contracts.
Norton Praises House Action on DREAMers, Pathway to Citizenship
June 5, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Praises House Action on DREAMers, Pathway to Citizenship
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that House passage yesterday of the American Dream and Promise…
Norton, Capital Region Members Announce GAO Study on Helicopter Noise in Washington Metro Area
June 5, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton, Capital Region Members Announce GAO Study on Helicopter Noise in Washington Metro Area
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), joined by Representatives Gerry…
Washingtonian: Drafting Table Owner Cites Competition and NIMBY Neighbors for Closure
The 14th Street restaurant is done with declining sales and feuding with upstairs residents
Washington Post: Leadership of troubled D.C. public boarding school votes to close campus
The board of Monument Academy Public Charter School voted Tuesday to close the school at the end of the academic year — a stunning turn for a weekday boarding campus that has attracted big named-donors and received national attention for…
City Paper: By Some Metrics, the Number of People Facing Housing Instability in D.C. Continues to…
But Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has touted the shrinking number of homeless families.
DCist: The Water Is Flowing Again At The Meridian Hill Park Fountain
When it’s working, the multi-tiered cascading fountain at Meridian Hill Park is the longest of its kind in North America. But in recent years, it hasn’t been working all that frequently.
WAMU: D.C. Businesses Brace For New Paid Leave Tax Starting July 1
Starting next month, D.C. will begin collecting taxes from businesses to fund its new paid leave program, which is scheduled to go into effect next year. But some businesses say there’s been confusion about how the tax is being assessed.
Washington Post: For years, a D.C. developer has paid to send high school students to Normandy
Four days before he climbed aboard the airplane that would drop him over Nazi-occupied France, Pvt. Delmer D. Linaburg sent a letter to his mother back home in Winchester, Va.
UrbanTurf: 300 Units and a Public Plaza: The Plans for Union Market’s Sister Building
Last summer, plans for an expanded Union Market were a bit in flux after a development partner dropped out. Now, as the city gears up for tennis atop the market building, EDENS is back with a new development partner and a new plan.
DCist: A Third Candidate Jumps In The Race To Unseat Jack Evans In Ward 2
John Fanning, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner chairman in Logan Circle, thinks it’s time for Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans to go. And, despite two challengers already throwing their hats in the ring to unseat the longest-serving,…
City Paper: Turn Down or What?
London and San Francisco have legislation that protects live music venues from consequential noise complaints. Could D.C. be next?
Curbed: RFK Stadium site recreational fields to open June 8
The fields are multipurpose and part of the 190-acre site’s overall redevelopment