DCist: These People and Places Are The ‘Real’ D.C., According to Comedian W. Kamau Bell
In the latest episode of his CNN show United Shades of America, comedian W. Kamau Bell travels to our fair District. He notes that the anger people feel towards the nation’s capital is separate from the local city. “If you hate Washington,…
UrbanTurf: A First Look at One of the Buildings Central to The Parks at Walter Reed
The redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus continues to gain steam.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: For these men in their 70s, friendship has lasted a lifetime Add to…
The six men gathered on a porch in Southeast Washington were reminiscing. Buddies since childhood, they were now in their late 70s and have been getting together at least once a month for the past 30 years.
Congress Heights landlord, OAG wrangle in court over whether to renovate long-neglected apartment…
A Congress Heights landlord sparred with attorneys for the District of Columbia in Superior Court this month over whether a judge should drop a requirement that the landlord pay for renovation of a dilapidated apartment complex in…
Anne Herr: DC still has a shortage of high-quality school options
Last week the DC Public Charter School Board rightfully approved five applications to create new schools. These charter schools hold the promise to support students who live in wards that lack quality options, or target student populations…
WAMU: Need For Urgent Public Housing Repairs Prompts D.C. Council To Tap Controversial Source Of…
Lawmakers also take aim at proposed subsidy for United Medical Center
Washington Post: After a heated fight about race and schools, D.C. Council decides: Banneker will…
The future of a vacant school that has emerged as a symbolic battleground over the direction of the District’s public education system was settled Tuesday after two hours of fiery debate among D.C. Council members.
WTOP: DC Council moves to reduce cuts in funding for struggling hospital
City leaders highlighted the victims from an especially violent Memorial Day in their appeal to prioritize funding for D.C.’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River.
Washington Post: D.C. police confronted by spate of shootings over Memorial Day weekend
The unofficial start to summer began with a surge of violence over the Memorial Day weekend that included fatal shootings in Southeast Washington and five people wounded by gunfire at an entrance to a recreation center pool.
Curbed: D.C. Council votes to fund public housing repairs in fiscal year 2020 budget
Most of the money would come from D.C.’s sports and entertainment authority
Washington Business Journal: D.C. Council votes to give UMC more money
The D.C. Council is giving United Medical Center about $22 million as part of the new District budget, up from the $15 million subsidy cap that was passed at a first budget reading two weeks ago.
WAMU: ‘This Will Not Be the New Normal’: D.C. Police Prepare For Possible Spike In Violence
Three people, including a 15-year-old high school freshman, were killed over the holiday weekend, stoking community concerns of a possible repeat of last year’s spike in deadly violence.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. Council signs off on new budget full of tax changes, more funding…
The D.C. Council has signed off on a new budget after weeks of debate, finding more funding for affordable housing programs and public housing repairs by relying on a slew of tax changes and even some cash drawn from the agency managing…
Bisnow: D.C. Council Passes $15.5B Budget With CRE Tax Hikes To Fund Affordable Housing
Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to increase taxes on commercial property to build new affordable housing has passed the D.C. Council, despite opposition from the development community and the council chairman.
WTOP: Amid gun violence ‘spike,’ DC police chief says summer crime staffing ‘sufficient’
After a long holiday weekend that included the Sunday shooting death of 15-year-old Maurice Scott near his Somerset Prep D.C. charter school and the Monday shooting that injured five in Barry Farm, police Chief Peter Newsham said he trusts…
DCist: After Fierce Debate, D.C. Council Votes To Swap Sites For Banneker High And Shaw Middle…
The D.C. Council spent nearly two hours on the day of its second budget vote once again in a fierce debate about two D.C. schools—Banneker Senior High School and a potential Shaw Middle School—that touches on some of the city’s most…
Washington Post: D.C. Council approves $15.5 billion budget in rancorous debate over priorities
The D.C. Council on Tuesday added millions to subsidize the District’s only public hospital and identified a new funding resource to repair the city’s deteriorated public housing stock with the final passage of a $15.5 billion budget for…
Washington Business Journal: Lonnie Bunch lays out his Smithsonian to-do list
Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution's new secretary, says one of his first goals leading the nearly 175-year-old cultural institution will be creating what he refers to as “the virtual Smithsonian.”
UrbanTurf: Changes at Sursum Corda Redevelopment Will Put More Eyes on the Street
Earlier this year, the development team creating a new mixed-income community at the site of the Sursum Corda Cooperative unveiled a different look for the proposed project. Now, revised plans would put more eyes on the street.
Washington Post: FBI targets prostitution bosses in D.C.’s Logan, Thomas circles, a busy zone called…
They exchanged more than 1,000 text messages in four months. Police said she was selling sex around the District’s Logan and Thomas circles. They said he was her pimp.