WTOP: Metro wasted millions trying, failing to pay workers
Metro wasted millions on a new program for workers to clock in and clock out that ended up not paying or inaccurately paying many transit employees, an inspector general’s report finds.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. students wrote essays about their fear of violence. Everyone…
“AS CHILDREN, we should be safe, especially in the nation’s capital right? We shouldn’t have to worry about our lives being taken right? We shouldn’t have to pray for miracles right?” That 13-year-old Aliyah Harrison even had to ask those…
Washington Post: FBI agent, real estate agent charged with bribery scheme in District
A real estate agent and an FBI agent have been charged in an alleged bribery scheme using a program that protects renters in the District from being evicted when landlords sell their property, according to documents filed in federal court.…
Washington Business Journal: LISC D.C. elevates Ramon Jacobson to executive director
The Local Initiatives Support Corp. has officially named Ramon Jacobson as executive director of the District office, replacing longtime affordable housing advocate Oramenta Newsome, who died last year.
DDOT Celebrates Arbor Day with Festival, Growing Tree Canopy
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DDOT Celebrates Arbor Day with Festival, Growing Tree Canopy
(Washington, DC) — Today, the District Department of Transportation celebrates…
Colbert King in The Post: D.C. must do more to protect its youth. Breon Austin’s death proves that.
Breon Austin’s death hit home. At 16 , he was close in age to two of my grandchildren. A young person’s death always hits hard.
City Paper: Protesters Rebuke Mayor Bowser, Demand Safer Streets, As Traffic Deaths Continue to…
In a strange twist, Jay Leno rode though the bike lane in front of the rally in his fancy pants car. WTF, Jay?!
Curbed: 10 economic records set in downtown D.C. in 2018, according to ‘State of Downtown’ report
Some were highs, others were lows. And WeWork is now the District’s largest private office tenant
Washington Post: ‘It’s absolutely unacceptable’: Protesters demand safer streets in D.C.
Traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington came to a halt for a few moments midday Friday as demonstrators called for safer streets in the nation’s capital, in the wake of a string of collisions that claimed the lives of three…
Washington Post: A final place of dignity awaits the poor and unfamous in a famous cemetery
In life, Jock K. Adams and Paul Coates Jr. were strangers. In death, they will be together in a vault at Congressional Cemetery.
Washington Business Journal: Union Square Cafe pulls out of Capitol Crossing
New York’s Union Square Cafe will not be expanding to D.C. after all.
UrbanTurf: 155 Affordable Continuing Care Units Proposed in Kenilworth
A new senior living community is on the boards for DC.
Bisnow: Developer Plans 155-Unit Senior Living Project East Of The River
The growing demand for senior housing in D.C. continues to push developers to pursue new projects, with the latest community planned for Ward 7.
DCist: Fed Up With Traffic Deaths, Advocates Lie Down On Pennsylvania Avenue
For eight minutes—a minute for each person killed in a traffic crash since the year began—hundreds of safety advocates blocked one of the city’s main thoroughfares.
Kip Banks Sr. in The Post: A young man was killed right outside my D.C. church. I’ve had enough.
On April 1, an African American man was shot multiple times, right across the street from the church I pastor, East Washington Heights Baptist Church. That man later died.
DCist: Most ‘Gentrifying’ Cities Aren’t Actually Experiencing Displacement. But D.C. Is, Study Finds
Washington, D.C. is one of the few major cities in the entire country where gentrification is actually displacing people from their neighborhoods, a new study has found.
WTOP: Metro optimistic cool air will return soon to Dupont Circle, Farragut North
A permanent cooling system is expected to flip back on at two Red Line stations soon for the first time in years.
WTOP: Beach Drive reconstruction enters final phase with road closure
The last phase of the final segment of the yearslong rehabilitation of Beach Drive is finally here.
John Adams in The Post: Metro, please don’t fall for China’s trap and buy their rail cars
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority did the right thing when it extended the deadline for proposals from manufacturers for its next series of rail cars. WMATA’s decision is good news, provided that it addresses cybersecurity…
From the Anacostia River to the U.S.-Mexico border, local conservation photographer and writer aims…
Though Krista Schlyer’s work as a conservation photographer and writer has taken her all over the country and into Mexico, in recent years she’s been focused on a landmark closer to home: the Anacostia River.
Schlyer, who lives in Mount…