Washingtonian: Voltaggio Brothers Open Modern Chesapeake Seafood Restaurant in CityCenterDC
After many closures, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio are now focusing on Estuary.
UrbanTurf: 96-Unit Apartment Project Opens on the Edge of Georgetown
It has been years since a new large-scale residential project opened its doors in Georgetown, but that recently changed.
City Paper: Members of the DC Democratic State Committee Try to Dethrone Jack Evans
He is currently the D.C. representative to the national Democratic Party.
Office of the Student Advocate releases new student discipline guide
For Immediate Release
March 27, 2019
Contact: Tiffany Wilson, Program Associate
Office of the Student Advocate releases new student discipline guide
Resource explains new rules under Student Fair Access to School Amendment Act of…
New Report: DC Can Raise Revenue By Eliminating Costly and Ineffective Business Tax Incentives
New Report: DC Can Raise Revenue By Eliminating Costly and Ineffective Business Tax Incentives
Contact: Simone Holzer
As the DC Council works on the fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget, they should eliminate or scale back ineffective tax…
District Links: Only a quarter of constituent service fund spending served urgent constituent needs,…
Good Wednesday morning. Watchdog group Public Citizen released a new report on constituent service funds, finding that only a quarter of the spending from elected officials' funds served “urgent constituent needs.”
Washington Post: D.C.’s new middle school in booming Takoma reflects city’s strategy for retaining…
Six years ago, school leaders in the District shuttered more than a dozen schools because of lackluster enrollment.
Curbed: D.C. would get to buy the RFK Stadium site from the feds under new congressional bill
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and other District leaders want the land to come under local control
Washington Business Journal: With soccer stadium built, D.C. looks for new visions for Poplar Point…
D.C. officials are renewing their efforts to figure out just how they might someday redevelop two properties with some very long histories: Poplar Point along the Anacostia waterfront and the Reeves Center in the heart of the U Street…
Washington Post: Mayor’s budget proposes slight increase for D.C. police, more money for programs…
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is proposing a small increase in the police department’s half-billion-dollar budget for the coming fiscal year, which includes money to hire additional officers to help confront the rising number of homicides.
Washington Business Journal: Unizo sells Capitol Hill office building for $24 million less than it…
An affiliate of Unizo Holdings Co. Ltd. has sold a 12-story office building in Capitol Hill for $24.5 million less than it paid for the property less in 2016.
Washington Business Journal: Luxury Shaw condos on site of razed church hitting the market
The luxury condos that took the place of Shaw's Scripture Cathedral Church will soon go on sale.
Washington Post: D.C. public hospital will require $40 million taxpayer bailout
The District’s only public hospital will require a $40 million taxpayer subsidy to stay afloat, city officials have determined, the latest and largest in a series of government bailouts for the struggling facility over the last several…
Nationals Fans Urged to Plan Ahead for Opening Day Thursday, March 28
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Media Contacts
Terry Owens
Lauren Stephens
Nationals Fans Urged to Plan Ahead for Opening Day Thursday, March 28
(Washington, DC) – The District Department of Transportation…
Washington Business Journal: New tenants announced for JBG Smith’s West Half, across from Nats…
Union Kitchen Grocery, Compass Coffee and Cold Stone Creamery have signed leases to join JBG Smith Properties' West Half project across from Nationals Park, the Chevy Chase-based developer announced Tuesday.
Washington Post: Constituent services funds are supposed to help D.C. residents in need. Do they?
The “vast majority” of dollars raised through private donations by D.C. elected officials to help District residents are not spent as intended, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a government watchdog organization.
WAMU: People Have Been Taking Basic Cherry Blossom Photos For Over 100 Years
Posting photos of the cherry blossoms is a springtime tradition for both Washington newbies and longtime locals. Sure, it feels kind of basic, but those flowers are just calling to be photographed. How can we resist their siren song?
Norton Highlights Federal Opportunity Zones with Mayor Bowser, U.S. Senator Tim Scott
March 26, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Highlights Federal Opportunity Zones with Mayor Bowser, U.S. Senator Tim Scott
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser,…
As Part of March Madness, Mayor Bowser Announces Latrena Owens as the Executive Director of the St.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:March 26, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
As Part of March Madness, Mayor Bowser Announces Latrena Owens as the Executive Director of the St. Elizabeths East Campus Redevelopment
(WASHINGTON, DC) –…