Colbert King in The Post: Darker days may lie ahead for Jack Evans
I met Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) nearly 30 years ago when I was a Post editorial writer and he was an advisory neighborhood commissioner. At the time, he was running in the 1991 Ward 2 special election to replace John Wilson, who had become…
UrbanTurf: $100,000: The Difference 5 Years Makes in DC Home Prices
If you bought a home in DC back in 2013, new data reveals that you have made a tidy return on your investment. A new analysis by UrbanTurf takes a look at the trajectory of home prices in the last five years.
DCist: First Look: Red Bear Brewing Co. Creates An Inclusive Space For Beer In NoMa
When I visited Red Bear Brewing Co.’s warehouse space in September, it was a bleak and miserable concrete cave of hollow beerlessness. But that’s not how co-founder Bryan Van Den Oever saw it. He was excitedly waving his hand from empty…
DCist: In Historic First, House Of Representatives Votes To Endorse D.C. Statehood
Voting rights legislation passed in the House of Representatives on Friday includes a provision that supports full congressional voting rights and self-government for the District, marking the first time a chamber of Congress has endorsed…
Bisnow: D.C.’s Wealthiest Neighborhoods Have Built Little Affordable Housing, But That Could…
D.C. has built thousands of new affordable units in recent years, but many wealthy neighborhoods in Northwest have failed to deliver any meaningful contribution to the city's housing stock.
Jack Brown in The Post: Reentry centers play a crucial role in helping ex-inmates — and their…
Despite a hot jobs market, Washington and the nation are confronting a quiet employment crisis: legions of formerly incarcerated individuals who have little or no hope of becoming productive members of society because of fears, prejudices…
Washington Post: D.C. to close some streets when Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon hits the city on March 9
The annual Rock 'n’ Roll Marathon will bring more than 17,000 runners and thousands more spectators to the nation’s capital Saturday, closing streets and disrupting traffic, parking and transit across the District.
WTOP: DC Council, mayor’s office subpoenaed in federal investigation of Council member Jack Evans
Federal subpoenas have been delivered to the D.C. Council and the mayor’s office as part of an investigation into Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans.
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Richard III’ explores public’s complicity in tyranny
How often have you flung up your hands and decried this moment of “political theater” in the United States? Richard III — showing through Sunday at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall — stands among Shakespeare’s great works…
DCist: D.C. Councilmembers Receive Subpoenas For Their Conversations With Jack Evans
The legal quicksand continues to expand around Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, as his colleagues at the D.C. Council have received a subpoena demanding that they preserve all of their communications with the beleaguered lawmaker.
Washington Post: Entire D.C. Council receives federal subpoena in Jack Evans ethics probe
The D.C. Council has received a federal subpoena for a wide range of information related to Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and his private legal and consulting clients.
Washington Monthly: D.C. Statehood Gets A Vote in the House
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping election reform bill on Friday known as H.R. 1 and dubbed the “For the People” Act. While Democrats voted nearly unanimously to advance the measure, Republicans were almost uniformly against…
District Links: Feds subpoena all DC Council members in latest development with Jack Evans…
TGIF and happy International Women’s Day. The DC Council has been served a federal subpoena, Tom Sherwood reports: “A federal subpoena has just been served on all DC council members demanding they preserve any and all records re CoMember…
Statement on House Passage of H.R. 1, First-Ever Congressional Endorsement of DC Statehood
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 8, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Statement on House Passage of H.R. 1, First-Ever Congressional Endorsement of DC Statehood
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Bowser issued the following statement…
Norton Announces Historic Vote on H.R. 1: House of Representatives Endorses D.C. Statehood for First…
March 8, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Announces Historic Vote on H.R. 1: House of Representatives Endorses D.C. Statehood for First Time in American History
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton…
Washington Business Journal: GSA shifting focus to new construction for DHS at St. Elizabeths West
The General Services Administration is shifting its focus from adaptive reuse to new construction for the Department of Homeland Security's consolidation at the St. Elizabeths West campus, where it hopes to get support and more funding…
Washingtonian: Greater Greater Washington Lost a Big Chunk of Its Funding. Now What?
The influential urbanist site is scrambling to plot a way forward.
WAMU: Where Can You Build A Basketball Court? Anywhere, According To This New Exhibition
A basketball hoop attached to a grain silo. Another nailed to a tree in the woods. A third, surrounded by cacti in the desert.
Curbed: Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon to close D.C. streets early Saturday
More than 25,000 runners and tens of thousands of spectators are anticipated to turn out for the event
DCist: A Bunch Of New Condos Are About To Hit The D.C. Market
Folks looking to become luxury home owners in the District this year will soon be spoiled for choice.