City Paper: City Determines Who Will Farm Urban Agriculture Plots in Wards 4 and 6
The Department of General Services picked proposals from Apogee Farms and Agricity.
UrbanTurf: New Residences and a Restaurant Planned Next to Uptown Theater
More density is planned for Cleveland Park, this time just down the street from the Uptown Theatre.
WTOP: Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon to cause DC road closures Saturday
Thousands of runners will the hit the streets of D.C. this weekend causing numerous road closures for local drivers.
DCist: 14th Street Mainstay Home Rule Is Closing After 20 Years
Home Rule, 14th Street’s go-to store for fairly priced homegoods, will shut its doors after two decades.
Metro begins testing automatic door operations on passenger trains
For immediate release: March 4, 2019
Metro begins testing automatic door operations on passenger trains
The first Metro trains to automatically open their doors in years have been operating on the system over the past two weeks, as…
Mayor Bowser Encourages District Residents to Take Advantage of Child Care and Earned Income Tax…
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March 4, 2019
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Encourages District Residents to Take Advantage of Child Care and Earned Income Tax Credits
With New Early Child Care Tax Credit Families…
Norton Blasts Meadows and Gosar Amendment Attacking D.C. Statehood, Home Rule
March 4, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Blasts Meadows and Gosar Amendment Attacking D.C. Statehood, Home Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and…
CityLab: How to Design a Better City for Deaf People
Lighting, sound-deflecting surfaces, big spaces—all of these elements can influence a deaf person’s ability to communicate. DeafSpace design considers it all.
Washingtonian: Take a Look at the Newest Luxury Development Coming to Shaw
Perla, on the former site of the Scripture Cathedral church, is scheduled to open in the fall
UrbanTurf: Amazon Will Open Grocery Stores and One Will Come to DC
In addition to welcoming an Amazon campus across the Potomac River, DC residents may also be shopping for their groceries in an Amazon store at this time next year.
DISB Helps District Residents Protect Their Financial Interests During National Consumer Protection…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, March 4, 2019
Contact: Paul Drehoff (DISB)
DISB Helps District Residents Protect Their Financial Interests During National Consumer Protection Week
Washington, DC—The District of Columbia Department…
District Links: DC still working on rollout of solutions for opioid overdoses; Mendelson seeking…
Good Monday morning. Some of the top remedies for opioid overdose deaths announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser more than two months ago remain in the planning stages, WaPo reports.
Greg Taylor: Ferebee is the right choice for DC schools
There is no national issue more critical in the African-American community today than improving the quality of education offered to our young men and women. Whether we’re talking about DC or Indianapolis, we know that if we do not…
City Paper: In the Wake of Evans Influence-Selling Report, Mendelson Explores Legal Options
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has asked his general counsel to lay out the ethical and legal rules, and the body's options, following a Washington Post report about Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' proposals to lobbying firms.
Washington Post: Months after mayor’s plan, key D.C. opioid programs still in planning stages
More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not been launched, according to city officials and service…
Washington Post: Potholes are an auto mechanic’s best friend about now
Leke Arojojoye, who works as an accountant, was on his way to work Friday when D.C.’s weather-battered streets messed with his balance sheet.
Washington Post: D.C.’s Kiplinger family parts with publishing company after 99 years
The family-owned business and finance publisher Kiplinger Washington Editors has been sold to London-based Dennis Publishing, a prolific, private-equity-owned publisher that owns the Week, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal…
Washington Post: ‘You’ve got to be kitten me’: At a new pop-up lounge in D.C., you can play with…
To mark the first anniversary of her favorite cat’s death, Amber Smigiel took a few days off from her job at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to grieve — and may have ended up with a new feline.
Mark Lee in The Washington Blade: D.C. must delay paid leave law to prevent botched launch
Skepticism by both D.C. elected officials and local businesses regarding the planned implementation timetable for the city’s pending private-sector paid leave mandate has been notably high and has continued unabated since passage of the…
Washington Informer: Gray Unhappy with Ice Rink Deal
The Bowser administration and the leaders of the nonprofit that oversees D.C.’s only public ice rink reached a settlement for the expansion of the facility — but a key council member doesn’t like the deal.