Washington Business Journal: Will Planet Word speak to you? Literally, yes.
Planet Word, the new language museum taking over D.C.’s historic Franklin School, will feature a talking tree.
WAMU: D.C. Jazz Lovers Find Their Groove In Offbeat Places
The Washington jazz scene barely resembles Duke Ellington's day, but younger artists and smaller venues keep the legacy going.
City Paper: D.C. Chronically Failed to Spend Federal Funds to Remediate Lead Paint Hazards, HUD Says
In doing so it lost out on the only dedicated subsidy for remediating lead paint hazards for low-income tenants with small children.
Owain James on Mobility Lab: Buses are a better substitute for late night rail than subsidized…
If you’re a resident of the Washington, DC area, chances are you’ve been following the debate over late night Metro service – or have been affected by the cuts. In 2016, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) cut late…
Ed Lazere: To build a visionary budget, DC needs more resources. Here’s how we can get them.
In just a month, Mayor Muriel Bowser faces the first test of the pledge to use her second term to be bold in tackling DC’s biggest challenges, like affordable housing and homelessness. That test will come on March 20 when she releases the…
jonetta rose barras: Why don’t DC officials already know the cause of gun violence?
I asked myself that question when DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie and eight of his colleagues introduced the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention Research Establishment Act of 2019. Were they suffering group confusion or…
Washington Life Magazine: Book Talk: Washington’s Golden Age
A new biography of Hope Ridings Miller looks at the journalist's life and legacy.
Greater Greater Washington: Lessons from an unlikely community organizer in River Terrace
In 2005, Malissa Freese took an eye-opening trip in search of a new home. Coming off DC’s Interstate 295, she hit the block of Benning Road NE that houses an unsightly Pepco facility and made a left turn on Anacostia Avenue into River…
City Paper: In a Letter, Councilmembers Call for University of D.C. to Reconsider Josh Lopez As Its…
Looks like it's too little, too late
Washingtonian: What These 2020 Candidates’ DC Neighborhoods Tell Us About Them
More and more members of Congress are declaring their intentions to run for president next year. While John Delaney is already from the region, most hail from out of town and have to start fresh when they establish District digs. So what…
UrbanTurf: Appeal Filed on 600-Unit Waterfront Station Development in Southwest DC
Last September, the Zoning Commission (ZC) granted approval to a second-stage planned-unit development (PUD) for the two remaining sites at the Waterfront Station development just steps from the Waterfront Metro station. Now, the project…
Bisnow: Convene Breaking Into D.C. Coworking Market With 2 Leases Totaling 150K SF
Convene, a meeting and event space provider moving into the coworking sector, has just made a big splash in the D.C. office market.
WAMU: The Great One-Person Washington Snowball Fight Of 2019
When the call came in to cover a Dupont Circle snowball fight, I didn’t blink.
City Paper: Nine Months After an Off-Duty Cop Shot D’Quan Young We Still Don’t Know the Officer’s…
The MPD has no official policy guiding release of information following an officer-involved shooting, an MPD spokesperson says.
DCist: From A Northwest Basement … It’s The Tommy Show
Still missing the Tommy Show? Well, now there’s an app for that.
Washington Post: UDC faces backlash after inviting political operative Josh Lopez to speak
Several D.C. lawmakers are urging the University of the District of Columbia to revoke an speaking invitation to Joshua Lopez, a former city official who was involved in an anti-Semitism scandal last year.
Mark Simon in The Post: Rethinking education reform in D.C.
The experiment of tying teachers’ evaluations and pay to student test scores is over. It captured the imagination of decision-makers in D.C., Denver and nationwide a decade ago. As Post columnist David Von Drehle pointed out, the demand to…
With DC grant in hand, Anacostia Riverkeeper will deploy volunteers to test water quality come May
Anacostia Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization that works to protect and restore the Anacostia River, will bolster its two-year-old water quality monitoring program in May with the help of a $140,000 grant from DC’s Department of Energy…
Anne Barton on Forest Hills Connection: Opinion: Join our efforts to “Save the Rock Creek Deer”
Over the last six years residents of Forest Hills may have noticed regular late fall bulletins from the National Park Service (NPS) announcing a “window of opportunity” for sharpshooters to kill deer in Rock Creek Park. NPS claims that the…
Washington Business Journal: ‘The Tommy Show’ co-hosts are back — and streaming
Tommy McFly and Kelly Collis, two of the hosts of a beloved local morning radio show that was canceled in October, are branching out on their own with an independent, internet-streaming morning broadcast set to launch Monday.