WAMU: Trees Or Solar Panels? Environmentalists Question Georgetown’s Solar Farm
Georgetown University has a bold plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: by later this year, it will get nearly half its electricity from solar power. However, building the new solar farm in Charles County, Maryland to power the…
District of Fashion Runway Show Ties District to NYFW
CONTACT: Rachel Rose Hartman
PRESS RELEASE: District of Fashion Runway Show Ties District to NYFW
WASHINGTON, DC—As New York Fashion Week (NYFW) prepared its fall/winter collection season, the District of Columbia's fashion industry…
UrbanTurf: SunTrust to Scottish Rite: The 320 Residential Units on the Boards for Adams Morgan
Following delivery of AdMo Heights (which replaced a Payless shoe store) and a portion of Modera Sedici (which replaced the former Italian Embassy on 16th Street), the Adams Morgan residential development pipeline has quieted down…
Washington Post: ‘They’re pioneers’: Two women rise through the male-dominated ranks of D.C.’s fire…
Young cadets Queen Anunay and Kishia Clemencia stood out in their class at the D.C. fire academy as being among the few women in a male-dominated field. Of the department’s 1,550 members at the time, 35 were women.
Washington Business Journal: Local executives prod Bowser to speed up 5G regulations
Local tech executives are urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speed up the regulatory process laying the groundwork for next-generation wireless networks — especially now that Amazon is putting a portion of its second headquarters in the…
City Paper: ‘To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at’ Is Required…
The pairing of five never-before-seen Glenn Ligon paintings with wallpaper by Andy Warhol is practically an essay about the National Mall.
Washington Post: Jefferson Memorial to get roof repair, laser cleaning
The National Park Service said Thursday that it has started a 15-month project to restore the roof and clean the marble at the Jefferson Memorial.
Alan Roth: Breaking up DCRA isn’t enough — we need a deputy mayor for urban planning and enforcement
DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson recently revived his proposal to break up the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which he first introduced more than a year ago in the previous council period. Under his bill, a new Department…
DISB Hosts Elder Housing Forum for Faith Community
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Contact: Paul Drehoff (DISB)
DISB Hosts Elder Housing Forum for Faith Community
Washington, DC—Today, the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) held its first…
New lighting to be installed at 3 downtown Red Line stations this weekend; buses replace trains…
For immediate release: February 7, 2019
New lighting to be installed at 3 downtown Red Line stations this weekend; buses replace trains between Dupont Circle and Judiciary Sq
This weekend, Feb. 9-10, Metro will work around the clock…
District Links: Bowser announces new effort to take gun cases to feds, leading critics to blast her…
Good Thursday morning. City Paper has an interview with the Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott, the former manager of the Park Southern apartment complex in Southeast indicted on federal charges.
Washington Blade: D.C. sees alarming increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes in 2018
The number of anti-LGBT hate crimes reported in D.C. in 2018 nearly doubled from the number of reported cases in 2016, according to recently released data by D.C. police.
UrbanTurf: This Company Wants to Rent Your DC Home and Lease the Individual Bedrooms
Traditionally, homeowners hire property managers to rent out their homes, and communal living has occupied its own space on the margins. Now, a new company wants to combine the co-living concept with a property management approach, all on…
WAMU: This Artist Projects Protest Messages Onto The Trump Hotel. Now He Has His Own Museum Show
Did you see that projection on the Trump Hotel last year that read “Pay Trump bribes here”? What about the one on the Environmental Protection Agency that read “Don’t let a climate denier take over the EPA”? Or maybe you caught the one…
City Paper: A Former Ward 8 Democrats Leader and Minister Faces a Federal Indictment
From a corner table at the IHOP on Alabama Avenue SE, Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott pleads her case—or some of it anyway.
City Paper: Did a Social Services Organization Serving D.C.’s Homeless Misrepresent Its Legal…
Trouble continues to roil The Horizon, a Ward 7 homeless shelter that opened just last fall. The Department of Human Services discovered that the social services nonprofit tapped to run the shelter’s day-to-day operations appeared to…
The Current: District inducts first all-girl Boy Scouts of America troop
On February 2, 2019, a small group of witnesses at All Souls Episcopal Church attended the induction of the first District all-girl troop of Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Troop 248 is comprised of twenty girls, ranging from ten to…
Washington Post: D.C. residents call for a new chancellor to build trust and stability in schools
This time, they want it to be different.
Chalkbeat: 5 questions on Lewis Ferebee’s record in Indianapolis as he seeks to lead D.C. schools
As Lewis Ferebee faces confirmation hearings before securing the top job in Washington, D.C., schools, his record as superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools offers insight into how he would lead.
jonetta rose barras: DC inches closer to sports betting
The majority of DC Council members renewed their commitment this week to the goal of making the District the first jurisdiction in the region to offer online sports betting. In a 7-6 vote, lawmakers on Tuesday approved the Sports Wagering…