WTOP: Crowd converges near Friendship Archway for Chinese New Year celebration
WASHINGTON — Folks lined the streets of downtown D.C. Sunday afternoon to celebrate Chinese New Year. It was a community affair to ring in the year of the pig, which represents wealth, fun and good fortune.
DC Public Schools to Open on Two-Hour Delay on Monday, February 11, DC Government to Open On Time
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February 10, 2019
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DC Public Schools to Open on Two-Hour Delay on Monday, February 11, DC Government to Open…
DC Snow Team to Treat Roads Ahead of Wintery Mix and Morning Commute
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February 10, 2019
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DC Snow Team to Treat Roads Ahead of Wintery Mix and Morning Commute
(WASHINGTON, DC) – With the National…
Washington Post: NRC says Howard broke safety rule on possession, storage of radioactive powder
Howard University violated a federal safety rule by allowing a hazardous radioactive substance to be stored in one of its laboratories without permission, according to a letter from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Washington Post: Can the acting chancellor of D.C. Public Schools earn your trust? He’s going to…
Lewis D. Ferebee has questions.
Washington Post Magazine: One politician’s post-government pivot? Conspiracy theory novels.
Kevin Chavous is not an expert fiction writer, and he knows it. In fact, he would be the first person to tell you. "I've never viewed myself as a creative guy," the former D.C. council member and onetime mayoral candidate told me over…
Washington Post: D.C. had a plan to diversify one of its most selective high schools.
More than 200 D.C. families that thought their children would have a shot at getting into one of the city’s most prestigious public high schools had their hopes extinguished last week when they learned they no longer qualify — because of a…
Washington Post: Pedestrians continue to be at high risk on Washington region’s roads, data show
The number of traffic fatalities decreased slightly in the Washington region last year — with the exception of pedestrian deaths, which shot up nearly 20 percent.
Washington Post: D.C. residents near former Walter Reed hospital complain of noxious odor
Dozens of residents in Northwest Washington near the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center say they have noticed a foul odor emanating from the facility for more than a week.
Sundai Riggins in The 74: A Principal’s View: How Introducing STEM Has Radically Changed My…
Some might not expect a school in southeast Washington, D.C., to have the only all-black robotics team at a national competition. Others might look at Hendley Elementary School’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and…
Washington Post: Someone likely started a fire that destroyed a D.C. senior housing complex,…
It’s likely that someone who didn’t belong inside a public housing complex for D.C. seniors started the massive blaze that destroyed it, federal investigators found, but because of factors that include bungled building security, they might…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Murders are falling — just not in D.C. But here’s a smart response.
NATIONWIDE, THE number of murders is trending down. Not, though, in the District of Columbia: Homicides last year soared by nearly 40 percent and are still on the rise. Many factors are at play, but at center stage in the carnage has been…
Washington Post: Man killed in crash with D.C. fire engine failed to yield right of way, report says
A 32-year-old man who was killed last year in a crash involving a D.C. fire engine responding to a call in Northeast Washington failed to yield to the emergency vehicle, according to a report released Friday.
James Zeigler: Bowser’s partnership with feds on gun crime undermines home rule and will hurt DC
Mayor Muriel Bowser recently announced she will be partnering with federal prosecutors and law enforcement to aggressively pursue longer sentences, including harsher mandatory minimum sentences, for those charged with gun possession…
DCist: Trump Officials Have Reportedly Retreated To Woodland Normanstone. Uuumm … Where Is That?
The latest salvo in national publications’ ongoing war against the real D.C. comes courtesy of Esquire, which published a meandering feature story on Thursday with the red-hot thesis that most people in Washington don’t like the Trump…
Washington Post: It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group has its first female singer…
When Sofia Campoamor was a ninth-grader at Washington’s Sidwell Friends School, a special-guest group dropped by her chorus class: the Whiffenpoofs, the oldest college a cappella group in the country. The members of the singing group told…
Curbed: D.C. housing inspectors could check for mold in rental properties under new bill
As of now, tenants largely have to rely on their landlords’ good graces to have mold remediated
Bisnow: Adams Morgan Developers Are Delivering The Neighborhood’s First Wave Of New Apartments…
Adams Morgan's nightlife scene and funky character are powerful draws, but the Northwest D.C. neighborhood's population has remained stagnant for decades as scarce available land and active opposition have stood in the way of development.…
DCist: The D.C. Library Wants To Know: What Should It Look Like In The Next 10 Years?
Over the last decade, the District has made a tremendous investment in the city’s libraries: completely modernizing 19 aging buildings to often dramatic effect, with another five in the works. So why is the D.C. Public Library undertaking…
Washington Post: Images of blackface and hooded people found in old GWU yearbooks
Images from old George Washington University yearbooks unearthed this week show some people wearing blackface and others in the white hoods identified with the Ku Klux Klan.