Washington Post: Should D.C. charter schools follow the same rules as traditional campuses?
A proposal to force charter schools to post more information to their websites has exposed a long-simmering debate in the District: Should traditional public schools and charter schools have to follow the same rules?
Washington Post: She reported that her husband abused her. Then the divorce became ‘another form of…
The argument allegedly began over a bottle of bath soap and ended with Elaine Rigas’s then-husband lunging at her throat. As she held their 1-year-old son in a bathtub, Rigas said, she feared that the man would strangle her to death.
DCist: El Salvador Just Had A Historic Election. It Almost Included The Owner Of Lauriol Plaza
It’s just after 10 p.m. on Sunday night, and a crowd of people is squished against the bar at Plaza Azteca, a Mexican restaurant in Bethesda, straining to hear the politician beginning his speech at a news conference more than 3,000 miles…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: This is shameful: In a wealthy hockey town, D.C. kids have nowhere decent…
The nation’s capital is now peak hockeytown, right?
Colbert King in The Post: The D.C. Council’s sports-betting spectacle
The District of Columbia’s haste to get into sports betting is a sickening spectacle.
Smart Cities Dive: DC to invest $6M in workforce development, violence prevention
Washington, DC will invest $6 million in workforce development and violence prevention, with $4 million of that money going to the DC Infrastructure Academy, and the remaining $2 million going to the Cure The Streets initiative, designed…
WUSA9: Potholes in DC are worse than last year. Here’s why
Lots of rain and wild temperature swings have created big pothole problems in the District.
DCist: As D.C.’s Only Public Skating Rink Fights For Funding, The Caps And Ted Leonsis Pitch In
The Washington Capitals, team owner Ted Leonsis, and the NHL kicked off a half-a-million-dollar fundraising campaign over the weekend—to which they collectively gave $300,000—to help pay for a modernization and expansion of the Fort Dupont…
Willem Polak and John Radar in The Post: D.C. Mayor Bowser should put her plans to take Fort…
Despite D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) claim, there is no reason for the District to take funds already appropriated to build a new ice rink at Fort Dupont Ice Arena to address school repairs.
Fox 5: Black History Month: How the O Street Mansion in DC helped Rosa Parks
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The O Street Mansion has a rich history that is woven into the fabric of the District, but the significant impact it had in helping Rosa Parks is a story many do not know.
Washington Post: That mural of a luscious Marilyn Monroe is a reminder of the pain she soothed
What do you see when you look at Marilyn Monroe gazing down at the corner of Connecticut and Calvert streets NW? A beautiful woman? A movie star? An icon?
Washington Post: Congressional Republicans question report critical of Trump hotel lease
Leading congressional Republicans demanded Monday that an internal government watchdog who had issued a critical report related to President Trump’s luxury hotel in the District produce reams of documents to support her conclusions.
Mayor Bowser Announces $100,000 Grant to Support District Residents in Gaining U.S. Citizenship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:February 4, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Announces $100,000 Grant to Support District Residents in Gaining U.S. Citizenship
During Fair Shot February, Mayor Bowser Creates Grant to Ease…
Washington Business Journal: D.C. businesses hired feral cats to hunt rodents. They’re killing…
When Humane Rescue Alliance launched a program to connect un-adoptable cats with local businesses — which they’d protect from rodents in exchange for food and shelter — the D.C. animal rescue group wasn’t sure what to expect.
Washington Business Journal: Aldi signs lease for largest D.C. store, in Fort Totten
Aldi has agreed to open a 25,000-square-foot store at Art Place at Fort Totten, the Cafritz Foundation's redevelopment of the Riggs Plaza apartment complex at South Dakota Avenue and Kennedy Street NE.
Bisnow: For Pennsylvania Avenue’s Transformation, It’s One Step Forward, Two Steps
The hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to "America’s Main Street" to see the Newseum's monument to the First Amendment, the row of daily newspaper front pages and its historical exhibits will soon need to travel elsewhere, a…
Washingtonian: The Head of Metro Doesn’t See Uber as a Competitor
"We won't be all things to all people all the time," says Paul Wiedefeld.
WTOP: 1 in 4 DC-area home sellers got more than list last year
WASHINGTON — Fewer home sellers nationwide got more than their asking price last year, but that was not the case in the D.C. area.
Mayor Bowser Celebrates Third Anniversary of Highly Successful Books from Birth Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:February 4, 2019
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Celebrates Third Anniversary of Highly Successful Books from Birth Program
More Than 40,000 Children Have Received Books Since Program’s Launch
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District Links: Ted Leonsis joins effort to keep funding for Ward 7 ice rink; former manager of Park…
Happy Monday. Opposition to the mayor moving $21M in funds for Ward 7's Fort Dupont Ice Arena escalated to include Ted Leonsis over the weekend. Muriel Bowser wants to move the money this year to fix HVAC systems for schools. (She defended…