Washington Post: A new building on Benning Road NE offers new hope for the homeless
In May, a glittering new building opened across from the Benning Road Metro station. With its soaring atrium and its panels of glass and concrete, 4430 Benning Rd. NE could be home to a law firm or a think tank. But it’s actually home to…
What Washingtonians Read in 2019
For Immediate Release
December 31, 2018
Media Contact:
George Williams, Media Relations Manager
What Washingtonians Read in 2019
(Washington, D.C.) - More than 4 million items have been borrowed, streamed or downloaded from the DC…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Too many people died in D.C. traffic crashes in 2018. We can do…
THOMAS HOLLOWELL, 64, was riding his bicycle on Constitution Avenue NW when a driver ran a red light, hitting and killing him. Carol Joan Tomason, 70, was in a marked crosswalk when she was struck and killed by the driver of a pickup truck.…
DCist: Turning Right On Red Will Be Banned At These 100 Intersections In 2019
With traffic fatalities climbing for the past several years in a row, the District’s Department of Transportation is changing the way that drivers make turns at dozens of intersections around the city in an effort to improve safety for…
Washington Business Journal: Spy Museum says goodbye to Penn Quarter
No plans for New Year’s Day? Espionage aficionados might want to stop by the International Spy Museum in Penn Quarter, which will host its final round of visitors in its original location before closing for a move to a new building.
Washington Post: Trump claims there’s a 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ D.C. home. He is wrong.
In one of his most recent arguments for a southern border wall, President Trump on Sunday falsely claimed that the Washington home of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama is surrounded by a 10-foot wall.
District Links: DC voting rights aspirations in 2019; fixing DC fire; and more reads
Happy New Year’s Eve! In 2019, statehood will remain a long shot, but here is a menu of smaller and symbolic achievements the city hopes to gain with Democratic control of the House:
As Partial Federal Government Shutdown Continues, Mayor Bowser Declares DC Remains Open for Business…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 31, 2018
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
As Partial Federal Government Shutdown Continues, Mayor Bowser Declares DC Remains Open for Business
DC Government Services, Metro, and Multitude of Events and…
Mayor Bowser Issues First District-Wide Policy on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 31, 2018
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Issues First District-Wide Policy on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
Washington, DC Is One of Only a Few Jurisdictions Nationwide…
The Bowser Administration Launches Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tracking Database
The Bowser Administration Launches Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tracking Database
Monday, December 31, 2018
New Tracking Database Allows Victims to Track Progress of Evidence Kit Using Online Portal…
Paul Angelone: The fate of RFK Stadium’s campus merits public input on the many possibilities
DC's vacant RFK Stadium is back in the news again with reports of the federal government’s failed budget process slowing down an effort to authorize the DC government to control the fate of the 190-acre campus. Gaining site control for the…
Terry Lynch: District needs to replace its aged, dilapidated police facilities
If you visit the Metropolitan Police Department’s various district headquarters around town or the Henry J. Daly Building on Indiana Avenue NW in Judiciary Square, you’ll find aged facilities with leaky roofs and outdated heating, cooling,…
Washington Post: ‘Crank it up, Mr. Cathey’: Training to be a vehicle mechanic in an era of…
Raymond Riley got his first car at the dawn of the century. It was an old Volvo. His dad’s friend was a master mechanic and came over to help revive the turbo station wagon.
Washington Post: If he’d stuck with family tradition, he would have been another surgeon. But he…
Robert Holman was dutifully rotating through surgical training at Georgetown University on a path to follow his father when the medical passion that would drive his career crystallized in his mind.
Washington Post: From rats to noise complaints, city’s new nightlife director takes on D.C. after…
It was nearly 8 p.m. when D.C.’s new director of nightlife and culture dashed into a Starbucks south of Dupont Circle.
Colbert King in The Post: There’s reason to look hard at the new candidate to lead D.C. schools
If the D.C. Council makes a New Year’s resolution , let’s hope it will resolve to perform more aggressive oversight of the D.C. Public Schools and to hold school leaders to account.
Washington Post: What Democratic control of the House means for D.C. statehood
Statehood for the District is likely to remain out of reach as long as Republicans hold the majority in the Senate, despite Democratic control of the House in the new Congress.
Washington Post: D.C. police arrest suspect in fatal shooting of young social worker hit by stray…
D.C. police on Friday arrested a suspect in the October killing of a 22-year-old man who authorities believe was struck by a stray bullet while sitting in his Jeep at a traffic light in Northeast Washington.
WTOP: Arrests in 2 DC stray-bullet deaths
WASHINGTON — D.C. police have announced that suspects have been arrested in two cases in the District where bystanders were shot and killed by stray bullets — one from October, another from 2016.
DCist: D.C. Saw A Nearly 40 Percent Uptick In Murders This Year
As of December 28, 159 people had been murdered in the District in 2018, a significant uptick in homicides. In fact it’s a 39 percent increase over last year, when there were 114 homicides total in the city, according to data from the…