Fox 5: Few inspected restaurants in DC complying with plastic straw ban so far
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Environmental inspectors began enforcing the District’s new plastic straw ban Tuesday, and so far, there’s a lot of room for improvement.
NBC4: New Law Requires More Robust Background Checks for DC Teachers
D.C. public and charter schools are required to perform more robust background checks before hiring new teachers under a new law passed by the D.C. Council.
District Links: Is Green Team influence waning in Ward 4?; Norton pushes to strengthen Home Rule…
Good Thursday morning. Hear Green Teamers talk about themselves, and you too might feel warm and fuzzy inside. In a City Paper story about Brandon Todd’s potentially fading popularity in Ward 4, former Council member Bill Lightfoot talks up…
Norton Announces Senate Lands Package Includes Her Bill to Allow D.C. to Work with NPS to Make…
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January 10, 2019
Norton Announces Senate Lands Package Includes Her Bill to Allow D.C. to Work with NPS to Make Improvements to Franklin Park
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today…
Norton seeks statehood push in newly Democratic House
Buoyed by the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is leading a renewed push for DC statehood and self-governance. At a Jan. 4 press conference, Norton and local elected officials…
jonetta rose barras: DC statehood movement, without movement
Yet again, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and others have raised the specter of DC securing voting rights in Congress, which have long been denied to residents of the nation’s capital. Last week, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman…
Hill Rag: A Traumatic Failure: DC Public Schools Neglect Mental Health
“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher. The teacher was trying to persuade…
Washington Business Journal: Providence hospital gets a key approval amid D.C. lawsuit
Providence Health System has received conditional regulatory approval for its closure plan, pushing off the District's immediate efforts to block the Northeast D.C. hospital from shutting down.
UrbanTurf: Howard University to Retrofit Georgia Avenue Office Space to Residential
In late 2017, UrbanTurf reported on likely plans by Howard University to seek to convert part of the Howard Center into residences. Now, those plans are in motion.
Washington Times: D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program’s future is uncertain
On the corner of 12th and Monroe streets NE a Nativity scene rests near the base of a stone church, as a mother and her three children walk past a statue of the Virgin Mary draped in blue Christmas lights.
WAMU: Yes, That Was D.C.’s Oldest Synagogue Moving Down The Street (Again)
The 143-year-old little synagogue that could was rolled down the block, where it will become a museum.
Bisnow: Sports Bets On Every Corner: How Retailers Could Cash In On D.C.’s New Gambling Law
Bars, event venues and other retailers in D.C. could soon offer sports betting inside their walls under a new law the D.C. Council passed in December, and everyone from independent entrepreneurs to popular D.C. bar owners to MGM Resorts is …
Washington Business Journal: The wait for a movie theater at The Yards goes on. Showplace Icon is…
Showplace Icon is out at The Yards.
Bisnow: Howard To Convert Administrative Building On Georgia Ave. To Apartments
Howard University is continuing its strategy of redeveloping its properties with a new project on Georgia Avenue.
Washington Business Journal: D.C.’s oldest synagogue wheeled down Third Street NW to its…
A Wednesday in the middle of January during a government shutdown is probably a better time than most to close Third Street NW and move an entire building.
Washington Post: Anyone have room for a TV show? ‘It’s Academic’ is seeking a new home.
Six years after the 1961 debut of “It’s Academic,” Washington’s high school quiz show, Giant Food signed on as its chief sponsor. Israel “Izzy” Cohen, owner of the supermarket chain, thought it was important to offer support.
Washington Post: For charities, the government shutdown could not have come at a worse time
The people who have been calling the Washington region’s largest food bank this month sound different from before. More timid. More unsure. Less familiar with how the food bank system works.
The 74: Inside One of America’s First Catholic-to-Charter School Conversions: ‘Intentionally Small,’…
Three rows of second-graders stand facing the front of the classroom. A speaker emits sounds. First, a door creaking. Then, footsteps thudding and a wolf howling, all followed by the unmistakable opening riff of Michael Jackson’s…
City Paper: American Spirit: A Nigerian-Born Bartender’s Trying Path to U.S. Citizenship
In the early 2000s, Frederick Uku found himself in D.C. on an expired student visa with no degree. He calls the decade he was undocumented in the U.S. the “Dark Years,” and points to one of his most desperate attempts to support himself…
Washington Post: Treasury comes up $6 million short on D.C. water bill
The ongoing partial shutdown has stopped up the federal government’s payment of its water bills in Washington.