Barbara Harman: Why giving locally matters more than ever
Now that Thanksgiving has passed and what has traditionally been called “the giving season” gets underway, I find myself wondering what local philanthropy is going to look like in the months and years ahead. In a time of relentless breaking…
Washington Post: Students ask George Washington U. not to eliminate a project honoring Jackie…
More than 20 years ago, a professor at George Washington University interested in the interplay between sports, race and culture started a project to share the story of Jackie Robinson’s legacy.
Washington Post: A new chapter for a neighborhood bookstore that faced extinction
When he opened his used-book shop 37 years ago in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, Jacques Morgan vowed to remain in business forever, a promise he kept until dying of cancer in 2012.
WUSA9: Rising rents in DC pushes out family run coffee shop
WASHINGTON -- Rising rent in D.C. is claiming yet another mom and pop business and this time it’s family run coffee shop that is closing its doors after more than two decades.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Negotiations on a new hospital in Southeast Washington have been…
GEORGE WASHINGTON University’s suspension of negotiations with the District to manage a new hospital in Southeast Washington may send the city back to the drawing board. That should be welcomed. Little thinking went into the politically…
Washington Post: Why a D.C. bicycling group wants to charge cars to enter the city
Last week, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) issued a comprehensive — and potentially controversial — action plan for improving traffic safety in the nation’s capital.
Washington Post: Initiative 77 backers scramble to collect signatures to put tipped wage hike back…
Activists are scrambling to collect thousands of signatures needed to revive a law approved by voters but overturned by the D.C. Council that would change how the District’s servers, bartenders and other tipped employees are paid.
The Georgetown Voice: The GOOD Guys: Former Georgetown Football Players Take On Poverty In D.C.
In the fall of 2015, the House majority leader, a conservative pollster, and three Georgetown football players walked into a bar. Disgruntled Rep. Kevin McCarthy and his friend Frank Luntz, the pollster best known for coining the term…
Washington Post: How a Hebrew-language charter school found its way to D.C.
Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s would-be schools chief has some homework to do
WHEN KAYA HENDERSON resigned as schools chancellor, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) bypassed internal candidates to select someone from outside the system. Her choice was forced to resign after about one year when it was revealed that he had…
Colbert King in The Post: Let’s hope D.C.’s new superintendent can cut through the school system’s…
Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you know what “currently educationally disengaged” means?
Washington Post: Star ratings show D.C. schools that need the most help
Half of the District’s lowest-performing schools are east of the Anacostia River, according to a rating system unveiled Friday that assigns the city’s schools one to five stars.
New Report Shows Progress in Funding Mechanisms for D.C.’s Early Intervention Program, But Further…
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New Report Shows Progress in Funding Mechanisms for D.C.’s Early Intervention Program, But Further Improvements Necessary
OSSE lacks an effective written methodology for estimating the number…
City Paper: Will D.C. Give Millions in Tax Cuts to a Company With a Record of Racially…
Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans are pushing a $5.9 million tax break for an international company that has a history of racially discriminatory hiring practices in D.C.
DCist: Brown Beauty Co-Op, Dupont Circle’s New Beauty Store, Is By And For Women Of Color
Musician Marlee Mitton was sure that Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty was the only company that caters to a wide variety of skin tones. But after browsing through the makeup selection at a new beauty store in Dupont Circle, she discovered that there…
WTOP: Star-rating system unveiled for DC’s public schools
WASHINGTON — Nearly 40 percent of D.C.’s public schools, including charters, got a rating of three stars under the new school performance rating unveiled Friday.
Jesse Heitz in The Post: A final appeal for the Hoover building
For years, the fate of the famed — or reviled — J. Edgar Hoover Building has remained mired in uncertainty. With a near- tidal ebb and flow, the FBI’s headquarters has been walked to the gallows of demolition, only to receive a last-minute…
Keith Laughlin and Greg Billing in The Post: Can Amazon move D.C.-area commuting into the 21st…
Since Amazon announced its decision to open up shop in Northern Virginia, the region has been awash in questions.
WAMU: Eels Are Returning To Rock Creek! But Don’t Get Too Excited
A team of citizen scientists monitoring one of Rock Creek’s tributaries found a creature they weren’t expecting earlier this year: an American eel. It wasn’t the first time an eel had been spotted in the area, but it was rare. The last…
Washington Post: Redskins, D.C. working with Congress to slip stadium provision into spending bill
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is getting help from District officials, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration as he tries to clear a major roadblock to building a new, 60,000-seat stadium on the site of RFK…