WAMU: Building Permits In A Flash, An Amazon ‘Ambassador’: Here’s All Of What D.C. Offered Amazon…
Had Amazon decided to build its second headquarters at one of the four sites that D.C. offered the internet retailer, it would have gotten a perk that would make any developer jealous: one-day turnaround on building permits for what was…
Washington City Paper: As Hypothermia Season Begins, Shelters Across the City Are in Flux
As the year winds down and winter inches closer, the District’s human services officials prepare for hypothermia season, making maintenance fixes to shelters in the city’s homeless services system and finalizing contracts for overflow space…
WAMU: D.C. Looks For Ways To Fund Ambitious Early Childhood Program
Already a leader in offering universal preschool for three and four-year olds, Washington, D.C. now aims to position itself again at the forefront of early childhood investments. In June, the city council unanimously approved the…
Washington Business Journal: Here’s where Adams Morgan’s Wawa is going
Adams Morgan’s long-rumored Wawa is coming to the former BicycleSpace storefront on the neighborhood's main drag.
Mayor Bowser Releases the Master Facilities Plan 2018
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November 19, 2018
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Mayor Bowser Releases the Master Facilities Plan 2018
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Bowser released the Master Facilities Plan (MFP) 2018,…
Mayor Bowser Releases FY19 Green Book, Announces a $188 Million Increase to Small Business Spending…
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November 19, 2018
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mekdy Alemayehu (DSLBD)
Mayor Bowser Releases FY19 Green Book, Announces a $188 Million Increase to Small Business Spending Goals by District Government Agencies
In…
WAMU: As Bowser Readies For A Second Term, Head Of D.C.’s Consumer And Regulatory Agency Leaves
Melinda Bolling, the director of the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, is leaving her post, sources tell WAMU.
Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments
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November 19, 2018
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Mayor Bowser Announces Key Appointments
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a series of appointments in her Administration:
Director Ernest…
Washingtonian: Rising Stars Chef Michael Rafidi and Sommelier Brent Kroll Will Open a Restaurant and…
The two are collaborating on Albi, an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant, and another Maxwell Park.
DC Commute Times: This Bike Lane Will Take 25 Years to Build
DC non-car transportation stakeholders met this week at the Capital Trails Symposium. The nerds—and they would call themselves that—spent all day in sessions discussing the past, present, and future of DC’s bike trails. The gathering,…
WAMU: New Exhibition Offers Glimpse Inside Historic Movie Theaters
Grand movie theaters built in the first half of the 20th century used to have soaring marquees, big balconies and velvet curtains. Today, many of them have been torn down or repurposed as churches, convenience stores or apartments.
Washingtonian: Here Are the Washington Business Hall of Fame Laureates for 2018
The Washington Business Hall of Fame honors six people who have made the most of living and working here—and helping the community.
WTOP: Georgetown, Adams Morgan gear up for Small Business Saturday
WASHINGTON — Nov. 24 is the annual Small Business Saturday, a nationwide promotion to encourage shopping at small, independent and locally-owned businesses.
Curbed: Scooter and bike companies say D.C.’s new rules for dockless vehicles are too restrictive
Mobility companies that deploy scooters and dockless bikes in the District are pushing back against new regulations for the vehicles that city transportation officials declared last week.
Amid reports of flourishing local trade, DC Council bill would ban sale of ivory, rhinoceros horn
The DC Council is considering legislation that would make the District the first jurisdiction in the Washington area to ban the trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, over a year after the nation’s capital was exposed as a black-market hub for…
Rose Shelton: Gentrification and its polarizing effects on our neighborhood school
When I transferred my children from their DC charter school into our neighborhood school last year — Southwest’s Amidon-Bowen Elementary — I was seeking diversity and community.
But having made the switch to our racially diverse…
Local nonprofit aims to help DC’s Central American community with blend of direct services and…
After two decades, Karla still recalls traveling through the desert with her brother and aunt in 1998 on their way from El Salvador, reliant on a “coyote” to get the three of them where they needed to go. Her mother was already in…
WTOP: Dozens of children find new homes at annual DC Adoption Day
WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was the guest speaker at the Annual DC Adoption Day ceremony on Saturday.
Huff Post: D.C.’s Neo-Nazi Brothers Were Hiding In Plain Sight
A neighbor in Washington’s Bloomingdale neighborhood warned a cop about extremists Jeffrey and Edward Clark. It wasn’t enough.
WTOP: Night road closures planned around Rock Creek Park during deer management
WASHINGTON — Annual deer population management at Rock Creek Park in Northwest D.C. starts Tuesday, leading to possible, temporary road closures at night.