Washington City Paper: Judge to Order City to Start Collecting NEAR Act Stop-and-Frisk Data
The ACLU-DC and two local activist organizations sued the city over a data collection law that MPD isn't following.
Washington Post: D.C.’s Mount Vernon Square eyed for high-speed maglev train station
The District’s Mount Vernon Square area is in the running to be the home of the proposed high-speed maglev train that would take passengers from the nation’s capital to Baltimore in 15 minutes.
Washington Post: What’s going on with the D.C. mayor’s chancellor selection process?
A panel advising D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on the selection of a chancellor to lead the District’s public schools has disbanded, suggesting that the search for a new education chief may be nearing an end.
WTOP: DC punk legends Minor Threat reunite — for iconic photo only
WASHINGTON — ‘Baby has grown older,’ but still knows how to pose for a photo.
Washington Post: Metro Yellow Line riders: You’ll want to plan ahead for this shutdown
Metro Yellow Line riders basking in post-Thanksgiving bliss could be in for a rude awakening when they arrive at their stations the Monday after the long holiday weekend: There will be no Yellow Line trains to board.
WTOP: After early season snow, DC officials explain how they’ll fend off winter at ‘snow summit’
WASHINGTON — Normally, holding an annual snow summit in mid-November would be ahead of the game.
East of the River: Saving Lives with Narcan: The demand for the lifesaving spray grows as overdose…
Quietly parked on a side street, somewhere between St. Teresa of Avila Church and Ketcham Elementary School, the Family and Medical Counseling Services (www.fmcsinc.org) health van waited to serve neighbors and visitors of Ward 8. Tyrone…
WTOP: DC now has crews to clear bike lanes, wheelchair cuts after snow
D.C. is doing something different this season when it comes to snow removal: There's a new "non-motorized trail" work detail specifically assigned to clearing bike paths, bridge deck sidewalks and ramps compliant with the Americans with…
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The Play-Date Police
Conservatives often criticize the “nanny state,” but even we didn’t imagine it would get this bad. The District of Columbia is literally targeting preschool play dates, claiming that parents need city approval before they can baby-sit their…
Brian P. Darmody in The Post: D.C.’s original site competition
Amazon announced its HQ2 decision last Tuesday, splitting the decision between Crystal City and New York. But an earlier competition to site the nation’s capital makes the HQ2 contest seem like a cakewalk.
Kurt Gregory Erickson in The Post: D.C.’s drunken-driving laws are not tough enough
Much attention has been given to the troubling increase in the number of homicides in the city, but we also need to examine the equally troubling increase in the number of drunken-driving deaths in the District.
Colbert King in The Post: D.C. politics is a tangled web of money and power. Enough is enough.
The D.C. Council has the chance to end dalliances with corruption — and restore confidence in the city’s political process — by adopting the omnibus campaign-finance-reform bill unanimously passed last month by the council’s Judiciary and…
UrbanTurf: Where Have All the Alleys Gone?
In 1912, the Housing Commission of the Monday Evening Club published the "Directory of the Inhabited Alleys of Washington, DC". The guide identified 275 blocks in DC which contained habitable alleys, encompassing a total of 3,337 homes and…
UrbanTurf: The Yellow Line Rent Watch Begins
As Amazon moves into Arlington, tens of thousands of employees will begin trickling in, and many may take advantage of Metro to commute to National Landing. This means that there are plenty of neighborhoods, including in DC, where Amazon…
DCist: You Can Now Revisit All Those Caustic Initiative 77 Tweets, Thanks To The D.C. Public Library
The debate about Initiative 77, the ballot measure in June’s primary to eliminate the two-tiered wage system, played out with special acrimony on social media. Perhaps you’d like to return to those simpler times of online debate, back…
WTOP: End of an era: Ahead of move, WTOP’s call letters removed from DC building
WASHINGTON — It’s the end of an era. As WTOP prepares to leave its Northwest D.C. location for new digs in Chevy Chase, Maryland, crews on a crane scaled the station’s current HQ to carefully remove the station’s call letters Friday…
DCist: NoMa Is Getting Its First Public Park. There Will Be A Puppy Parade To Celebrate
The 8,000 square-foot lot at 3rd and L streets NE was very nearly home to yet another gleaming new condo building in NoMa. Instead it will be the neighborhood’s first public park when it opens on Saturday.
Citing constitutional grounds, 10 DC residents sue the federal government for voting rights
Last week an estimated 116 million Americans participated in the 2018 elections, making it the first midterm in history with over 100 million votes cast. Across the country voters turned out for hotly contested House and Senate races,…
Rock Creek Park Announces Dates for Annual Deer Management Operations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 16, 2018
Press Contact: Katie Liming (NPS)
Rock Creek Park Announces Dates for Annual Deer Management Operations
WASHINGTON– This year’s operations window for the annual deer population…
Washington Post: Metro pitches passes as way to compete with Uber, Lyft
The transit agency says it’s losing out to ride-hailing services; its budget initiatives are one attempt to remedy the problem.