Families call on DC Council to deregulate parent-led playgroups
Parents lobbying the DC Council to reduce regulations on parent-led playgroups may get a decision before the end of the year, as the District’s legislators work to find a solution that does not inconvenience playgroups with overly…
jonetta rose barras: Ending campaign finance censorship
Opposition appears to be building on the DC Council to the omnibus campaign finance reform legislation approved recently by the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, chaired by Ward 6’s Charles Allen. The pushback has been presented…
Curbed: Activists to commemorate pedestrians struck and killed by drivers in 2018
As the District reinvigorates its Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024, a group of traffic-safety advocates will host a memorial walk downtown on Nov. 15, in memory of the 10 pedestrians whom…
Washingtonian: It’s Being Billed as the High Line of DC. Will Anyone Actually Use it?
Plans for the upcoming 11th Street Bridge Park are impressive, but people need to show up.
Washington Post: No longer just male or female: D.C. schools to give families a third option with…
The District’s public school system is slated to become among the first in the nation to let families select “non-binary” — rather than male or female — when indicating the gender of their child on enrollment forms.
WTOP: Scooter company Bird doesn’t like DC’s new proposed rules
WASHINGTON — The District Department of Transportation’s new rules for dockless bikes and scooters starting in 2019 have ruffled Bird’s features.
DCist: Georgetown Graduate Students Vote To Unionize
Hundreds of graduate students at Georgetown University have spoken: they overwhelmingly want to unionize.
WAMU: D.C. Reports A Drop In Graduation Rates, With Students Of Color Most Affected
The graduation numbers for the last school year in D.C. are finally in, and they don’t look great — for black and Latino students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) in particular.
DCist: After Going All In On Gin For Six Years, New Columbia Distillers Is Releasing Its First…
Every week, John Uselton leads tours of New Columbia Distillers in Ivy City, where he tells patrons all about the whiskey they’re making there. People tend to be confused—isn’t New Columbia all about gin, the Green Hat sold in those tall…
WAMU: Why A National World War I Memorial Still Doesn’t Exist In Washington
A hundred years after Armistice Day, there is still no national memorial to World War I in the U.S. capital.
Washington Post: After 37 years, beloved lunch counter C.F. Folks closes in landlord dispute
The tiny downtown D.C. lunch counter C.F. Folks was proof that a decent lunch didn’t have to be an expense-account steak or a fast-casual, build-your-own-bowl endeavor. But the 37-year-old restaurant abruptly closed on Friday after a…
WTOP: Ahead of key vote, DC lawmaker ‘very confident’ voting age will be lowered to 16
WASHINGTON — One day before the full D.C. Council considers lowering the city’s voting age from 18 to 16, the main lawmaker behind the effort is expressing strong optimism that his bill will soon be law.
City Paper: Campaign Finance Office Looking Into $62,350 Disbursement From Bowser Campaign
The payments from Mayor Muriel Bowser's campaign to Kimberly Lockett started just before the primary election.
Washington Post: Slow-motion massacre
Shot dead at 14, Steve Slaughter fell victim to the scourge of everyday gun violence
Bill to accelerate timetable for new Ward 8 hospital draws objections over provision to authorize GW…
A DC Council move might speed up construction of a new hospital in Southeast Washington on the site of St. Elizabeths.
Current plans call for George Washington University Hospital to run the new facility, which the city intends to serve…
Tomorrow: Council to vote on bills lowering voting age to 16, making penalty for fare evasion on…
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November 12, 2018
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Tomorrow: Council to vote on bills lowering voting age to 16, making penalty for fare evasion on Metro a civil fine
Tomorrow, the DC Council will hold the first of…
Curbed: New family homeless shelter in Southeast to receive ribbon cutting on Tuesday
As temperatures in D.C. drop to dangerously cold levels for the unhoused, the District plans to unveil another homeless shelter for families on Tuesday—one of several replacements for D.C. General, the decaying megashelter that Mayor Muriel…
Washingtonian: What Happened to the Washington Post’s Election-Day Clout?
The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.
Washington Blade: LGBT veterans honored at D.C. wreath laying ceremony
Close to 100 people, including LGBT veterans and active duty LGBT service members, assembled at the gravesite of gay Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich in D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery on Sunday to pay tribute to LGBT veterans.
Washington Post: Residents tried for weeks to save this D.C. institution. It’s closing anyway.
The market accommodated their whims and needs for more than 40 years, so when neighbors heard rising rent was driving the shop to close, they did what they could to help: Letter-writing campaigns, petitions and a protest. More than 1,400…