Report on DC teacher turnover in excess of national average prompts look at ways to improve…
The DC State Board of Education will hear next week from DC teachers as well as a panel of local and national experts as board members examine the effects of high teacher turnover rates on students and seek to identify ways to improve…
Eckington looks to celebrate its history with DC’s 18th Neighborhood Heritage Trail
Cultural Tourism DC is laying the groundwork for its 18th Neighborhood Heritage Trail in the city — this time in Northeast’s Eckington neighborhood. The area has been a desirable place to live for years and is becoming increasingly popular.…
UrbanTurf: Other Half Brewery Will Open in Ivy City Warehouse
UrbanTurf has learned that Brooklyn's Other Half brewery will open a DC outpost at the former Pappas Tomato Factory at 1401 Okie Street NE (map). The Douglas Development-owned property will also be home to a Compass Coffee and a Kick Axe…
WAMU: More Duke Ellington Families Cleared Of Residency Fraud, But Some Still Left Fighting Charges
After missing more than two months of coursework, senior Sherwayne Carter is back in the classroom at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. But his mother could still face a $12,000 fine in the residency fraud case that has turned their lives…
AG Racine Cracks Down On District Slumlords For Health And Safety Hazards
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October 17, 2018
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Brian C. Anderson in City Journal: Death in D.C. On witnessing an urban tragedy
Opaline Bar and Brasserie at Washington D.C.’s Sofitel Hotel was too crowded, so I’d gone out to find another breakfast spot. I wasn’t dressed for the autumn morning chill—the temperature must have dropped 30 degrees from the day before,…
Mayor Bowser Announces New Partnership with Bard College
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October 17, 2018
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Mayor Bowser Announces New Partnership with Bard College
Through DCPS and Bard College Partnership, Students Will Have the Opportunity to Graduate High School with…
Sarah Shoenfeld in The Post: D.C.’s struggling communities need investment, not overpolicing
The Oct. 12 editorial decrying a rise in homicides in the District, “A rising D.C. death toll,” praised the D.C. police for “dispatching extra officers and doubling down on seizures of illegal guns” in Ward 8. The editorial went on to…
WAMU: A Voter Guide To Candidates For D.C. State Board of Education
This year, in an unusual showing, some D.C. State Board of Education candidates have raised a considerable amount of money ahead of the Nov. 6 election. State board members have had limited authority in the District, but given the scandals…
WTOP: Residents of burned DC senior building wonder what’s next
It was nearly a month ago that fire drove about 160 residents from their homes at the Arthur Capper Senior Apartments near the Navy Yard, and the displaced seniors are yearning to know where they'll have new places to call home.
WAMU: Proposed Bill Could Ease Student Loan Burden For D.C. Residents and Students
D.C. residents are some of the most burdened by student debt in the country. Now, a new bill seeks to lighten some of that load. The legislation, called the Student Loan Authority Establishment Act and introduced today by At-Large…
Washington Post: Into the woods: A clearing in the Palisades is home to a curious art installation
Some time in 1992, Dale Johnson started noticing an odd assemblage of items on the basement workbench of her husband, James McMahon: broken shards of mirrored glass, mainly. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what this is. I’m not asking any…
WAMU: Emergency Legislation To Stall Providence Hospital Closure Approved By D.C. Council
In an effort to delay Providence Hospital’s planned closure, the D.C. Council voted to approve emergency legislation on Tuesday that would require hospitals to get approval from the city before they close or end services.
City Paper: Mary Cheh Introduces Bill to Seal Eviction Records, Give Tenants Notice of Eviction…
Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced a bill during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole meeting to reform how D.C. Superior Court handles and maintains records of eviction proceedings, an effort to ameliorate the sometimes "lasting,…
Washington Business Journal: WBJ taps local media vet as new publisher
Peter Abrahams, former publisher of DC magazine and a veteran of the local media scene, was named publisher and market president of the Washington Business Journal on Tuesday. Abrahams, 53, will take over Nov. 1 from James MacGregor, who…
Norton Calls for Oversight Hearing on Reports of Indiscriminate ICE Raids in D.C. and Around U.S.
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October 16, 2018
Norton Calls for Oversight Hearing on Reports of Indiscriminate ICE Raids in D.C. and Around U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of…
UrbanTurf: With PUD Appeal, Poplar Point Developer Turns to Plan B
This past April, the Zoning Commission approved a planned-unit development (PUD) which would develop six acres of land straddling Howard Road SE between I-295 and South Capitol Street SE (map) with five buildings, delivering roughly 692…
City Paper: A Leak in the Bowser-Gray Iceberg?
It looked, for a moment, that a crack emerged in the strained relationship between the mayor and former mayor.
Washington Post: D.C. Council postpones final decision on Airbnb regulations
The D.C. Council unexpectedly delayed a final vote Tuesday on regulating Airbnb and other short-term rental companies because of a last-minute dispute over how to pay for the legislation. Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) reluctantly agreed to…
Washington Post: It’s official: D.C. Council has repealed Initiative 77
After hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign spending, tens of thousands of voters heading to the polls and hundreds of angry calls and emails to lawmakers, a contentious fight over restaurant worker pay in the nation’s capital ended…