Washington Post: Metro aims for a late-2019 return to computer-driven trains
More than a year after ditching plans to bring back automatic train operation — the self-driving train technology that launched when Metro did in 1976 — the agency’s leaders have changed course, citing the need to provide a better customer…
WTOP: ‘The 51st’: City Winery launches new wine to support DC statehood
WASHINGTON — City Winery, which opened a 42,000-square-foot entertainment venue with a working winery and restaurant in Ivy City earlier this year, has partnered with nonprofit DC Vote to launch “The 51,” a line of wines to support D.C.…
Washington Post: Pressure builds as National Park Service considers proposals to change how protests…
On the final day that the National Park Service was accepting input on more than a dozen policy changes to alter how and where protests are conducted in the District, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) issued a warning to the federal…
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: Shame on ACLU’s Arthur Spitzer
The National Park Service (NPS) is considering changing how it processes applications for marches in Washington. Not marches on Washington, mind you, such as the peaceful 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that included Martin…
jonetta rose barras: Housing doublespeak from Mayor Bowser
Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau pushed back against Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) last week, after learning that some funds previously cut from housing counseling programs had…
From legalizing sports betting to closing a rent-control loophole, new council bills tackle myriad…
Since returning in mid-September from summer recess, DC Council members have drafted a wide array of proposed legislation in hopes of passage before the two-year session ends in December. Among the notable new bills under consideration are…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Come on, D.C. We can do better than to sink to the tone of national…
D.C., please stop trying to act like the rest of the nation. It’s not flattering. What should have been a straightforward D.C. Council race is now being infused with the same type of bitterness that has taken over national politics. It now…
D.C. Open Government Coalition blog: Nominees to Board Overseeing D.C. Office of Open Government…
Rewriting the law to end the independence of the D.C. Office of Open Government this summer, the D.C. Council at least mandated that the new overseers, the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), include one member equipped…
WAMU: As D.C. Readies To Regulate And Restrict Home-Sharing, Airbnb Threatens To Take The Issue To…
With the D.C. Council set to vote on a bill on Tuesday that would regulate and restrict home-sharing services for the first time, Airbnb officials say they are willing to take the issue directly to D.C. voters with a ballot measure in 2020.…
Washington Post: Money continues to trickle into unusually expensive D.C. State Board of Education…
Money continues to trickle to the candidates running to be on the D.C. State Board of Education — positions that wield little power in the District but have attracted significant amounts of money. More than $225,000 has flowed into four…
UrbanTurf: A Look at the Possible Effects of DC’s New Home-Share Bill
On Tuesday, the DC Council is scheduled to have a final vote on a new home-share regulation bill for the city. As currently written, the bill allows owner-occupied properties to be used as short-term rentals without time limits, while…
Washington Post: On sizzling summer days, Northeast D.C. heats up the most, NOAA analysis shows
It is up to 17 degrees hotter than the coolest areas inside the District.
David Leonhardt in The New York Times: Why it’s time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the…
The biggest racial preferences in this country have nothing to do with college admissions or job offers. They have to do with political power. And they benefit white Americans, at the expense of black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.
Deanwood businesses, community groups push back against evictions by developer
The owners of several Deanwood businesses filed a legal complaint this morning against Neighborhood Development Co., the company responsible for abruptly evicting them from their properties and padlocking their storefronts days later.…
Norton Announces Fourth Bill to Remove Federal Government from Local D.C. Land-Use Policies
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
October 15, 2018
Norton Announces Fourth Bill to Remove Federal Government from Local D.C. Land-Use Policies
Strips Authority of U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Over D.C.-Owned and Private Property…
Norton Vows Congressional Action to Stop Trump Administration from Unconstitutional Attempt to Limit…
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
October 15, 2018
Norton Vows Congressional Action to Stop Trump Administration from Unconstitutional Attempt to Limit Free Speech in Front of White House and on National Mall
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman…
Washington Post: D.C. mayor rallies for Reeder in effort to oust Silverman
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Sunday rallied hundreds of supporters to back Dionne Reeder for a citywide council seat, the latest in an unprecedented attempt by the mayor to oust an incumbent lawmaker.
WTOP: Thousands gather, stream along H Street for annual arts festival
WASHINGTON — It was postponed in September because of the severe weather Hurricane Florence was expected to bring to the area, but the one-day H Street Festival had the area teeming with life on Saturday. Folks streamed through the H Street…
WAMU: Report Challenges What Mayor Bowser Knew Leading Up To School-Transfer Scandal
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has claimed for months that she didn’t initially know about the events which eventually led to the resignation of former schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson. However, a new report appears to challenge what the Mayor…
Washington Post: Many families at acclaimed D.C. arts school cleared of enrollment fraud, school…
Administrators and parents at Duke Ellington School of the Arts say a significant share of families accused of residency fraud have been cleared of wrongdoing — an assertion that appears to undermine a high-profile investigation that rocked…