UrbanTurf: How Where You Live in DC Affects Your Upward Mobility
A recently released study of Census data tracks where upward mobility is most likely to be enjoyed by a child born into various circumstances. For the District of Columbia, some of those results may be surprising. Today, UrbanTurf explores…
Curbed DC: D.C. plans ribbon-cutting for new family homeless shelter in Southeast next week
On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The soon-to-open facility will house 35…
Washington Business Journal: Big D.C. projects could be backed by $100M+ in TIF bonds
Two large developments planned in D.C. could get a significant financial boost with the approval of two pieces of recently introduced legislation that would provide the projects with more than $100 million in tax-increment financing.
Washington Post: D.C. police search for driver after vehicle strikes two students in Tenleytown
After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon. After being sent airborne by a car as she…
Washington Post: Sexist slurs and coded insults: St. Albans School 2015 yearbook stirred outrage
Sexist slurs referring to female dogs and prostitutes, with a few letters replaced by asterisks. Crude references to bodies and sex. Cracks about racial and ethnic groups. Those were some of the glaring problems with the initial version of…
Capital Projections: The rapper and the dames edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.
Maya Arulpragasam, aka rapper M.I.A., didn’t take…
Mayor Bowser’s Pathways to Work Reentry Program Hits Milestone of 250 Residents Helped
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October 4, 2018
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Mayor Bowser’s Pathways to Work Reentry Program Hits Milestone of 250 Residents Helped
Returning Citizens Obtain Driver Licenses and Join the Pathway to Middle Class…
Norton to Introduce Bill to Remove Federal Government’s Authority Over District-Owned Land
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October 4, 2018
Norton to Introduce Bill to Remove Federal Government’s Authority Over District-Owned Land
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she will introduce a…
Norton Presses BOP to Transfer Local D.C. Code Juveniles to the District, Closer to Their Families
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
October 4, 2018
Norton Presses BOP to Transfer Local D.C. Code Juveniles to the District, Closer to Their Families
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released…
Council votes to create new office to facilitate ‘safe and vibrant’ nighttime economy
The DC Council gave final approval this week to legislation that will create a new Office of Nightlife and Culture to help coordinate the District’s after-hours economy. Located within the mayor’s office, the agency will also provide…
Mayor Bowser Breaks Ground on Combined Campus for the Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School,…
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October 3, 2018
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Mayor Bowser Breaks Ground on Combined Campus for the Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School, Celebrates Conducive Learning/Play…
Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety to vote on bills decriminalizing fare evasion,…
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October 3, 2018
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Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety to vote on bills decriminalizing fare evasion, modifying statute of limitations for sexual offenses
Tomorrow, October 4, the…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Because of Kavanaugh — and a tweet — people across the country suddenly…
On the day that Christine Blasey Ford described her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and testified about his “uproarious laughter,” Jessica Raven was compelled to step up in a way she’d never expected. At…
WAMU: What Happened To The Will Of The People? When Lawmakers Overturn Voter Initiatives
Just four months after District voters approved an initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, the D.C. Council voted to overturn it. It might seem like an odd fate for Initiative 77, which got 55 percent of the popular vote in…
Washington Business Journal: Public paychecks: Who earns the biggest salaries on the D.C. payroll?…
Ronald Mason, president of the University of the District of Columbia, is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll, according to data provided by the city and compiled by the Washington Business Journal. With a 2018 salary…
Washington Post: Metro says it doesn’t know what to do about falling ridership. An internal report…
Metro’s leaders have said publicly that they have no clear solution to the system’s ridership decline, but an internal document dated May of this year shows otherwise; it lays out a detailed plan for increasing riders on the nation’s…
Washington Post: Transit advocates decry Metro board’s ‘failure’ to take on ridership issue
The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a pro-transit group that backed Metro’s dedicated funding push, said the time has come to increase service.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: New D.C. program aims to make it easier for victims to report sexual…
Among Karl A. Racine’s duties as the District’s attorney general, prosecuting crimes committed by juveniles can be the most challenging — especially sex offenses. As we all learned after watching last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee…
Washingtonian: Wolfgang Puck Is Opening a Luxe Steakhouse in Georgetown
Just when you thought DC’s boom of celebrity chef-driven steakhouses was waning, here’s another: Cut by Wolfgang Puck. The “contemporary twist on the classic steakhouse” will open inside Georgetown’s Rosewood hotel in Spring 2019. In…
UrbanTurf: MRP “Extiguishes” PUD, But Moving Ahead With Massive Rhode Island Avenue Project
Another planned-unit development in DC bites the dust. Last month, the development team behind the PUD intended to replace the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (map) requested that the Zoning Commission "extinguish" the approved plans…