Nadeau, Joined by Full Council, Calls on ICE to Cease Racial Profiling, Return Detained…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Contact: Tom Fazzini, tfazzini@dccouncil.us, office: (202) 724-8180, mobile: (202) 262-8998
Nadeau, Joined by Full Council, Calls on ICE to Cease Racial Profiling, Return…
Mayor Bowser to Participate in Unveiling of Paul Devrouax Way
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September 20, 2018
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser to Participate in Unveiling of Paul Devrouax Way
Celebrates and Honors African American Architectural Pioneer in Washington, DC…
Washington Blade: D.C. Council approves ‘Nonbinary’ I.D. card bill
The D.C. City Council on Tuesday gave final approval by unanimous voice vote to legislation that allows residents to choose a gender-neutral identifier on driver’s licenses and other city identification documents.
Norton to Introduce Bill to Require Federal Agencies to Report Advertising Spending with Newspapers…
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
September 20, 2018
Norton to Introduce Bill to Require Federal Agencies to Report Advertising Spending with Newspapers and Media Companies Owned by Minorities and Women
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor…
WTOP: DC fire chief: Hallway alarms didn’t sound during fire at senior housing
WASHINGTON — Investigators will examine why fire alarms did not sound as a huge fire broke out in a four-story apartment complex for senior citizens Wednesday afternoon near the Washington Navy Yard. Although smoke detectors worked in…
Departure of Bonds as longtime head of DC Dems sets off three-way contest
With Anita Bonds stepping aside as chair of the DC Democratic State Committee, a three-way race has ensued for leadership of the struggling local party.
Committee members will cast votes Thursday evening to decide the winner among the…
AG Racine Launches Special Victims Unit to Prosecute Crimes Against Vulnerable Residents
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September 20, 2018
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Office of Communications
AG RACINE LAUNCHES SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT…
Push for DC statehood reaches European Parliament
At opposite ends of the Atlantic Ocean last week, both the European Parliament and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation discussed DC statehood.
In Strasbourg, France, Alex Mayer, a member of the European Parliament for the East of…
WAMU: In Span Of One Week, Two D.C. Deputy Mayors Depart Bowser Administration
HyeSook Chung, D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, suddenly left Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration on Wednesday, marking the second personnel change among the mayor’s top aides in the last week. Chung’s unexpected …
Washington Post: Fire at senior housing complex in D.C. prompts rescues
A major fire broke out at an apartment complex for seniors in Southeast Washington on Wednesday afternoon, forcing firefighters, bystanders and Marines to rescue residents, officials said. The fire sent flames and black smoke shooting from…
Washington Business Journal: Here’s the latest on Providence hospital’s upcoming closure in D.C.
Providence Health System, which said it's transitioning away from acute care toward outpatient services, will close its Northeast D.C. hospital Dec. 14. After the closure, the system said only some primary care providers and the Carroll…
Greater Greater Washington: Metro Reasons: An unreported fire closed a station a year before a 2016…
An insulator caught fire and filled the Benning Road Metro station with heavy, thick smoke in a previously-unreported incident from August 2015. This came nine months prior to the insulator explosion in the Federal Center Southwest station…
Manon P. Matchett of Greater Washington Community Foundation: The Dual Reality of Building a Safer,…
As a proud and happy resident of the Hillsdale community for the past 15+ years, I have dutifully crossed the Anacostia River every day to travel to work. Most of that time has been spent working in philanthropy. The landscape has changed…
Washington City Paper: Edgewood Tenants Brace for Eviction as the Catholic Church Sells Their…
In her tiny sliver of Edgewood, just south of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the periodic tolling of the shrine’s bell rings clear at every hour, on the hour—a reminder, for resident Heather Benno, of the…
Statement from Office of Charles Allen on Arthur Capper Fire
Statement from Office of Charles Allen on Arthur Capper Fire
Councilmember Charles Allen and staff are on-site currently at the fire at the Arthur Capper Senior Building at 900 5th St., SE to help displaced residents. From Councilmember…
DC to launch a Free Tech Support Pilot
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September 18, 2018
CONTACT:
Michael Rupert, (OCTO)
Nina Liggett, (OCTO)
DC to launch All Hands On Tech, a Free Tech Support Pilot, this Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Anacostia Library
(WASHINGTON, DC) –…
Norton Releases Findings from Community Meeting on Helicopter Noise, Encourages Further Public…
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
September 19, 2018
Norton Releases Findings from Community Meeting on Helicopter Noise, Encourages Further Public Feedback
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of…
The Washington Post: Homeless D.C. high school football player kept off field amid questions over…
Jamal Speaks put on his pads, grabbed his helmet and got dressed in his new gray Ballou High School jersey on Saturday, readying himself for his first game in nearly two years. But just as the 18-year old student, who says he is homeless,…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘Chocolate City’ is now ‘Money City’: The high price D.C. is paying to…
Dia King was number 171 in line and didn’t know if he would get a chance to speak in front of the D.C. Council. But if he did, he knew what he wanted its members to know.
NPR: As A D.C. Public Housing Complex Faces Redevelopment, One Teenager Reflects
In 2016, photographer Joy Sharon Yi began taking the Metro to Barry Farm, a large public housing complex in Southeast Washington, D.C., built in 1943 on the first city settlement where African-Americans could buy property and build homes…