City Paper: DCRA Should Improve Its Enforcement of Housing Code Violations, D.C. Auditor Says
A beleaguered Brookland apartment complex and the local regulatory agency tasked with monitoring it are the focus of a new report published Monday morning by the Office of the D.C. Auditor. In the report, a team from ODCA examined how…
Auditor: Housing Code Enforcement Needs Improvement
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Contact: Diane Shinn
Auditor: Housing Code Enforcement Needs Improvement
Case study on Dahlgreen Courts shows problems with documentation and tracking of violations, and inconsistent enforcement that result…
World-class museum celebrates art created by its own staffers
For scores of artistically inclined staffers who work at the Phillips Collection, the job comes with a special perk: the chance to showcase their own artwork in the same museum that features the likes of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Picasso.…
Jonah Goodman: City’s failure to address missed trash pickups shows need for 311 reforms
Earlier this year the DC Department of Public Works (DPW) skipped trash pickup at the same property on Quincy Street NW in Petworth six times in four months. Every time the homeowners opened a new 311 service request, it was assigned to DPW…
Washington Post: Nurses in D.C.’s 911 center are helping cut some unnecessary ambulance runs, but…
D.C. Fire and EMS officials found positive signs in the first 90 days of a $1 million nursing phone line at the 911 call center, but have yet to see big dividends in one of the program’s intended goals: reducing ambulance trips for patients…
Mayor Bowser Weekly Press Guidance
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Mayor Bowser Weekly Press Guidance
Monday, September 24, 2018 – Monday, October 1, 2018
Mayor Bowser celebrates #RootstoRoofs DC Housing Week with a series of events highlighting her…
WTOP: Senior housing building in SE DC still not secure after fire
WASHINGTON — D.C. Fire and EMS crews are working over the weekend to secure the Arthur Capper Senior building, a Southeast D.C. senior housing complex that caught fire Wednesday, displacing around 160 people from their homes. Damage to the…
Washington Post: Residents hope new arena means new life for long-neglected area
The basketball games haven’t begun, the concerts have yet to be played, but District resident Latreasa Woodson already was excited about what the opening of the Entertainment and Sports Arena holds for Ward 8. “I think it is great for the…
Washington Post: In planning for Washington’s transportation future, a look at the practical and…
There are aspirations. And there are political realities. On Friday, the Washington area’s top transportation planners offered their ideas for how to handle both. Riffing off a federal requirement that they tally road and transit projects…
Mayor Bowser Cuts the Ribbon on Entertainment and Sports Arena in Ward 8
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September 22, 2018
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Chanda Washington (DMPED)
Ashley Forrester (Events DC)
Mayor Bowser Cuts the Ribbon on Entertainment and Sports Arena in Ward 8
4,200-Seat Venue Will Be a Hub for…
Norton to Speak at Two Community Events Supporting D.C.’s LGBTQ Community, Today
Contact: Benjamin Fritsch
September 22, 2018
Norton to Speak at Two Community Events Supporting D.C.’s LGBTQ Community, Today
Events Supporting Mary’s House and Whitman-Walker Health
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton…
Forest Hills Connection: UDC negotiating with 4250 Connecticut owner for office and retail lease
UDC is in negotiations with Bernstein Management Corporation that could give the university control of the office and retail space at 4250 Connecticut Avenue. Troy Lemaile-Stovall, UDC’s chief operating officer, explained at the September…
WTOP: Police ID man struck, killed while on electric scooter in Dupont Circle
WASHINGTON — Police have identified the man who was struck Friday morning while on an electric scooter in Dupont Circle and later died. Carlos Sanchez-Martin, 20, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was riding on the scooter going westbound in…
Washington Post: D.C. arrests for marijuana use to result in citation, not custody, officials say
Arrests in the District for public use of marijuana will result in those who qualify receiving a citation, rather than being taken into custody, the city’s mayor and police chief announced Friday. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Police Chief…
Washingtonian: Hoagie Chain Taylor Gourmet Will Close All of Its Stores
Taylor Gourmet will close all 17 of its DC-area stores after Sunday, September 23. Friday is the last day for the hoagie chain’s two Chicago stores. The closures come as Connecticut-based private equity firm KarpReilly, which infused Taylor…
Washington Post: Cause of huge fire at senior apartment complex still uncertain; D.C. helping…
A large apartment complex that caught fire Wednesday remains so unstable that investigators have been unable to enter and determine what went wrong inside, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said Friday during a news conference outside the charred husk…
Stars and Stripes: Plan to build Vietnam War education center on the National Mall is abandoned
WASHINGTON – An effort to establish a Vietnam War education center on the National Mall was abandoned Friday after 17 years of planning and $23 million in donations already spent. The board of directors of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund…
WAMU: Why D.C.’s Mayor Has Control Of Schools And What The Council Wants To Do About It
It’s been eleven years since the D.C. Council approved a historic transfer of power. Lawmakers gave then-Mayor Adrian Fenty control over the state superintendent’s office and the troubled 55,000-student school system. Now, some members of…
Colbert King in The Post: Is D.C.’s mayor letting politics come in the way of policy?
District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is going all out with her effort to take down D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) at the polls in November. It’s not going to be a pretty thing to watch. But is the mayor pouncing on…
Dominic T. Moulden, Gregory D. Squires and Aristotle Theresa in The Post: The right to stay put
When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often just want to move black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New School, to an audience at a 2015 conference on equitable development in the…