Washington Post: The DC History Center is throwing open its doors this Saturday
You may think that history is what happened long ago, but Laura Brower Hagood wants you to think about history differently. She also wants you to enjoy a free beer and a discount taco.
DCist: Messy Data And Poor Communication Bungle D.C.’s School Vaccine Enforcement, Officials Say
More than a month after the start of the school year, D.C. is attempting to enforce a long-standing childhood vaccine mandate – but concerns over incomplete and messy data are hindering enforcement and causing local officials to question…
DCist: Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Initiative 82
D.C. residents are now starting to get their mail ballots, and as they do, they’ll notice the usual races on the front side — mayor, attorney general, a few seats on the D.C. Council, and so on. But flip the ballot over and they will be…
District Links: Wharf to celebrate near-completion with Bowser, Norton; immunization enforcement…
It's been five years since The Wharf opened along a prime section of the Southwest waterfront, and now developers are celebrating the anniversary as well as the official completion of the project's second phase with concerts, fireworks and…
City Paper: How Do Challengers Karim Marshall and Graham McLaughlin Fit Into the At-Large Race?
The newcomers face an uphill battle to win one of the top two spots against three incumbents. But what are they promising if they succeed?
Axios: The health care company at the center of D.C.’s Medicaid saga
Meet Amerigroup. It’s a Fortune 500 company that manages state-run health plans for low-income people. Its subsidiaries also have a history of fines and allegations over the handling of patients in multiple states. Amerigroup is now set to…
WTOP: Few DC students refuse to comply with vaccination requirements as deadline arrives
Twenty-four D.C. Public School families refused to comply with the city’s requirement that pre-K through fifth grade students be up to date on routine shots by Tuesday, according to data shared with city officials during a public…
Washington Post: Enforcement of D.C.’s routine vaccination has a complicated rollout
Twenty-four D.C. Public Schools families refused to comply, and students will be barred from school, officials said on the first day of enforcement Tuesday
DCist: D.C.’s Monkeypox Clinics Are Merging With COVID Centers
D.C.’s three monkeypox clinics will be merging with the COVID Centers in wards 2, 3, and 8 starting Saturday. Services will remain the same — the monkeypox clinics will continue to be walk-in and offer first and second doses.
DCist: ‘A Very Dramatic Moment’: Attorney Recalls 1972 D.C. Jail Uprising On 50th Anniversary
It was Oct. 11, 1972. The crumbling D.C. Jail was about 100 years old. The facility, designed to hold 550 people, was holding a population of about double that size. People detained there complained that they had virtually no recreation…
DCist: Mike Fanone Isn’t Done Talking About Jan. 6. And He Has Thoughts On D.C. Police And Officials
The first time I — and, by extension, much of America — heard of Mike Fanone was about a week after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Fanone, then a D.C. police officer, had been brought to a building overlooking the U.S. Capitol to speak to…
District Links: Schools begin enforcing ‘No Shots, No School’ mandate for elementary…
Enforcement of the District's immunization requirements began today in DC schools for students in pre-K through the fifth grade.
Washington Post: Enforcement of District’s routine vaccination mandate to begin Tuesday
A quarter of the city’s school-age population is still behind on required shots
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Noncitizens pay taxes and join the military. Why shouldn’t they vote?
In D.C., where disenfranchisement is personal, they soon will
WTOP: $25 million redesign project to bring big changes to DC public high schools
A new partnership between D.C. and the XQ Institute — a nonprofit co-founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs — aims to reimagine what high school in the District looks like.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Metro’s new leader takes on brazen fare evasion
It is clearly too soon to tell whether Metro’s new general manager, Randy Clarke, will be successful in getting the troubled agency back on track. He has been on the job less than three months, and the challenges facing Metro are…
DCist: Scathing Federal Audit Of D.C. Housing Authority Spurs Calls For Reform At Troubled Agency
A scathing federal audit of the D.C. Housing Authority found that the agency is failing in some of its most basic tasks, from maintaining public housing units in habitable condition to ensuring that every usable unit is actually offered to…
Washington Post: 170 dead bodies went unclaimed in D.C. Now the city is honoring them.
On a chilly October Saturday, Norma Lomax came to the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington to say goodbye to her brother. She wore a pin emblazoned with his name, Alan J. Barnes, and an image of him superimposed on a cross…
WTOP: Silverman calls for change after DC agency fails to provide safe or sanitary public housing
A D.C. council member is promising to fix the District’s Housing Authority after a federal report laid out a series of critical issues with the agency, most notably its failure to provide safe and sanitary housing,
Theresa Vargas in The Post: The unseen, creative way D.C. is fighting gun violence
Real people — moms, grandfathers, students — came up with plans to stop shootings, and the city gave them grants to put their ideas into action