DCist: Someone Is Going Around Illegally Opening Up Fire Hydrants In Northeast
There's a hydromaniac (possibly more than one?) on the loose in two D.C. quadrants. In Northeast over the last several days, someone has been going around and illegally opening up fire hydrants, according to DC Water. Mark Segraves at NBC4…
City Paper: Close to 150 People Sign Up to Testify at Initiative 77 Repeal Hearing
If you plan to attend next Monday's hearing on the bill repealing Initiative 77, bring snacks that do not require refrigeration. As of this morning, 140 people are signed up to testify. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson's office expects the…
UrbanTurf: Where in DC is Missing Middle Housing Not Missing?
Last year, UrbanTurf reported on the concept of the "Missing Middle", a class of housing types which bridge the gap between single-family houses and mid-rise multi-family buildings. As explained at an Urban Land Institute panel, "Missing…
DCist: ‘It’s Definitely On The Cool Side Of Things’: Studio Theatre’s 40…
When Studio Theatre opened in 1978, D.C.’s theater scene was just germinating: There was Arena Stage and the Lincoln Theatre, but many of today’s standouts hadn’t yet been born. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, for example, opened two years…
Mayor Bowser Meets with Senior Administration Staff in Preparation for Hurricane Florence
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Mayor Bowser Meets with Senior Administration Staff in Preparation for Hurricane Florence
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Bowser Administration Announces Winners of the Special Education Enhancement Fund Competitive Grant,…
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Bowser Administration Announces Winners of the Special Education Enhancement Fund Competitive Grant, Cohort 2
Six new grantees will use research-based strategies to help students with disabilities
The Bowser…
Mayor Bowser and Valerie Jarrett to Sit with Moderator Cathy Hughes for a Lunch Discussion at the…
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Mayor Bowser and Valerie Jarrett to Sit with Moderator Cathy Hughes for a Lunch Discussion at the District’s First Maternal and Infant Health Summit
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Councilmember Cheh to Honor the District’s First Responders
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September 10, 2018
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jonetta rose barras: Muriel Bowser on the national stage
“What was that about?” some of you have asked me in conversations on the street, in the supermarket, on the telephone. Why did Mayor Muriel Bowser feel compelled to bring cameras from NBC’s Today Show into her home to introduce her adopted…
Norton Requests Joint Hearing to Examine Proposal to Relocate Two USDA Agencies Out of D.C., Calls…
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September 10, 2018
Norton Requests Joint Hearing to Examine Proposal to Relocate Two USDA Agencies Out of D.C., Calls for Appropriators to Block Potentially Illegal Move
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor…
Washingtonian: Would Amazon’s HQ2 Really Be Good for Washington?
A lot of locals will tell you we deserve to win. But should we want to? We asked a bunch of smart people and got some surprising answers (ranked here from most to least enthusiastic).
Yesim Sayin Taylor of DC Policy Center: Rethinking the District’s Unemployment Taxes
The District ended 2017 with $434.1 million of reserves in its Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. This is the highest level of reserves the city ever accumulated; and it is equivalent to 3.8 times the benefits paid out in the same year. …
David Aldridge on The Athletic: At home in D.C., covering the teams and city that I love
At around 8 years old, I had written some doggerel for a school assignment that passed as poetry: “the teacher is gone/the children hum/now we can all chew chewing gum.” (Who remembers things like that?) But one of my teachers liked it…
Harry Jaffe on NBC4: Mayor, Business Elites Poised to Take Another Loss in DC Council Race
The mini-drama over fraudulent nominating petitions playing out before D.C.’s Board of Elections proves the new normal in District politics: Business elites and political machines no longer call the shots. On Monday, the elections board is…
Washington Post: Former politician convicted of bank fraud compares himself to Serena Williams
Tennis star Serena Williams’s controversial loss in the U.S. Open after a chair umpire docked her for an outburst, prompted a wave of conversations about double standards applied to women and African Americans. And oddly, it also prompted…
Two State Board of Education incumbents face challengers, with three-way races for two open seats
When the DC Board of Education ran the city’s school system, the contests sometimes offered a prelude to future elections, with the positions offering a springboard to the DC Council or the mayor’s office for politicians such as Marion…
Search for next DC poet laureate brings calls for more public input
Dolores Kendrick — hailed as Washington’s “first lady of poetry” and a “deeply revered figure in American literature” — served for nearly two decades as DC’s second poet laureate until her death last November at the age of 90. Now, a search…
Washington Post: Bowser introduces baby Miranda to Washington at baptism
Days after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) presented her baby to the world on the “Today” show, she publicly introduced the District’s first daughter to the city at a baptismal reception on Sunday. Miranda Elizabeth Bowser was baptized at…
Ian Urbina in The New York Times: My Father, a Judge, Said a Gun Control Case Was One of His…
WASHINGTON — Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of the identity of my hometown, Washington, D.C. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, Washington recorded more…
WTOP: Local deacon at high-profile parish calls on Wuerl to resign
WASHINGTON — A highly-visible deacon at St. Matthew’s Cathedral is adding to the calls on the Archbishop of Washington to resign over the handling of sex abuse allegations. In a letter sent Saturday by James Garcia to Cardinal Donald Wuerl,…