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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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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,…
Washington Post: A consultant told Metro what many riders already know: It’s the service that’s…
After years of hand-wringing over the source of its plummeting ridership — teleworking, a shrinking federal workforce, lower gas prices, ride hailing, bike sharing — a consultant concluded what has been obvious to the hordes of riders who…
Adams Morgan Day to mark 40th anniversary with a focus on history, art, community
The Adams Morgan Day festival is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary on Sunday with an array of offerings for adults and children from noon to 6 p.m. The event, DC’s longest-running neighborhood festival, was on the brink of collapse just…
Michael Saltsman in The Post: Initiative 77 was wrong in June, and it’s wrong now
Call it the wage increase that wasn’t. In June, 10 percent of registered D.C. voters supported Initiative 77, a ballot measure to raise the base wage for tipped employees by 200 percent. Proponents of the measure portrayed this low-turnout…
Dusty Horwitt and Pamela J. Lee in The Post: D.C. should learn from Arlington’s mistakes on Airbnb…
This fall, the D.C. Council is expected to join other local jurisdictions in considering regulations for short-term, Airbnb-style rentals in which homes and apartments function as hotels. Council members should learn from the…
Two of at-large hopeful’s listed petition circulators accuse campaign of forging their signatures
Two people listed as gathering 507 signatures for the S. Kathryn Allen at-large campaign for DC Council told the city’s Board of Elections Friday under oath that their names were forged on Allen’s petitions.
Their testimony bolstered…
Brandon Todd in The Current: Giving blind and visually-impaired students a fair shot
Next week, the Council will reconvene until this legislative period concludes in December. Over the coming months, my colleagues and I will work feverishly on a wide range of legislative topics. One piece of legislation that I will focus on…