Washington Post: It’s soccer season, but D.C. closes playing fields due to ‘hardness’
For thousands of D.C. children, the week after Labor Day means the thrill of a new soccer season and hours spent preparing for opening weekend games. But this year, as last year, there has been a jarring surprise: shuttered fields and…
DCist: Parking Enforcement Is Sending Out Officers On Bikes To Understand The Cyclist Perspective
The D.C. Department of Public Works will send out some of its officers on bikes to "better understand the issues District cyclists face, and address these issues in real time," DPW Director Chris Shorter says.
DCist: D.C. Loses Another Local News Outlet As DCW50 News At 10 Folds
DCW50 News at 10, a local news broadcast in Washington, is folding at the end of this month. The last broadcast will be on September 28, and all of the station's photographers and reporters will lose their jobs. NBC4's Mark Segraves was the…
Mayor Bowser Awards 15 New Immigrant Justice Legal Services Grants
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Mayor Bowser Awards 15 New Immigrant Justice Legal Services Grants
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Bowser announced that her Administration will provide Immigrant…
Capital Projections: Troubled teens edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
MADELINE’S MADELINE
Like any other New York teenager, Madeline (Helena…
Mayor Bowser Appoints New Directors for Office of Community Relations and Services, Office of…
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Mayor Bowser Appoints New Directors for Office of Community Relations and Services, Office of Community Affairs
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Mayor Bowser today…
The DC Lineup for the weekend: It’s all about community
Multiple communities are gathering in DC this weekend (Sept. 7 through 9) and offering opportunities for locals to explore their interests. Try new gelato flavors, watch short films or gain insight into the world’s leading university for…
AG Racine Appoints Lisa Raymond as Chief of Staff
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Metro plans full-scale security exercise at Gallery Place Station, Sunday, September 9
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Metro plans full-scale security exercise at Gallery Place Station, Sunday, September 9
Metro Transit Police and the DC Metropolitan Police Department will conduct a full-scale law enforcement…
WAMU: Immigrant Students Fight Their Fears To Stay In School
Students always have jitters at the start of the school year. But for children of immigrant families, going back to school means overcoming a unique set of fears that others may not share.
Hill Rag: Urban Forester Steve McKindley-Ward Lives His Life Dream
Henry David Thoreau, America’s nature writer, once wrote, “Live the life you’ve dreamed.” Steve McKindley-Ward, arborist and urban forester for DC, is following this solid advice. Steve says he has been blessed to follow his dream of having…
Washington Post: Ethics board completes investigation into former schools chancellor
City investigators have concluded their examination into whether the former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and the former deputy mayor for education — both of whom resigned this year amid controversy — violated the District’s code of…
ABC7: 15 recreational fields closed in DC over safety concerns
DC's Department of General Services announced Thursday night that 15 recreational fields across the District failed testing. The reason — the artificial turf fields, which are filled with tire rubber crumbs, are too hard.
Deborah Simmons in The Washington Times: Federal government giveth, D.C. government taketh away
Wouldn’t you know? Just as low-income and middle-class residents began breathing the slightest sighs of relief thanks to federal tax cuts, the District’s progressive pickpockets are raising taxes. Beginning Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal…
Ed Lazere in the DC Fiscal Policy Institute blog: DC’s Additional Revenue Is an Opportunity to…
Thanks to the District’s growing economy, the city is collecting a lot more tax revenue this year than expected, creating an immediate opportunity to meet some of the city’s most urgent needs, like housing and schools. This is a chance to…
New day center set to bolster homeless services downtown before onset of winter
A new downtown center will open later this year at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church to provide daytime services for homeless men and women prior to the onset of winter weather, thanks to a $1.7 million grant announced last month by…
Bowser Administration to Host 2018 Doggie Day Swim
Bowser Administration to Host 2018 Doggie Day Swim
Friday, September 7, 2018
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When DC broadcasters move to the suburbs, what’s lost?
The Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center is moving to Maryland.
In Washington, DC, the seventh-largest media market in the country, WTOP is the king of commercial radio. But the FM broadcaster told Bethesda Magazine last month that it plans to…
Tuesday: Two Cool “Disco” Dan Works to be Unveiled at the Wilson Building
Tuesday: Two Cool “Disco” Dan Works to be Unveiled at the Wilson Building
On Tuesday, September 11 at noon in the ground floor atrium of the John A. Wilson Building, two works by the late local icon Cool “Disco” Dan will be unveiled. Dan’s…
Mayor Bowser Announces Service Providers for Three Short-Term Family Housing Programs
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September 7, 2018
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Mayor Bowser Announces Service Providers for Three Short-Term Family Housing Programs
The National Center for Children and Families, Life…