Education takes center stage at forum on citywide DC Council races
With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…
Officials cut ribbon at renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library
Hundreds of local residents, officials, activists and onlookers crammed into the lobby and second-floor overhang of the renovated Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library on Saturday, awaiting a ribbon-cutting nearly two years in the making.…
Longtime incumbent Norton squares off against challenger Ford for House seat
The District’s representative to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing something she has seldom seen in the 14 elections after her initial hard-fought win: an opponent in the Democratic…
Terry Lynch: DC government and all of us must do more to prevent wave of violence
DC has seen a dramatic 53 percent rise in homicides in the past year, with 72 homicides recorded in 2018 as of June 15. Not including prior-year tragedies only reclassified this year, homicides are up by around 30 percent or more over this…
Mayor Bowser Extends Aquatic Center Hours at Select Locations with Expectation of High Temperatures
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Mayor Bowser Extends Aquatic Center Hours at Select Locations with Expectation of High Temperatures
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Tipped minimum wage debate hails from long-developing advocacy group
Voters on Tuesday will decide the fate of Initiative 77, which proposes to gradually eliminate the city’s tipped minimum wage and close the existing gap between tipped and non-tipped workers. The initiative ended up on the DC primary ballot…
Citywide incumbents face challenges from the left flank
Phil Mendelson isn’t interested in hearing his opponent claim to be the progressive candidate in the race.
Walking out of a debate where DC Council Chair Mendelson and challenger Ed Lazere traded barbs over education scandals, Mendelson…
At-large council profile: Bonds cites efforts to boost housing affordability
At-large DC Council member Anita Bonds certainly has her critics as she runs for re-election this year. She’s drawn two young and energetic primary challengers, real estate associate Marcus Goodwin and progressive activist Jeremiah Lowery.…
At-large council profile: Goodwin stresses need for equitable economic development
Marcus Goodwin still talks about Arthur's.
The Columbia Heights convenience store was a longtime community institution around the corner from his mother’s house, and Goodwin said it used to be “our local source for any convenience,”…
At-large council profile: Lowery urges strengthened housing policies such as rent control
When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vt., in the 1980s, he was an early champion of affordable housing programs known as community land trusts. Now a DC Council candidate wants to emulate Sanders’ program in the nation’s capital.…
Long-vacant Truxton Circle school may become community center, Peace Corps museum
Running across a vacant or blighted building in DC isn’t uncommon, much to the chagrin of residents. In May 2016, Greater Greater Washington put the “official count” of vacant and blighted buildings in the city at approximately 1,200, but…
jonetta rose barras: Another day, another new government entity
WHENEVER a District government agency has been found to be in chaos, unable to perform even its most basic duties, the solution devised by many elected officials, civic leaders and advocates has been to expand the bureaucracy. Case in…
Art school thrives in Kalorama with aim to contribute to DC arts scene
Behind the formal portico of a 1909 Sheridan-Kalorama townhouse, the Washington Studio School welcomes and nurtures artists and aspiring artists.
In high-ceilinged rooms that once housed the girls of Holton-Arms School, artists — both…
Kate Goodall: By the People Festival aims to bridge cultural divides
What’s the best way to disrupt divisiveness?
As co-founder of Halcyon — an incubator that frequently supports “disruptors” — it’s a question I think about a lot. (Some might say obsessively.) It’s the very question that led Halcyon to…
Norton town meeting aims to quiet concerns over helicopter noise
For some DC residents, living in the nation’s capital means listening to an excess of helicopter noise. But recently complaints have grown louder that the noises have increased and are occuring at all hours of the day.
To try to address…
Randy Speck: Treat ANC candidates equally on ballot access
Forty-five advisory neighborhood commissioners recently asked the DC Board of Elections to expand the period for circulating petitions for the November general election. They requested that ANC candidates be treated the same as candidates…
Chairman’s race profile: Mendelson stresses need for oversight over new spending
As he campaigns for re-election this summer, Phil Mendelson is telling the story of the Anacostia properties. The DC Council chairman had a protracted dispute last year with Mayor Muriel Bowser, a fellow Democrat, over the fate of four…
Chairman’s race profile: Lazere pushes incumbent on scale of affordable housing investment
Ed Lazere still isn’t satisfied. The longtime executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute knows the DC Council increased support for affordable housing this year — even investing $15.6 million more than Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed…
Wilson educator steps up to the plate to coach both robotics and softball
David Thompson works at Wilson High School, but he does more than teach. Along with being an instructional educator for high school teachers in the D.C. area, Thompson also coaches both softball and robotics at Wilson.
Thompson — himself…
Single Lane Closures Along Massachusetts Avenue on June 16
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June 14, 2018
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Single Lane Closures Along Massachusetts Avenue on June 16
(Washington, DC) - The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will enact…