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
City Paper: D.C. Housing Authority Is Failing In Just About Every Way
A scathing audit from HUD calls for top to bottom reform and training for the executive director and board of commissioners in the basic functions of their jobs.
WTOP: Bowser continues review of DC deputy mayor charged with assault as residency questions grow
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said a review of all claims against Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chris Geldart, including his compliance with the District’s residency requirement, is ongoing after he allegedly assaulted a man in Arlington,…
Washington Post: A broke marching band parades on Capitol Hill to practice. Magic ensues.
The mostly low-income kids in the Eastern High School Marching Band are beloved by the mostly affluent D.C. homeowners who witness their practices
WTOP: National Gallery of Art finds one of its Vermeer works was painted by someone else
The National Gallery of Art announced Friday it will reveal new findings about Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer to be examined at the Vermeer’s Secrets exhibition, opening Saturday.
Washington Post: D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says
Inadequate management, poor oversight and faulty governance drove the D.C. Housing Authority’s failure to provide “decent, safe, and sanitary” housing for its residents in violation of federal requirements, HUD investigators have…
Washington Post: Amid assault charge, D.C. deputy mayor under review for residency status
The D.C. government is reviewing whether D.C. Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and Justice Christopher Geldart is meeting the requirement that high-level officials reside within city limits, D.C.'s mayor said Friday, after a police statement…
Washington Post: National Gallery confirms one of its Vermeers is actually not a Vermeer
Experts had long wondered whether “Girl With a Flute” was really one of the world’s few paintings by the Dutch master. The pandemic gave the museum a chance to investigate.