WTOP: DC monkeypox vaccine clinics to become walkup-only
Starting Friday, you no longer need an appointment to get a monkeypox vaccine in D.C.
DCist: Metro To Pair Mental Health Experts With Transit Police And Staff In New Public Safety…
Metro plans to pair mental health experts with transit police and operating staff to respond to emergencies where extra support is needed. The new public safety initiative announced Wednesday aims to provide the appropriate response to a…
DCist: Like Sisyphus Pushing A Boulder Up A Hill, Republicans Again Battle The Odds To Run In D.C.
When David Krucoff knocks on a door in D.C. and introduces himself as a Republican running for local office, he’s often ready to deliver a set of quick additional disclosures.
DCist: D.C. Health Struggles To Overcome Pandemic Delays in Wastewater Surveillance Project
DC Health continues to grapple with its wastewater surveillance project to support the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS). Despite joining the national program in December of 2020, D.C. has contended with limited funding,…
DC encampment residents say engagements don’t meet city’s stated goals
Sitting outside the bright red doors of the Church of the Epiphany, Colleen peered at her tent on the sidewalk. Soon, city workers would order her to remove it in preparation for the day’s encampment engagement. Colleen’s friends were…
District Links: Delays beset DC Health’s efforts to participate in COVID-19 wastewater…
Amid the arrival of the third fall since the start of the pandemic, DC Health is still struggling to get its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program underway, DCist reports.
DCist: Metro Wheel Problems Existed Earlier And Affected Older Trains, Safety Commission Says
The Metro wheel problems that caused a train to derail outside Arlington Cemetery nearly a year ago and prompted WMATA to sideline its newest 7000-series trains may also have been the result of issues with the tracks themselves. And the…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Invites Residents to the Citywide Art and Cultural Festival – DC Art All…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor; Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development
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September 21, 2022
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Press Release: AG Racine Sues Tax Preparation Company for Cheating Thousands of DC Consumers With…
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Lawsuit Alleges Liberty Tax Used Misleading Ads & Predatory Pricing Practices to Exploit…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser and Universal Health Services Announce Plan to Expand Size of Cedar Hill…
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$17 Million Investment from Universal Health Services Drives Expansion of Health Services
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District Links: Council approves new migrant services office after rejecting amendments; bill to ban…
A split DC Council yesterday voted down proposed amendments to the mayor's emergency legislation to establish a migrant services office, leaving unresolved most of the concerns raised by advocacy groups that work with immigrants and with…
WTOP: DC Council votes to ban ‘right turns on red’
The full D.C. Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve legislation aimed at stopping drivers from turning right on red lights in the District.
WTOP: Bill would give DC more independence from Congress
A U.S. House committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said would provide the biggest expansion of D.C. home rule in nearly 50 years.
Washington Post: Metro tracks might be contributing to wheel safety issue, regulator says
A years-old engineering report cites older examples of a track problem that has caused wheels on rail cars to move apart
Washington Post: D.C. Council approves new office to aid migrants arriving on buses
The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted to create a government office that lawmakers say will offer immediate support to the thousands of asylum seekers being bused to the District at the direction of GOP governors from states on the southern…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Once again: Eliminating the tipped wage is a bad idea for D.C.
District voters might feel a sense of deja vu over a hotly debated ballot initiative to change how tipped workers are paid. After all, the city’s voters passed a very similar measure in 2018 with 55 percent of the vote, before the D.C.…
DCist: In Response To Lawsuit, D.C. Says Metro Is ‘Sensitive Place’ Where Guns Should Remain…
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says in a new court filing that Metro is too sensitive a place to allow regular commuters to carry handguns, because trains and buses carry large numbers of federal workers and also D.C. school children on…
District Links: Council set to vote today on migrant services bill; AG Racine tells court that guns…
The DC Council is slated to vote later today on emergency legislation to create a new office within the Department of Human Services to provide assistance to migrants being sent to the District by charter bus from border states such as…
Press Release: AG Racine Secures $300,000 From Developer Who Used Discriminatory…
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September 20, 2022
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Win Builds on OAG’s Efforts to Fight Back Against Discriminatory Housing Practices, Civil…
City Paper: Most Councilmembers Won’t Seek Another Repeal If Tipped Wage Ballot Measure Passes
Despite the furor over Initiative 77, Initiative 82 looks safe should voters approve it in November.