DCist: D.C. Delays Planned Inspections Of Marijuana Gifting Stores
D.C. officials are delaying plans to inspect the city’s many marijuana gifting stores this week, deepening the confusion around the maybe-legal, maybe-not industry that continues to grow across the city.
DCist: Want To Experience The Best Of The C&O Canal? Jump On A Bike
There’s a moment along the C&O about 85 miles north of D.C. where the towpath that parallels the canal suddenly emerges from the woods. As it does, the Potomac River opens up dramatically before you, and you find yourself moving along!-->…
WTOP: DC Health promotes the newest COVID booster — and a flu shot while you’re at it
DC Health has made the newest COVID-19 booster available to city residents, offering it to anyone who wants it at the COVID Centers set up in all eight wards of the District.
WTOP: DC hotels return to pre-pandemic activity
The hotel industry, which was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, has largely returned to pre-pandemic business, according to the D.C. Office of the Chief Financial Officer, and most of that bounce back has come only in recent!-->…
Washington Post: From border town to ‘border town,’ bused migrants seek new lives in D.C. area
DEL RIO, Tex. — They marched in caravans for weeks, past dead bodies while dodging kidnappers and thieves — and now, some of the migrants crowded inside a tiny stucco building just past the Rio Grande were looking at a star scribbled on an!-->…
City Paper: Big-Name Donors Flocked to the LGBTQ Victory Fund in Primary’s Closing Days, Covertly…
The federal PAC scored money from many familiar names in D.C. politics, seemingly to avoid direct ties to the Ward 1 hopeful.
Press Release: Norton Participates in Hearing on Mail Delivery and Theft Problems
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
September 7, 2022
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) participated in the Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
District Links: Is DC an ‘unofficial border town’ as Texas and Arizona charter buses to…
Hotel activity in DC has largely recovered from the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer on local economic trends.
Washington Post: D.C. police investigate flare-up of Labor Day weekend violence
Two people were killed, a body was found in a burned vehicle, and a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded, police said
WTOP: Longer Metro trains expected for Blue, Orange, Silver line riders
Over the next couple of weeks, Metro riders can expect to see longer Metro trains that will come by more often.
DCist: DC’s Only Unionized Bookstore Politics And Prose Approves First Contract Agreement
Nine months into bargaining, Politics and Prose workers reached a contract agreement with their employer, voting in favor of a deal that secures wage increases for nearly every union member.
Street Sense: ‘Nothing is up to par’: Tenants at Marbury Plaza live in unsafe conditions amid…
Marbury Plaza, a Southeast D.C. apartment complex, was a major attraction for middle-class Black families looking for a place to call home in the 1960s.
District Links: DC sees test scores drop during pandemic; omicron booster available at DC’s…
Eligible DC residents can get the new omicron booster starting Wednesday at the District's COVID Centers.
WTOP: Capitol Hill neighborhood rallies together to save neighborhood market
For around 100 years, generations of Capitol Hill residents have had their own neighborhood market at 233 12th St. SE. Most recently, it was known as Mott’s Market.
Washington Post: Metro to offer more frequent weekend trains as construction set to begin
The return of newer, longer Metro trains will help enable more frequent weekend service on some lines, Metro announced Tuesday.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Student test scores plummeted during the pandemic. What can schools…
When the pandemic hit in 2020, U.S. schools went into lockdown. For more than a year, students were separated from their teachers, isolated from their peers and required to attend class remotely. It was abundantly clear that this was not a!-->…
Washington Post: D.C. schools roll out program to improve student reading levels
A collection of original texts are designed to improve early literacy
Washington Post: D.C. I-82 foes hope last-ditch appeal will keep measure off ballot
Opponents of Initiative 82 — an effort to boost the minimum wage of tipped workers in the District — on Friday continued their fight to keep the measure off the November ballot.
Washington Post: At historic Black D.C. landmark, a legacy of uplift carries on
It would be easy to walk past the handsome building at 1200 U Street NW and not consider its history. Each year, thousands of people surely do.
WTOP: Metro could take a look at fare structure
Six weeks into the new job, Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke is trying to set goals for the D.C.-area transit system.