WTOP: White House lightning survivor reunites with agents who saved her life
The lone survivor of lightning strike in front of the White House is still recovering, but has begun to move on with her life. This was a packed week, as she met the agents who saved her life and she went back to school.
DCist: D.C. Attorney General Sues Billionaire Business Owner For Income Tax Fraud
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday sued billionaire business owner Michael J. Saylor for allegedly avoiding paying some $25 million in D.C. income taxes even though he resides in the city.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. AG sues MicroStrategy and former CEO Michael Saylor for alleged…
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s office has sued MicroStrategy Inc. Executive Chairman and former CEO Michael Saylor, alleging that he owes the city millions in taxes that he evaded with the help of the software company he founded.
WTOP: DC sues billionaire Michael Saylor over $25 million in taxes
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has announced a tax fraud lawsuit against Michael Saylor, founder and chairman of Tysons-based technology company MicroStrategy.
Press Release: Norton to Introduce Resolution Designating September as ‘National Campus Sexual…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
August 31, 2022
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce her annual resolution supporting the…
Press Release: AG Racine Sues DC-Based Billionaire Michael Saylor & Software Company…
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Lawsuit Alleges Saylor Illegally Evaded DC Income Taxes Over 15+ Years; Conspired with…
Press Release: AG Racine Leads Group of 20 Attorneys General Supporting Federal Rule to Help Stop of…
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Amicus Brief Furthers AG Racine’s Work to Crack Down on Ghost Guns & Improve Public Safety…
Press Release: MuralsDC Closing out 15 Year Anniversary with 15 New Murals, Including Innovative…
News Release — DC Department of Public Works and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
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August 31, 2022
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Season will end with a Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour of…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Recognizes International Overdose Awareness Day by Promoting…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and the DC Department of Behavioral Health
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August 31, 2022
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New “This Time, It’s Different” Campaign…
Press Release: Destination DC Announces Competitive Strategies to Increase Tourism at 2022 Marketing…
News Release — Destination DC
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In 2021, 19.1 million visitors traveled to Washington, DC, reaching 77.6 percent of 2019 levels
(Washington, DC) – Destination DC (DDC), the official destination…
Washington Post: Library of Congress launches internal probe of controversial remodel
A whistleblower complaint challenges proposed changes to the historic Main Reading Room, and the library takes issue with its critics
Axios: D.C. is one of the top cities for live-work-play apartments
A total of 17,300 mixed-use apartments have been completed in Washington, D.C., since 2012, per a report from RentCafe, a nationwide apartment search website.
Washington Post: Md. mayor who worked at KIPP stole $2.2 million from school, prosecutors say
Kevin Ward, who had died by suicide in January, allegedly used school funds to buy cars, sports memorabilia and property in West Virginia.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Navigating the wilderness, avoiding predators urban and rural
About 2,000 miles from his home in Southeast Washington, 16-year-old Don’Zeal Davis pitched a tent in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. He spent the next 24 hours alone in the wilderness, a kind of training exercise held during a recent…
DCist: Late Hyattsville Mayor Accused Of Embezzling Funds From D.C. Charter School Network
Kevin “Scooter” Ward, the late mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland who took his own life in January, is now being accused of having embezzled $2.2 million from KIPP D.C., the city’s largest charter school operator.
WTOP: Data: Most DC-area kids have already gotten COVID
Kids are back in school this week, and while COVID-19 might still be on parents’ minds, chances are their children already got it sometime over the past two years.
WTOP: Federal prosecutors: Former Hyattsville mayor defrauded KIPP DC of $2.2 million
The former mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland, who died in January, was under investigation for allegations he defrauded the D.C. public charter school he worked for of $2.2 million, according to a lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors.
City Paper: MPD Assistant Chief Accused of Having Sex With Subordinates
Assistant Chief Andre Wright has had two affairs with subordinate officers and allegedly drank on the job, according to an official complaint and divorce filings.
WTOP: Potomac Riverkeeper: ‘I’m glad Lorde was enjoying swimming in the Nation’s River’
Megastar Lorde told the crowd at The Anthem in D.C. Monday she’d been swimming in the Potomac River before the show.
Washington Post: A $20 million makeover turned a D.C. school into a modern art museum
On Oct. 29, Don and Mera Rubell plan to open the Rubell Museum DC, transforming a long-vacant school in southwest Washington