Washington Post: D.C. hasn’t reported daily covid case counts to the CDC since April 27
The D.C. health department has not shared data with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since April 27 on the number of new coronavirus cases in the District or on any deaths from the virus, as cases inch upward again elsewhere…
Washington Post: Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for Jan. 6 coverage
More than 100 journalists contributed to reporting on the Capitol insurrection that was honored by the Pulitzer Prize’s most prestigious award.
DCist: Penn Social Reopens As A Concert Hall And Coffeehouse, With A Side Of Podcasting
A new concert hall and coffeehouse is coming to downtown D.C., but under a familiar name: Penn Social.
City Paper: Mendelson Courts a Budget Battle Over Affordable Housing and Homelessness
The Council chairman’s proposed changes could make a difference for recently homeless families.
DCist: More Money For At-Risk Students And Housing Vouchers Included In Mendelson’s Budget Amendment
D.C. schools with a high percentage of low-income students would see a boost in funding under a proposal from D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. The chairman announced his proposal ahead of a first vote on the city’s 2023 budget set for…
DCist: Incensed By Ticket Prices, D.C. Activists Plan Competing Concert To Pharrell’s Something In…
D.C. residents were understandably excited when megaproducer Pharrell Williams announced that he would be bringing some “happiness” to the District on Juneteenth by relocating Something in the Water, his major Virginia Beach music…
Press Release: Norton Announces Markup of Her Bill Requiring Federal Bureau of Prisons to Provide…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
May 9, 2022
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
Markup will be at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 11th
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that…
Press Release: Norton, Beyer Write Capitol Police Board on Lack of Response to Letter Requesting Use…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
May 9, 2022
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) wrote the Capitol Police Board (Board)…
Press Release: Chairman Mendelson Statement on His FY 2023 Budget
News Release — DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 9,…
Caleb Francois in The Post: George Washington University needs a new name
Last year, George Washington University’s Cloyd Heck Marvin Center — named for a segregationist — was renamed the University Student Center in response to student calls for a name change. The name change streamlined with calls for racial…
Washington Business Journal: JPMorgan Chase to bring another 70 branches to D.C. region, open new…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will establish another 70 branches in D.C., Maryland and Virginia by the end of 2025 as part of a sizable retail banking expansion in the region, where it also opened its long-planned Mid-Atlantic…
WTOP: Metro sees ridership increase but remains lower than before pandemic
As gas prices climbed across the D.C. region in early March and more offices reopened, more people hopped on Metro trains and buses, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
DCist: New Bill Would Prohibit D.C. From Cooperating With Other States’ Investigations Into…
A new bill introduced in the D.C. Council would prohibit the city from cooperating in any investigation led by another state into anyone who gets, assists with, or performs an abortion in D.C.
District Links: Mendelson unveils revised budget proposal up for a vote on Tuesday; Metro says…
With the DC Council scheduled to vote on next year's budget tomorrow, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has released his proposed version of the District's spending plan for fiscal year 2023.
Allister Chang: DC should invest in training teachers how to effectively teach reading
Knowing how to read does not mean you know how to teach reading. Pedagogy matters. How you teach reading is both a science and an art, and DC must do more to equip reading instructors with proven methods.
Allister Chang represents Ward…
Sekou Biddle: DC must put a budget forward that is worthy of our Black students and families
DC public schools play a critical role in my family’s story. I met my wife in seventh grade in Deal Junior High School’s cafeteria, and we graduated from Wilson High School — she as valedictorian. My eldest, now in college, graduated from…
DCist: Metro Says Ridership Is 40% Above Predictions — Which Means More Crowded Trains
Metro says riders are returning at higher rates than they anticipated.
Washington Post: Metro says ridership is outpacing transit agency projections
This means good news for its finances but riders are growing frustrated over increased crowding
WTOP: Catholic University responds to lawsuit seeking ownership of ‘Wizard of Oz’ dress
The Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz” movie wanted the ruby slippers, but a Wisconsin woman says she wants Dorothy’s dress that was recently found at Catholic University in D.C. because it belongs to her.
Washington Post: Adams Morgan mourns a man who died homeless, steps from his childhood home
Miguel Gonzales spent his life in Adams Morgan. He grew up in a condominium on Adams Mill Road. He attended Oyster-Adams middle school and played basketball at Walter Pierce Park. He worked as a porter at a hotel a short walk across the…