District Links: Security plans for NATO Summit will mean roadblocks, checkpoints downtown; water…
Ahead of next week's 75th Anniversary 2024 NATO Summit in downtown DC, local and federal officials are warning of roadblocks, vehicular and pedestrian checkpoints, bus route adjustments and more as the result of security zones around key…
District Links: House panel scrutinizes Amtrak plans for Union Station via eminent domain; council…
A House committee is scrutinizing Amtrak's efforts to use eminent domain to take control of Union Station's retail space as a means to improve railway operations in part by expanding passenger and customer areas.
jonetta rose barras: The DC Council ends its FY 2025 budget process with the same recklessness as it…
A couple of hours before the DC Council completed the final step in its budget process, approving unanimously by voice vote the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act — with amendments — one member sighed, “We made it through.”
No one in…
District Links: Council hearing scrutinizes sexual harassment investigations into former deputy…
A DC Council hearing yesterday aired continued questions about the depth and scope of the internal investigations that sustained allegations of sexual harassment by John Falcicchio when he was deputy mayor for planning and economic…
District Links: Increased payroll tax in FY 2025 budget draws scrutiny; DC wins $25M for Northeast…
The Metropolitan Police Department drew high marks in key areas in a new assessment released today and conducted by the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law at the request of the Office of the DC Auditor.
District Links: Council gives unanimous approval to FY 2025 Budget Support Act; AG pushing for…
The DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve an amended version of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act circulated yesterday by DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson.
District Links: MPD debuts drone program, new helicopter as crime-fighting ‘eyes in the…
A new helicopter and the debut of a drone program will bolster the District's crime-fighting efforts via more "eyes in the sky," Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith proclaimed this morning.
District Links: Recently named WaPo editor decides not to take the job amid ethics backlash; Bowser…
British journalist Robert Winnett, the embattled pick for The Washington Post's new editor, won't be heading to DC after all.
jonetta rose barras: Searching for integrity in the DC Council’s budget process
Initially, I thought about letting it slide. I had already written three columns about the District’s fiscal crisis before the DC Council’s final vote on the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget and Financial Plan. I explained in depth why I was…
District Links: Bowser returns to Ward 7’s Skyland for a final groundbreaking; Bezos aims to…
It's a project that's been in the works for well over two decades with multiple groundbreaking ceremonies since 2014 to mark various milestones, but this morning's event kicked off what the development team and DC officials call the final…
District Links: Senate confirms a third new judge for DC Superior Court amid vacancy concerns; DC to…
Amid ongoing concerns that a vacancy crisis is impeding the work of the DC Superior Court, the U.S. Senate voted 52-42 this afternoon to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination of Katherine Oler as an associate judge — the third such…
Khari Brown: It’s not too late to fulfill the promise of Brown v. Board of Education
In 1954, my father was one of the first Black students to integrate McKinley Technical High School in DC. There, he received an education of a far higher quality than he ever would have had otherwise, enabling him to become the first…
District Links: New Southwest housing helps bring DC to 97% of Bowser’s ‘36,000 by…
Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the grand opening this morning of a new mixed-use development in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood with 449 new housing units — a project that helps bring the District within what's likely to be a few…
District Links: House panel adds cannabis rider to other restrictions on DC in FY 2025…
The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved the bill that governs federal appropriations for the District of Columbia, attaching a range of policy riders — including the long-standing provision that prohibits local…
District Links: Council adds 65 more housing vouchers to FY 2025 budget prior to 13-0 approval; DC…
The DC Council voted unanimously yesterday to give final approval to a $21 billion fiscal year 2025 budget with just a few changes from the version proposed by Council Chair Phil Mendelson.
District Links: Bowser renews criticism of council’s budget approach as deliberations begin;…
Ahead of today's DC Council deliberations and final vote on the fiscal year 2025 budget, Mayor Muriel Bowser is praising recent revisions that address several areas of earlier concern — while reiterating her objections to the council's…
District Links: Mendelson unveils revised budget ahead of tomorrow’s vote; Ward 5’s…
DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson today released a revised fiscal year 2025 budget proposal for consideration tomorrow, with funding for 100 additional housing vouchers and a variety of tweaks aimed at addressing concerns raised by…
District Links: Budget battles continue ahead of DC Council vote on Wednesday; operational dispute…
The DC Council will take its second vote on the District's fiscal year 2025 budget on Wednesday, and Chair Phil Mendelson said today he'll release an updated version tomorrow by noon.
Niciah Mujahid: DC’s safety net is burning. The council can still save it.
Black, white or brown, across all eight wards, we all want a District that works for and keeps everyone safe, not just the privileged few. Back in March, Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a fiscal year 2025 budget proposal to the DC Council that…
District Links: WaPo publisher draws flak as controversies reportedly sink staff morale; Felder…
"Who had the worst week in Washington?" is a refrain sure to be familiar to many longtime readers of The Washington Post and its now-shuttered Outlook section. This week, an internal WaPo candidate might be in the running for the title.