WTOP: Deep dive needed on DC racial health disparities, researchers say
Researchers say structural racism has left D.C. with stark differences in health outcomes, and a new study takes a deeper look into the issue.
District Links: Shell found at Fort Totten was WWI chemical munition, WTOP reports; Senate eases…
An unexploded shell found in 2020 on National Park Service land near the Fort Totten Metro station may be linked to the World War I-era chemical weapons testing facilities that many decades later forced a prolonged cleanup in Spring…
UrbanTurf: 120 Senior Affordable Units Proposed South of the National Arboretum
New senior housing may be in the works adjacent to the National Arboretum.
WTOP: Lidl comes to Columbia Heights, its 2nd planned DC store
Discount grocer Lidl will open a store at D.C.’s big DC USA shopping complex in Columbia Heights, its first store in Northwest D.C.
WTOP: WWI shell found in Fort Totten was chemical weapon, prequel to massive Spring Valley cleanup
A World War I-era unexploded shell discovered in July 2020 by the National Park Service during construction of a trail through Northeast D.C.’s Fort Totten could be a prequel to the decadeslong cleanup of a former World War I chemical…
Washingtonian: Rodney Stotts Used to Hustle Drugs in Southeast DC. Now He’s One of the Few Black…
In an excerpt from his new memoir, “Bird Brother,” Stotts recounts his transformation from drug dealer to environmentalist, and the restorative power he discovered in wildlife.
Axios: A union attempt at Union Kitchen
A group of Union Kitchen employees from the company’s 3rd St. NE, 9th St. NW, and Eckington locations is pushing forward with a unionization attempt.
Axios: D.C. public works grilled for slow municipal services
District residents are blasting the agency in charge of garbage collection, leaf cleanup, and towing abandoned vehicles over its management and claims of slow service.
Axios: D.C.’s HIV decline slowed in 2020
D.C.’s progress in ending the HIV epidemic slowed in 2020 despite drops in new diagnoses, per a new report out Monday.
WTOP: House subcommittee to grill Metro officials about safety
A House subcommittee is set to hold a hearing Wednesday on the problem-plagued D.C. Metro transit system.
Washington Post: House panel queries Metro leaders over safety, service lapses during oversight…
The nation’s third-largest transit system has struggled through one of its most challenging periods in recent months
Washington Post: Inmates from D.C., who are mostly Black, face worse prison conditions, lawsuit says
Black prisoners sentenced in D.C.'s local court face harsher prison conditions than White people with similar criminal histories sentenced in the District’s federal court, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the city’s…
Kimberly Perry and Tazra Mitchell: Mayor Bowser has warned about an eviction crisis. It’s up to her…
While the omicron wave appears to have peaked in the District, residents are still staring in the face of calamity unless Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council act to head off an eviction crisis. Tens of thousands of households could be…
UrbanTurf: Lidl Doubles Down on DC with Columbia Heights Location
A month after the grocer broke ground on its first location in DC, Lidl Food Market is moving toward opening a second.
Greater Greater Washington: Washington region’s growth driven primarily by adults, census data shows
The census showed record growth in the Greater Washington region between 2010 and 2020, ballooning from 5.6 to 6.4 million people, according to a new report from Urban Institute fellow Peter Tatian.
Washington Post: Punk rock photos explode from the pages of a new coffee table book on the D.C.…
Every time I think of Jim Saah — the Maryland photographer who last year published a coffee-table book full of pictures of the D.C. punk scene — I can’t help but feel a twinge of pain.
Washington Business Journal: A corner of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling could become a new federal HQ…
An underused portion of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling immediately south of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge may become a new headquarters campus for the National Park Service, according to documents released by a federal planning…
WTOP: Online lender sued by DC attorney general to pay nearly $4M in settlement
A company accused of offering predatory online loans with interest rates up to 42 times higher than the legal limit in D.C. has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to D.C. residents as part of a settlement announced by D.C. Attorney General…
WTOP: Chinese artist blasts GW president’s apology over poster removal
The president of George Washington University has said it was a mistake to have posters on campus critical of the Chinese government taken down, but the artist who made the posters said that’s not nearly enough.
Press Release: AG Racine Statement on Senate Confirmation of Solicitor General Loren AliKhan to…
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