jonetta rose barras: Muriel Bowser’s underwhelming moment
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser stood in a room inside the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Hall across the street from the Capital One Arena, which could be seen just behind her right shoulder. Former DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams stood to her…
District Links: Pinto aims for votes this month on omnibus public safety bill; new tunnel…
Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto yesterday unveiled a sweeping public safety bill incorporating elements of various proposals offered by Pinto, Mayor Muriel Bowser and others in recent months, with plans for a vote by the Committee on the…
District Links: Council OKs bill to spur enforcement against unlicensed cannabis…
The DC Council yesterday gave initial approval to MacArthur High School as the name for Ward 3's recently opened secondary school, but several legislators dissented despite strong support from the school community.
District Links: Council holds off on authorizing court fight after mayor’s SNAP reversal; DHS…
Ahead of today's legislative meeting, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson opted to pull two measures that had proved contentious for different reasons — including one that would have authorized a legal fight with the mayor over funding for a…
District Links: Task force launches to develop ideas for Gallery Place/Chinatown; Bowser agrees to…
Mayor Muriel Bowser today launched the new Gallery Place/Chinatown Task Force that she announced last month in the wake of Monumental Sports & Entertainment's deal to move the Washington Wizards and Capitals to a new Alexandria arena.
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District Links: Parts of DC’s embattled crime lab regain accreditation lost in 2021; skirmish…
Stripped of its national accreditation in 2021, the District's embattled crime lab has regained key certifications for its forensic biology and chemistry units, paving the way for the Department of Forensic Sciences to conduct its own DNA…
Council looks to Europe’s social housing as a new solution to DC’s affordability crisis
It’s no secret that it’s expensive to rent in DC, especially for people who make below the city’s median income of $152,000 for a family of four. Despite DC investing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in building and preserving…
Eboni-Rose Thompson and Allister Chang: DC is taking the right steps to achieve literacy…
I thought my son was doing fine. He was getting A’s on his assignments, and his teacher said he was doing great. It wasn’t until we saw his NAEP score that we learned he wasn’t reading at his grade level — we had missed years of…
District Links: Gray, former mayor and council chair, won’t seek reelection to Ward 7 seat; DC…
Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray announced today that he won't seek reelection next year, making 2024 the culmination of a decades-long DC government career that included a term in the mayor's office and another as DC Council chair.
Daniel A. Rosen: Food in DC’s jails should heal, not harm
As families across the District come together to share the bounty of holiday meals, a starkly different scene unfolds behind the walls of DC’s jails. Controversy about how to address recent spikes in crime shouldn’t blind us to a…
District Links: DC saw 1.2% rise in population with 8,023 more residents; council OKs bill to help…
DC experienced a population gain of 8,023 people over the previous year, according to new census data highlighted by the Bowser administration.
District Links: Council set to consider bill to help buyers affected by HPAP rules change; Metro…
The DC Council is poised to consider emergency legislation tomorrow to assist prospective low-income homebuyers who thought they had secured sufficient Home Purchase Assistance Program funding.
jonetta rose barras: Should these DC cases be called voting fraud or mistakes?
When the DC Board of Elections unexpectedly announced last week that it was levying “civil fines” of up to $500 against six individuals for violating election laws in 2020 because they registered in multiple jurisdictions and voted twice,…
District Links: Metro board begins reviewing ‘doomsday’ budget amid hopes of avoiding…
As this week's announcement of a deal for a new Virginia home for the Washington Capitals and Wizards has settled in, some on the DC Council are joining criticism of Mayor Muriel Bowser for not successfully negotiating to keep the teams in…
District Links: Monumental deal to take Wizards, Capitals to Virginia brings scrutiny to DC’s…
Politics and sports can make for a potent mix, exacerbating the fallout from a loss.
District Links: Va. officials, Monumental announce deal for Wizards, Capitals to move to Alexandria…
Mayor Muriel Bowser said this afternoon she thinks DC is "still in the game" with its proposal — announced last night — to keep the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena in Gallery Place by spending $500 million…
District Links: Metro budget eyes fewer stations, bus lines unless region boosts funding; Virginia…
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority today released a fiscal year 2025 spending proposal with "unprecedented service cuts to Metrorail and Metrobus" deemed necessary to address the transit system's looming budget shortfall…
District Links: Feds OK $22.5M for expansion at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center;…
The U.S. Treasury Department has approved $22.5 million for the expansion and build-out of Whitman-Walker's recently opened Max Robinson Center, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced this morning.
The Avett Brothers bring big questions to the high seas in ‘Swept Away’ at Arena Stage
The distance between The Avett Brothers’ upbringing in Concord, North Carolina, and the 19th-century whaling industry of New Bedford, Massachusetts, spans hundreds of miles and several lifetimes. But in Swept Away, a new musical that asks…
District Links: Critics blast Bowser decision not to follow through on SNAP benefit increase; WaPo…
The Washington Post's own employees made news yesterday with a 24-hour strike, with many of its journalists picketing against the absence of a new contract as well as planned buyouts and potential layoffs.