WTOP: DC gets its first Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Austin, Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will open its first location in the District on Friday.
DCist: D.C. To Add Dozens Of Violence Interrupters Across The City
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a slew of expanded violence prevention efforts on Thursday, seeking to reduce gun violence as the city records its highest homicide count in 16 years.
Washington Post: Candidate who advocated that D.C. become part of Maryland files for Ward 3 Council…
David Krucoff, a commercial real estate agent who has made headlines in recent years as the city’s leading advocate for an alternate proposal to D.C. statehood, is challenging incumbent council member Mary M. Cheh (D) to represent Ward 3…
DCist: We Read 5 Recent Romance Novels Set In D.C. And We Have Thoughts
The notion that something, especially a location, “is almost another character” in a movie or book is a well-worn cliché. But in a city hungry for representation (on Capitol Hill, yes, but also in media that looks beyond federal…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser and DC Health Urge Eligible 16- and 17-Year-Olds to Get a Booster Shot
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor and DC Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 9, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
Dr. Kimberly Henderson (DC Health)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, following…
Press Release: DDOT Deploying Automated Traffic Enforcement Cameras to New Locations
News Release — District Department of Transportation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2021
Media Contacts:
German Vigil
Mariam Nabizad
(Washington, DC) — Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Launches Streets for People Grants to Boost Economic Recovery…
News Release — DC Office of Planning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 9, 2021
CONTACT:
Mekdy Alemayehu (OP)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – The DC Office of Planning (OP) has issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for the…
DCist: Two Black Women Allege Pattern Of Discrimination In MPD’s Internal Affairs Department
Two Black women who formerly worked in the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division (IAD) are suing police chief Robert Contee and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, saying they were forced out of their jobs because of their race…
District Links: AG pushes for release of crime lab audit; Mendelson, challenger Palmer square off at…
DC Attorney General Karl Racine is pushing for the mayor's office to release a consultant's audit that examined conditions at the District's troubled crime lab, WTOP reports.
Press Release: Norton’s Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act Passes House
December 9, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. ––Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House passed her Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act yesterday. The bill…
DCist: The Federal Government Is Embracing Telework. Can D.C.’s Economy Survive It?
Before the pandemic, an estimated 200,000 federal employees commuted to D.C. offices every day. They bought coffee. They ordered lunch. Sometimes, they downed half-price beers at happy hour.
DCist: Record Vs. Reform: D.C. Council Chair Candidates Square Off In First Debate
The two candidates for the D.C. Council’s top job went head to head on Wednesday night in their first debate of the campaign season, with incumbent Phil Mendelson offering up his long record in the legislature as a selling point while…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Expands the District’s Gun Violence Prevention and Intervention Efforts
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor, Building Blocks DC and the DC Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 9, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
George Williams (BBDC)
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WTOP: DC’s mayor won’t control the National Guard anytime soon
Control of D.C.’s National Guard will not be in the hands of the District’s mayor for the foreseeable future.
Washington Business Journal: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema opens ticket sales for first D.C. location
It's been a long and bumpy road worthy of its own documentary, but Alamo Drafthouse Cinema opens ticket sales Thursday for its long-planned theater at MRP Realty's Bryant Street development in Northeast D.C.
Washington Business Journal: Growing restaurant group to replace Rosa Mexicano in D.C. — and has…
Knead Hospitality + Design will open a new location of its Mi Vida restaurant in a prominent space in downtown D.C. as the seven-year-old D.C. restaurant group plots growth beyond Greater Washington for the first time.
Axios: Scrutiny of D.C. jail reaches new levels
Conditions at the D.C. jail have been facing scrutiny for months.
Washington Informer: Students Disrupt MPD Youth Summit, Criticize its Efforts of Engagement
Incident Sparks Discussions About Police-Free Schools as Violent Crimes Rise
Street Sense: New Anacostia center improves access to health care, but nearby residents unaware,…
Bread for the City, a nonprofit based out of northwest Washington, opened a new medical center in Historic Anacostia this October to provide accessible health care for residents of Wards 7 and 8.
Washington Blade: Dupont Circle ‘gayborhood’ preserved in Council redistricting bill
All of neighborhood remains in Ward 2