Press Release: DC Office of Tax and Revenue Reopens Walk-In Center and Recorder of Deeds Office for…
News Release — DC Office of Tax and Revenue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 27, 2021
CONTACT: Natalie Wilson
Online services remain available at MyTax.DC.gov and is the most convenient and effective way to complete…
District Links: Mendelson draws #DCision2022 challenge from Ward 4 ANC member; DC extends ticket…
Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn't yet announced whether she'll seek a third term, and questions swirl around Attorney General Karl Racine's plans. But other races on DC's June primary ballots are starting to take shape.
Press Release: Bread for the City Opens Medical Center in Southeast
News Release — Bread for the City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, September 27, 2021
Media Contact:
Kenrick Thomas
Communications and Events Manager
WASHINGTON, DC – Starting next week, residents in Wards 7 and 8 will not…
Press Release: Norton Provision Will Keep D.C. Government Open if Federal Government Shuts Down
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
September 27, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the possibility of a federal government shutdown on Friday, the start of fiscal year (FY) 2022,…
City Paper: One Restaurant’s Hiring Strategy? Convert Fanatic Customers Into Staff
"We hire on personality and train for the rest. As long as they care about what we’re doing and are friendly, they can work here."
Washington Post: Two kids, a loaded gun and the man who left a 4-year-old to die
The children will never recover from what happened inside a D.C. apartment. The owner of the illegal gun faces far less serious consequences.
Axios: D.C. homicides fueled by rundown properties
Why it matters: The District’s spike in gun violence is being linked partly to rundown properties that city officials and residents say have become magnets for criminal activity.
Axios: D.C. program offers temporary housing to some homeless residents
Just over 100 residents of four D.C. homeless encampments will be offered one-year housing leases as part of a pilot program, said Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services at a public meeting on Wednesday night.
Washington Post: D.C. tests whether a spending boost can tackle the growing homelessness crisis
The District is preparing to embark on an unprecedented effort to combat homelessness.
Press Release: DC Law Now Requires Riders to Lock Shared Electric Scooters to Bike Racks, Scooter…
News Release — District Department of Transportation
September 27, 2021
For Immediate Release
Media Contacts:
Mariam Nabizad
(Washington, DC) — The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) today announced that beginning…
WTOP: Georgetown says 2 samples reveal norovirus in campus community, nearly 100 exhibiting symptoms
The growing number of Georgetown students and staff dealing with a gastrointestinal illness this week appear to have come down with a case of norovirus.
Washington Post: How students are adjusting to being back at school after 18 months of remote…
Back in March 2020, when American children were sent home to learn virtually, Jovan Davis Jr. was a fifth grader, still shy of 5-feet tall and just learning how to write full paragraphs.
Chris Richards in The Post: With ‘R&B in DC 1940-1960,’ historian Jay Bruder reacquaints us…
When we listen to a recording of an old song — say, the D.C. nightclub semi-fixture Eva Foster singing “You’ll Never Know” roughly 68 years ago — something excellent happens: the air that surrounds us shakes the same way it shook in 1953.…
Washington Post Magazine: The Novelist Who Re-created 1970s D.C.
For her acclaimed new book, Morowa Yejidé painstakingly built a portrait of a vanished city’s overlooked Black community
Washington Post Magazine: This elite D.C. pole vaulting center is trying to grow the sport by leaps…
When friends ask Christian Di Nicolantonio about the sport he competes in for Catholic University, he tells them, “It’s the one with the big stick at the Olympics.” To most folks, that’s likely the extent of their understanding of pole…
WTOP: Arena Stage’s run of ‘Toni Stone’ cut short due to health issue
Arena Stage has announced the remaining run of “Toni Stone,” a play about the first woman to play professional ball in the Negro Leagues, has been canceled due to a non-COVID related health issue.
WTOP: MLK Library’s grand reopening draws festive crowd
On Saturday, with much fun and fanfare, D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library celebrated its COVID-delayed grand reopening following a $211 million renovation.
Jessica Giles in The 74: Schools in Washington, D.C. Are Facing a Reading Crisis. The District’s New…
Public schools in Washington, D.C., have made tremendous progress in the last 14 years — most notably, in fourth-grade reading. Still, the district faces a literacy crisis that has largely gone unresolved.
Washington Post: Federal workers were the backbone of Metro. Their absence is taking a toll on the…
As ridership hovers near historic lows, Metro’s leaders are hopeful federal workers soon will return but acknowledge they need other options if that group stays away
WTOP: For DC police commander, ending the violence in his Southeast district is ‘personal’
Just a couple of hours after five people were shot outside a shopping center in Southeast D.C., John Branch, commander of the D.C. police department’s Seventh District, walked around Alabama Avenue talking to members of the community…