Washington Post: Metro delays vote on proposal that would ban passengers arrested for sex offense
Board members said they want more input from jurisdictions served by Metro on the proposal.
Washingtonian: You’ll Soon Need to Wear a Mask Inside DC Bars and Restaurants
Restaurant employees are once more tasked with enforcing the order.
Washington Post: $1 million in federal emergency funds to help cover costs of collapsed D.C. bridge
Funding will reimburse cleanup costs. A bridge replacement will cost $25 million.
DCist: Why Mayor Bowser Accused D.C. Courts Of Creating A ‘Public Safety Crisis’
As the District faces a continuing surge in homicides, Mayor Muriel Bowser and other D.C. officials have placed some blame for the increase at the feet of the D.C. Superior Court.
DCist: Metro Delays Vote On Policy That Would Ban Riders Who Have Committed Certain Crimes
Metro’s board is delaying a vote on a policy to temporarily ban people who commit sex and weapons offenses on the transit system.
Washington Business Journal: Remember Providence’s ‘healthy village’ plan? A new service is coming…
Providence Health System is days away from introducing the next piece of its outpatient “healthy village” campus, two years after opening an urgent care center in its shuttered Northeast D.C. hospital with the promise of more to come.
Washington Post: D.C. reinstates indoor mask mandate as virus coronavirus cases rise
Masks will again be required indoors in D.C. beginning Saturday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser ordered, in a reversal of recent policy driven by new federal guidelines that recommend indoor masking in areas where coronavirus transmission is high.!-->…
Washington Post: Congress passes $2.1 billion in emergency funding for Capitol security and Afghan…
Congress on Thursday rapidly cleared a $2.1 billion emergency spending package that will avert a Capitol Police funding crisis sparked by the Jan. 6 riot and also provide urgent funds to evacuate and resettle Afghans who aided U.S. forces!-->…
WTOP: DC will require masks indoors for everyone older than 2 beginning July 31
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday that masks will again be required indoors in the District, regardless of vaccination status.
Washington Business Journal: Here’s where D.C.’s four controversial New Communities…
D.C. could soon invest more than $78.8 million in the New Communities Initiative, an amount that officials say reflects their commitment to the redevelopment of the four public housing complexes included in the program. Yet each one!-->…
Washington Business Journal: Owner of The Anthem, 9:30 Club awarded more than $25M in the SBA…
The Small Business Administration has disclosed the more than 9,844 small business owners who have so far been awarded grants through the agency’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.
City Paper: Bowser, Contee Call for More Cops
Herroner wants to spend $11 million to hire nearly 200 more cops by the beginning of Fiscal Year 2022.
WTOP: Metro leaders, for now, decline to take up hot-button issue of rider suspensions
A controversial plan to ban certain people from the D.C. Metro system is now on pause.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: ‘Telling the truth shouldn’t be hard.’ So let’s tell the truth.
Truth is truth, even in D.C.
WTOP: DC Council members push for info on what’s being done to prevent gun violence
D.C. Council members held a hearing Thursday on gun violence prevention.
DCist: D.C. Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate For All Individuals Starting Saturday
A little more than two months after D.C. lifted its mask mandate, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Thursday that masks will once again be required in all indoor settings, starting Saturday, July 31.
Washington Business Journal: Industrious takes big former WeWork space in D.C. for new expansion
Coworking group Industrious is expanding again with a big new office at The Apollo.
Washington Post: Smithsonian to require all visitors to wear masks indoors starting Friday, even if…
Starting Friday, all visitors — even those who are vaccinated — must wear masks at the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and indoor spaces, it said Thursday.
Press Release: Norton Amendments Directing FAA to Prioritize Aircraft Noise and Blocking SEC from…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 29, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed two of her amendments to a fiscal!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Jasmine Graham: For DC working families, help is finally on the way
It is very hard to raise a family in the District — as a single mom of a beautiful 1-year-old boy, trust me, I know the struggle. Yet I have gained so much hope these last few days with actions taken by President Joe Biden and members of!-->…