DCist: Eighteenth Street Lounge Is Reopening In Shaw’s Blagden Alley
The owner of Eighteenth Street Lounge is planning to reopen his iconic nightclub in Blagden Alley, according to an announcement from Monument Retail, the company representing the lounge. The club closed in 2020 after a 25-year run due, in…
Washington Post: Social justice protests have resulted in more police transparency and…
In April, after being chased by police from Alexandria, Va., who thought someone in his car had shot at a building in Old Town, Anthony Louis crashed on a highway overpass in the District and then fled on foot over a Jersey barrier,…
WTOP: Emmy Squared delivers more Detroit-style pizza to DC area
Emmy Squared will bring its Detroit-style pizzas to two more locations in the D.C. area.
Donna Lewis Johnson in The Post: What schools holding on to racist names can learn from D.C.’s…
As two Virginia community colleges — Patrick Henry and Dabney S. Lancaster — plan to keep their names that honor a former enslaver and a segregationist, I now know more than ever that D.C.’s H.D. Woodson High School, my alma mater, was…
jonetta rose barras: Time for a bolder affordable housing approach
This week, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan, holding a series of public hearings slated to continue throughout June. One of the areas expected to receive much…
District Links: Bowser names Philadelphia official as new superintendent of education; lawmakers…
Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated a Philadelphia schools leader to be the District's next state superintendent of education.
Washington Blade: Casa Ruby files complaint against D.C. gov’t agency
Casa Ruby, the D.C. LGBTQ community services center, filed an administrative complaint on March 29 against the D.C. Department of Human Services, charging the agency with ignoring and failing to stop one of its high-level officials from…
DCist: Bowser Appoints New State Superintendent Of Education
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed a Philadelphia schools official to a top education job in the District, filling a key role as the city tries to recover from a pandemic that has upended learning for more than a year.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The D.C. crime lab is in trouble — again
“WHAT’S THE point of spending millions of dollars on a crime lab if people don’t trust its findings and won’t use it?” That is the question we posed in 2015 about the District’s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory; unfortunately, it is time…
Washington Post: Bowser nominates Philadelphia school official to be D.C.’s superintendent of…
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday that she would nominate a Philadelphia school official who oversaw that city’s sprawling charter sector to serve as the District’s state superintendent of education — one of D.C.’s top…
Patch: RNC Fireworks Caused $42K In Damage To National Mall, Group Says
WASHINGTON, DC — A fireworks celebration that was hosted last July by the Republican National Convention and that took place at the prompting of then-President Donald Trump caused more than $42,000 damage at the National Mall, according to…
WTOP: DC mayor appoints schools superintendent, details child care plan
The key to getting workers back into downtown D.C. and revitalizing the economy is through child care, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.
City Paper: Mayor Bowser Explains Her Budget in Council Hearing
Mayor Bowser took three hours worth of questions from councilmembers who are eager to get their own ideas into the budget.
Washington Post: National Zoo has reopened, but its police union wants it closed again
Weeks after the National Zoo reopened following the latest six-month pandemic closure, the union representing its police officers says it should be closed again because there are too few officers to ensure safety.
Washington Business Journal: Tyrone Garrett is out as head of the D.C. Housing Authority. He…
For now, the head of D.C.’s public housing agency is out of a job. But someday, Tyrone Garrett believes his tenure heading up the D.C. Housing Authority will be vindicated.
Washington Post: Theater on the Nats Park jumbotron? It’s a whole new ballgame in arts presentation.
With the lyrics of Britney Spears’s pop songs soon to fill an esteemed D.C. theater built for Shakespeare’s soliloquies, what can we expect next? Serious drama on the jumbotron at Nationals Park?
DCist: In This Local Election, Every Candidate Is Incarcerated At The D.C. Jail
Over the last year, the 1,400 people held at the D.C. Jail have weathered a 23-hour daily lockdown and complaints about conditions ranging from access to education to where transgender inmates are housed. When the men and women who live in…
WTOP: What will be the fate of the fence around the Capitol?
Thousands of National Guard troops are gone, but nearly five months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, fencing still blocks the public from the grounds surrounding the iconic building.
DCist: George Washington Distilled A Whole Lot Of Whiskey. A D.C. Museum Will Display His…
As George Washington wrapped up his presidency, he picked up another endeavor, perhaps a bit less noble but just as thrilling: making top-notch booze.
Press Release: AG Racine Sues Officer of Two Nonprofits for Abusing His Authority for Decades &…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 3, 2021
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Nonprofit Assets Intended for Education & Scholarships Were Instead…