DCist: D.C.’s Recent Drop In COVID-19 Case Counts Was Due To A Reporting Error, Say Health Officials
Just one day after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cited the city’s plummeting case counts in her decision to end to most capacity limits in the coming weeks, DC Health said those case counts were actually incorrect.
Press Release: DCHA Unveils New Command Center and Customer Solutions Center
News Release — DC Housing Authority
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May 11, 2021
Contact: Tony Robinson
Christy Goodman
Leveraging Technology to Provide Safe and Healthy Communities
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Press Release: AG Racine Announces Area Developer & Landlord to Pay $35,000 Penalty for…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
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May 11, 2021
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Office of Communications
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Press Release: Bowser Administration Announces New Partnership to Boost Upward Mobility and Address…
News Release — DC Office of Planning
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May 11, 2021
CONTACT:
Mekdy Alemayehu (OP)
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UrbanTurf: The Buzz Around the Thousands of Units Planned for Buzzard Point
Over 1,000 units delivered in Buzzard Point last year, but the neighborhood's most game-changing developments are yet to come.
Associated Press: Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington, D.C., police department says negotiations over payment have broken down and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at!-->…
Greater Greater Washington: Where DC drivers have jumped curbs in May (so far)
We’re not quite halfway through May, but this month alone it’s evident that you don’t have to be in the street to end up in the path of a motorist.
Associated Press: AP’s Sally Buzbee named exec editor of The Washington Post
NEW YORK (AP) — Sally Buzbee, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, was named Tuesday as executive editor of The Washington Post, succeeding the recently retired Marty Baron.
Washington Post: Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press named executive editor of The Washington Post,…
The Washington Post has named longtime journalist Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press as its executive editor, marking the first time a woman has been appointed to lead the 143-year-old news organization.
DCist: New Southeast Center Is ‘Love Letter To The Community,’ With Medical Services, Food, And More
D.C. nonprofit Bread for the City’s massive new center on Good Hope Road is nearly complete and staffers are getting excited to hang up the sign out front: “The Michelle Obama Southeast Center of Bread for the City.”
With time to try something new, more DC-area households sent food scraps off to compost
Regional composting companies saw a tremendous surge in new residential customers composting their food waste in 2020. Because the pandemic freed up some Washingtonians’ time and resources to try new things, more people decided to delve!-->…
District Links: DC to lift restrictions on restaurants, most other businesses May 21; unemployment…
DC will take a giant step toward reopening on May 21 when it allows restaurants and most other businesses to operate at full capacity and bars and nightclubs at 50% capacity.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in The Hill: DC deserves a governor
There is no room left for debate: the nearly 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia deserve statehood. In fact, for the purposes of thousands of federal laws, Washington, D.C., already acts as a state, and they perform those!-->…
Washington Post: Metro proposes temporarily waiving fees for special events
Transit agency traditionally charges fees for additional service tied to such events
NPR: Howard University’s Decision To Cut Classics Department Prompts An Outcry
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics department, but it provoked criticism last month when it was reported that school officials had decided to eliminate the department.
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DCist: Psychedelic Art Installation Meow Wolf Isn’t Coming To Fort Totten After All
The highly anticipated sci-fi art installation Meow Wolf will not open a fourth location at the Art Place at Fort Totten.
Press Release: District of Columbia Housing Authority Receives Nearly $12 Million in Emergency…
News Release — DC Housing Authority
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2021
Contact: Tony Robinson
Christy Goodman
HUD Funding Part of Biden Administration American Rescue Plan
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WTOP: DC to lift most capacity restrictions May 21; fully reopen in June
D.C. plans to lift a slew of coronavirus capacity restrictions starting May 21, with a full reopening to come in June.
City Paper: Bowser Announces Full Reopening on June 11, Capacity Increases for Restaurants and Bars…
Starting May 21, there will be no capacity restrictions on restaurants. Taverns and nightclubs can increase indoor capacity from 25 to 50 percent.
DCist: United Medical Center Is Likely To Come Under Management Of A Fiscal Control Board
The troubled United Medical Center is set to close in 2023 to make way for a new facility at St. Elizabeths campus. In the meantime, UMC remains the only hospital in Ward 8, and it faces an uncertain future.