WTOP: DC Council lays out plans for developing affordable housing
With an eye toward advancing racial equity in housing and becoming more inclusive, the D.C. Council voted Tuesday to approve changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a massive document that guides future growth and development in the…
Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove in The Atlantic: Don’t Fall for the D.C. Retrocession…
Retrocession is being used to derail what Washingtonians actually want: statehood.
Bay Journal: Kingman, Heritage to become Anacostia’s treasure islands
Dredged up, dumped on and overgrown with invasive plants for decades, a pair of islands in the District of Columbia is about to get a long-awaited makeover.
Washington Post: D.C. police identify officer who fatally shot man wielding gun in domestic dispute
D.C. police have publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man wielding a gun during a domestic dispute call Friday night inside an apartment in Southwest Washington.
District Links: DC Council rejects expanded subsidy for United Medical Center; revised Comprehensive…
The DC Council balked at the Bowser administration’s request to pump more money into the only full-service hospital east of the Anacostia River — United Medical Center, which is teetering while a replacement won’t be ready for years.
Washington Post: A new exhibit casts legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham as an accidental…
In the 2017 movie, “The Post,” Meryl Streep immortalized Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in golden caftan glory as she made the historic and career-defining decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, documents about the secret…
WTOP: DC Police Union says reform has hurt the department, but data suggests otherwise
The D.C. Council has taken steps to create more accountability in policing with recent police reform legislation, but the city’s police union says some of those changes have made it harder for officers to do their jobs.
WTOP: DC teacher walking coast to coast to raise money for cancer research
A high school teacher at a D.C. private school is currently on the road traveling across the country by foot for a good cause.
Washington Post: D.C. Council refuses to raise funding cap for United Medical Center, triggering…
The D.C. Council on Tuesday refused to increase the cap on subsidies for the troubled United Medical Center, a decision that will probably trigger a fiscal management control board that city officials say would be disastrous for the…
Press Release: In Light of Significant Improvements at St. Elizabeths, Court Lifts Remedial Order
News Release — Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and ACLU-DC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 4, 2021
Contact:
Gregg Kelley, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Suzanne…
Press Release: Bowser Administration Announces ExportDC Grant Recipients
News Release — DC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 4, 2021
11 Local Businesses Awarded Opportunity for Business Preparation and Participation in Upcoming Virtual Greece…
WTOP: DC encourages a return to the office to help small businesses
D.C.’s government is signaling it wants employees who have been working from home throughout the pandemic to return to their offices downtown, with the hope that it will help small businesses and storefronts in the area.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Buzzard Point residents have spent years fighting for a cleaner…
In the District’s rapidly gentrifying Buzzard Point neighborhood, newly arrived residents jog and bike through the dust of a cement plant, headed to and from luxury apartments along the Anacostia River in Southwest. They can rent for as…
DCist: The D.C. Council Just Advanced An Updated Comprehensive Plan. Here’s What’s In It
After years of public engagement, months of white-hot debate, and likely millions of track changes in Microsoft Word, the D.C. Council on Tuesday advanced amendments to the city’s all-important Comprehensive Plan.
WTOP: Shot and a beer: DC offering walk-up vaccines, beverages at Kennedy Center
D.C. is offering a walk-up vaccine clinic with a free beer afterward.
UrbanTurf: DC Council Approves Comprehensive Plan Amendments
On Tuesday afternoon, the DC Council voted to approve a slate of amendments to the city's Comprehensive Plan that strengthen language around racial equity and encourage production of deeply affordable housing.
Washington Business Journal: Does D.C. need to protect industrial land from redevelopment? It’s the…
There’s perhaps no greater example of how a D.C. neighborhood can evolve away from an industrial past than Ivy City’s rapid redevelopment.
DCist: Robert Contee Unanimously Confirmed To Serve As Chief Of Metropolitan Police Department
The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III to serve as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting him in charge of the law enforcement agency he joined three decades ago and which now faces twin…
Washington Post: D.C. Council unanimously confirms Robert J. Contee III as District’s police chief
The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Robert J. Contee III as the District’s police chief, elevating a native Washingtonian and veteran of the force who lawmakers hope will join with them to reinvent the department in this…
City Paper: D.C. Reports Third Straight Day of Zero COVID-19 Deaths
DC Health is making recommendations on reopening based on the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.