WTOP: DC AG Racine leads panel on combating hate
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine hosted a webinar Wednesday for the community of attorneys general on combating hate and how to better support victims and their families.
DCist: Shakespeare Theatre Is Welcoming Audiences Back With A Sound Installation About … A Pandemic?
Why would someone want to sit in a dark room full of strangers right now? What would possess someone to attend a production about a pandemic during a pandemic?
Washington Post: Inspector general says police order to hold back riot-control weapons compromised…
An order to hold back heavier less-than-lethal weapons put Capitol Police at a significant disadvantage in protecting Congress from the violent right-wing riot on Jan. 6, the force’s inspector general told lawmakers Thursday, as he urged…
Washington Business Journal: D.C. could soon subsidize a massive Ward 7 project with tax dollars
D.C. officials are considering a plan to use tax dollars to finance the construction of a massive new development in Ward 7, not long after pushing one of the city’s largest agencies to relocate there and anchor the project.
DCist: More D.C. Residents Pledged to Buy Black. These Local Entrepreneurs Are Making Sure The…
During last summer’s racial justice protests, local Black-owned businesses saw a surge in community support. At the same time, Prince George’s County natives Kyndra Jones and Khloe Washington — who now co-run Street Smart Collaborative and…
Street Sense: Overloaded with landlords and real-estate developers, Bowser’s “Saving D.C.’s Rental…
Worthington Woods is one of several sprawling apartment complexes tucked between 3rd street SE and Oxon Run Park on the western edge of the Washington Highlands neighborhood in Ward 8. In 2019, when the complex was put up for sale, the…
Press Release: DCHA Announces $250,000 Investment in New Human Capital Plan
News Release — DC Housing Authority
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tony Robinson
Christy Goodman
April 15, 2021 …
Press Release: Administrator Regan Announces $156 Million Loan to DC Water to Accelerate Critical…
News Release — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
WIFIA loan supports essential improvements to DC’s water system at affordable cost
04/15/2021
Contact Information: EPA Region 3 Press Office
WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021) –…
Press Release: OSSE’s Virtual Adult College Completion Fair will take place on April 17 to Connect…
News Release — DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, April 15
Contact:
Lida Alikhani
(Washington, DC) – The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) will host…
Press Release: Norton Thanks Carper for Securing Most D.C. Statehood Bill Cosponsors in Senate Ever
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
April 15, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) for his work in securing this…
City Paper: Homebound D.C. Residents Are Still Waiting To Get Vaccinated
DC Health is delaying its initiative to get homebound residents vaccinated because of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause.
WTOP: Emancipation Day 2021: What’s open, what’s closed in DC
D.C. will mark Emancipation Day on Friday, April 16, commemorating an 1862 act signed by Abraham Lincoln which abolished slavery in the District, freeing over 3,000 people eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Washington Business Journal: Two D.C. universities mandate Covid-19 vaccines for students
American University and Georgetown University will require their students to get a Covid-19 vaccine before attending the fall semester. The D.C. universities made their announcements Wednesday, joining a growing number of schools across…
Associated Press: US Capitol Police watchdog to testify on Jan. 6 failures
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top watchdog for the U.S. Capitol Police will testify for the first time on Thursday about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including missed intelligence predicting a “war”…
Stasha Rhodes in The Post: Celebrating emancipation as we fight for representation
I’m the proud granddaughter of two courageous sugarcane farmer workers from south Louisiana. In 1972, Gustave Rhodes and a fellow worker filed a class-action lawsuit against the then-secretary of Agriculture for wages owed by Louisiana’s…
Washington Post: $19 million in stimulus going to fight D.C. homelessness
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Wednesday announced the District will be receiving four times the usual amount of federal funding to combat homelessness because of the Biden administration’s recent stimulus bill.
Washington Post: 17 requests for backup in 78 minutes
A reconstruction shows how failures of planning and preparation left police at the Capitol severely disadvantaged on Jan. 6
Washington Post: D.C. Guard misused helicopters in low-flying confrontation with George Floyd…
The D.C. National Guard’s deployment of helicopters to quell racial justice demonstrations in Washington last summer, a chilling scene in which two aircraft hovered extremely low over clusters of protesters, was a misuse of military…
jonetta rose barras: DC Republicans step into the political fray
Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle. “We’ve cast a wide net. We have a dozen persons interested in running for office,” he told me last week…
District Links: DC statehood bill advances in House; DC to get $19M from feds for homelessness via…
DC statehood legislation is on its way to approval in the U.S. House after a committee advanced it on Wednesday.