UrbanTurf: 11th Street Bridge Park on Track for Completion in 2024
While maintaining its community programming and equity initiatives, the 11th Street Bridge Park project is also progressing through the approval process — and could deliver in 2024.
City Paper: When Black Residents Wanted To Get Vaccinated, Accessing the COVID-19 Shot Wasn’t Easy
D.C. can't solely blame its inequitable rollout on vaccine hesitancy.
Red Canary Collective: Up Through the Soil
Ronald L. Williams, Jr. Is Using America’s Original Sin to Chase Down A Dream
District Links: Intel failures enabled mob to ransack Capitol, officials testify on Hill; DC police…
On Capitol Hill Tuesday, security officials said a failure to pass along intelligence about the potential for violence on Jan. 6 led to an unprepared police force getting rolled over by a mob.
WTOP: DC Council: Razor wire is ‘wrong solution’ for failures that took place during Capitol riot
The D.C. Council is asking Congressional leaders to remove the fencing around the U.S. Capitol, a remnant from the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot.
Associated Press: Takeaways from Congress’ first hearing on Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — Security officials testifying at Congress’ first hearing on the deadly siege of the Capitol cast blame and pointed fingers on Tuesday but also acknowledged they were woefully unprepared for the violence.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: A Commerce nominee’s formerly enslaved ancestors ran a taxi service…
In 1821, Lynch and Polly Wormley started a horse-and-buggy taxi service in the District. They’d come from Albemarle, Va., after being freed from enslavement by their plantation owners. Their business included a stable, with living quarters…
Press Release: Education Bills to Combat Pandemic Learning Loss, Raise Student Voices, &…
News Release — Ward 3 DC Council member Mary Cheh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2021
Communications Director: Kelly Whittier
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, February 23rd, Councilmember Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) introduced a suite…
Washington Post: Former Capitol security officials blame intelligence lapses for deadly Jan. 6 riot
Top officials responsible for security at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as it was overrun by a mob backing former president Donald Trump blamed wide-ranging intelligence failures for the deadly attack at a Senate hearing Tuesday, pointing to…
Washington Post Editorial Board: The Senate’s first hearing on the Jan. 6 riot offered good…
“Who’s in charge? Who was ultimately responsible for the safety of the Capitol?” Those were the questions asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) Tuesday after the Senate concluded its first hearing into the breakdowns in intelligence-gathering…
Washingtonian: A WMATA Survey Is Asking About Service Cuts, Tolerance for Breakdowns, and Reduced…
"Would you rather?," Metro edition.
Washingtonian: I Quit Selling Real Estate to Fight on the Frontlines of Covid. Why I’d Do It Again.
Natalee Snider, 43, is a DC real-estate agent with Compass who dropped everything to enlist with DC’s Medical Reserve Corps and Health Department.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The death of Angela Hill shows we need to do more for D.C.’s…
FOR AT least the past 10 years, Angela Hill lived in Southeast Washington under a bridge that carries D.C. Route 295 over Pennsylvania Avenue. She had a family that loved her. People from the neighborhood looked out for her, and city…
DCist: D.C. Bill Would Require Study On How Police Respond To Different Types Of Protests
At-Large D.C. Councilmember Robert White introduced legislation Tuesday he says would help the city address bias within the Metropolitan Police Department by looking at how police responded to recent racial justice protests as well as the…
DCist: Federal Judge Grants Sentence Reduction To D.C. Drug Kingpin Rayful Edmond
A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to reduce the life sentence being served by onetime D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond to 20 years, putting the man who once led the city’s biggest crack-smuggling ring one step closer to getting out of…
John Kelly in The Post: The Great Migration becomes a great subject for District high school…
Two years ago, District high school student Isabella Ramos-Bracho took a class on the Great Migration. The most memorable part: meeting an actual Great Migrator. That was Edith Crutchfield, who was among the more than 5 million African…
DCist: D.C. Attorney General Sues Moving Company For Allegedly Discriminating Against East Of The…
On Monday, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced two legal actions against two different companies that allegedly refused services to residents east of the river.
UrbanTurf: A Church-Led Residential Development on the Boards in Shaw
Another Shaw church has development plans on the boards.
Washington Post: Former D.C. crack cocaine kingpin Rayful Edmond III granted prison sentence…
Rayful Edmond III, the District native who prosecutors say ran the largest crack cocaine operation in the nation’s capital in the 1980s, came one step closer Tuesday to release from prison after a federal judge decided that he had served…