DCist: D.C. Is Having A Rough Time. Here’s How To Write The City A Love Letter
Police are erecting fences and using concrete barricades to block off streets in downtown D.C. ahead of the presidential inauguration. About 20,000 National Guard members are filing into the city in an attempt to prevent another…
DCist: D.C. Culture Site Brightest Young Things To Shut Down
The longstanding cultural news website and events organizer Brightest Young Things has announced it will effectively shut down on January 20.
The Architect’s Newspaper: Howard University eyes development plans while staying true to its…
About midway between the Yard, the quadrangle at the heart of Howard University’s campus, and the historic nightlife strip of U Street NW stands a compact brick Georgian building. Stacks of quoins rise up from Bryant Street, stepping back…
WTOP: DC’s top transportation official gets Biden White House position
The head of D.C.’s Department of Transportation is headed to the White House.
Press Release: AG Racine Sues Ward 5 Trash Transfer Facility for Polluting the District’s…
Press Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 14, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Rodgers Brothers Custodian Services, Inc. Illegally Spilled Garbage and Petroleum into…
WTOP: Fainting Goat’s new ghost kitchen is all about soups and stews
Six-year-old U Street gastropub Fainting Goat joins the growing list of D.C. restaurants adding a ghost kitchen to its operations — restaurant extensions with menus that are solely for takeout and/or delivery — to help get it through the…
Press Release: Norton Calls on NPS to Prioritize Safety by Canceling All Public Gathering Permits…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
January 14, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to the Acting Director of the National Park Service (NPS)…
City Paper: An Act of Nature Brought Down Lou Stovall’s Backyard Studio. Now What?
After a tree fell, the backyard studio where artist Lou Stovall screen printed his own and others’ artwork for nearly 50 years had to be razed—but his legacy persists.
City Paper: All Politics Are Local — Jan. 6, 2021 in pictures and words
The Capitol dome sits atop a hill, a symbol of American democracy for everyone except the actual residents of D.C., taxpayers whose representation in its marbled halls is limited to one non-voting delegate. … And yet, watching rioters…
WTOP: DC schools set to reopen for in-person learning in February
D.C. education officials are asking public schools to release their reopening plans to their respective communities by the end of the week, as the District targets Feb. 1 for the resumption of in-person learning.
City Paper: Councilmembers Butt Heads with DC Health Director Over Racial Equity in Vaccine…
Should seniors in neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID-19 be given priority in vaccine appointments?
DCist: DDOT Director Jeff Marootian Tapped For Biden’s Climate Team
Jeff Marootian, the director of D.C.’s Department of Transportation, just got a job in the Biden administration: He’ll serve as the Special Assistant to the President for Climate and Science Agency Personnel.
Washington Business Journal: Metro to shut down 13 stations, most in downtown D.C., as heightened…
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will shut down 13 Metro stations, many of them near the White House or Capitol Hill, starting Friday as authorities continue to prepare for potential violence leading up to the…
Washington Post: Entire National Mall to close on Inauguration Day
The entire National Mall will be closed for Inauguration Day, only accessible by media and security personnel, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues.
City Paper: Who Knew What in the Moments Before Pro-Trump Radicals Breached the Capitol?
When the dust settled, District officials wasted little time pointing the finger at the federal government.
Washington Business Journal: The Ritz Carlton penthouse owned by late philanthropist Michelle Smith…
The Georgetown penthouse in the Ritz-Carlton Residences that belonged to the late philanthropist Michelle Smith is being marketed for sale.
Washington Post: Upset by veterans who stormed the Capitol, these vets decided to clean up trash the…
When Capitol Hill was in chaos on Jan. 6, David Smith was there. Smith, 40, was distributing hand-warmers to homeless people nearby when the siege started. He watched in disbelief as a menacing mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
ProPublica: “No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for…
Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building.
jonetta rose barras: A constitutional assault and insurrection foretold
In truth, the signs of danger and harbingers of the assault on sanity, truth, democracy and the U.S. Constitution were glaringly present on Jan. 22, 2017 — two days after Donald J. Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th president of the…
District Links: Metro curtails service over inauguration period; QAnon believer who threatened mayor…
Happy Wednesday. Metro will close 13 stations near the U.S. Capitol and National Mall due to the fears of violence surrounding the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.