District Links: Bowser hails progress on community center at McMillan site; WaPo publisher steps…
As construction proceeds on the long-controversial redevelopment of the shuttered McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site, Mayor Muriel Bowser and city leaders today held a "beam signing" ceremony to highlight progress on a community center,…
City Paper: The Prolonged Battle to Increase Education for Educators
Education requirements for D.C.’s early childhood caregivers introduced in 2016 are set to begin this year. But within the already strained workforce, some educators are still holding out.
City Paper: D.C.’s Underground Culture Lives On at the Library
The D.C. Public Library’s archival work is preserving more than a century of the city’s history, and City Paper’s as well.
Washington Post: Climate protesters arrested after chaining themselves to Wilson Building
Two climate advocates were arrested Friday after chaining themselves to the Wilson Building during a protest demanding that D.C. council members reject a plan to replace pipelines in the city.
DCist: New D.C. Bill Would Close Fare Evasion Loophole On Metro
A new bill from D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto aims to close a loophole in the District’s fare evasion law. Metro says the law, as it is now, ties its hands in catching people with warrants, weapons, and those who break the law on trains…
DCist: This Week Was Already A (Smoky) Bear. Then A Bear Showed Up In Brookland
On a week when heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires forced many people to take precautions they’re not used to, an animal so associated with wildfire prevention they’re known as Smokey made a visit of its own — forcing people to take…
Washington Post: D.C.’s Black Broadway heyday recalled in plan for U Street development
She had a favorite spot on U Street back in the ’50s when it was still called Black Broadway: Bohemian Caverns, the basement jazz club beneath a Black-owned pharmacy that had been decked out to feel like you were entering a cave. Virginia…
District Links: Pinto bill aims to enable civil enforcement against fare evasion; DC didn’t…
A new bill introduced by Ward 2 DC Council member Brooke Pinto seeks to enable civil enforcement against fare evasion in the District by closing what's been described as a loophole in the current law.
Washington Post: UDC names scientist and HBCU leader as its new president
Maurice Edington, a chemist, comes to the D.C. institution from Florida A&M University
jonetta rose barras: Slavery’s all over us, all over America
Before my friend and activist Tony De Pass died of colon cancer, he often boasted, during frequent and blistering critiques about the intelligence deficit of America’s political class, that he owed his intellectual heft to the excellent…
Washington Post: As ridership grows, Metro begins to lay out plan to secure funding
The transit agency is projected to be short more than $700 million next year because of fares lost to telework during the pandemic
DCist: This Week’s Air Quality Was The Worst In Decades. For People Experiencing Homelessness, There…
In conjunction with its first Code Purple air quality alert in decades, D.C. is advising residents to shelter indoors– a refrain all too familiar after the COVID pandemic. But not everyone has the luxury of having a place to shelter, with…
DCist: End Of The Line? Proposed Eastward Extension Of D.C. Streetcar Delayed Again
It was just about seven years ago that D.C.’s first streetcar in decades started running again, shuttling passengers along a 2.4-mile stretch of H Street and Benning Road NE. But a long-promised 2.2-mile eastward extension to the Benning…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Punk’s not dead — especially not at the library
In D.C., the slam-dancing culture of punk is captured in archives and served up live
DCist: Climate Change Is Making Smoky Days More Likely In D.C.
We’ve seen the photos from the West Coast for years — orange, smoky skies, everywhere from San Diego to Seattle. Now it’s happening here in the eastern U.S. as well, and scientists say this is probably not a one-off: bad air days are…
DCist: Bowser Taps San Francisco Health Official To Lead DC Health
Dr. Ayanna Bennett has been tapped to lead DC Health, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office announced Thursday. She will replace Dr. Sharon Lewis, a DC Health veteran who had been leading the agency in an interim capacity following the departure of…
Washington Post: Mayor Bowser names new D.C. Health director after year-long search
Ayanna Bennett, a pediatrician and health equity officer in San Francisco, will succeed LaQuandra Nesbitt, who resigned last July.
DC left millions unspent from federal grants to end homelessness
DC returned over $10 million in federal grants intended to fund programs aimed at ending homelessness from 2017 through 2021, according to data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and The Community Partnership…
District Links: Elevation to ‘Code Purple’ for unhealthy air quality brings closures,…
The unhealthy air quality in the District due to smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted modifications to DC government operations for the afternoon, the mayor's office announced.
Washington Post: D.C. plan to issue 5,000 security cameras to drivers draws ACLU rebuke
The ACLU criticized the program, which would give cameras to delivery and ride-hailing service drivers, as a dangerous expansion of government surveillance