Washington Business Journal: Hundreds of D.C. office buildings are ripe for conversion to…
D.C. has banked its comeback plan on luring more residents to its struggling downtown. The number of increasingly obsolete office properties with the potential to be converted to apartments or condos should provide ample opportunity.
WTOP: DC Mayor Bowser announces new deal to attract health and wellness spa, water park
A new health and wellness “destination,” including a spa, water park and restaurants could be coming to D.C.
DCist: National Parks Service Should Turn Over Parks To D.C. Government, Report Says
D.C. is famous for its parks: some of them, like the grassy, manicured National Mall, draw tourists from around the globe. In fact, the District has been ranked number 1 for urban parks in the U.S. by the Trust For Public Land for three…
DCist: Senate Could Vote Next Week To Block D.C. Police Discipline Bill
The U.S. Senate could vote as early as next week to block a D.C. police discipline and accountability bill approved by the city’s lawmakers last year, potentially putting Democratic senators in a difficult situation on a politically…
Washington Post: Senate GOP expected to force vote on measure to block D.C. policing bill
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) introduced a resolution to block D.C.’s major police accountability legislation Thursday and expects to bring it to a vote next week — even though the congressional review period for the D.C. legislation…
City Paper: Failing the Test: Bowser’s Promised Crime Lab Evidence Retesting Is Nowhere to Be Seen,…
D.C. pledged in 2021 to find out if forensics errors resulted in faulty convictions, but it still has yet to launch this costly effort.
District Links: Senate expected to vote next week on repeal of DC police reform law; council may…
DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked the U.S. Botanic Garden to exhibit marijuana to complement its recent display of hemp for the first time.
Peter Edelman and James Sandman: The high cost of cutting funding for civil legal services
When a storm hits, the most vulnerable are often those who live in the lowest-income, highest-risk areas, without the financial means to escape or mitigate the damage. So it’s apt that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser noted when unveiling her…
DCist: D.C. Public Schools Unlawfully Awarded $270 Million Worth Of Contracts
D.C. Public Schools unlawfully awarded 36 contracts worth an estimated $270 million over the last three years, raising significant concerns around its financial management and forcing the D.C. Council to start retroactively approving the…
WTOP: DC’s top prosecutor says lack of testing from shuttered crime lab to blame for some dropped…
The top prosecutor in D.C. says the continued fallout from the District’s shuttered crime lab means his office has been unable to bring charges against suspected offenders in some cases.
City Paper: Progressives Want to Stop a Planned Tax Break for Big Land Deals to Reverse Bowser’s…
Stopping the scheduled sunset of a deed tax hike could generate $104 million for the Council’s priority programs.
WTOP: Has DC tourism rebounded since the pandemic?
Destination DC has released 2022 tourism numbers that show 20.7 million domestic tourists visited the city last year, which is 91% of pre-pandemic numbers in 2019. Those tourists also spent $8.1 billion last year, a more than 50% jump over…
DCist: Bowser Is Proposing An Unprecedented Limit On D.C.’s Public Arts Budget. Theater Leaders Are…
Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing an unprecedented cap on funding for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), leaving the local arts community concerned about the future of its funding model — despite a projected increase in…
DCist: D.C. Plans Resort-Like Spa And Waterpark In A Bid To Further Boost Tourism
D.C. officials on Thursday said that almost 21 million domestic tourists visited D.C. in 2022, a 10% increase over the year prior. And they unveiled what they say will eventually be a new destination to attract even more visitors: a…
Washington Post: D.C. hopes possible ‘Caribbean-like’ resort would bring economic boost
A wellness company will work with D.C. officials to find a location for an affordable, resort-like spa with amenities such as a water park, indoor pool and sauna, officials said Thursday.
Washington Post: D.C. housing officials say many problems will be fixed by HUD deadline
Some remediations will remain incomplete as the deadline passes
Washington Post: How 6 million D.C. traffic tickets went unpaid
About 6.2 million traffic tickets totaling nearly $1.3 billion in fines and penalties have not been paid to the District since 2000, The Washington Post found in a recent analysis of city records. That includes hundreds of thousands of…
Washington Post: Amid expected surge of border crossings, a costly predicament for D.C.
Over a year since busloads of migrants began arriving from Texas and Arizona, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration faces a costly predicament: housing and feeding those families at a time when city resources are strained, and an…
jonetta rose barras: Budget madness in DC, Part 2
Some people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to securing compromises on critical issues.
But do they? And should that behavior extend to…
District Links: DC to work with global firm to find local site for spa resort; Bowser draws flak…
A global firm seeking to expand to the United States has reached a one-year agreement with the District to scope out sites for a new health and wellness resort that would likely combine thermal bathing, sauna treatments and more.