Press Release: Voter Advisory: Protecting D.C. Residents from Unauthorized Poll Monitoring and Voter…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 9, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
OAG Will Enforce the Law Against Anyone Who Tries to Interfere with an Individual’s Right to a Free…
The DC Lineup for this weekend: Broadway tunes, benevolence and a master banjoist
Meaningful entertainment is the theme throughout this edition of The DC Lineup.
The weather will be cloudy throughout the weekend, Oct. 9 to 11, according to the forecast, with rain on Sunday. Temperatures should range from 58 to 75…
Press Release: DC Council Labor Committee Asks for Automatic Extension of Unemployment Insurance
News Release — At-large DC Council member Elissa Silverman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Reana Kovalcik
Six months into pandemic, workers are seeing benefits end, unaware they can re-apply for continued payments
WASHINGTON,…
Lopaka Purdy in The Post: The Columbus fountain is broken. So is his story.
The Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain that fronts Union Station is broken. Not only because its plumbing stopped functioning years ago, or because it has been in disrepair since then — but also because its wretched symbolism is being…
Michael Havlin in The Post: Don’t let scarcity politics stall D.C.’s streetcar extension into Ward 7
Over the summer, the planned D.C. streetcar extension into Ward 7 nearly lost funding. An initiative to defund the project was defeated in an 8-to-5 vote in the D.C. Council. With one of the streetcar’s supporters vacating his council seat…
Washington Post: Homelessness is historically undercounted in the Census. Can a count during…
It had been six months since her last volunteer shift educating D.C. residents on the importance of filling out the 2020 Census and Arnesia Davis had yet to complete it herself.
Washington Post: D.C. urban gardens flourish in the pandemic as people dig in to ‘fill the isolated…
Victorine Mbazang proudly stands in a sea of green fruit and vegetable plants at her plot at Blair Road Community Garden in Northwest Washington’s Manor Park.
WUSA9: 175 days after DC father dies of COVID-19, family still has no idea where to find his body
Fabian Tinsley as an inmate at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., nearing the end of his sentence for armed kidnapping and assault.
District Links: DCPS says ‘enrollment anomaly’ behind sudden dismissal of principal; GOP…
Happy Thursday. A group of parents and students today protested the sudden and unexplained dismissal of the principal of prestigious high school School Without Walls.
WUSA9: DCPS says removal of principal not related to building safety, citing an ‘enrollment…
The sudden firing of a popular D.C. principal one month before the District’s schools are planning to reopen has galvanized not just the principal's own community, but schools across the District. From Northwest to Southeast, parents and…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Just when D.C. had tackled the coronavirus, Trump upends the trend with a…
Only one thing has united D.C. residents as much as a national trophy from the Nats, Mystics or Caps.
Washington Post: Park Police horses to get new, more modern home on the Mall
Tedi, the horse, was upset. He was a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Park Police mounted unit. He had spent a decade of hot summer days on the Mall, cold winters on the streets, and time in the shabby stables off Independence Avenue.
Washington Post: Health officials urge attendees of White House event to get tested for coronavirus
The average number of new daily coronavirus infections across the greater Washington region reached a 19-day high Thursday as local health officials sent an open letter urging people connected to a White House outbreak to get tested.
Washington Informer: Capital Bikeshare Reaches Milestone Amid Changing Landscape and More Nagging…
This year marked a decade since the Capital Bikeshare program first offered its services as a convenient and affordable means of transportation for biking enthusiasts, urban professionals and others eager to avoid expensive parking tickets…
Washington Informer: D.C. Residents Uneasy About Likely Budget Reductions
COVID-19 Forces City Leaders to Ponder Cuts, Tax Hikes
Washington Informer: Concerns Escalate over D.C. Inmates’ Insufficient Access to the Ballot
The upcoming election counts among one of the most consequential in recent history for many reasons but perhaps none more important than it being the first time that District residents currently incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of…
Street Sense: Council paves way for reconsidering rent control
The D.C. Council voted unanimously Sept. 22 to place a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates of assurance, signaling a desire to re-examine the issue of rent control in the District.
Washington Blade: D.C. Council gives final approval to LGBTQ seniors bill
The D.C. Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously in a second and final vote to approve legislation to provide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ seniors and seniors with HIV who reside in long-term care facilities in the District.
Associated Press: DC faults White House over Rose Garden event, urges testing
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary step, the Washington, D.C., Department of Health has released an open letter appealing to all White House staff and anyone who attended a Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden to seek medical advice and…
Washington Post: D.C. voters to weigh in on ‘magic mushroom’ decriminalization after months-long…
Melissa Lavasani took “microdoses” of illegal psychedelic mushrooms to recover from postpartum depression in 2018. After her condition improved, she wanted others to have access to the treatment, working for months to get a ballot…