Press Release: Mayor Bowser Calls on Congress to Provide Equal Funding for DC in Next Coronavirus…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter to leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of…
Press Release: Norton Testifying Today on Her Bill to Remove the Albert Pike Statue from the…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 21, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will testify today at a House hearing…
WTOP: GWU committees to explore Colonials nickname, Marvin Center
George Washington University is forming special committees to look at possible name changes to an on-campus building and the school moniker.
DCist: D.C. Coronavirus Testing Sites Will Run On Modified Schedule Due To Heat
D.C.’s public coronavirus testing sites will operate on a “modified schedule” Tuesday and Wednesday due to extreme heat.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Thought going to the DMV was bad? Try doing it during the pandemic.
Because our lanky old hound had to pee at 4 a.m., my son gets to learn to drive this summer.
District Links: Bowser ups stakes in her fight to reverse council’s cuts to her proposed…
Happy Monday. In advance of the DC Council's final vote on the local budget tomorrow, Mayor Muriel Bowser is fighting against cuts to the police department.
Press Release: Norton Highlights D.C. Victories After Committee Passage of Appropriations Bills
July 20, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today listed major victories for the District of Columbia in the House Appropriations Committee-passed fiscal…
DCist: Anthony Fauci Will Throw The Ceremonial First Pitch On Nationals’ Opening Day
Washington Nationals superfan — or as he’s better known, the nation’s top infectious disease expert — Dr. Anthony Fauci will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the team on Opening Day this Thursday.
Washington Business Journal: Neiman Marcus’ D.C. lease up for grabs as department store goes…
The Neiman Marcus store in D.C. is looking for someone to take over its lease in Mazza Gallerie amid the luxury department store chain's Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection proceedings.
DCist: George Washington University Is Reconsidering ‘Colonial’ Moniker
George Washington University’s moniker may not be a Colonial for much longer.
Washington Business Journal: Want to live in the former U.S. Coast Guard HQ? Its new life as…
RiverPoint, the 480-unit apartment building carved from the former U.S. Coast Guard headquarters on Buzzard Point, is expected to debut in October with 75% of the residences featuring water views.
Washington Post: National Gallery reopening provides relief for art lovers — from the pandemic and…
Visitors were few but their exuberance was high at the National Gallery of Art on Monday, when the museum became the first major cultural institution in Washington to welcome the public inside since the pandemic shuttered the city’s…
DCist: Most Of D.C.’s New Coronavirus Cases Are Contracted In The Community, Per New Metric
An overwhelming majority of coronavirus cases in the District are resulting from community spread, D.C. Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt revealed on Monday at the mayor’s press conference, presenting a new metric detailing how…
Washington Post: Metro service to significantly increase in August
Service will rise to nearly 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels
WTOP: ‘It’s loaded with fish’: With monuments on the horizon, local anglers love fishing the Potomac
In 2019, Wesley Hanks of D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood would have spent his afternoons and evenings in the late spring and early summer playing baseball or participating in other structured activities.
Washington Post: Key metric languishes, revealing challenges in containing virus as D.C. region…
The District’s health department published a key metric for the first time Monday and revealed that the number is dismal: The percentage of new coronavirus cases linked to already known cases is just 2.8 percent.
Washington Post: D.C. mayor calls on independent CFO to intervene in dispute over police funding
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has escalated her dispute with the D.C. Council over police funding, urging the city’s independent chief financial officer to intervene if lawmakers approve cuts to the police department.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. Council may accelerate construction on part of Park Morton while…
D.C. Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, D-Ward 1, wants to jumpstart progress on the redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex after a recent court ruling imperiled part of the effort to replace the aging apartment community.
Washington Business Journal: A major D.C. agency will anchor the second phase of Anacostia’s…
The Menkiti Group just landed a major office tenant for the second phase of its MLK Gateway project in Anacostia: D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development, currently headquartered just around the corner.
WAMU: Bowser Says Proposed Cuts To Her Police Spending Plan Are ‘Not Sound Budgeting’
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is criticizing the D.C. Council’s proposed budget reductions to the Metropolitan Police Department, saying that they could lead to an increase in costs and should be examined by the city’s chief financial officer.
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