Press Release: Mayor Bowser Proclaims July 15, 2020 ‘Officially End Taxation Without Representation…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 15, 2020
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – To mark today’s filing deadline for tax returns, Mayor Muriel Bowser proclaimed Wednesday, July!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
WTOP: DC emergency order to be extended; uptick in coronavirus infections
As parents await information on what their children will face for the new school year, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that she will extend D.C.’s state of emergency order.
WTOP: DC Council committee approves racial equity bill
The D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve the Racial Equity Achieves Results Act.
DCist: D.C., Maryland, Virginia All Report Highest Coronavirus Caseloads Since Early June
D.C., Maryland, and Virginia all reported their highest COVID-19 case counts since early June on Wednesday.
WTOP: ‘Red Wolves’ is preferred new football name among some wildlife advocates
A potential new name for Washington’s football team is the “Washington Red Wolves,” and it is gaining support online not only from fans but from wildlife conservation groups.
Philip Kennicott in The Post: America’s libraries are essential now — and this beautifully renovated…
If you want to understand the abject failure of America, look to its libraries.
DCist: Only 6% Of People Tested In D.C. Have Coronavirus Antibodies
Just a small fraction of people tested for antibodies in the District have them.
Washington Post: Shakespeare Theatre Company sheds a third of its staff
In another sign of the financial havoc the covid-19 crisis is wreaking on arts groups, Shakespeare Theatre Company has laid off a third of its full-time employees and cut its budget by 44 percent.
In uncertain financial environment, go-go advocates press for DC arts funding equity
After months of intense advocacy efforts over equitable arts funding for go-go music, the DC Council has tentatively voted to allocate $3 million in the upcoming fiscal year for programs that will support the newly designated official!-->…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Castle Management to Pay $3.5 Million to Ward 8 Tenants and the…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 15, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
Two Neglectful Landlords Also Settle OAG Lawsuits Over Unsafe Property Conditions, Including!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Washington Blade: Media outlets assail D.C.’s proposed ad tax
The Washington Blade and Tagg magazine, the local publication that covers issues of interest to lesbians of color, have joined the Washington Informer, one of D.C.’s two African-American newspapers, in calling on the D.C. Council to drop a!-->…
Press Release: Norton Outlines Major Victories for D.C. and the Nation in the Moving Forward Act
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
July 15, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In light of interest in the highways and transit provisions of the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2), which the House!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Street Sense: DC Council increases funding for affordable housing and homeless services, but…
The D.C. Council unanimously approved an amended version of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on July 7, giving advocates less than two weeks to push for additional funding for affordable housing and homeless services!-->…
Street Sense: Tenants withholding payments urge DC Council to cancel rent
After losing her restaurant job in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keitisha Bonhom, a single mother of two, could not pay her rent until she received her unemployment benefits in May. Even in the months prior to the pandemic,!-->…
Street Sense: Anticipating a rise in homelessness, advocates worry DC is phasing out motels for…
In an effort to phase out its use of motels as overflow shelters for families experiencing homelessness, the District will end its relationship with Quality Inn and Suites New York Avenue this month.
UrbanTurf: Up to 320 Units and Restored Rowhouses: The Latest Plans on South Capitol Street
The Nationals Park-proximal residential pipeline continues to grow.
Washington Post: The D.C. health lab has tested 13,706 blood samples. Only 809 people carried…
Fewer than 6 percent of District residents who have sought out antibody testing, hoping to find that their bodies carried proteins that could ward off the novel coronavirus, have tested positive for the antibodies.
APM Reports: Failing to protect Black lives — How Washington, D.C., mishandled its response to the…
In a city with some of the most glaring health disparities in the country, District officials were slow to help Black residents deal with the pandemic.
Washington Post: Black conservatives rebuke call to remove D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial
Beneath the feet of Abraham Lincoln and the bent knees of the formerly enslaved man depicted in the statue at the center of Lincoln Park, handwritten notes and protest signs have been pinned to the black fence that has for weeks encircled!-->…
Washington Post: D.C. mom goes on hunger strike as she seeks answers in the death of her son
For two years, D.C. resident Dannielle Brown has been agitating for the truth. She has been dealing with the grief and uncertainty surrounding the death of her son Marquis Jaylen Brown, who officials say broke a window in his dorm room at!-->…