Press Release: Mayor Bowser Orders Curfew Beginning at 11PM Tonight
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 3, 2020
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a citywide curfew for the District of Columbia from 11:00…
Press Release: Councilmember Charles Allen Announces Oversight Roundtable on Board of Elections and…
News Release — Ward 6 DC Council member Charles Allen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2020
Contact: Erik Salmi
Notice on Public Oversight Hearing By Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety: The Board of Elections’…
Press Release: Primary Election Night Results
News Release — DC Board of Elections
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2020
Contact: Rachel Coll
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) will continue to
process Absentee Ballots over the coming…
Washingtonian: Morning Consult Launches a Fund to Help DC-Area Small Businesses Rebuild
The Small Business Resilience Fund hopes to raise $1 million.
Washingtonian: He Took in Protesters Facing Arrest in DC. Then the Washington Post Reported That He…
We caught up with Swann Street's Rahul Dubey about the ugly aftermath to his star turn.
WTOP: DC curfew starts at 11 p.m. after largely peaceful night
D.C. will have a curfew starting 11 p.m. Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.
DCist: D.C. Will Enforce 11 P.M. Curfew Following Relatively Peaceful Protests Tuesday
The District will enforce a curfew for the fourth consecutive night tonight, beginning at 11 p.m. and lasting until 6 a.m. tomorrow.
Nancy N. Mathis in The Post: I go to St. John’s. Our church is so much bigger than Trump’s…
On Monday, a man who traditionally worships on Sundays at the Chapel of the 3-Iron tried to use our church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, as a backdrop. Like a character right out of “Elmer Gantry,” he and a gaggle of flinty-eyed carnival…
Washingtonian: Estadio Will Open Takeout Window with Free Meals for Protesters, Police, and Others…
The 14th Street Spanish restaurant is asking people to donate and pay it forward if they can
Washington Post: On the edge of the D.C. protests: These people hand out water, masks and pizza
As thousands gathered outside Lafayette Square next to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, kneeling and chanting against police brutality, others set up camp on the outer rim of the masses with packs of water, boxes of pizza and free…
Washington Post: Voting problems in D.C., Maryland lead to calls for top officials to resign
Leaders in the District and Maryland are calling for top elections officials to resign after botched delivery of absentee ballots, and polling places shuttered because of the coronavirus, led to hours-long waits to vote in Tuesday’s…
Washington Business Journal: WeWork temporarily shutters two D.C. locations, pulls staff amid…
Shared workspace provider WeWork has temporarily closed two of its locations in the District and pulled staff from other sites in D.C. amid days of protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.
DCist: Lost Ballots And Long Lines Mark A Bumpy First Foray Into Vote-By-Mail In D.C.
It was an inauspicious start to an election season: Only days after the D.C. Board of Elections announced in late March that it would try and conduct a majority of the June 2 primary by mail, a number of staff members developed COVID-19…
City Paper: Based on Unofficial Election Results, Janeese Lewis George Declares Victory over…
Voters encountered long lines and the National Guard while they waited to vote on an abnormal Election Day.
WAMU: What A Second Wave Of COVID-19 Would Mean For The Local Economy
If you thought the first pandemic-induced lockdown was painful, wait until you see the second one.
Ariel Levinson-Waldman: With COVID debt cases expected to rise, DC should fully fund civil legal…
Like the public health crisis it has caused, COVID-19 has already inflicted terrible financial harm on DC, especially our working-class families and communities of color. And when the immediate financial crisis passes, a new one will…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces D.C. Winners of National “Do The Write Thing” Challenge…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 3, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
240+ District Middle Schoolers Wrote about Experiences with Violence and How to Stop It
WASHINGTON,…
WTOP: DC BIDS handing out free PPE starter kits to businesses
The District is making free personal protective equipment starter kits available to D.C. businesses, and the District’s Business Improvement Districts are distributing them.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. primary: Brandon Todd falls in Ward 4; Jack Evans musters little…
Incumbent Brandon Todd appears to have lost the Democratic primary for the Ward 4 seat on D.C. Council, with Janeese Lewis George holding more than 54% of the vote, according to the unofficial results of Tuesday's elections. Jack Evans…
Washington Post: Brandon Todd loses his D.C. Council seat, and voters soundly reject Jack Evans
Janeese Lewis George, a left-leaning lawyer who used to work for D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), has defeated incumbent Ward 4 Council member Brandon T. Todd in the Democratic primary, while attorney Brooke Pinto leads a close…