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Army veteran David Kurtz stands in the parking lot of Shiloh Baptist Church on this brisk Monday morning. Sporting an army green hat and camouflage jacket, the veteran stands in front of a crowd of about 50 volunteers and bows his head…
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The District’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) has opened a new investigation into Ward 2 DC Council member Jack Evans, three months after fining him $20,000 for using his public office for personal gain. The focus…
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Chad Jackson, a vendor for Street Sense Media and a formerly homeless veteran, served as a welder in the military from 1993 to 2000. When he returned home after his service, Jackson instantly felt the need to escape. He chose to live on…
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It can take just one wrong step, one incorrect diagnosis, to change someone’s life. Xavier Justice’s time in the U.S. Army was cut short when he fell headfirst while doing vertical push-ups at his workplace. The accident left him…
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Two DC health care systems have joined forces to provide expanded care for children and young adults with complex medical needs. In September, HSC Health Care System became an official subsidiary of Children’s National Hospital upon…
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The DC Council unanimously passed emergency legislation earlier this month to patch up weak spots in the District’s "sanctuary city" policies. The new bill forbids officials at the DC Department of Corrections from cooperating with federal…
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One of Holly Searl’s goals this year as principal of John W. Ross Elementary School is to have lunch with each of her students. Earlier this month, though, it was a breakfast of coffee and doughnuts for the Dupont Circle school’s parents…
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The assembly had all the trappings of your average pep rally. The cheer squad warmed up the middle school crowd, and an African drum group made up of fifth-graders performed. But the television cameras and the arrival of the mayor were big…
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In his backyard in Congress Heights, Nathan Harrington has a collection of bowling balls. He found them in the woods. He doesn’t know for sure how the 10 or 12 colorful spheres ended up out there, but he guesses it has something to do…
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Democratic contenders for DC Council in Ward 2 got their first shot at breaking out in an increasingly crowded contest at a debate Thursday night. Six hopefuls were on the stage but much of the focus was on a potential candidate who wasn’t…
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DC Attorney General Karl Racine is set to testify Thursday at a U.S. House hearing on misclassification of employees as a form of payroll fraud, the subject of a report released earlier this month by Racine’s office on how the practice…
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Renovations to the boarded-up Chesapeake House — a historic but empty building in the southwest corner of Tenleytown’s Fort Reno Park — should be completed by 2020, National Park Service officials told community members at a recent meeting…
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After six years covering Capitol Hill for a Los Angeles public radio station, Kitty Felde found a way to branch out to a new audience: middle schoolers. Once a month on her talk show, adults would be “thrown out” and students would come to…
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As District of Columbia students dive into the new academic year, a new public education campaign is gearing up. It calls for renovating abandoned buildings that blight their neighborhoods, ending the waitlist for successful public charter…
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La’Rissa Dunn experienced a few surprises on her journey as one of 42 OSSE Scholars this summer — from a typo that made her think maybe she hadn’t been accepted into the program, to a college match she wasn’t expecting, to perplexing…
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Some of the most popular children’s books teach lessons on colors, sharing and numbers. But what if they also offered lessons on more adult topics like strategic thinking and mindfulness? Linda Ryden — a peace teacher at Lafayette…
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As another school year in the District gets underway, one topic seems to be far from everyone’s mind amid discussions about academics, extracurricular activities, after-school care and bus routes. Our school discipline system is broken.…
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Earlier this year, Mayor Muriel Bowser snatched money from the city’s contingency reserve fund. By June 30, the account was down from $279.7 million to $194.7 million, according to a report released by the Office of the Chief Financial…
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A middle-aged man in a T-shirt and rumpled khakis sits on a bench in the vestibule of the First Congregational United Church of Christ at 9th and G streets NW. Looking dejected and worried, he says that he recently blacked out at a men’s…
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