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With the DC Council winding up its budget oversight hearings this week, legislators will begin considering revisions and adjustments to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, with committee markups slated for April 20…
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I’ve been around DC politics long enough to know that when a candidate goes negative, whether directly or indirectly, it’s usually because that person’s campaign is having a tough time gaining traction. The aim is to knock the opponent off…
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For the past two years, DC’s Department of Employment Services, has been a focal point of the District’s pandemic response. DC workers who lost their jobs during COVID-19 turned to the agency, known as DOES, for help in the form…
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Residents of wards 7 and 8 have some of the highest energy costs in the District when compared to their incomes — a burden that needs to be taken into account as the city works to decarbonize its transportation and building sectors. …
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When her 5-year-old niece showed up at her door four years ago, Kymberly Holmes had to make a choice. “It was either my rent or this little girl,” said Holmes, who didn’t feel confident she’d have enough money for both. “So of…
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The DC Council passed a comprehensive tenant rights bill on March 1 with new protections for voucher holders and for renters who have faced eviction proceedings. The Eviction Record Sealing Authority Amendment Act of 2021 bans…
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People who don't speak or read English are having difficulty accessing District Direct, the D.C. government’s new benefits app and online portal, because it is not fully available in any language other than English. Without…
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The DC Housing Authority finally has a new resident commissioner — Janet Parker. DCHA, the agency that manages public housing and various rental subsidies in the District, has spent the last six months trying to organize elections…
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When Juliana Lopez enters the bathroom at her high school in need of a pad, the 17-year-old junior at Columbia Heights Educational Campus is often left empty-handed.  Lopez recounted urgently needing to visit the school nurse for a pad…
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DC has hundreds of millions of dollars in unallocated money, and legislators are hoping to convince Mayor Muriel Bowser how to best spend it. The District had a budget surplus of $566 million during fiscal year 2021, which ended…
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Housing advocates across the District are demanding that the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) reform the way it administers housing vouchers so people experiencing homelessness can be matched sooner with a place to live. On Feb. 9, DCHA’s Board…
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Federal prosecutors last week secured guilty pleas in the brutal deaths of two DC children. But some advocates and officials say the potential penalties are far too lax. U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and DC Police Chief Robert J.…
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“I'm going to make you two promises in this trial,” DC defense attorney Jonathan Zucker told the jury in his opening statement in the trial of James Embre for the murder of 2-year-old Aceyson Ahmad. “Promise No. 1: A week from now, a month…
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Thanks to the passage of the infrastructure bill and the American Rescue Plan, the District is set to receive millions in federal funding with the goal of completely removing lead pipes from its infrastructure by 2030. However,…
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The child who arrived at the home of Magdalena and Gabriel Acevedo entered the city’s foster care system, managed by the DC Child and Family Services Agency, at only three months old. Now, at 2 years old, the Acevedos’ was the child’s…
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Gabriel Eason’s name appeared in broadcast media and newspapers for a few weeks following his death in April 2020 and once again after the November arrests of his mother, Ta’Jeanna Eason, and her boyfriend, Antonio Dale Turner, for…
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One day in April 2020, a person renting a room from Diamond Taylor and Tyvez Jackson in their apartment at 2812 Pomeroy St. SE made an anonymous call to the hotline operated by the DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA). He told the…
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Outside the three-story, red brick apartment building at 935 Division Ave. NE, it must have seemed like an ordinary spring day on April 1, 2020, with an overcast sky and a temperature of around 45 degrees. Yet the tragic events unfolding…
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Over the summer, the DC government announced it had reached a settlement in the 32-year class-action lawsuit that sought extensive reform of the city’s child welfare system — a case initially known as LaShawn A. v. Marion Barry Jr. With…
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Even as STAY DC applications are closed and the city has lifted its utility moratorium, residents still have access to myriad resources to help pay for their utilities this winter.
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