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A long line of people testified at an eight-hour public hearing last week to share their views about a proposed measure to revamp the city’s electoral process. Numerous speakers testified both for and against implementing ranked-choice…
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When local activist Lindsey Jones-Renaud learned that her friend Yolanda Corbett received an eviction notice this fall, she was shocked. Jones-Renaud assumed her friend would always be safe in her home since Corbett was living in a…
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A dozen homeowners who purchased properties in Southeast DC that fell apart soon after they were constructed filed a new lawsuit last month against the city, the developer, and a housing nonprofit. The lawsuit builds on claims made in…
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Summary: The Legal Counsel for the Elderly received a grant from the AARP Foundation to help it expand its veterans advocacy project. New outreach efforts will include setting up assistance clinics throughout the city targeted to veterans…
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Throughout the pandemic, the DC Council has heard calls to provide high-speed, reliable internet access to all residents who need it. But achieving such a goal is not as straightforward as it might seem. As people across the country…
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Last Friday, Karl Morrison — one of the 46 homeowners displaced from their properties at 1262 Talbert St. SE because of dire safety concerns — received the keys to his new two-bedroom apartment in Navy Yard. A housing certificate…
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Ward 5 DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is in the proverbial political catbird seat. He is the legislature’s chair pro tempore; chair of the powerful Committee on Business and Economic Development, holding sway over significant financial…
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DC residents had until 7 p.m. Wednesday to apply for the city's COVID-19 rent and utility assistance program. STAY DC — which stands for Stronger Together by Assisting You DC — launched on April 12 and had awarded about $155 million in…
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At-large DC Council member and newly announced mayoral candidate Robert White is right in asserting that the District government has essentially aged out. “We have been on autopilot for years,” he said during an interview with me last…
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On the last Sunday that Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library was closed to the public, two professional ballet dancers whirled through the historic building’s newly renovated space. The dancers, Alexandra Hutchinson and Derek…
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Ephrame Kassaye frequently sees the same families and children shop at his store in the Washington Highlands neighborhood in Ward 8. He stocks the aisles of Chesapeake Big Market, located next to an elementary school and a child care…
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It was 2018 when the Rev. Wendy Hamilton, a 2022 candidate for DC delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, first learned about universal basic income (UBI). Hamilton, who has lived in DC since the late ‘80s but grew up in a small…
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Meet Foggy Bottom advisory neighborhood commissioners Yannik Omictin and Evelyn Hudson, who have used their elected office to advocate for the rights of their constituents experiencing homelessness.
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As extreme weather persists and increases nationally, floods, excessive heat and poor air quality in the District disproportionately harm those living outside, people of color and people living east of the Anacostia River.  Donté…
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How does someone experiencing homelessness in the District find housing? Here’s what you need to know about coordinated entry and the process for finding housing if you’re homeless in DC.
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On a Friday afternoon in early September, Britney Bennett, a single mother of two children aged 6 and 13, sat on a blue couch in Davina Callahan’s living room and sighed. “They’re not even telling us what’s going on with our homes…
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At 26, James Butler found himself over his head. The Ohio transplant was running a law firm specializing in criminal and civil litigation with 25 staff members. It had long been a dream of his to work in civil rights and help people. But,…
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Three days before the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, brother and sister Sulton and Iman Naieem passed around index cards to protesters gathering in Lafayette Square. The cards contained a list of basic demands: evacuate…
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Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington last weekend to demand voting rights protections and DC statehood — two efforts many speakers related as being one and the same.  …
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