WTOP: Ambar to reopen after $3 million remodeling (and pandemic closing)
Capitol Hill restaurant Ambar’s two-month closing for renovation was extended by another two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Press Release: Norton Press Conference Remarks Announcing Date for Historic D.C. Statehood Bill…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 16, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today the date of the House floor vote on her District of…
Press Release: AG Racine Recovers $142K in Unpaid Wages for District Restaurant Workers
Press Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 16, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
OAG Alleged that Matchbox and Ted’s Bulletin Restaurants Failed to Pay 100+ Bussers and Runners…
Washington Post: Hoyer sets June 26 date for historic House vote on D.C. statehood bill
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) has chosen June 26 to hold the first floor vote in a generation on D.C. statehood, hoping to harness a national reckoning on race and capitalize on widespread outrage over the federal response…
StateScoop: Budget cuts ahead, D.C. to merge connectivity, ‘smart city’ programs
Confronted with a shrinking budget, Washington, D.C., Chief Technology Officer Lindsey Parker on Friday proposed merging the city’s digital connectivity and “smart city” programs into a single, community-based project.
Abdallah Fayyad in the Boston Globe: The military presence at D.C. protests was disturbingly…
Being in the streets of Washington reminded me of the occupation I endured as a Palestinian.
Mediaite: DC Restaurants Warn They May Close for Good: ‘Boom Is Over,’ ‘Does Not Appear to Be Coming…
Bars and restaurants in Washington, D.C. may be forced to close if landlords don’t give them a break on rent, dozens of proprietors wrote in a Monday letter suggesting “the boom is over.”
Washington Post: For black residents who saw D.C. burn decades ago, Floyd protests feel like hope
More than five decades had passed since Poopoo Earls protested.
WTOP: DC Shorts Laughs provides 6 days of virtual comic relief during heated time
From the coronavirus to racial conflicts, it’s been a double gut-punch for America lately.
WAMU: ‘I Want Them To Remember Who I Am’: A Teacher’s Postcard To D.C.
In pre-coronavirus times, a normal day for Marcy Hairston involved buzzing around Murch Elementary School in Northwest D.C. to check in on her roster of students with special needs.