WAMU: Metro’s Late Night Options Leave D.C. Officials Unenthused
Mayor Muriel Bowser is criticizing Metro’s plans for addressing late night service, saying none of the options Metro presented meet the region’s needs.
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WTOP: DC leaders eager for Metro to restore full service
WASHINGTON — Metro wants to extend its reduced rail service hours for at least another year, but Mayor Muriel Bowser and members of the D.C. Council weren’t shy to let Metro know they’re unhappy the rail system is not ready to restore full…
Washington Post: District leaders urge comprehensive approach to reducing homicides
Amid a violent January in which 18 people have been killed in the District, city leaders on Tuesday pressed for additional resources for crime prevention, including a new effort to help find jobs for inmates nearing release from the city…
WTOP: DC leader calls deadly violence an ‘emergency’ as patrols increase
WASHINGTON — As the deadly start to the year in D.C. continues, the police say there aren’t any more shootings than the last few years, but that the circumstances around them are harder to survive.
Curbed: D.C. bill would ensure legal protections for electric scooter and electric bike riders
In 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a law that reformed the city’s legal standard for who is at fault in crashes involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist. Under the previous standard, known as “contributory negligence,” injured…
DCist: In Wake Of Triple Murder, Bowser And D.C. Council Discuss Strategies To Curb Homicides
Mayor Muriel Bowser presented a series of violence-reduction strategies on Tuesday during a monthly breakfast with the D.C. Council, announcing continuing efforts to get illegal guns off the streets and curb retaliatory violence through…
WAMU: In Rush To Implement Sports Betting, Unease Over D.C.’s Plan For Lottery Contract
If D.C. officials have their way, residents and visitors will be able to cast legal wagers on sports at physical locations and by using an app by as early as this fall, beating every other jurisdiction in the Washington region and…
City Paper: Marathon Hearing on Opioid Crisis Reveals Confusion Over D.C.’s Plan to Reduce Deaths
Amid angry testimony, the District reports a 30 percent reduction in opioid deaths in the last year. But leaders don’t trust that data point.
Washington Post: First public hearing on nomination of D.C. chancellor scheduled for Wednesday
The first of three hearings leading up to the D.C. Council’s vote on the nomination of Lewis D. Ferebee as the District’s schools chancellor is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Mendelson renews push to split up DCRA amid criticism over slow action on demolition at Franklin…
Critics of the District’s building code enforcement pointed earlier this month to unauthorized demolition at a museum project downtown as evidence of a need for change. Last Tuesday, in an effort to improve the performance of the…
Washington Business Journal: Debate over sole-source contract for D.C. Lottery vendor heats up
The D.C. Lottery wants the D.C. Council to approve a bill that would allow the agency to negotiate a new contract with its current vendor, circumventing an open procurement process and ensuring the city gets a sports betting platform…
WTOP: DC lottery contract might impact timeline for legal sports betting
WASHINGTON — How soon people can place legal sports bets in D.C. will depend on how city lawmakers decide to handle the March 2020 expiration of the D.C. Lottery contract.
Washington Post: Dozens criticize city response to opioid crisis at D.C. Council hearing
D.C. lawmakers, public health experts, doctors and addiction treatment providers forcefully criticized the city’s efforts to address an explosion in fatal opioid overdoses, saying at a D.C. Council hearing Monday that city officials failed…
Washington Post: D.C. legalized sports betting — but who gets to profit is a new source of drama
D.C. officials on Monday defended efforts to award a sole-source contract to run the city’s upcoming sports gambling program, insisting that the normal competitive bidding process would delay legal bettingand cost the city tens of millions…
City Paper: D.C. Sports Betting Bill on the Fast Track After Four-Hour Hearing
The District’s chief financial officer said Monday that online sports gambling could begin as early as this fall. Bettors could wage phone-based bets on outcomes and performances of both pro and college sporting events.
WAMU: D.C. Council Holds Oversight Hearing On District’s Opioid Response
D.C. lawmakers want to know why the District continues to see a rise of opioid-related overdose deaths, despite millions of dollars being poured in to combat the issue.
City Paper: Allen Quietly Rejects Mayor Bowser’s Nominees to Government Ethics Board
Councilmember Charles Allen rejected Mayor Muriel Bowser's two picks to sit on the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) earlier this month. The five-member board responsible for investigating alleged ethics violations…
Colbert King in The Post: Why did a D.C. Council member put the kibosh on a much-needed project?
In an Oct. 2 news release, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a proposal for mixed-use development in Ward 8, the city’s most impoverished community, located east of the Anacostia River. The ambitious project, Bowser stated, would be…
District Dig: All In — D.C.’s Chief Financial Officer bets big with Intralot
Attendees of a D.C. Council breakfast on January 7 could’ve heard a pin drop as Chairman Phil Mendelson moved to wrap things up and begin the legislative session.
Curbed: ‘We’re in a recession, fundamentally.’ District leaders reckon with shutdown’s local impacts
An end to the partial U.S. government shutdown is finally in sight—at least a temporary one—but the longest government closure in American history has already done major damage to the local economy. On Friday morning, D.C. government and…