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Following Jelleff fight, Burleith bristles over District’s plans to upgrade a nearby field to…

Cuneyt Dil Dec 18, 2019

A turf war raged this fall over access to the public Jelleff Recreation Center in Georgetown, with some parents and lawmakers rallying unsuccessfully against private Maret School renewing a deal with the District for exclusive rights to…

Washington Business Journal: Events D.C. names operator for RFK campus fields

Editor May 10, 2019

Events D.C. has selected Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park to manage the 27-acre RFK campus fields complex, the first step in the long-term overhaul of the larger site.

Washington Post: It’s soccer season, but D.C. closes playing fields due to ‘hardness’

Editor Sep 7, 2018

For thousands of D.C. children, the week after Labor Day means the thrill of a new soccer season and hours spent preparing for opening weekend games. But this year, as last year, there has been a jarring surprise: shuttered fields and…

ABC7: 15 recreational fields closed in DC over safety concerns

Editor Sep 7, 2018

DC's Department of General Services announced Thursday night that 15 recreational fields across the District failed testing. The reason — the artificial turf fields, which are filled with tire rubber crumbs, are too hard.

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District Links: White House submits nominations for four DC Superior Court vacancies; DC Water faces new lawsuits over…

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President Donald Trump last week submitted four new nominations for vacancies on the DC Superior Court.

District Links: AG reaches $9.9M settlement to resolve inquiry into Ticketmaster pricing; court panel allows ballroom…

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Days after a federal jury found that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster hold a harmful, anticompetitive monopoly over large concert venues, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb's office has…

District Links: Environmental groups battle Bowser budget proposals; funding bill with DC budget riders clears House…

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The House Appropriations Committee is slated to act Tuesday or Wednesday on the fiscal year 2027 funding bill that includes DC appropriations — as well as a slate of DC-related budget riders.

District Links: Bowser extends juvenile curfew; monumental arch gains nod; House appropriations panel looks to include…

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The Republican-run House Appropriations Committee this morning released the text of a proposed fiscal year 2027 funding bill that includes appropriations for DC — with the broad array of riders…

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