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Happy Wednesday and Juneteenth. Here's how badly Metro’s board bungled the ethics investigation into Jack Evans:

June 18, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller – 202-225-8050 Norton Sounds Alarm on Scheduled Closing for D.C.’s Only Veteran Outpatient Clinic WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter today she sent to…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved the its $15.5 billion budget for fiscal 2020, which includes $47 million from the Washington Convention and Sports Authority that had been the focus of a standoff between lawmakers and the city’s chief…

It is not an exaggeration to characterize the District and the greater Washington region as a cosmopolitan, world-class capital. Yet when I first moved here from Boston in 1967, such a characterization would have been, well, laughable.

With its planned new D.C. headquarters, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority wants to be an “employer of choice” by delivering a “great staff experience” and providing “variety and choice” while future-proofing its assets.

Himitsu's Carlie Steiner and Taqueria Del Barrio's Anna Bran-Leis team up for Dos Mamis.

Dacha Beer Garden is currently being sued by a restaurant supply company for fraud and unpaid bills.

RedRocks Pizza owner James O’Brien is branching out in the D.C. restaurant scene with a new Japanese restaurant planned for Barracks Row on Capitol Hill.

Metro’s ethics investigation of board chairman Jack Evans has grown so surreal that D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was demanding Tuesday to see the full legal report on the probe, which board members say does not exist, and Maryland Gov.…

D.C. statehood advocates can forget about achieving their No. 1 goal as long as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) holds power, the senator confirmed in a Fox News interview.

Elizabeth Davis was reelected as the Washington Teachers’ Union president Monday, beating out a crowded field to secure her third term as one of the most powerful labor leaders in the District.

Two federal lawmakers warned Tuesday that the District needs more money for a fund that covers the unique security needs of the nation’s capital, saying it has been depleted by inadequate congressional payments and President Trump’s…

D.C. schools facing budget cuts are poised to get some relief after the D.C. Council voted Tuesday to direct nearly $5.4 million to those 31 campuses.

Nearly $24 million will be poured into repairing dangerously dilapidated public housing complexes in the nation’s capital after D.C. lawmakers voted Tuesday to redirect money that was originally in the reserves of the Washington Convention…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday deferred a $46 million tax abatement for a swanky Adams Morgan hotel after an initial finding by the city that the developer failed to fulfill hiring requirements mandated when lawmakers approved the subsidy.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 CONTACT: Ashley Fox The Fiscal Year 2020 Budget and the Line Hotel Tax Abatement WASHINGTON, D.C.…

The New York Avenue Men’s shelter is slated for an update

A new exhibit shows early plans for various monuments that ended up getting scrapped.

Sunyatta Amen, a naturopathic physician and fifth-generation herbalist, has been offering tea and natural remedies for whatever ails you at her Calabash Tea & Tonic cafe on 7th Street in Shaw since May 2015. The store has been featured…

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to spend roughly $25 million on repairs to the city’s aging stock of public housing, and to set aside more money at the end of this fiscal year to do the same.