DCist: Wikipedia Blocked Councilmember Jack Evans For Editing His Own Page Again
Early Monday morning, Wikipedia blocked Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans for the third time for making continuous changes to his own Wikipedia page.
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City Paper: Inspection of Barry Farm Reveals Elevated Levels of Lead
The inspection was part of a city-wide review of the 56 DC Housing Authority properties that about 20,000 D.C. residents call home.
Bisnow: Buyer Of Northwest D.C. Property Plans Apartments Above Retail
District Properties, a D.C. developer that primarily builds single-family homes, is planning its largest multifamily property to date. The company acquired a property at 22-24 Kennedy St. NW for $4.8M from The Menkiti Group in a deal posted…
Washington Post: Second suspect turns himself in to police in fatal shooting of 10-year-old girl
A second suspect has turned himself in to authorities in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard in July as she went to buy ice cream.
Washington Post: D.C. has legal aid for immigrants, but the city doesn’t use tax dollars to help…
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) often touts her administration’s immigrant legal-aid fund when activists say she hasn’t done enough to protect undocumented residents from President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Washington Post: Changes to Kennedy Center parking coming this fall
The Kennedy Center will reopen the primary entrances to its parking garage this fall as part of a larger upgrade to its parking services. The southern entrances to the 2,000-space garage have been closed for nearly three years during…
Washington Post: Police arrest one suspect in shooting death of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, have…
Police have arrested one of four suspected gunmen in the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who died in a barrage of 70 bullets fired into a courtyard as she went to buy ice cream, the District’s police chief and mayor announced…
Colin Browne in The Post: Our streets make us unhappy. They don’t have to.
Back-to-school week is always a reminder of just how unpleasant traveling in our city can be. In late August each year, the street next to my neighborhood school fills with honking and yelling in the morning as a few hundred anxious parents…
Eric Rozenman in The Post: D.C.’s cruel failure to tend to its homelessness problem
One thing you don’t see in Polish cities — at least not in Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, certainly not if you’re visiting as a guest of the foreign ministry — is many homeless people. National estimates have varied widely in the past decade,…
Nick Sementelli in Greater Greater Washington: Historic districts are a poor substitute for good…
DC is growing, and as this spring’s passionate debate about the DC Comprehensive Plan revealed, managing this growth is one of the most important and contentious city planning discussions of our time. However, decisions about historic…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Has a city powered by outrage run out of it for a 6-year-old with a…
Outrage. Washington, especially Washington in the age of Trump, is rarely short on outrage. And while the entire region has been in various degrees of apoplexy all summer over lying white guys in suits, three little girls couldn’t buy ice…
John Kelly in The Post: Like father, like son: Channel 4’s Mark Segraves keeps the beat for local…
It was the 1960s, and the Washington Evening Star’s nightlife columnist John Segraves happened to be working at the precise instant that the typical newspaper music critic was morphing from someone like him — short hair, white shirt, jacket…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: ‘I hope that they find normalcy’: What a D.C. dad’s fight for his…
The 9-year-old just had to see her locker, one she had already envisioned decorating with wallpaper and glittery things, before she was ready to say goodbye to her father. The 12-year-old was a bit more hesitant.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Barry Farm residents still fighting for their homes, even as many…
On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. schools are improving slow and steady — and not enough
FROM THE uproar over graduation practices to the scandal over the improper high school placement of the schools chancellor’s daughter, there was plenty of bad news about the District’s public school system last school year. So it was…
Alyse Graham in The Post: D.C. Water steps up
Regarding the Aug. 17 Metro article “D.C. Water to overhaul alerts after July missteps”: Can we pause to recognize and applaud municipal accountability and leadership at work?
Harry Jaffe on NBC4: Mayor Bowser Below Grade In Running DC Schools
As giddy students and nervous parents begin the new school year in D.C. on Monday, it’s the perfect time to deliver report cards on Mayor Muriel Bowser, the elected official in charge of our public schools.
Washington Post: In race to retain DC At-Large Council seat, Silverman seeking to knock challenger…
D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman on Monday sought to knock a challenger off the November ballot, alleging that the opponent’s nominating petitions include nearly 4,000 invalid signatures. S. Kathryn Allen, the challenger who is backed…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: ‘The last time I held her’: How a homeless musician reclaimed the love of…
Ruth Ann was finally back in his arms. “May 7, 2017,” he said. “That was the last time I held her.” In the year and three months he’d been apart from Ruth Ann, his hands went a little janky. They’d been together for 24 years, so holding her…
Mark Lee in The Washington Blade: Two-thirds of D.C. neighborhood races uncontested
Fully two-thirds of all D.C. advisory neighborhood commission (ANC) seats citywide will again have either no candidate running for election or only one uncontested candidate name will appear on the ballot in the November general election.