D.C. officials will face a daunting fiscal picture over the coming years as the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit city coffers.
The bad news for District leaders is they have a $782 million budget gap to close over the next four fiscal years, as revenue projections have grown gloomier while the pandemic drags on.
A heated dispute over whether to endorse the Democratic opponent of a popular gay candidate running for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat as an independent resulted in a decision on Monday night by the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club not to!-->…
In 2003, Bella Evangelista, a respected performer and transgender woman was shot to death on a D.C. street. Five years later, Tony Hunter, an openly gay man, was on his way to a bar when he was assaulted and ultimately died due to a!-->…
When D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine took the extraordinary step of suing the city’s public housing authority in June over failures to keep many of its properties safe, executive director Tyrone Garrett lambasted his own staff.
The D.C. Housing Authority is offering up a pair of townhome communities and a parking lot for redevelopment, aiming to bring more new construction to the area around the old Sursum Corda apartments near NoMa.
The NoMa Parks Foundation has acquired a vacant lot across the street from Swampoodle Park, a dog park and children’s playground that opened in 2018, with aims of building a companion park.
Poet Kevin Young will be the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture starting Jan. 11. He replaces the founding director, Lonnie Bunch, who was tapped to lead the entire Smithsonian organization.
It’s time once again to honor the creative community of the nation’s capital. The 35th annual D.C. Mayor’s Arts Awards will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Happy Tuesday. Howard University today officially announced its hiring of Rashad Young, the former city administrator who negotiated for the job with the school while also working on tax breaks in connection with construction of its new!-->…
The vast majority of people stopped, frisked, or arrested by officers in D.C.’s special gun recovery and narcotics units were Black, according to a new report mandated by the D.C. Council. Black people were the subjects of 87% of stops,!-->…