DCist: Budget Cuts Could Wipe Out Small Orgs That Serve Survivors Of Domestic Violence
Organizations that serve domestic violence survivors say they have an annual ritual.
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Axios: Congress takes on fight over long flights out of Reagan Airport
Washington-area lawmakers are on a collision course with representatives from Texas and out West over the reach of Reagan National Airport.
DCist: Ben Vinson, Scholar Of The African Diaspora, To Be Howard University’s New President
Howard University has announced its next president, Ben Vinson III, a current provost, vice president, and history professor at Case Western Reserve University. Vinson, a historian of the African diaspora in Latin America, will take over…
DCist: D.C. Council Passes Emergency Bill Offering Restaurants Relief Against Higher Delivery App…
The D.C. Council unanimously passed emergency legislation Tuesday that aims to ensure that food delivery companies like DoorDash and UberEats don’t overcharge restaurants for basic services.
Washington Post: Migrants find no space in crowded hotels leased by D.C., council members say
District officials have stopped placing migrant families arriving on buses from Texas and Arizona and by other means in hotels meant as temporary lodging, telling those people that there is no more room, the city’s Department of Human…
District Links: Capacity issue brings calls to boost funding for emergency housing for migrants;…
With the District's program to house migrants in area hotels having reached capacity, the chair of the DC Council's Housing Committee is urging the mayor to use contingency reserves so the city can provide temporary shelter to new…
Washington Post: Howard University names scholar of the African diaspora as its new president
Ben Vinson III is now provost of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
Axios: Leaders clash over the future of K Street
D.C.’s leaders are again divided over how to fix downtown’s decline amid the rise of teleworking and the absence of federal workers.
DCist: Hundreds Line Up For What Could Be Their Last Chance To Get Public Housing
Two hours after the doors of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library opened on Monday to residents on the city’s waiting list for public housing, 53-year-old Michelle Jennings was still inching along the first floor.
District Links: Repeat offenders have racked up millions in unpaid DC traffic tickets; DCHA hosts…
DC's enforcement of its traffic laws is drawing scrutiny, with newly reported data indicating that hundreds of drivers — most of them from Maryland and Virginia — have racked up repeated tickets but remain on the roadways.
City Paper: Bowser’s Car-Centric Design Changes Have United Advocates Behind K Street Transitway…
Charles Allen’s plans to fund free Metrobus service by raiding the downtown project have gradually attracted more support.
WTOP: Will lunch out become more expensive? Tipped minimum wage increases in DC
You may be paying a little more for that pasta primavera or bacon cheeseburger at your favorite lunch spot in D.C.
Washington Business Journal: Georgetown University pitches huge redevelopment of law center near…
Georgetown University is pitching a significant redevelopment of its Gewirz Student Center building near Capitol Hill.
DCist: A ‘Downtown Killer:’ Mayor Bowser Decries D.C. Council Plan To Cancel K Street Transitway…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday pushed back against a pair of budget proposals from the D.C. Council which she decried as “downtown killers” that would hamper the city’s plans to help revitalize the ailing area.
Washington Post: K Street, rideshare surcharge proposals would harm downtown D.C., mayor says
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday criticized the D.C. Council’s plan to pay for free Metrobus service at the expense of a long-planned downtown transit project that she said is critical to rejuvenating the downtown corridor amid…
Axios: H Street set for big makeover with largest development coming
The H Street NE AutoZone and its large surface parking lot would turn into 200 apartments under a new redevelopment proposal.
District Links: Bowser pushes against budget ideas as ‘downtown killers’; study faults…
As DC Council members work to finalize a budget proposal for initial consideration in two weeks, Mayor Muriel Bowser is decrying two proposals that she casts as detrimental to fostering a resurgence in downtown DC.
WTOP: DC council member wants to add $2 rideshare surcharge for some downtown trips
A D.C. council member is advocating to include a $2 surcharge on rideshare trips, hoping to encourage more people to use public transit and decrease traffic congestion.
Washington Post: Police chief’s exit the latest among key D.C. government departures
The retirement of D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III — who plans to take a top-level position with the FBI — is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who is months into…
Washington Post: D.C. jail medical care ‘systemically dysfunctional,’ suit alleges
People incarcerated in D.C. and their advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the District this week, alleging that the city’s Department of Corrections does not provide prisoners the medical care that the Constitution demands.