First ANC Meeting of 2024 Confronts Crime and Bagels 
• January 10, 2024

The first 2024 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) on Jan. 8 dealt with last year’s continuing problems as well as looking to the year ahead.   Rising […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed
• January 4, 2024

As many have noticed, cannabis “gifting shops” and dispensaries have been scrambling energetically – and often furtively – to set up shop behind Georgetown storefronts, to the delight of marijuana […]

Deal to Move Caps, Wizards Strikes Blow to Mayor’s Downtown Plans
• December 14, 2023

A dueling set of press conferences on either side of the Potomac yesterday – one from Potomac Yard, Alexandria, featuring Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) with Ted Leonsis, owner of […]

Crime: D.C.’s ‘Real-Time Crime Center’, CAG’s Public Safety Efforts, Local Reports
• December 11, 2023

Yes, crime is up. But, so are public safety efforts.  From the Office of the Mayor, to Ward 2 Council member Brooke Pinto’s headquarters, to the Citizens Association of Georgetown, […]

Crime: Secret Service Shots Fired in Georgetown; Chief Smith Confirmed
• November 13, 2023

In a show of unity to address the city’s “crime crisis,” the D.C. Council voted unanimously Nov. 7 to confirm Mayor Bowser’s nomination of Acting Police Chief Angela A. Smith […]

Crime: City and Its Council Need to Get Real  
• August 16, 2023

On Aug. 7, Ward 8 Council member Trayon White made headlines as he suggested the use of the D.C. National Guard to combat the city’s unrelenting lawlessness and violence.  “The […]

Jelleff Community Friends Launch Survey on Rec Center Refurbishment
• June 26, 2023

Now’s your chance to weigh in on Jelleff Community Center’s extensive refurbishments project and what you’d like to see improved at the aging recreational and community facility managed by the […]

Profs & Pints DC: Uber and Urban Politics
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Prof and Pints DC presents: “Uber and Urban Politics,” with Katie Wells, postdoctoral fellow in tech and society at Georgetown University, former visiting scholar and lecturer in geography at George […]

Ward 2 Council Member Brooke Pinto Announces 2024 Re-Election Bid
• June 15, 2023

Ward 2 Council member Brooke Pinto announced June 14 she will be running for re-election in 2024 to serve another four-year term representing Ward 2 on the D.C. Council where […]

Bowser’s Hill Testimony Over D.C. Police Bill Was Civil
• May 18, 2023

The corridor in front of the large Congressional hearing room on the first floor of the Longworth Office Building was packed by 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16, with news […]