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 […]

ANC 2E Notes, Nov. 1, 2022 
• November 7, 2022

Falling on the day after Halloween, this month’s ANC2e meeting had lower public attendance than usual (only 14 at the outset). “Not a huge crowd, but not a huge agenda […]

Downtowner News Briefs: June 6, 2022
• June 6, 2022

“Shaming Renaming” Gets D.C. Council Member Banned from Russia  D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), helped name a block outside the Russian Embassy after a dissident the Russians are […]

Exclusive Interview: Robert White, Top Rival to Mayor Muriel Bowser  
• May 13, 2022

As Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) seeks to become the first woman elected to a third term in office this fall as the District’s chief executive, her top rival in the […]

Bowser Names Robert Contee New Chief of Police
• December 23, 2020

In tapping Contee, 48, a native Washingtonian who began his career in 1989 as an MPD cadet, the mayor chose to forgo a nationwide search to replace outgoing Chief Peter Newsham.

Downtowner DC: Holiday Market, Wilson High, Tidal Basin
• November 16, 2020

Choosing not to let COVID get in its way, the open-air market at 8th and F Streets NW, which opens on Friday, Nov. 20, will have new health and safety protocols in place.

Brooke Pinto’s ‘Business Perspective’
• August 10, 2020

As the youngest District Council member ever elected and the first woman to represent Ward 2, Democrat Brooke Pinto, 28, is off to a running start.

Georgetown Lawyer Protests Protests
• August 6, 2020

Georgetown resident and lawyer Don Crockett sent a formal letter to the mayor decrying certain protests in Georgetown, as well as the May 31 looting that followed the downtown protests.

Ward 2 Council Member-Elect Brooke Pinto to Be Sworn In June 29
• June 18, 2020

The term will last through this year, then Pinto, the youngest Council member and the first Ward 2 rep to succeed Jack Evans in almost 30 years, will likely continue in a new term in 2021.

D.C. Attorney General Investigating Clergy Abuse
• October 25, 2018

A new portal was announced for victims to report abuse to the Office of the Attorney General. All of the allegations will be reviewed and, if needed, referred to the authorities.