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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.