Featured
Business Ins & Outs: Google Store Opens; Happy 25th to Bacchus Wine Cellar!
Featured
Seeing Double: Santa at Volta Park, Rose Park on Saturday
Arts
Tawny Chatmon’s Portraits Take Center Stage at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Arts
Festive Fun Takes Center Stage at This Year’s Georgetown Jingle
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Q&A Cafe: Jack Evans Made One Thing Perfectly Clear
• April 6, 2023
The monthly Q&A Cafe lunch program at the George Town Club is produced and directed by, and features, longtime CBS News producer Carol Joynt, who interviews top newsmakers and those-in-the-know […]
Mayor’s Reduced D.C. Budget Difficult to Label
• March 23, 2023
“Scant,” “Fair Shot,” “Comeback”? District spokespeople, analysts and journalists are struggling with how to describe the new budget for Washington, D.C., that Mayor Muriel Bowser presented in her final $19.7 billion, […]
Editorial: Honoring The Women of Georgetown
• March 8, 2023
Today, March 8, we honor International Women’s Day. By presidential proclamation, the month of March is also designated every year as Women’s History Month. This time is set aside to […]
Editorial: Doing the Safety Dance
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The Criminal Code Brouhaha Is an Opportunity to Do Better The District’s new criminal code bill is in limbo, after D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson pulled the legislation out of […]
Georgetown Budget Proposals Might Not Fly
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A month or two can make a big difference in transitional times like these, and impact even supposedly long-negotiated, thought-out, professionally analyzed budget maneuverings — even in a monolithic one-party, […]
Weekend Roundup, March 2 – 5
• March 2, 2023
Here we are “March”ing in “2” another weekend! Lots of great things to do including the HerStory 5K with Mayor Bowser, a new art exhibit at Dupont Underground and performances […]
Crime: Bowser and Pinto Move to Stem D.C. Car Thefts and Gun Violence; Recent MPD Reports
• February 27, 2023
The District’s crime problems are once again in the national spotlight. Representatives in the U.S. Congress, both Democratic and Republican, are considering using their federal powers to override the D.C. […]
Crime: New ‘Thefts By Flash Mob,’ Parka Stealing, Porch Piracy, Mayor’s Metro Safety Moves
• February 13, 2023
Flash Mob Robbery In our recent public safety report on youth crime trends in the District, we speculated that “dark web” social media tools could be fueling illicit activities by […]
Exclusive Interview: Shirley Kwan-Hui, Head of New D.C. Agency Protecting Consumers and Licensing Businesses
• January 9, 2023
There’s a new consumer-protection czar in town. And her skills and life experience are poised to help safeguard D.C. residents and visitors while ensuring safe and successful business practices in […]
2022 – 2023: What’s Out and What’s In
• December 29, 2022
As we look toward the new year with high hopes and a modicum of trepidation, it is perhaps altogether fitting and proper to look back on this past year and […]
