Sponsored: The Future of Georgetown’s Streateries & Sidewalk Extensions 

January 25, 2024

[Sponsored Content]    By Joe Sternlieb   Georgetown BID President & CEO   The BID entered 2024 with a full agenda of projects to sustain the leasing momentum we’ve benefited from over […]

Business Ins & Outs: Tesla, La Bonne Vache, Reverie, Alara; District Doughnut

January 22, 2024

In: La Bonne Vache to Open Jan. 31 La Bonne Vache, “The Good Cow,” will have its grand opening on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at the corner that held the beloved […]

Crime: Massive Crime Bill Up for D.C. Council Vote; Local Reports

January 16, 2024

Crime in the nation’s capital was a major focus of national headlines last year owing to the city’s spike in carjackings, vehicle thefts, armed robberies of members of Congress, its […]

Jack Evans Will Not Run for Ward 2 Seat


One of the big 2024 election-year questions — at least for Georgetown and Ward 2 — has just been answered.  Jack Evans, a decades-long resident of P Street NW just a […]

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 […]

Crime: Baby Returned After Georgetown Car Theft; Armed Robbery at Sara’s Market; Local Reports

January 8, 2024

In the first week of the new year, Georgetown and surrounding neighborhoods have not been spared the city’s recent waves of violent crime. On Thursday, Jan. 4, a daytime gun […]

National Park Service Announces Plans for Georgetown’s C&O Canal Repairs

January 4, 2024

At long last, the National Park Service (NPS) has formally announced plans to drain and restore Georgetown’s portion of the landmark C&O Canal with a $12.7 million “investment” to “preserve […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed


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 […]

Crime & Safety: City’s Homicide Rate Spikes; Glover Park’s Crime Surges; Local Reports

January 2, 2024

For the New Year, could Washington’s new Police Chief Pamela A. Smith possibly not include reducing the city’s homicide levels as one of her chief resolutions for 2024? Front page […]

Retail Therapy for the Gray Days Ahead

December 27, 2023

I don’t shop. I like to say I am looking for visual stimulation. Happily, there are now two new options in Georgetown within a few storefronts of each other with […]