Tech Tip: Bookmark the Websites You Frequently Visit
• January 13, 2020

Here’s a sneaky trick used by many hackers. They purchase and set up a fraudulent website that is a close misspelling of a legitimate one. Example: faceboook.com (with three os) instead of facebook.com. All you have to do is accidentally …

Jack Evans Report: Hyde-Addison Returns to Georgetown
• September 13, 2019

Georgetown’s Hyde-Addison Elementary School has reopened! Two years after the start of a massive project to modernize the school, pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students walked through the doors on Aug. 29. I joined Mayor Muriel Bowser, DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis …

Solving Ward 2’s Rat Problem
• October 10, 2018

Residents in Ward 2 and the rest of the District are searching for a solution to the city’s ratproblem. According to the Washington Post, calls made to 311 “are soaring” and city officials are using every method available to rid

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Council Returns, Dockless Vehicle News
• September 12, 2018

The D.C. Council is in the final week of its annual legislative recess, as Council members and staff begin to prepare for the first legislative meeting since July. Be on the lookout for announcements of the public roundtable and hearings

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A Night at ‘Romeo and Juliet’
• August 8, 2018

Summer has arrived in the District and that means Ward 2 Night at the Shakespeare Theatre is right around the corner.

Last year, the Shakespeare Theatre Company brought an amazing production of “Othello”to the stage, with Faran Tahir (from “Star

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Committing to a Sustainable Future
• July 25, 2018

At the last legislative session, I introduced a ban on non-compostable plastic straws and stirrers in the District with Council member Mary Cheh and Chairman Phil Mendelson. The Council has declared this the Year of the Anacostia River, and D.C.

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More AA+ Ratings for D.C.
• July 11, 2018

Great news! Standard & Poor’s and Fitch raised the District of Columbia’s bond rating to AA+. They now join Moody’s, which previously rated the District as AA+. This is the highest bond rating the city has ever earned from the

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Capital Pride Marches On
• June 20, 2018

The Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9, was the official start of Pride Month, also known as June. There are few events in the District that have the ability to truly bring the city together; the Pride Parade is

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Dedicated Funding for the Arts
• June 6, 2018

Earlier this month, the District Council took the first vote on the fiscal year 2019 budget. I’m proud to announce that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities will receive dedicated funding for the first time in the District …

Moving Forward on Public Education
• May 16, 2018

The fiscal year 2019 budget season is coming to an end. For the past three months, the District Council has held hearings and discussed how taxpayer money should be spent in the coming year. Council committees have heard from passionate …