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Trailblazer Barbara Walters (1929-2022)
January 3, 2023
•Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93 after spending more than 50 years in front of the camera. Walters was one of the trailblazers in the […]
Crime: MPD Chief Cites 2022 Crime-Fighting Gains While Denouncing Gun Violence
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On the first day of 2023, MPD Chief Robert Contee released a “Message from the Chief” lauding his department’s crime-fighting efforts last year while acknowledging the District continues to be […]
Mayor Bowser Sworn in for Historic Third Term
January 2, 2023
•Mayor Muriel Bowser was sworn in for a historic third term as the Mayor of the District of Columbia at Washington Convention Center on Jan. 2. She is the first […]
Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative Hires Adnan Syed
December 27, 2022
•On December 12, when Georgetown University’s new Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) hired the key murder suspect featured in the most widely streamed true-crime podcast in history, the university’s Jesuit […]
Crime: Beware of Porch Piracy This Holiday Season
December 19, 2022
•With less than a week before Christmas and over 50 percent of Americans shopping for gifts online this year (according to Statista.com), the problem of “porch piracy” – or package […]
Duke Ellington School Fight for Autonomy Heats Up
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Ever since the old Western High School at 35th and R Streets NW was transformed physically and curriculum-wise two decades ago into the current palatial $178.5 million Duke Ellington School […]
D.C.’s ‘Night Mayor’ to Head Restaurant Association
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Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), the trade association representing restaurants and the foodservice industry in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, will have a new president & CEO — Shawn Townsend […]
D.C. Metro Bus Rides to Be Free by July 1
December 12, 2022
•This month, the D.C. Council did something that no other governing body a city Washington, D.C.’s size or larger has ever done: it unanimously agreed to offer and fund free […]
Crime: Metro Shootings, Suspicious Vehicle on M Street
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With more holiday shoppers riding Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail system in recent days, a spate of Metro shootings this past week has alarmed riders, residents, visitors, police and the broader public. […]
Farewell, RFK. Thanks for the Memories
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If you walked into the rusty, dilapidated stadium named for Robert Francis Kennedy on Dec. 8 for the kickoff of the Farewell RFK Stadium campaign, you shared an initial emotion […]