Tag : D.C

Tag: D.C

D.C. Slumlord Ordered to Return $1.1M to Tenants Forced to Live in Squalor

Sanford Capital LLC and its owner have been ordered by D.C.’s attorney general to return more than $1.1 million in rent payments to 155 tenants in Wards 5, 7 and 8 who were forced to live in uninhabitable conditions. The joint settlement agreem...

D.C. Activist Leads Search for Solutions to Shootings

Most of the nation’s attention continues to rest on the cities of El Paso and Dayton where families, friends and local officials struggle to make sense of last weekend’s two mass shootings that left a collective and rising death toll of 31 with doz...

Skyland Ceremony Will Highlight Addition of Lidl Grocery Store

They were once political rivals fighting for the District’s mayor’s office, now Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 7 Councilman Vincent Gray are both welcoming success on the East End of the city with the topping out celebration of Skyland Town Center,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Racine Running for Mayor?

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine (WI file photo) I feel a mayoral run coming from Attorney General Karl Racine. This man has consistently been looking out for the residents of D.C. Going after slumlords, Marriott and all their bogus fees, and no...

D.C. Auditor’s Report on Affordable Housing Raises Deep Concerns

D.C. Council members are responding to a new report released from the Office of the D.C. Auditor, which raises concerns about the integrity of the competitive application process for the city’s Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF). The report found...

Pepco, Living Classrooms Celebrate Juneteenth at Ward 6 Community Center Opening

In commemoration of Juneteenth — the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. — Pepco and Living Classrooms, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a community center at the newly restored James C. Dent House...

D.C. Airports Among Worst for Summer Air Travel

Summer is here and the time is right for … Amtrak? Greyhound? Well, if you’re one who wish to avoid delays, that may be the way to go because Reagan Washington National and Dulles International have been ranked among some of the worst airports for...

D.C. Council Members Participate in Rally for ‘Justice for Janitors’ Day

Honoring the 29th anniversary of “Justice for Janitors Day,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Council member Elissa Silverman readied to join hundreds of 32BJ SEIU janitors to march downtown during Wednesday afternoon rush hour to protest a...

DDOT, Residents at Odds over Bike Lanes

A meeting scheduled for next month between the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and those living along a stretch of Alabama Avenue in Southeast could potentially actualize what some residents said they’ve long yearned: a direct say in t...

D.C. Mayor Urges Residents to Help Eradicate Gun Violence

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement in support of Friday as National Gun Violence Awareness Day that the city will mourn the nearly 40,000 lives lost to gun violence annually, including 48 people killed so far this year. “When we look at t...

Local Attention Pivots to Gun Violence

As they prepare for a student-led march scheduled for Thursday afternoon, friends, family and members of the Somerset Prep DC Public Charter School community remember slain teenager Maurice Scott as an honor roll student and rising high school soph...

D.C. Residents Asked to Weigh in on Rayful Edmond’s Fate

District residents will be asked whether one of its most notorious drug lords should have his sentence reviewed after decades in prison. D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) announced May 30 that his office has been appointed by U.S. District C...

D.C. Councilman Sponsors Bill to Give Felons the Vote

Felons in the District currently don’t have the right to vote, but if a city lawmaker has his way, that will change in a couple of years. D.C. Council member Robert White (D-At Large) announced that he will introduce the Restore the Vote Amendment...

Nonprofit Reduce Gaps Plaguing Youth in Wards 1 and 8

Three schools in southeast D.C. — Lucy Ellen Moten Elementary, John Hayden Johnson Middle, and Charles Hart Middle — and one in Northwest — Cardozo Elementary Education Campus — have caught the charitable eye of a Richmond, Virginia-based nonprofit...

Bowser Admin Chides D.C. Council’s Budget Cuts

The senior leadership of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration are not happy about cuts that the city council are contemplating as the 2019-2020 budget season winds down. On May 6, D.C. City Administrator Rashad Young, Jenny Reed, the D.C. dire...

What is the Black Church’s Role in Advancing African American Wealth?