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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...
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4 months ago
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...
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4 months ago
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,...
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4 months ago
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...
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5 months ago
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...
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5 months ago
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...
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5 months ago
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...
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5 months ago
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...
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5 months ago
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...
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6 months ago
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...
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6 months ago
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...
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6 months ago
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...
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6 months ago
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...
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7 months ago
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...
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7 months ago
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...