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2020

2020 District of Columbia sent this bulletin at 01/02/2020 04:00 PM EST John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 Phone: (202) 727-2643 Email: [email protected] Chief of Staff: John Falcicchio City Administrator: Rashad Young Director of the Mayor\’s Office of Legal Counsel: Ronald R. Ross Senior Advisor: Beverly Perry Director of Mayor\’s Office […]

AG Racine Leads Multistate Coalition Opposing Trump Effort that Puts Haitian Born Residents at Risk of Deportation

December 30, 2019 21 Attorneys General Argue in Court Brief that the Trump Administration Illegally Terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haiti WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine, along with his counterparts from California and Massachusetts, today led a group of 21 State Attorneys General in challenging the Trump administration’s effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status […]

2019 Year in Review

2019 Year in Review District of Columbia sent this bulletin at 12/27/2019 01:40 PM EST John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 Phone: (202) 727-2643 Email: [email protected] Chief of Staff: John Falcicchio City Administrator: Rashad Young Director of the Mayor\’s Office of Legal Counsel: Ronald R. Ross Senior Advisor: Beverly Perry Director […]

Arrest Made in a Homicide: Unit Block of Forrester Street, Southwest

Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch announces an arrest has been made in a homicide that occurred on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, in the Unit block of Forrester Street, Southwest. At approximately 9:14 pm, members of the Seventh District responded to the listed location for the report of a […]

Mayor Bowser Encourages DC Families to Read During Winter Break

Monday, December 23, 2019 DC Public Library’s Winter Read20 Campaign Helps Prevent Mid-Year Learning Loss (Washington, DC) – With students across the District at home from school over winter break, Mayor Muriel Bowser is encouraging families to incorporate 20 minutes of reading into their holiday routines by participating in the DC Public Library’s (DCPL) Winter […]

Slacktivism in the Season of Protest

The often-confused sect of activists on Instagram, along with other fair-weather friends of social justice, have recently gotten ahold of yet another provocative storyline. The story and the response it elicited are akin to what critics have dubbed ‘slacktivism,’ or the hasty attachment of social media users to causes without being properly informed about or …

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Modified Holiday Schedule for Select District Services Christmas Day 2019 and New Year\’s Day 2020

Friday, December 20, 2019 (Washington, DC) – The District of Columbia Government offices will be closed on Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, 2019 and New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2020. Below is information regarding critical, on-going District operations for these days. Service Adjustments The DC Department of Public Works (DPW) will suspend sanitation services […]

Mayor Bowser Cuts Ribbon on Edgewood Recreation Center

Saturday, December 21, 2019 Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the opening of the $20.9 million Edgewood Recreation Center in Ward 5. The newly modernized Edgewood Recreation Center, designed to meet LEED Silver Certification, features the DC Department of Parks and Recreation’s (DPR) first-ever rooftop urban farm and is the first facility to have a natural […]