On Tuesday, WTOP reported some vague comments from Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans about the prospect of building a $2 to $3 billion, 110,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof to bring the Redskins back to the District–which, considering he'd just finished a 15-hour hearing he knew that a $188 million budget gap would require making [...]
For months now, Georgetowners and Burleithians have been mustering against their local university's 10-year-plan, which involves expanding the graduate student body without adding more while adding little on-campus housing*. It's an existential struggle: Residents of these leafy, genteel neighborhoods fear the conversion of single family homes into rowdy rentals, because God knows what comes after [...]
The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute does great work on a lot of very important issues, but tax policy will never be the sexiest subject. To dramatize the City Council's latest proposed giveaway–to Union Station's commercial tenants–they've put together an awesomely ominous attack ad (and it's only Episode 1!).
To add my own two cents: The Union [...]
The number of unused properties held by Shaw's Shiloh Baptist Church has long been a bone of contention in the neighborhood–the church, which bought up land over the course of the last century, sat on vacant buildings while promising to rehabilitate them and claiming the money wasn't there to do it.
Finally, last year, they decided [...]
Near the corner of Sherman Avenue and Girard Street NW, there’s a narrow house with a dilapidated porch and a mailbox with a sign reading “PRAYER BOX.” Every Sunday morning, the interior resounds with a joy that belies the shabby façade.
“We thank you for the future, father!” cries a young man at the front of [...]
Michael Niebauer reports today that city agencies have failed to enforce the four-year-old First Source and Living Wage laws, which require developers of projects using city funds to employ district residents and pay them over $12 an hour. He writes:
Only four of 16 development projects that [D.C. Auditor Deborah Nichols] reviewed met the 51 percent [...]
If D.C.'s executive offices are feeling a little empty lately, it's because a few of our leaders are off in Las Vegas, attending the International Council of Shopping Centers' RECon retail real estate convention. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Valerie Santos, and Councilmembers Jack Evans and Muriel Bowser–not to mention would-be council [...]
At last night’s Ward 3 Democrats meeting, Councilmember Jack Evans was starting to sound a lot more like a Republican, blasting his colleagues’ proposed tax increases and talking about “living within our means.” Soda taxes, parking fees, and surcharges of all sorts were derided as counterproductive, and the wrong way to make up that $400 [...]
A familiar, long-running story is back in the news—and that's definitely a bad thing.
For years, D.C. officials have wanted to build a hotel to support big groups hosting events at the Washington Convention Center. That project—despite the economic downturn—was rejuvenated this summer when Councilmembers Kwame Brown (At-large) and Jack Evans (Ward 2) decided it could [...]
Oh this is just so dopey. I love it (scenes from yesterday's ribbon-cutting for the contra-flow bike lane, featuring Mayor Adrian Fenty, District Department of Transportation head Gabe Klein, and Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, courtesy of NBC 4):
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