Kimball Elementary School Renovation Nears Completion
The renovation and modernization of Kimball Elementary School (3375 Minnesota Ave. SE) is nearly complete. The $55 million project began in January 2018 and...
Residents Question Maple View Flats Development, City Officials Optimistic About Starbucks
In his first public appearance following a series of controversial remarks on control of the weather, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White (D) at the...
Fire Station or Townhomes?
4409 Minnesota Ave. NE is adjacent to CSX train tracks, an empty plot of land except for a long vacant garage. Three houses sit...
Meet the Ward 7 Principals
Ward 7 welcomes four new principals in the 2018-19 school year. Three come to the younger students, including Neval Thomas, JC Nalle and Burrville...
Uber Comes to Ward 7
Ride-hailing giant Uber has picked Ward 7 to build a brick-and-mortar resource center, a meeting point for drivers across the region, Mayor Muriel Bowser...
Alonzo Smith and Special Policing
“A win for one, in a police brutality case, is a win for all,” says Beverly Smith, Ward 8 resident and mother of a...
The Capital Market
Though DC has some 49 supermarkets, only three of them are found in Wards 7 and 8. The 2016 closing of the Safeway just...
Coming in Summer 2020: Phase I of Skyland Town Center
Longtime Hillcrest resident Earl Williams says observing a construction site is a lot like watching paint dry. Nonetheless, residents in Wards 7 and 8...
Attorney General Karl Racine
Listening to Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) during a recent interview in his 11th-floor office at One Judiciary Square, it is easy to...
Supporting Women Reentering the Community
Henry Ford once said, “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” For many returning citizens coming home from prison,...
