Category: Washington D.C. News

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is encouraging Washington area Hispanic residents to participate in its 2011-2012 Household Travel Survey. The survey collects and analyzes daily travel behavior from nearly 5,000 households within geographic sub areas in the District of Columbia, Suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. Spanish-language speakers were underrepresented in the previous […]

“Where I come from it was a struggle. My story is a success story. Really, I could either be in prison or dead. The fact that God saved me and saved me for something bigger, my job is to make things better for people.” When Richard Johnson speaks, people listen. The 48-year-old restaurant owner doesn’t […]

The 2008 presidential election had the second-largest turnout of young voters in American history. Between 22 and 24 million young people voted, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). As the presidential election in 2012 approaches, speculations are arising that youth turnout will be significantly lower than in […]

Don D. Davis, 42, a homeowner in Ward 8, has been unemployed about a year and a half. Hopeful that a job fair hosted by U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton would be different from the others he had attended, he prayed it would be so. Norton’s job fair which billed more than 100 employers drew […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Board of Elections is investigating Mayor Vincent Gray’s new deputy chief of staff for voting in the district last year when she lived in Maryland. The voting irregularities by Andi Pringle were revealed Thursday by activist Dorothy Brizill on the website dcwatch.com. Brizill filed a formal complaint Friday, challenging the […]

Former DC Councilwoman, Nadine P. Winter passed graciously on Aug. 26 at her southwest home with her family at her side. A four-time cancer survivor, Winter prided herself in beating the odds, and preached to others, “catch the cancer early by going for screenings.” Winter was elected to the Council of the District of Columbia […]

The first major hurricane for this season cruised through the Caribbean and up the east coast demanding respect from every city in its path. The District of Columbia got lucky with its head slightly bloody but unbowed. Mayor Vincent C. Gray noted that Washington came through Irene relatively unscathed at an Aug. 28 press conference. […]

New York has issued its first-ever subway shutdown as Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast, but Washington, D.C.’s metro transit will operate as normal, WMATA officials said. “At this point, we have no plans to change,” Steven Taudenkidel, spokesman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, told the AFRO. “We open at 7 a.m. and […]

Click here to view a slideshow, Hurricane Irene Hits Chesapeake Region Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray declared a state of emergency for the city Aug. 26 as Hurricane Irene is expected to make landfall with high winds and heavy rainfall. The city joins Maryland and Virginia, which have already declared their state of emergencies. Irene, […]

Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Michael W. Williams embodies the definition of the word leadership. He is dedicated, full of integrity and displays a sense of humor; he can best be described as a simplifier… one who is able to make complex issues plainly and understandable. As the Command Sergeant Major of the military organization known […]