Category: Washington D.C. News

There is, perhaps, no name more synonymous with Washington, D.C., than Ben’s Chili Bowl. Known for its half smokes and spicy chili, the 53-year-old restaurant has been a pillar on the U Street corridor since its opening and is now being preserved and celebrated in an exhibit at George Washington University’s Estelle and Melvin Gelman […]

WHUR 96.3 FM and Howard University will host a 12-hour radiothon from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 6, to help send hundreds of Howard University students to cities across the United States and possibly Haiti to provide critical services to those in need. The “Helping Hands” radiothon asks listeners to phone in, drop by […]

District students are cutting classes at alarming rates, but a proposed plan by the Metro Transit Authority would monitor their whereabouts with an eye to cutting down on student-related crimes while they use the rail system. This school year, police have picked up over 3,700 truant students and delivered them to school, according to Councilmember […]

With summer quickly approaching, many eager teens began their search for employment with the One City Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), which was launched on Feb. 25. As hundreds of the District’s youth and parents flowed inside the Department of Employment Services (DOES) building to attend the Midnight Madness kick-off event, bright smiles and optimism […]

Another controversy befell Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray recently when one of his top aides was abruptly terminated just one day after he was publicly praised for his performance. The latest turmoil follows numerous stories of alleged fiscal mismanagement, unjustified high salaries for top aides, and cronyism by the mayor and council chair. Sulaimon […]

When Gaithersburg resident Angela Martin, 57, inherited her mother’s genealogy project she had no idea just how unique the branches of her family tree would be. Her mother, Dr. Ruby Martin, started researching their genealogy by interviewing her parents while they were living. And before her passing, Dr. Martin left her notes, books, interesting stories […]

The news of D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown’s leasing of a luxury SUV for over $1,900 a month—after a first model was rejected—is reverberating around a city bound in financial straits. On Feb. 22, the chairman apologized and said he had returned the vehicle to the Department of Public Works. He said he also plans […]

Beyond encompassing well over 1,100 rooms, lush terraces and hip retail shops, developers of the new Washington Convention Center Hotel claim the establishment will give District residents what they need most jobs. After breaking ground in November, construction of the new $520 million, four-star Marriott Marquis Hotel on Ninth Street and Massachusetts Avenue is now […]

A crowded field of candidates and uncertain voter turnout promises to make the April 26 election of a new D.C. City Council member an exciting and boisterous process, some political observers say. “When you have special elections it’s pretty much a free-for-all,” said former councilman Vincent Orange. Orange was one of 11 candidates that met […]