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Karl Racine was raised on old school values; he’d like D.C. leaders to serve their constituents with those in mind.
Numerous members of DC2021, the group of business moguls and developers who recently asked Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax relief to rescue the D.C.
The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (“Downtown BID”) has retained an outside firm to conduct an internal investigation related to President and CEO Neil Albert, amid contract concerns related ...
Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated her most recent political appointee to the Green Finance Authority Board (“Green Board”) based on the candidate’s bona fides in affordable housing and community ...
D.C. Housing Authority (“DCHA”) Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Neil O. Albert purchased real estate in Washington, D.C., and North Carolina with a personal companion, Yenny P. Moya, also known ...
When Mayor Muriel Bowser tapped Brenda Donald for Executive Director of D.C. Housing Authority (“DCHA”) in 2021, she needed someone politically astute with experience in dealing with troubled agencies ...
The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was everyone’s fault but the District’s Revelations and recriminations in the wake of the January 6 extremist attack on the United States Capitol have burned ...
His position was clear: Bypassing procurement law to award a no-bid contract to D.C. Lottery vendor Intralot so the District could launch sports betting before Virginia and Maryland was bad public ...
The digital sign enterprise of serial fraud artist and convicted felon Donald MacCord was encountering rough seas in the fall of 2016. MacCord and his associates in the digital sign business were ...
Viral clips of D.C. Police holding back a rabid hoard of white supremacists in the west facing tunnel on the lower level of the United State Capitol last week are horrific. The extended version—at 29 ...
A long time industry friend reached out the other day. “What is going on? I have never seen things more topsy turvy!” He’s right. The hospitality industry in D.C. is more chaotic than I can ever ...
Plows and salt spreaders were lined up in the parking lots surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium on the brink of a storm later known as “Snowzilla,” on a Saturday afternoon in January 2016.