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As the District restarts full parking enforcement this week, residents have been scrambling to find available DMV appointments. After a 14-month hiatus due to the pandemic, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that ticketing wound resume again, including for expired parking meters, expired residential parking permits and expired vehicle tags. Vehicles must also display valid registration stickers.

The health care system’s “long history of wrongdoing and bias disproportionately experienced by communities of color” contributes to vaccine access and confidence issues, Henderson said. For the District, people who live in the eastern part of the city are often told they need to travel west to get care, and that means transportation challenges, extra time needed away from work, and other burdens, which “has led to greater health disparities and inequitable access for our most vulnerable communities.”

Cannabis activists and industry representatives in Washington D.C. are disappointed by the Biden Administration’s continued ban on adult-use cannabis sales in the District.

D.C. congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton supports the measure. During an event she sponsored in late March, Rock Creek Park Superintendent Julia Washburn was asked about the issue. While she indicated a permanent closure was unlikely, “we will certainly be willing to listen to the mayor and the city to determine a way forward. But at the moment, the plan is to reopen when the city returns to normal operations,” Washburn said.

“We know that students of color and with disabilities are disproportionately affected by all forms of school discipline,” Council member Christina Henderson said in a statement. “In its current form, data shared around school-based arrests or disciplinary action cannot be disaggregated by demographics. This legislation would change that.”

“What is not happening is anyone taking a critical look at youth-involved arrest, particularly on school campuses, and not just looking at it from a numbers standpoint, but also looking at it from a circumstances standpoint,” at-large councilmember Christina Henderson told WTOP.

he 65 guests, ages 26 to 90 years, included D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, council members Robert White and Christina Henderson, Department of Parks and Recreation Director Delano Hunter, Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks, sculptor Steven Weitzman (who created the Marion Barry statue outside City Hall) and other local dignitaries. They were greeted at the entrance to their hostess’s Southeast home with photos of her over the years; glittered, bejeweled face shields for anyone who wanted to wear one; and copper cups filled with her favorite drink, Moscow mules (renamed Moscow bulls for the night because she’s a Taurus).

The modern design blends seamlessly with the mid-century modern architecture for which the neighborhood is known. The building will feature: Environmentally sustainable design with solar panels and a green roof Expanded spaces for children, teens and adults Lots of natural light A variety of seating options

But some councilmembers expressed skepticism about raising the cap, citing the hospital’s past health and safety record. “We put the threat of the control board in as a bumper,” At-Large Councilmember Robert White said. Not triggering the control board is “moving the stick,” he argued. At-large Councilmember Christina Henderson, who ultimately voted no, said she had “severe reservations” about raising the cap given the hospital’s previous financial record. “I don’t want people to not be able to make their bills, etcetera, but I also don’t want to be in the same position in a year,” she said.

Neighborhoods like The Wharf, which is in the midst of adding a second phase, didn't even exist the last time D.C. rewrote its Comprehensive Plan. That has some lawmakers pressing for another update soon.

Despite enrollment loss during the pandemic, D.C. Public Schools will receive at least the same level of funding as last year. At least 35 percent of DCPS schools were poised to lose anywhere from a few thousand dollars to more than half a million as the district projects about 1,500 fewer students in FY22. In line with nationwide trends, families shifted to homeschooling, or may have transferred to charters or private schools, advocates told The 74 last fall. Immigrant families, especially, left the city to live with others amid job loss and financial strains.

Over the last several months, parents, educators and budget watchdogs have pressured Bowser to increase school spending so campuses across the city would not have to shed teachers and other workers. On Thursday, Christina Henderson, an at-large member on the D.C. Council announced an emergency measure that would mandate that at a minimum the city keep school budgets level going into next year.