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Fun historical fact I just learned: In the 1940s there was a brief congressional push to give back Alexandria and Arlington to D.C., both of which had retroceded to Virginia

Already getting reports of D.C. voters having received their mail ballots, which are being sent to all registered voters. This first mailing is the big one, but there are two

Wow: AG Bill Barr has reportedly intervened directly in D.C. on arrests of protesters accused of rioting. He overruled the U.S. Attorney for D.C., who said ⁦@DCPoliceDept⁩ provided no evidence

Ready for a way-too-complicated D.C. elections thread? Buckle up. So this week many D.C. voters started getting a mailer from @Vote4DC to confirm their address (or let them change it)

This is dumb. I attended Penn State and Georgetown as an international student, getting 2 degrees from 1997-2004. I paid full tuition, spare one year of scholarships, at both. After

Let's play another round of my favorite game, "Posting Numbers Without Proper Context." In this edition, D.C. government salaries and how out of control they seem, courtesy of @forbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejew

Today should have been the last day of a 14-day decline in COVID-19 community spread in D.C., but city officials say there was a "new peak detected in the data,

OK, so @MayorBowser extended D.C.'s stay-at-home order until June 8 (story: https://dcist.com/story/20/05/13/d-c-extends-stay-at-home-order-through-june-8/), and there were some questions today on this here website about the metrics the city is u

.@MayorBowser's daily press briefing is starting now. Stay tuned for updates, including the ever-important details on how badly the pandemic has hit the city's finances. D.C. officials say there have

A new study from a PhD student at @HowardU and economist with D.C. finds that the building spree in the city from 2000 to 2018 minimized possible rent increases. Without

.@CNN has a story on the first death in the D.C. Jail. And it includes a claim that while other jurisdictions have tried to release prisoners during the pandemic, the

.@MayorBowser's daily coronavirus briefing has started. Follow along for updates. Some members of the D.C. Council are there in person (@ChmnMendelson, @VinceGrayWard7), while others are joining via video. Bowser says