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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: George Washington University handed out scholarships Wednesday, each worth more than $200,000, to nine District high school students. The recipients come from eight different high schools: * Angela Bonham, Dunbar High School * Yuhana Gidey, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School * Andrew Haynesworth, St. John’s College High School * Nicholas Kelly, […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Metro’s next generation of rail cars will be designed to allow several different seating arrangements, rail chief Dave Kubicek told Metro board members today. The board declined to act immediately on purchase plans after getting its first briefing on the financial arrangements. The transit authority staff is seeking approval to negotiate […]
VIA CNN: Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to two years of supervised probation Friday for bringing guns into his team’s locker room. He also is to serve 30 days in a halfway house. He will be required to serve 400 hours of community service and contribute $5,000 to a fund for victims of […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Set your DVR! Well, for when exactly, we don’t know. But sources confirm to our colleague Lisa de Moraes that if-and-when Bravo gets around to airing “Real Housewives of D.C.,” Tareq and Michaele Salahi will be part of it. We know, it’s impossible to imagine the show without the legendary polo-playing, […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The Internal Revenue Service claims that D.C. Council member Marion Barry owes $15,000 in unpaid taxes for 2005 through 2008, so it has issued a lien to try to collect the money, according to records filed with the city. “We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis and the estate of sports entrepreneur Abe Pollin have reached an agreement on a price for Leonsis to purchase the Washington Wizards and Verizon Center, overcoming the single biggest obstacle in his path to take ownership, according to several sources familiar with the negotiations. The entire […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The nation’s students are mired at a basic level of reading in fourth and eighth grades, their achievement in recent years largely stagnant, according to a federal report Wednesday that suggests a dwindling academic payoff from the landmark No Child Left Behind law. But reading performance has climbed in D.C. elementary […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The cost of shuttering federal government offices for five days during this winter’s back-to-back snowstorms was an estimated $71 million a day, tens of millions less than previously estimated, the official responsible for the shutdown told a congressional committee Tuesday. Officials had earlier estimated that the federal shutdowns cost about $100 […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The barista’s life is a frenetic one: pre-dawn openings, strung-out customers, the howl of steaming milk. Yet Liz Fedden got into coffee to unwind. Working as an Army nurse on a medevac helicopter ferrying wounded soldiers from Air Force bases to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fedden found a quiet corner […]
As previously reported, Karen Clark Sheard joins Deitrick Haddon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Rance Allen and Drew Sidora in the forthcoming film ‘Blessed and Cursed’. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the film, which will be released June 15, 2010. A soundtrack for ‘Blessed and Cursed,’ featuring Voices of Unity, is also due for release this summer. for more […]