A first-of-its-kind municipal law now requires many employers in Washington, DC to provide cash to workers who turn down their company-sponsored parking benefits.
By Wyatt Gordon (The Virginia Mercury ) • January 11, 2022
In 2020, the General Assembly added four additional protected classes to Virginia’s fair housing laws. A year and a half later, as fair housing caseloads grow, what more can be done to end discrimination?
Montgomery County has asked the Maryland National Guard to help get students to and from school as the county struggles with a bus driver shortage due to COVID-19. (Amanda Michelle Gomez / DCist)
A group called ““RiverHouse Neighbors for Sensible Density” is arguing against an Arlington planning document that would allow more density in Pentagon City alongside Amazon’s new headquarters. (Jo DeVoe / ARLnow. Tip: Aaron )
DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced federal legislation that would allow DC Council to submit its bills to Congress electronically, foregoing the old-fashioned hand delivery system for submitting legislation for required congressional review. (Martin Austermuhle / DCist)
Some residents are questioning DC’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs after two different rowhouses partially collapsed in DC in one week in construction-related incidents, displacing residents. (Sam Ford / ABC7)
Virginia Republicans are reclaiming the House of Delegates majority they lost two years ago, as well as the executive branch. This year’s legislative session kicks off this week. (Post)
The new deputy director of the DC Housing Authority, Victor Martinez, was fired in 2015 from the housing authority in New York City for selling unused supplies for “pennies on the dollar.” DCHA officials say Martinez took the fall for the failed policies of his predecessors at his old job. (Mitch Ryals / City Paper)
