RECIPIENT OF THE DC BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION 2023 LEGACY AWARD
Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 60 No 18
Capture the Moment Page 43
February 13 - 19, 2025
With Latest Congressional Bill, Home Rule Under Threat— Again
Mayor Bowser Mum about BOWSER Act, While Some Residents Welcome Home Rule Revocation By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has declined to directly answer reporters’ questions about the onslaught of Republican attacks against her hometown, including President Donald J. Trump’s pardoning of two D.C. police officers and congressional Republicans’ reintroduction of legislation revoking District home rule. (WI File Photo/Robert R. Roberts)
Nearly one month after President Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) refuses to publicly acknowledge what many District residents call the elephant in the room. For weeks, Bowser has declined to directly answer reporters’ questions about the onslaught of Republican attacks against her hometown, including Trump’s pardoning of two D.C. police officers and congressional Republicans’ reintroduction of legislation revoking District home rule. However, in her most recent exchange
BOWSER ACT Page 51
District Students Meet During Cluster Bees, 30 Winners Advance to Citywide Competition
5 District leaders including D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Executive Director of Events DC Angie Gates celebrate the partnership between Events DC and CareFirst to expand health care at St. Elizabeths East campus. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
Events DC and CareFirst Enter Partnership to Expand Health Care at St. Elizabeths East Campus Site Becomes CareFirst Arena, Decade-long Initiative to Support Arena and New Hospital, Slated to Open April 2025
living in a part of the District that’s only now starting to see the elements of a quality healthcare system. Earlier this week, Hill Lockridge and sevFor years, Jaren Hill Lockridge, in collaboration with Dreaming Out Loud and Ward 8 Health eral others who gathered in the middle of the Council, has worked to improve health outcomes for Black expectant mothers, seniors and all others HEALTH CARE Page 50 By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
The Impacts of Love on Heart Health
How Emotions Affect the Heart
By Richard Elliott and Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Reporter and WI Staff Writer
At the end of the day, not everyone 5 Students from 18 different middle schools competed will make it to the top. in the D.C. City-Wide Cluster Bees on Feb. 6. (Ja'Mon Perhaps no one came to understand Jackson/The Washington Informer) that hard truth more than the young people who suffered defeat during clus- gradually winnowed down to six during the middle ter bees that The Washington Informer school cluster, one of the adults fulfilled an urge to adhosted at THEARC in Southeast. On dress the young people in the room. “No matter what, you should be honored to be the second day of the bees, just before the pool of roughly 40 competitors CLUSTER BEES Page 52
By Lindiwe Vilakazi WI Health Reporter Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) is here again, marking a national holiday and annual reminder to celebrate romantic and platonic love and admiration for others. As Febru-
LOVE Page 52
5Research shows that positive emotions from loving relationships can lower blood pressure, reduce stress, improve the immune system, and overall decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease. (AI Photo/Fotor)
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