RECIPIENT OF THE DC BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION 2023 LEGACY AWARD
2024
Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 59 No 44...August 15 - 21 2024
Tenants at St. Elizabeths East Fight for Improved Living Conditions
Joe Bowser: A Community Leader who Loved the City Beyond the Monuments
Security, Flooding, and Sewage among Top Concerns, Tenants Say By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer The intersection of 12th and Monroe Streets NE was a crossroads of community pride as hundreds packed St. Anthony’s Catholic Church to bid farewell to Joseph “Joe” Bowser, who died on Aug. 3. A neighborhood leader, Bowser’s passion for the community rubbed off on his family, catapulting his daughter D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
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5 While The Residences at St. Elizabeths promised to accentuate a burgeoning Congress Heights neighborhood, tenants such as Donald Williams continue to complain about broken doors, clogged sewage systems, basement flooding and a bevy of other issues. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
This fall will mark five years since the Anacostia Economic Development Corporation completed the conversion of the psychiatric hospital on St. Elizabeths East Campus into more than 200 units of affordable housing. While these new apartments, known as The Residences at St. Elizabeths, promised to accentuate a burgeoning Congress Heights neighborhood, tenants continue to complain about broken doors, clogged sewage systems, basement flooding and a bevy of other issues. Some tenants, like Donald Williams, said that not even the
Public Charter School Summer Graduates Tout Critical Family, Friend Support
NATIONAL BLACK BUSINESS MONTH
Bowser Admin Officials Tour Ward 8 Black Businesses
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
Warren Patrick’s friends surrounded him in the lobby of Capital Turnaround and 5After the funeral service for her father, cheered as he smirked and community leader Joseph “Joe Bowser,” D.C. took several photos. All this Mayor Muriel Bowser, her mother Joan in celebration of a delayed, Bowser and other family members exit St. but very significant mileAnthony’s Catholic Church, behind the casket. stone: public charter school (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer) summer graduation. Earlier that afternoon, Patrick, wearing his bur5Warren Patrick from Thurgood Marshall Academy gundy graduation cap and receives his diploma during the public charter school gown, kente stole, Cartier
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By James Wright WI Staff Writer
5Pierre Batchler, owner of Paradyce at Sycamore & Oak in Southeast, D.C, with Nina Albert, deputy mayor for Planning and Economic Development and Rosemary Suggs-Evans, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development on Aug. 13. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
Dontay Brown loves to talk about his business, Triceys DC Café, located at Sycamore & Oak retail village on the campus of St. Elizabeths East in Southeast, D.C. When he heard that members of District Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration would be stopping by the site on Aug. 13
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