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Vol 59 No 20... February 29 - March 6, 2024
February 2024. Volume 10. Issue 2.
The DMV at NYFW: Meet the Creatives
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‘DEAL MAKES NO SENSE FOR NO ONE BUT TED LEONSIS’
All Eyes on Virginia as Arena Deal Stalls in General Assembly Monumental Sports & Entertainment Continues to Make Its Case By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5 Don’t Mute DC founder Ronald Moten has been organizing protests and speaking out against the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals’ move to a new arena in Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia. (WI File Photo/Ja’Mon Jackson)
Since Ted Leonsis announced the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals’ move to a new arena in Potomac Yard, District and Alexandria, Virginia residents have organized in opposition to the deal that’s making its way through the Virginia General Assembly. At the latest juncture in that movement, Don’t Mute DC is producing
Anacostia HS Alumni Fight to Boost Enrollment
Last Friday, Feb. 23, marked the final day for Local School Advisory Teams (LSATs) and school principals to build upon the Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal that D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) central office recently released.
This year, LSATs only had 10 days to deliberate on which staff positions to cut out of their budgets, a situation that, for some leaders, brings to mind concerns that parents, teachers, and community members brought up in years past about the tight deadlines imposed upon them. For LSAT leaders like Aliscia Gerken, such complaints ring true during a budget season where depleted federal COVID relief, teacher salary increases, and inflation threaten the viability of academic and intervention
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ARENA Page 14
Tired of Tires: Hundreds of Illegally Dumped Wheels Pollute District Woods
School Budget Constraints Jeopardize Special Education Supports and Programming, Community Members Say By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
a video featuring Ashley the Preaching Poet who’s responding, in spoken word, to arguments that higher-ups at Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) are making in support of the move to northern Virginia. Don’t Mute DC founder Ronald Moten said the video, scheduled to be released within the next couple of weeks, counts as part of an effort to expose what he describes as lies perpetuated by the organization that owns the Wizards, Capitals, and Washington Mystics. “We live in a time where Monumental Sports is trying to rush things
DPW Removed 11 Tons of Debris from I-295 Last Month; At Least 2 Tire Dumping By Kayla Benjamin WI Climate & Environment Reporter
5This pile of tires sits off Interstate 295 on the northbound side, just past Pennsylvania Avenue SE. Around 100 of them are sprawled around the woods at the spot. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)
Eric Hayes is no stranger to trash. The 55-year-old Barry Farms resident has picked up garbage from the roads, sidewalks and green spaces of his neighborhood every week—sometimes every day—for a decade. There’s not much plastic pollution that surprises him anymore. But late last year, Hayes and his neighbors woke up to find that someone had come along to Pomeroy
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