From the Office of Ward 4 DC Councilmember Janeese Lewis George:
“ICYMI: On July 1st the D.C. minimum wage increased to $18.40 per hour and the tipped minimum wage increased to $10.30 per hour. (more…)
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From the office of Councilmember Henderson:
“On Monday, June 22, Councilmember Henderson introduced the Rodent Education and Management Yields Results (REMY) Amendment Act of 2026. The bill targets eliminating food sources for rodents while protecting residents from health risks associated with untrained application of rodenticides. (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
I am a parent of a DC Wave swimmer and a member of the team’s Booster Club. I want to raise awareness of an issue facing the District’s long-standing swim club, DC Wave, that has provided a competitive opportunity for a diverse group of young athletes across the city since 1983. After 2 coaches left the program in 2024, DPR Aquatics took away those FTEs from the program with no explanation and no plan for how the team was meant to maintain its USA Swimming-required coach-to-swimmer ratio. We were just informed that the head of Aquatics decided to turn those FTEs into administrative staff at other pools. Our team of over 330 swimmers has limped along for the last 2 years, and we are at a point where the current coaching staff is facing burnout.
We want DPR Aquatics to reinstate the 2 FTEs that were taken away from the club. (more…)
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Yesterday’s DC primary election results for Washington DC from the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE):
“DEM MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
First Rank Results
First rank results only report each voter’s marking in the first rank column of an RCV contest and do not indicate the leader.
Round-by-round results will be available June 21, 2026.
DEM DELEGATE TO THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (more…)
From the office of Chairman Phil Mendelson:
“DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson released the following statement regarding the District’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget proposal.
“The Mayor handed the Council a budget with hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts in critical programs like the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, the Childcare Subsidy Program, Universal Paid Leave, Access to Justice and domestic violence programs,” Mendelson said. “The budget I am proposing restores all these programs. A vast majority of the money I am using for these restorations comes from tax revenues the CFO withheld from the Mayor’s budget formulation, as well as a small reduction in the fiscal stabilization reserve fund.”
“This isn’t the first time the Council has drawn from reserves for budgets,” Mendelson said. “The city’s goal is to have 60-days spending in reserve. Right now, we have over 60 days’ reserves. With this budget, we’ll have 62 days.”
The Chairman’s recommendations include increasing our supports for public EDUCATION by: (more…)
Latest stats from DC City Administrator Kevin Donahue:
“🚨 Update on scofflaw vehicle enforcement:
📌FY26 YTD: @DCDPW has impounded 4,450 cars with total of $23M in unpaid citations
📌 Of those, 1,987 were “high value scofflaws” (cars w/$3k+ in unpaid citations) that owed $20M in unpaid tickets”
Updates as new numbers are released.
From a press release:
“US Ignite, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), and Southwest Business Improvement District (SWBID) are thrilled to announce plans to launch an Autonomous Vehicle Observation (AVO) Zone Challenge in June 2026, a pivotal step toward understanding autonomous vehicle activity on public streets in dense urban environments.
The AVO Zone Challenge is designed to (more…)
“Example of an e-cargo bike on its way to a delivery. Image courtesy of Amazon.”
From DDOT:
“Today, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), along with Amazon, announce the launch of a new pilot project to support package delivery in the District. As e-commerce continues to grow, DDOT is taking a proactive step to ensure the resulting delivery solutions work for District residents.
During the ten-month pilot, (more…)
From the office of DC Councilmember Charles Allen, Ward 6:
“The DC Council voted unanimously to initially approve Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen’s Fair Housing Practices Amendment Act of 2026, which bans property owners and managers of multifamily buildings from separately charging tenants additional monthly fees for the utility costs associated with the building’s common areas and vacant units. In recent years, these fees have varied greatly from month to month and been more frequently used to tack on hundreds of dollars in additional costs beyond the rent amount in a lease agreement. (more…)
Ed. Note: What is this? Have people brought there own cans since the DC DPR cans haven’t been emptied?!?!
“Dear PoPville,
Has D.C. government checked out? Trash cans in Kalorama Park and Walter Pierce Park are all overflowing – and been so for a while.
DPR now says the situation has been escalated to its DPW liaison. Stay tuned.
UPDATE 4/30 After days and days and days, the cans were emptied this morning – just in time for Porchfest!”
I’ve wondered the same about full trans cans I’ve seen around town: (more…)