@LorenzoHall The DCFCA 100th Anniversary Committee has been trying to reach you. Please call Graylin Presbury at 202-549-7730 or email [email protected]. Thanks.
“This is truly the fulfillment of a dream, to craft this American musical & to have it performed in my hometown on one of America’s great stages.” -Nolan Williams Jr. #FordsGrace @fordstheatre
@DCist A taxi driver mistake caused me to miss a flight to Palm Desert. I could see the plane backing away from the gate. I quickly called my travel agent and luckily got booked on a slightly later flight. Arriving at that gate I realized I'd been booked a flight to Palm Springs.
Incentivize illegal gun removal. Increase the penalties for illegal gun possession, increase the reward for turning in the illegal gun possessors, and increase the gun buybacks incentives.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has directed MPD to use as much overtime as necessary following a weekend of gun violence in the city, saying that affected neighborhoods “want to see a strong, sustained police presence.” https://t.co/RdfIl9Bska
For those saying $250,000 is not rich in DC, go talk to the *average* Black resident who brings home < 1/3 of that trying to afford housing, childcare, transportation, and groceries in the same city.
Or the average #Ward8 resident making 1/6 of that.
Word of the day is equity.
We all have an obligation to our communities while they are under our care. That won’t be forever, but it would be a curse on those who will and an indictment of those who did if we leave it worse than we found it.
@ThomasM99279653@councilofdc Virginia took back its part of the District of Columbia in the 1840s over fears that DC would emancipate its enslaved population. We know the rest of that story.