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Bowser-led panel strips funding from Capitol Riverfront project

The D.C. Council's economic development committee voted Thursday to strip millions of dollars from a major Capitol Riverfront project in favor of three projects in the committee chair's ward.

Tags: Capitol Riverfront, muriel bowser, economic development

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Woman gets other drivers' speed cam tickets -- again and again

Miriam Singer's license plate reads "MS," but the Maryland woman has received speed camera tickets in D.C. for "MS ALF," "MS G" and "MS MAD" in the past four months -- even though she says she hasn't even driven in the District.

Tags: Miriam Singer, ari ashe, Metropolitan Police Department, speed cameras

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50 D.C. retail corridors profiled for potential development, tenants

The list of marketable retail corridors in the District is multiplying.

Tags: retail, Washington, D.C. Economic Partnershi

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Food trucks show up, refuse to serve to make a point

The so-called "Day without a Food Truck" was designed to illustrate how proposed regulations could limit vendors and shift the food scene away from mobile trucks. D.C. leaders could face indigestion this week when they take up proposed regulations that would limit the number of food trucks in the city.

Tags: food, food trucks, RAMW, Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, Brennan Haselton

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Using dance to mentor urban youth and adults

When Junious Brickhouse returned to D.C. from serving in the United States Army for nearly a decade, he didn't return with war stories. He returned with dance.

Tags: Urban Artistry, dance, urban dance, Hoai-Tran Bui, hip-hop,

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D.C. woman put on hold after calling 911

A D.C. woman says she was put on hold after calling 911 when an intruder entered her Northwest home, NBC 4 reports.

Tags: 911, 911 call, intruder, Northwest D.C.

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D.C. courts celebrating Law Day with lecture

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Can $105,000 solve D.C. hospital and university space woes?

The Gray administration has tapped Janice Posey, an economic development consultant, to spend a year talking to health care and educational leaders about their long-term growth needs.

Tags: economic development, Vince Gray, Janice Posey,

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Pedestrian restrictions near White House lifted

The pedestrian restrictions near the White House have been lifted.

Tags: white house, boston bombings, Boston Marathon, tourists, andrew mollenbeck

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More ideas proposed for D.C.'s J. Edgar Hoover Building

Dan Tangherlini, acting administrator of the General Services Administration, has proposed trading the District's J. Edgar Hoover Building for a new FBI headquarters campus, and received 35 responses last month from interested parties.

Tags: J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI

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