D.C. Has to Work Around a White House That Denies Climate Change to Prepare for a 500-Year Flood
The city needs the federal government's cooperation to make its climate-change resiliency plan work.
Dockless Bike Share Is Not a Sign of the Apocalypse
With the new technology all but inevitable, cities of all sizes are scrambling to build the right policies and social norms.
How D.C.’s Workforce System Ditched Its ‘High Risk’ Federal Designation
“Our turnaround has been focused on people,” said the director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Employment Services.
D.C. Hosted a Hackathon for Making Better Paperwork. Try To Control Your Excitement.
D.C.’s new innovation lab wanted to redesign red tape, and the city’s wonks were eager to help.
Commentary: Our Work to Reform the Juvenile Justice System Is Not Yet Complete
A trio of practitioners and experts assert “if our collective responsibility is to foster justice and public safety—as we believe it is—we have miles to go before we sleep.”
In an East-of-River Revitalization, D.C. Takes Lessons From Across the Country
In developing a key parcel in a historically underserved community, Mayor Muriel Bowser is working with experts from the Rose Center to ensure development supports current residents.
D.C. Region Will Conduct ‘Full Scale’ Terrorism Drill Wednesday
Emergency responders will play out a scenario similar to the terror events that took place in Paris in November 2015.
Route Fifty at SXSW: Our Interview With D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
“People live there, people start businesses in Washington, D.C., and we want people to come check out what we have to offer,” Bowser told Route Fifty in an interview at SXSW.
DARPA Tests Dirty-Bomb Hunting Ambulances
The detectors in Washington, D.C., gathered about 100,000 hours of data and traveled a total of about 150,000 miles.
This Tool Helped D.C. Police Better Allocate Resources Throughout Inauguration Weekend
Geospatial data aggregation informs day-to-day police work and security for large events.
Virginia Lawmaker Wants Answers on Whether D.C.'s Metro System Is Ready for a Cyberattack
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner: "I am concerned that WMATA may represent a particularly enticing target for more advanced threats."
How D.C.'s Police Department Is Trying to Improve Data Analysis and Sharing
The Metropolitan Police Department is using a cloud-based records management and moving toward a computer-aided dispatch systems.
In D.C., White Families Are on Average 81 Times Richer Than Black Ones
Other major cities aren’t much better.
The Mayoral Optics of ‘Small Business Saturday’
The annual event is usually a great way to connect with the community. But was D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s choice of where to kick things off a good idea?
D.C. Transit Police Officer Tried to Support ISIS With Gift Cards; Should Yellowstone Grizzlies Be Hunted?
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Tennessee Democrats challenge voter ID law; Maine gov. wants 9,500 state positions gone; and Miami-Dade rethinks campaign finance.
D.C. Metro Drivers Keep 'Zoning Out'; Massachusetts Tick Bites Prove Costly
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Albuquerque bus rapid transit meets resistance; Scottsdale braces for development boom; and Cabela's might leave Nebraska.
D.C. Launches a New Interactive Zoning Map
The platform leverages the District of Columbia’s open data to “level the playing field” when it comes to development.
‘Resilient Cities’ Look to Address Social Inequality as a Function of Other Environmental, Economic Stresses
Louisville, Kentucky, sees a link between its most pressing problems and poorest neighborhoods, and it’s not alone.
100 Resilient Cities Adds 37 New Member Municipalities
The global network helps cities hire chief resilience officers and access partner support for projects meant to prepare local governments for challenges like climate change.
How Cities Are Leading the Way on Infrastructure Innovation
“While states weren’t looking, our cities became better governed, better managed places,” said Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore.
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