Washington Informer
Lamelll Mc Morris, CEO of Perennial Strategy Group, a Washington, D.C, based family of businesses, has launched the 2012 Perennial Youth Business Competition which will award 10 District residents enrolled in high school or a high school equivalency program with…
Customers Have Had Fewer Outages WASHINGTON, D.C. – With fewer outages, and those occurring being shorter in duration, Pepco customers are starting to see benefits from ongoing efforts to improve reliability. "Providing safe and reliable electricity to our customers…
More than 300 District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) teachers have been targeted for pink skips by the end of the current school term, but they have until August 15 to find alternate posts in the system. School officials announced…
Media icon Sheila Brooks, known to many as both a journalist and entrepreneur spoke to attendees during the ColorComm luncheon series, which was held at Poste Moderne Brassiere in Chinatown. Brooks spoke to the group on how to transition…
Brandi Elzie,anncancer survivor, celebrated her one-year anniversary on May 5. "I walked for myself and for those that could not," Elzie stated.
The 10th Annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer ended with an emotional celebration at the Washington Monument on Sunday, May 6. Over two thousand participated in the walk this year raising over 4 million dollars for Breast Cancer research.
For 45 days, tens of thousands of demonstrators in the U.S. and abroad marched to protest the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon, who was unarmed and returning from a nearby convenience store in Sanford, Fla., was shot and killed…
In the end, neither side got what it wanted. Defense attorneys for former Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember Harry L. Thomas Jr. sought an 18-month sentence, while prosecutors wanted a federal judge to slap Thomas with 46 months. But on Thursday,…
Federal prosecutors have recommended that former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. spend nearly four years in prison for converting public funds to his personal use. Thomas, 51, vacated his Ward 5 Council post in January after admitting in court…
The Silver Spring Armory may be a distant memory but the National Black Memorabilia & Collectible Show certainly isn't. In 1984, the armory hosted the first show in the United States and since that time, it's attracted crowds from across…
Robust Core Bodes Well for Future The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) has released its 2011 State of Downtown report, which shows Downtown and DC ended the year on a strong note, generating employment and population growth, positive office space…
A group of disgruntled citizens gathered outside the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest to lift their voices in protest against the city's policies toward affordable housing. Specifically, protestors disapprove of Mayor Vincent C. Gray's FY 2013 budget, they believe,…
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