Please take a moment to read the safety tips below as a precaution as you go about your weekend activities. Have a safe and enjoyable weekend. Note: Safety Tips, based on previous Weekend Crime Reports. Make your home difficult to break in. Install deadbolt locks on all your outside doors. Lawn mowers, bikes, and barbecues … More [MPD-5D] Safety Tips on Burglaries and Thefts
Thinking about going into business or recently started a business and want to learn about federal tax responsibilities? If so, the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) invites you to attend “Valuable Small Business Tax Tips.” This seminar is the first in a series of workshops designed to assist small business owners who … More Free Small Business Tax Tips Seminar Offered by DCRA
The DC Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced summer hours for the city’s vehicle inspection station. Beginning Tuesday, June 5, the facility (located at 1001 Half Street, SW), will open and close one hour earlier to accommodate the warmer summer days. Summer operation hours will be 6:00am-2:00pm. Customers are also encouraged to stay alert … More DMV Announces Inspection Station Summer Hours
From: MPD-5D@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MPD-5D@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hodge, Jamila (USADC) Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 5:51 PM To: mpd-5d@yahoogroups.com Subject: [MPD-5D] US Attorney’s Office on Community Impact Statements Hi Everyone, My name is Jami Hodge and I am an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. I serve as the Community Prosecutor for 5D. I … More Community Impact Statements
See this neighborhood history-related item from Marie Maxwell’s popular InShaw blog. Did you know about her http://www.TruxtonCircle.org website? Chockablock Miscellany Also under things that have made me happy this week, my grant for the DC Humanities Council’s DC Community Heritage Project grant, was approved. This is the first grant proposal, and wholly molly it was … More Marie Maxwell gets grant for Truxton census history work
The Washington Business Journal produced its “Best Places to Work 2012”, which is reported in the June 1, 2012 issue of the WBJ newspaper. One of the “Large Employers” — defined as having 151 or more employees — that made the list this year is “So Others Might Eat“ (S.O.M.E.), which has a feeding facility … More S.O.M.E. makes WBJ’s “Best Places to Work 2012” list
After your trip to the Farmers Market, hop on your bike and head over to NoMa Summer Screentonight at 7 p.m. for the Bike In! The first 50 cyclists who show their helmets will receive a free NoMa t-shirt and reflective ankle bracelet! NoMa Summer Screenis the neighborhood’s most anticipated summer event – and the … More NoMa Summer Screen: Bike In!
NoMa BID, in conjunction with Gallaudet University and Metro, is holding a ceremony to celebrate the name change of the New York Avenue Station, which is now called NoMa – Gallaudet University Station! The change officially takes place June 18 as part of Metro’s Rush Plus initiative. NoMa, often referred to as the neighborhood that … More Metro Name Change Celebration
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-council-chairman-kwame-brown-to-be-charged-with-fraud-as-soon-as-today/2012/06/06/gJQAUXJqIV_story.html?wprss=rss_local D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D) was charged Wednesday with bank fraud, according to documents released this afternoon, and he has told other council members he plans to resign. Brown has been the subject of a long-running corruption investigation. The charges were filed in the District’s federal court in a “criminal information,” a document … More D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is charged with bank fraud
Washington City Paper D.C. Council Chairman Kwame “Fully Loaded” Brown told reporters today that he has no plans to resign his office and that he broke no laws during his 2008 re-election campaign, which federal authorities have been investigating for about a year now. The comments come after several days of intense speculation at the … More Kwame Brown: “I Have No Plans To Resign”
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