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Metro’s Music Man
Photo Credit: Maryanne Drury The same love felt in Billy Strayhorn’s ode to the of the rails of New York City in the jazz standard “Take the ‘A’ Train” is still alive and well today a few hundred miles south here in Washington. While the Duke Ellington orchestra is no longer around to send their [...]
More »DC Social Innovation Launch Party
courtesy of ‘Official U.S. Navy Imagery’ Two years ago Congress enacted the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act and created the Social Innovation Fund. The fund aims to improve the lives of people in low-income communities by mobilizing public and private resources to grow promising, innovative community-based solutions that have evidence of compelling impact in [...]
More »A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton
‘EHN @ Artomatic’ courtesy of ‘tbridge’ Last weekend Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sat down with We Love DC for conversation over a number of topics particularly focusing on the recent federal budget negotiations and the resulting protests. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is still angry. After weeks of negotiations between the White House and both [...]
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