City Cast DC with Michael Schaffer
😎 Bike, kayak, and metro to these D.C. parks
April 11, 2024
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What's CITY Talking About?
MPD Expects Slight Officer Increase
D.C. police plan to hire more officers next year, reversing a seven-year trend, thanks to signing bonuses and a new union contract. MPD expects to hire 18 more officers than have left. In 2021, D.C. lost 219 more officers than it hired. [NBC4]
Owner Owes $1.8M for Tax Evasion of Vacant Property
D.C.’s Attorney General ordered George Papageorge and his entity, 10th & C Streets Associates, LLC, to pay the million-dollar fine in back taxes for a property that's been vacant since the 1980s. Neighbors of the 1000 C St. NE building have long complained that it “weighs down the neighborhood.” [WTOP]
Can Monthly Cash Stipends Improve Child Welfare?
Twelve mothers who were previously investigated for child neglect in D.C. will be receiving a $500 no-strings-attached monthly allowance through the Mother Up program. The study, which is limited to Black mothers, is exploring whether extra income could improve families’ lives and prevent them from being separated. The program, which received $1.2 million in funding from Mother’s Outreach Network, will run through October. [Washington Post]
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What To Do
Thursday, April 11
- 🕺 Napoleon Dynamite Movie Night at A Baked Joint | 6 p.m. | Free | K St.
- 🗣️ Planet Word: The Fight for Endangered Languages | 6:30 p.m. | $5 | Downtown
- 🌸 Flowers After Hours | 6 p.m. | Free | National Gallery of Art
Friday, April 12
- 🌱 Plant a Cherry Tree with Because Science | 2 - 4 p.m. | Free | Lanier Heights
- 👯 Taylor Swift-Themed Dance Party | 6 - 9 p.m. | $35 | Eastern Market
- 🍺 Profs & Pints: When Washington Burned | 6 - 8:30 p.m. | $14 | Penn Quarter
- 🎞️ Japanese Silent Film Festival | 7 - 10 p.m. | Free | National Mall
- 🎶 Drunk N Love RNB Party | 9 p.m. - 2:30 a.m. | $22 | Brentwood
Today on City Cast
How to Kayak, Bike, & Metro to Every DC Park
D.C. has an absurd amount of parks – 683! Longtime D.C. environmental reporter Jacob Fenston is hitting up all of them for us in the ultimate D.C. park's quest.
We catch up with him to see how it's going, what his approach is, and to learn the weirdest thing he has seen in the Potomac so far.
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– Natalia Aldana
Julia Karron edited today’s newsletter.
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