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There will also be a public hearing on the plan for CDBG and HOME funds.

(NEW YORK) -- A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are arguing over

Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are arguing over what to do, if anything, to regulate guns. Many are pointing specifically to a 2008 Supreme Court decision that was the first time the Supreme Court ever held that the Second Amendment protected an individual's right to gun ownership. The case, District of Columbia v. Heller, has been c...

The District of Columbia v. Heller was a landmark case that protected an individual's right to gun ownership.

Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are arguing over what to do, if anything, to regulate guns. ...

For obvious reasons, 2020 paved the way for nonprofit organizations to hold member meetings remotely, many for the first time. While some associations and other nonprofit organizations...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she has reintroduced her District of Columbia Courts Home Rule Act, which would give the Council of the District of Columbia authority over the jurisdiction and organization of the local D.C. courts. The D.C. Home Rule Act expressly prohibits D.C. from enacting any law with respect to any provision

A former assistant principal in Washington, D.C., who worked remotely during the pandemic may be in trouble for working simultaneously in person as the principal of a middle school in Rhode Island for 17 weeks, according to an ethics board complaint.

ELIMINATION OF TERMINATION EXEMPTION FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS FRANCHISE TAX Under District of Columbia Code, resident or nonresident limited liability companies and general and limited partnerships (as “unincorporated businesses”) that own real property in the District of Columbia are subject to the District’s 8.25% unincorporated business franchise tax on net income. Prior to January 1, 2021, there was a regulatory exemption to the imposition of the unincorporated...

(Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, NC is a private contract prison housing federal inmates, Photo: The GEO Group, Inc.) President Biden has directed the Department of Justice to end private federal prison contracts in an executive order, a promise he made during his campaign. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Government’s reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,” the executive o...