D.C. has a schedule for when schools get modernized, but that can leave aging buildings at the mercy of maintenance issues — and critics say the city isn’t keeping up.

The plans come several months after parents and natural grass advocates began pressing the administration about what they consider the dangers of crumb rubber and other synthetic materials used in artificial turf.

Under a bill introduced today, lobbyists would have to disclose actions taken to influence contracts, reprogramming, or the procurement of goods.

This one gets a bit wonky, involving a city agency that isn’t often in the headlines, contract bids, and hundreds of pages of testimony before the D.C. Council.

The former Department of General Services employee is filing a $10 million whistleblower lawsuit for being “terminated in retaliation.”

DGS has undertaken a citywide effort to install stations with an air pump and retractable tools.

The city announced Tuesday its plans to build a new Fort Dupont Ice Arena in 2016.

Over 750 homeless families are being sheltered at D.C. General and hotels in D.C. and Maryland.

“It could be a really powerful project,” Playtime Project executive director Jamila Larson says.

The run-down New York Avenue Playground is an open wound for the close-knit community that surrounds it, which is grieving from the loss of one of its own this summer. In late August, 21-year-old Dominic Dixon was gunned down across the street from the park. Now, friends, family and neighbors have banded together, channeling their grief to form the Better Neighborhood Civic Association (BNCA). The 15-member group was established in late September at the urging of Dixon’s aunt. Their first order of business is to clean up the playground.