The vote comes as nurses at the hospital push for their own union.
Organizers decided to go public with the news after reports that hospital management had discovered the union campaign.
Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage and Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh both volunteered for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial.
GWU says its corporate hospital partner kept $100 million in excess profits that should have gone to funding the hospital and its medical school programs.
For conservative activists nostalgic for the morning-in-America days of the early 1980s, thsi might be the ultimate souvenir: A British auction house this week is selling a vial of President Ronald Reagan’s blood.
>> Both the White House Christmas Tree and the Capitol Christmas Tree arrived in Washington today. >> D.C. fire officials are warning people not to overload electrical circuits in their homes this holiday season in the wake of a fatal garage fire over the weekend. [WTOP] >> Vice President Dick Cheney experienced an irregular heartbeat Monday and will be heading to George Washington University Hospital to have it checked out — in case you…
This wouldn’t otherwise be news, but we’ve always been somewhat irked by Lyndon LaRouche and his followers. Even worse is the fact that they’ve spent the better part of the week camped out by the Foggy Bottom Metro station during the afternoon rush, doing what, well, whatever it is they do. Today they added to their act six or seven minivans and cars, all parked illegally in front of the George Washington University Hospital….
DCist has been sent some unsubstantiated celebrity sightings from this weekend. We put our fact checkers hot on the confirmation trail, but really, celebrity sightings are more intriguing gossip than serious journalistic news, so we’ve decided to go straight to you, our eyes and ears on the ground. So dish already. Here are the details as we know them right now: On Saturday, the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development hosted an open…
We haven’t written much about the development of the site of the old George Washington University Hospital since last January when we reported the University had announced they would conduct not one but two studies about what to do with the land. The situation is this: GWU could make quite a bit developing the site as commercial retail, office, and housing. Neighborhood residents resent the university’s relentless growth and see the massive plot of land…
District residents, political leaders, and police gathered tonight in Montrose Park in Georgetown, not far from where Joseph Pozell, who managed nearby Oak Hill Cemetery by day and worked as a volunteer traffic police officer by night, lived with his family. Pozell, who is 58, was critically injured on Saturday, when a SUV making a left turn from Wisconsin Avenue onto M Street hit him. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, police Chief Charles Ramsey, Council-member…