Dick Uliano

Nov 9, 2024 | wtop.com | Dick Uliano

Low income D.C. renters gathered in a downtown church auditorium on Saturday afternoon to plead for help. One by one, the men and women took the microphone and spoke out about their plight. The District government is sharply cutting back on emergency rental assistance and many of them are facing the threat of eviction.

Nov 7, 2024 | wtop.com | Dick Uliano

Tuesday’s election delivered two major voting reforms to the District of Columbia. Initiative 83, which passed overwhelmingly, has two components — first, it will allow independent voters to cast ballots in D.C. primaries and second, it will bring ranked choice voting to the city. In D.C., where Democrats dominate and Republicans are hardly heard from in citywide results, elections tend to be won or lost in the primary — months ahead of the November election.

Nov 6, 2024 | wtop.com | Dick Uliano

This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. D.C. Police have released surveillance camera images of seven people accused in a suspected hate crime attack on a gay man two weeks ago. Sebastian Thomas Robles Lascarro, 22, was beaten up by a group of people inside the U Street McDonald’s location on Oct.

Nov 5, 2024 | wtop.com | Dick Uliano

The Montgomery County, Maryland, police officer who lost both legs when struck by a reckless driver on Interstate 270 in October 2023 is not only returning to police patrols, he’s also resuming his weekend job of officiating Division I college football games in the Coastal, Ivy and Patriot leagues. Sgt. Patrick Kepp is bouncing back from the tragedy in a big way. Police said Kepp was intentionally struck by a driver who made a habit of provoking officers into a chase.

Nov 4, 2024 | wtop.com | Dick Uliano

With music and dancing, D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library kicked off the opening of a new lobby exhibit on “The Negro Motorist Green Book” — the pre-civil rights guidebook for African American families to find safe spaces during the era of segregation. The library, collaborating with the African American Music Association, chose to celebrate the exhibit opening with a dance party on the library’s top floor, saluting “Teenarama Dance Party” — a historic D.C. TV program.