Peggy Sands

1 week ago | georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands

About 100 people crowded into the cozy upstairs dining room of the GeorgeTown Club on April 8 to have lunch and to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shane Harris, formerly with the Washington Post, talk about how national security interests have changed under the Trump administration.

2 weeks ago | georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands

The “April” meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, held on March 31, delivered two bits of good news. The first was regarding public safety. There were no violent crimes to report, announced Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Danielle Vitatoe. She then added that she had no information about a robbery that had reportedly occurred that afternoon, just before the meeting. “Get back to you when I know more,” she said.

1 month ago | georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands

It was just a week ago March 10 when the usually calm Mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser sounded a stunning alarm. “D.C. will lose $ 1.1 billion of our budgeted funds if the continuing resolution (CR) passed by Congress to fund the government until Sept. 30  is passed by the Senate. That means devastating cuts from funds for schools, for police and for economic growth!”“We are now suddenly focused on our survival,” the mayor proclaimed.

1 month ago | georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands

A flurry of official communications from the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission to Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials — highlighting two urgent, if not unexpected, matters facing Georgetown — preceded the March 3 meeting of ANC 2E. First is the projected D.C. budget shortfall of some $1 billion. Second is the permanent ending of rush-hour parking limitations on key commercial curbsides and traffic lanes of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown.

1 month ago | georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands

Georgetowners were aware for months that Joe Sternlieb, the well known CEO and top spokesperson for Georgetown’s very active Business Improvement District (GBID), was leaving his position as CEO-president of more than 12 years. But it’s another thing to go to a farewell party in a popular Georgetown waterfront restaurant, Nick’s Riverside Grill, that was filled with city VIPs, BID staffers, board members past and present and Georgetown residents and workers all gathered to say goodbye.