Tasty Morning Bytes — Fighting Crime with Classical Music, Rental Market Bubble and Ethics Reform
Good morning, DCentric readers! Here are the five links you should click today:
Meal Service Company In D.C. Shuts Down The company that serves meals to those in need in D.C. since 1976 has stopped providing meals due to financial difficulties. The city’s Office on Aging is trying to find another provider to fill the gap. (WAMU)
Increased Police Presence, Classical Music Being Used To Combat Rowdy Teenagers in Chinatown The National Portrait Gallery doesn’t like teenagers hanging out on their front steps at night, so they’ve installed speakers to play classical music — because apparently teenagers hate classical music so much that they flee from the very sound of it? Also implicit in the tactic is the assumption that young people hanging out on the steps equals trouble. “Because of complaints and random crime, D.C. Police have beefed up patrols. Some young men told FOX 5 on Friday… there are some bad apples, but authorities seem to crack down on everyone.” (myfoxdc.com)
D.C. Council Tackles Ethics Reform After Week of Scandals A series of scandals has recently hit city hall — is creating an Office of Government Accountability the answer? The council is taking up a proposed measure today to create an office that would “investigate lobbying, conflicts of interest, financial disclosures and other ethical matters. ” Also on the table: ethics trainings for all city employees. (WAMU)
Inside the rush to build Washington apartments, early signs of a bubble The demand for D.C. apartments has kept rents high. But some worry that this “healthy” rental market is going to soon be over-saturated by developers trying to cash in while they can. That could create lower rents, but also lead to large empty apartment buildings and unfinished projects. (The Washington Post)
Why a White Woman and a Black Man Will Lead the USA’s Top Paper Women and minorities filed separate lawsuits against the New York Times in 1972, accusing “Times’ newsroom managers of favoring white men in hiring, promotion, beat assignments and wages.” At the time, women only covered “women’s issues” and social events and “not one black had risen above the position of reporter.” Decades later, a woman and a black man will be leading the newspaper. (The Root)