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While DCHA continues to investigate the alleged cyberattack, a cybersecurity expert offers consumers tips to protect themselves.

On its website, Blueline Security Services calls itself “the leader in the Washington Metropolitan area for complete security solutions.” They offer investigations, surveillance, and the protection of ...

More than two weeks after disclosing a cybersecurity incident, DCHA has confirmed that a limited amount of sensitive data was compromised in the cyberattack that disrupted its systems last month. In ...

Like a lot of newsrooms, Washington City Paper’s office can get a little heated over matters like serial commas, misplaced modifiers, honorifics, and the proper use of en-dashes. But our copy-desk ...

This story was supported with funds from Spotlight DC—Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. The D.C. government shelled out $1.01 million for a team of seven contractors to manually watch ...

Not that I hope to ever need this information, but can a live snake be tied into a knot that it can’t get out of? —Richard Payne Snakes themselves don’t wriggle into knots they can’t wriggle out of—at ...

This story was supported with a grant from Spotlight DC—Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. North Carolina-based Red Oak Capital Holdings gave its first loan to D.C. slumlord Ali “Sam” ...

Tia Morsell lived with her three children in a shelter for three months after her apartment was deemed uninhabitable due to a sewage leak. Credit: Darrow Montgomery This story was supported with funds ...

To hear him tell it, Joe Mamo’s move from Ethiopia to North Dakota in 1981 was accidental. Mamo’s father, Yenberber Mamo, was a public transit mogul who manufactured buses and ran the first fleet to ...

Ben’s Chili Bowl, a staple of D.C. since the 1950s. Photo credit: Darrow Montgomery As a longtime curator, scholar, and advocate working in D.C., I’m often asked to give cultural tours. It’s one of my ...