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All content by Max Porter

Experts, local business managers talk economic impact of National Zoo pandas’ return

By Max Porter and Lizzie Jensen
November 13, 2024

Foggy Bottom leader unpacks DC’s 911 response issues

By Max Porter and Lizzie Jensen
November 4, 2024

Crime log: Female student blackmailed for nude photos on TikTok

By Max Porter, News Podcast Co-Host
October 21, 2024

Where is GW’s football team?

By Max Porter and Lizzie Jensen
September 25, 2024

GW College Democrats and GW College Republicans share plans for 2024 election programming

By Lizzie Jensen and Max Porter
September 12, 2024

How faculty, student leaders are implementing textiles, dress and fashion studies at GW

By Lizzie Jensen and Max Porter
September 4, 2024

Recapping Summer 2024

By Lizzie Jensen and Max Porter
August 27, 2024

Unhoused residents, ANC commissioner talk clearing of Triangle Park encampment

By Lizzie Jensen and Max Porter
April 23, 2024
H Street between 21st and 22nd streets.

Officials to close section of H Street Friday for Eco-Bash

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 18, 2024
The contest for the SGA Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Senate seats will be the most cutthroat Senate race, with thirteen candidates running for eight seats.

SGA Senate sees spike in candidates, lags in graduate participation

By Hannah Marr and Max Porter
April 8, 2024
A commuter pulls out his Metro pass, preparing to enter the Foggy Bottom-GWU Station.

Officials install taller, stronger faregates in Foggy Bottom Station

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 8, 2024

Crime log: Guest becomes sick from edibles

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 8, 2024

Metro installs new faregates at Foggy Bottom station to deter fare evasion

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 8, 2024
A GW campus map.

Judge delays final approval of $5.4 million settlement against GW

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 4, 2024

Crime log: Female student sexually assaulted by former male student

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
April 1, 2024

Crime log: Bean bags stolen from South Hall lounge

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
March 25, 2024
An Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting agenda from October 2023 sits on a table.

ANC approves officials’ request to renovate Smith Center this fall

By Rory Quealy and Max Porter
March 25, 2024
A ghost bike placed at Connecticut Avenue and L Street in honor of GW graduate student Nijad Huseynov, who was struck and killed by the driver of a car in October.

Cyclist group launches crash-tracking survey after rise in DC traffic fatalities

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
March 25, 2024
A notice taped to a trash receptacle notifies residents of an incoming encampment cleanup.

Officials to clear homeless encampment near campus in May

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
March 4, 2024

Crime log: Unknown subject sprays ‘Free Gaza’ across from Amsterdam Hall

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
March 4, 2024

Crime log: Subject barred after shoplifting at bookstore

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 26, 2024
Workers walk through Western Market last month.

New Western Market bar set to open early next month

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 22, 2024
A bushel of apples wait to be plucked at the FRESHFARM Foggy Bottom Market.

FRESHFARM workers ratify union agreement

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 15, 2024
Panera Bread, pictured in 2019.

DC closes Panera Bread in student center due to expired license

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 13, 2024

Crime log: Unknown male throws rock, shatters Starbucks window

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 11, 2024
McReynold's Liquors on G Street.

Beloved owners of McReynold’s Liquors to sell store

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 9, 2024
Officials celebrated the completion of the new Campus Store during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.

Officials open relocated, expanded Campus Store after delay

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 5, 2024

Crime log: Student reports stolen laundry in District House

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
February 5, 2024
Officials renovate the I Street Mall this summer to improve lighting and landscaping in the area.

I Street Mall to undergo renovations this summer, officials say

By Max Porter and Dylan Ebs
January 29, 2024

Crime log: Subject arrested for lewd public acts

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 29, 2024

Crime log: Subject discovered in closed MPA building with stolen laptop

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 21, 2024
Metropolitan Police Department units respond to a call on L Street.

Foggy Bottom crime rose in 2023 as total crime in Ward 2 remains low

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 21, 2024
Luke Chadwick, the newest commissioner of ANC 2A, takes a note during Wednesday's meeting.

ANC elects vice chair, reelects chair

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 21, 2024
Hatchet File Photo by Chuckie Copeland | Photographer

Officials close Thurston dining hall, Lerner amid two water main breaks

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 21, 2024
Baba's Pizza in District House, which opens Feb. 12.

Halal-certified pizza vendor to open in District House, replace former pizza vendor

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 18, 2024

Crime log: Subject hugs staff member without consent, wishes a ‘Merry Christmas’

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
January 16, 2024

Crime log: Two community members report credit card fraud

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
December 11, 2023
The Residences on The Avenue on the corner of I and 22nd Street.

GW to purchase The Avenue, Whole Foods building in $140 million deal

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
December 7, 2023

Crime log: Student threatens student center staffer with baseball bat damage

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
December 4, 2023
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A at its monthly meeting in the West End Neighborhood Library in November.

DC delays homeless shelter opening in Aston due to pending lawsuit, difficulty finding provider

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
November 16, 2023
A truck for advocacy organization JewBelong was damaged by an unknown person Wednesday.

Person throws rock, damages truck showing anti-Hamas message

By Max Porter and Jennifer Igbonoba
November 15, 2023

Crime log: Student reports stolen purse after leaving it unattended at street pole

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
November 13, 2023
2A03 Commissioner Trupti Patel, ANC Chair Jim Malec and Peter Sacco, the executive director of ANCs 2A, 2B and 2E convened in person for the meeting.

ANC elects representatives to oversee The Aston’s conversion into homeless shelter

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
November 9, 2023
Nijad Huseynov stands in front of the Google headquarters in California, a company he had hoped to one day work for.

Friends, community members remember graduate student killed in bicycle accident

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
November 6, 2023

Non-GW affiliated subject arrested for sleeping in JBKO laundry room

By Max Porter, Contributing Metro Editor
November 6, 2023
Commuter's pass through the Foggy Bottom Metro entrance.

Foggy Bottom now most popular station in Metro system

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
November 2, 2023

Crime log: Subject punches staff member after refusing to give him money

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
October 30, 2023
Bicycles in a bike rack.

Driver strikes, kills cycling graduate student blocks from campus

By Max Porter, Contributing Metro Editor
October 26, 2023

Crime log: District House contractor fired for drinking while on duty

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
October 23, 2023
The Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission's October meeting in West End Library.

ANC welcomes Granberg to Foggy Bottom, West End community

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
October 21, 2023
Officials open three campus dining options Monday

Officials open three campus dining options Monday

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
October 17, 2023
The candelight vigil in Kogan Plaza Monday.

Community members gather for candlelit vigil, mourn those killed in Israel

By Fiona Bork and Max Porter
October 11, 2023

Crime log: Alum reports jewelry stolen from Lerner Health and Wellness Center

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
October 9, 2023
A metal ramp cuts through a row of raised flower beds in Kogan Plaza, offering passersby a shortcut through the plaza.

Silent standoff over Gelman shortcut temporarily ends after ramp installation

By Max Porter and Ella Mitchell
October 9, 2023

Crime log: Staff member reports stolen jiu-jitsu mat from Lerner

By Max Porter, Contributing Metro Editor
October 2, 2023
Police respond to a report of a stabbing in this 2020 file photo.

DC passes 200 homicides this year, fastest since 1997

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 27, 2023

Crime log: Two female students report sexual assault by subject on bike

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 25, 2023
Gelman Library, in January 2023.

GW wins in lawsuit from fired library employee

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 25, 2023
Adam Aaronson, the assistant vice president of construction management and campus planning, stands before Commissioners Dasia Bandy, Ed Comer and Jim Malec.

Officials present plan to remodel Smith Center to ANC

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
September 21, 2023

Crime log: Two assaults occur between University contractors

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 18, 2023
The latest campus food vendor is opening inside the first floor H Street entrance to the student center Monday.

Officials bring new Indian food eatery to student center

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 14, 2023

Crime log: Two students report being blackmailed on Snapchat

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 11, 2023

On-campus abortion clinic protester found guilty of interfering with operations

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 11, 2023
A train pulls into the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station.

Metro riders to see increased service during peak hours starting Monday

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
September 10, 2023

Crime log: Starbucks manager assaulted

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
August 28, 2023
A demonstration in support of the conversion of The Aston into a shelter in September.

Community members rally in support of proposed homeless shelter at The Aston

By Max Porter, Contributing News Editor
August 28, 2023
The Aston, pictured in April 2022.

West End property owners, GW spar in suit to block conversion of the Aston to shelter

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
August 8, 2023
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last year that the GW Hospital would expand to Southeast D.C. and hold up to 196 beds beginning in fall 2024.

NLRB vacates ruling favoring GW Hospital over union, will rehear case

By Max Porter
July 28, 2023
The Aston, pictured in April 2022.

ANC adjourns without appointing advisory team after infighting, racist remarks

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
July 28, 2023
The Aston, pictured in April 2022.

D.C. Council approves District contract to acquire the Aston

By Max Porter
July 12, 2023
The Aston, pictured in April 2022.

ANC supports proposal to convert former residence hall to shelter unhoused people

By Max Porter
June 30, 2023
Campus sustained 44 thefts from the last day of spring classes to the first day of the fall semester this year, down about 6 percent from 47 thefts last summer.

Two male suspects with handgun attempt to steal car on campus

By Max Porter
June 16, 2023
Officials said they encourage GW community members to provide feedback on the "proposed framework" for arming some GW Police Department officers on a GWPD website form available until June 23, according to the release.

GWPD releases draft framework for arming campus police next fall

By Max Porter
June 9, 2023
H Street between 21st and 22nd streets.

Student research group seeks to redesign H Street, increase road’s sustainability, safety

By Max Porter
May 22, 2023
Bryan Stevenson accepts applause from graduates, administrators and guests at Commencement Sunday, where he spoke to the crowd about the necessity of amplifying hope and targeting injustice.

Activists, alumni urge change from graduating class at Commencement

By Fiona Riley, Max Porter and Cade McAllister
May 22, 2023
Jabari Stafford, a former men’s tennis player, claims multiple tennis coaches, players and department staff members “fostered an environment that was conducive to blatant discriminatory conduct.”

GW, former men’s tennis player settle racial discrimination lawsuit after nearly five years

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
May 18, 2023
Mayor Muriel Bowser will likely be the first three-term D.C. mayor since Marion Berry, who won his third term in 1986.

Bowser, Milken to receive honorary degrees at University commencement

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Max Porter
May 17, 2023
Ed Comer, secretary of the Foggy Bottom and West End Neighborhood Commission, leads the vote count for Jim Malec's chair election during the governing body's special meeting Monday.

ANC elects Jim Malec to chair governing body after former chair resigns from top post

By Max Porter
May 8, 2023
Emergency responders survey 21st and I streets near the memorial for Shawn O'Donnell, a cyclist who a truck driver struck and killed at the same intersection in July.

Charter bus hits woman on scooter at corner of 21st and I streets

By Max Porter
May 4, 2023
The letter states some students are “more comfortable” calling GWPD because officers don’t currently carry weapons.

Hundreds of faculty sign letter urging Board of Trustees to reverse GWPD arming decision

By Max Porter and Rachel Moon
May 2, 2023
The Lerner Health and Wellness Center scaled back its hours after students returned to campus following pandemic-related shutdowns, and is now open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays.

Students question Lerner’s ‘unreasonable’ operating hours, hope officials extend times

By Max Porter and Avril Silva
May 1, 2023

Capital Bikeshare installs docking station on Mount Vernon Campus

By Max Porter
May 1, 2023
The latest model can travel 20 miles per hour and have 60-mile 500 watt batteries, front LED lights and reflective paint.

Capital Bikeshare to add 900 e-bikes to District-area bike stations

By Max Porter
April 27, 2023
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Robert Contee III as her pick for Metropolitan Police Department chief in December 2020.

MPD Chief Robert Contee to resign, join FBI

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
April 27, 2023
Commissioners delayed the vote after Commissioner Evelyn Hudson was unable to join the meeting in person or through video.

ANC votes to delay chair election, stalling Causey’s replacement following resignation

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
April 20, 2023
Protesters chanted “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “We keep us safe” as they pounded drums and hoisted signs with messages reading “Guns off my campus” and “Disarm GWPD” during their hourlong protest.

Students demand GW reverse plans to arm GWPD during march to F Street House

By Jennifer Igbonoba, Max Porter and Fiona Bork
April 17, 2023
Freshman Rob Brown said piano key and tuning issues in Phillips and West halls prevent him from getting the “full experience” from practice.

GW-owned pianos need more maintenance, cooler rooms, students say

By Max Porter
April 17, 2023
Some members of the Metro Board of Directors expressed support for implementing a $2 flat fee for riding the Metrorail.

Metro ridership surges at Foggy Bottom Metro station in pandemic rebound

By Erika Filter and Max Porter
April 17, 2023

Crime log: Staff member reports damage to Shenkman Hall exit signs, bathroom mirror

By Max Porter
April 10, 2023
Despite candidates’ promises, some of their plans overlook the state of GW's policies and programs as well as the bounds of the SA's jurisdiction.

Fact check: How SA candidates’ platforms hold up with accuracy, context

By Sejal Govindarao and Max Porter
April 10, 2023

GSEHD professor talks tuition hike’s impact on diversity in enrollment

By Sejal Govindarao and Max Porter
April 6, 2023
WMATA officials announced in a release Tuesday that the Yellow Line, which extends from Huntington station in Virginia through Gallery Place station in D.C. to Greenbelt station in Maryland, will fully reopen May 7 at 7 a.m.

WMATA to reopen Yellow Line after eight months of construction

By Max Porter
April 6, 2023
Thurston Hall is among the first few residence halls where a professional moving company will begin packing students' belongings.

CLRE to hire community engagement advisers, assistants for freshmen residence halls

By Max Porter
March 27, 2023
Experts in criminology said low neighborhood crime and the department’s reporting method could also explain the drop in complaints and arrests outlined in GWPD’s internal review.

GWPD made fewer arrests despite more calls for service in 2022: annual review

By Max Porter
March 27, 2023

Student leaders celebrate Women’s History Month at annual gala

By Sejal Govindarao and Max Porter
March 11, 2023
John Capozzi, a former D.C. shadow representative in the House between 1995 and 1997, said members of Congress are making a “political statement” at the expense of District residents

Residents, local leaders gather to rally against Senate’s reversal of D.C. criminal code

By Grace Chinowsky and Max Porter
March 9, 2023

Student pushing D.C. legislation to prevent sexual violence on campus

By Sejal Govindarao and Max Porter
March 2, 2023
A train pulls into the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station.

WMATA to fix 7000-series wheels in yearslong, multimillion dollar plan

By Max Porter
March 2, 2023

Getting to the Bottom of It: Where’s all the snow? Explaining winter weather in D.C.

By Sejal Govindarao and Max Porter
February 7, 2023

Crime log: Female student reports extortion attempt

By Max Porter
February 6, 2023
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