City Cast DC
City Cast DC is the daily, local audio companion you knew DC needed.. Washingtonians are deeply passionate about our city, whose story is still being written, and City Cast DC is here to tell it.Every weekday morning, our hosts Michael Schaffer and Bridget Todd will engage people from all over the eight wards in conversation about DC’s crises and its beauty, both literal and figurative. It’ll have the feel of eavesdropping on an energetic and informative coffee shop chat, except that with City C...
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Robert White Wants To Be Your New Warrior On The Hill
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Crime Stats Scandal Rocks MPD, All About That Obama Musical, and National Mall F...
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Trump's Elite Golf Vision Could Kill Public Access at Hains Point
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A Kennedy Center Insider Explains Its Shocking Plan to Dump Art
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How Protests in 1991 Changed Mount Pleasant
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Kenyan McDuffie Talks Housing, Police Crisis, and Why He Won’t ‘Suck Up’ to Trum...
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Ranked Choice Voting Confusion, Make DC Square Again, Bad Take on WHCD Shooting
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Your Guide to May 2026 in DC
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Your Guide to DC’s Porchfests in 2026
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Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Ride Share Freebies, and the Blue Reflecting Po...
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How Congress Flies: Secret Rooms, VIP Perks, and Trump's Dulles Dreams
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'Your City Could Be Better': Meet Nashville's Rogue Bench Builders — Presented B...
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McDuffie vs. Lewis George, DC Teens Sound Off on the Curfew, and Baby Elephant’'...
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How DC’s Food Scene Stacks Up Against the Competition
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The Hirshhorn's Head is Gone. What's Next For Modern Art in DC?
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DC Police Bombshell, Fairfax Murder-Suicide, and Get Your Money Back From Ticket...
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Why Can't DC Solve Its 'Teen Takeover' Problem?
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'Your City Could Be Better': Why Seattle Gives Every Voter $100 — Presented By C...
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Pinto's 67-Page Hit Job, MAHA on the Mall, and Why DCPS Enrollment Tanked
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Every Failure Leading Up to the Potomac Sewage Nightmare
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The Map Killing Housing In DC
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Painful Cuts, Bright Spots, Shit Sandwich? The New DC Budget
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Why the Holocaust Museum Censored Itself Before Trump Even Asked
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'Your City Could Be Better': Why Portland’s Considering Hiring a Night Mayor —...
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Dirt Bike Debate, Penn Ave Redo, Goodbye (Maybe?!) to Ovi
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The Washington Post's New Food Critic Tells All
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Inside the Architecture of DC's Homes
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How 56,000 Lost Jobs Could Change DC Forever
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DC’s Best Hangover Foods
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'Your City Could Be Better': Denver’s Bet on a Women’s Soccer Stadium — Presente...
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Bowser Taking L’s vs. Council, Trump’s Ballroom Blocked, DC’s Best Chefs
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It's About To Get Even Easier To Fire Federal Workers
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Your Guide to April 2026 in DC
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The Sus Park Police Shooting, Zionism Enters the Mayor's Race, Bald Eagle Romanc...
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What Trump’s War on Big Law Means for DC
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'Your City Could Be Better': How Austin is Succeeding at Affordable Housing — Pr...
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Public Safety Politics, The Cornhole Killer, A Streetcar Named Defunct
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Why Does DC Have So Many Traffic Circles?
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How Elon Musk’s DC Hyperloop Project Failed
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DC's Housing Crisis, National Guard Controversy, Betting Bar Bust
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Inside Julia Child's DC
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'Your City Could Be Better': Could a Nevada Brothel Help Redefine Labor Standard...
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Mayoral Forum Chaos, Fed Workers Chopped, Fake Tornadoes
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A Top Architecture Critic Says Trump 'Will Destroy' Washington
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Kids Are Playing Hooky — Is That Driving Up Youth Crime?
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Best DC Spring Getaways for $150 Or Less
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Will DC Restaurants Survive This Round Of ICE Enforcement?
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'Your City Could Be Better': DC’s Plan To Hold Federal Agents Accountable
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Kenyan McDuffie Is Playing Catch-Up, Cops Collabing With DOGE, Congestion Pricin...
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