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Axios
04-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Announcing: Winners of D.C.'s RAMMY chef and restaurant awards
Winners are crowned for D.C.'s 2025 RAMMY Awards, the city's top hospitality industry honors celebrating chefs, restaurants and bars. Why it matters: The RAMMYs are like a local James Beard Awards, showcasing industry darlings and celebrating rising talents. What's new: A best fast-casual honor among the 20 categories — clinched by Mount Pleasant taqueria La Tejana. The winners! *Denotes a publicly voted category, versus judge-approved. 🍽️ New Restaurant of the Year: La' Shukran, chef Michael Rafidi's Levantine hotspot near Union Market. Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year: MITA, Shaw's "vegetable experience," which recently earned Michelin and James Beard accolades. Casual Restaurant of the Year: 2Fifty Texas BBQ, wood-smoked Texas BBQ with "a pinch of the tropics." Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year: Tail Up Goat, the beloved Adams Morgan haunt that's closing by year's end. 🔪 Chef of the Year: Carlos Delgado, leader of Shaw's Peruvian tasting room and pisco bar Causa/Amazonia. Rising Culinary Star of the Year: Chef Suresh Sundas of Indian all-stars Daru and Tapori on H Street Northeast. 🍹 Cocktail Program of the Year: Spirited Jane Jane of 14th Street fame. Beer Program of the Year: Atlas Brew Works — a favorite for fresh pints in Navy Yard, Ivy City and beyond. Wine Program of the Year: Era Wine Bar — helping put Mount Rainier and Prince George's County on the vino map. 🥪 *Hottest Sandwich Shop: Longtime DMV fave Jetties. *Best Brunch: Le Diplomate (if you've waited for a coveted table and burger, ya know).
CBS News
10-02-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Michigan Gov. Whitmer announces new funding plan for road improvements
(CBS DETROIT) — On Monday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a new plan to funnel more money into fixing the state's aging infrastructure. The $3 billion plan, MI Road Ahead, aims to get more funding to fix the roads. It comes after Whitmer announced a budget last week to fund a road project. "Right now, support any increases in revenue to our transportation network, especially as significant as $3 billion," said Lance Binoniemi, the vice president of government affairs for the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association (MITA). Binoniemi tells CBS News Detroit that studies from his MITA have found that Michigan would need about $4 billion to really tackle decrepit roads. He says the governor's plan, "does come close to that number." "We are deteriorating at a rate that we can't maintain. That $3 billion a year will make sure that we stop doing that, Binoniemi said. An outline of the plan released by Whitmer's office on Monday would pull revenue from different sources, like changing where the money from our current gas tax goes and possibly changing Michigan's corporate income tax. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce is already opposing this move. "We do have significant concerns out of the gate," said Wendy Block the senior vice president of business advocacy with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. "The rate is not yet disclosed, but we believe that they're eyeing somewhere between 7.5% to 8%, up from our current 6%. While we at the Michigan Chamber have long been proponents of finding new revenue sources for the roads, we think the first goal of government needs to be to look within, to look at Michigan's current spending." The governor's plan comes days after Michigan House Republicans announced their own plan for road funding. "The problem is, a lot of that really seems to be the House Republican plan. I don't think teachers like it when their students copy each other's homework. I don't know if the people of Michigan really like that, either," said state Rep. Joe Aragona, R-Clinton Township. One Democratic lawmaker said he foresees a discussion over the two plans and officials meeting in the middle. "Honestly, I think it's time to get stuff done. We have been struggling to maintain our local roads for far too long, and it's time that we come to a solution, working together to make things happen," said state Rep. Jason Morgan, D-Ann Arbor.
