2020

Metro continues to have serious problems in its rail operations control center, similar to those cited in the 2015 L’Enfant Plaza smoke incident, that if left unresolved “will continue to pose unacceptable risks for its customers,…

WMATA officials are predicting a grim road ahead for the transit system thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, according to new budget documents released Tuesday.

A proposal released Tuesday by House Democrats for another round of coronavirus funding would give the District $755 million the city was denied in earlier legislation and ensure the nation’s capital receives the same aid as states going…

Metro is suspending plans to extend night service hours, institute special weekend fares and discount bus-to-rail transfers this summer to reallocate funding toward keeping the transit system solvent and avoid layoffs or furloughs while…

For Andrew Dana, a co-owner of Timber Pizza and deli-bagelry Call Your Mother, it was only a matter of time before one of his dozens of employees got infected with COVID-19. Though Dana felt that his restaurants’ health and safety…

Happy Tuesday. It’s hard to find good news in the District’s report of an additional 96 confirmed COVID-19 cases yesterday, but there is a hopeful sign: four days of lower increases in the number of infections.

New reporting of coronavirus infections has revealed high rates of COVD-19 among D.C.’s intellectually disabled — and an ongoing staffing crisis among the people who care for them.

As March turned to April and the District’s social distancing mandate continued, residents of Ward 8 began to notice problems with their mail service: Their mail was coming late, or sometimes not at all; packages read as delivered even…

"I can’t charge $38 for a whole cheesesteak."

New Hampshire allowed its golf courses to reopen Monday after nearly two months closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. That meant all 50 states in the U.S. have allowed golfers to pick up their clubs again — but Washington, D.C., has not.…

The team behind Ivy and Coney had been using Grubhub for about six months when the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of D.C. Before, the fees the app charged were high, but the deliveries were still a nice supplement to their majority…

The "human needs referral service center" operates more like a switchboard.

Advocates for decriminalizing “magic mushrooms” and other psychoactive plants are asking D.C. voters to sign a petition online or by mail to put Initiative 81 on November’s ballot.

Children’s National Hospital is investigating three cases of an inflammatory disease affecting children with potential links to COVID-19.

Tanya Lott has an infectious laugh. Maybe that’s a bad metaphor for the coronavirus era, but there’s no better way to put it. When she laughs, I laugh. And in a recent phone conversation, we laughed a lot.