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Press Release: Norton Thanks Raskin, 97 House Members for Letter Supporting D.C. Coronavirus Funding…

Press Release Apr 9, 2020

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton April 9, 2020 Contact: Raven Reeder WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) for leading a letter today with 97 other House…

Press Release: Mayor Bowser Directs $35 Million for COVID-19 Medical Surge

Press Release Apr 9, 2020

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor April 9, 2020 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Mayor Muriel Bowser directed an additional $35 million of the District’s Contingency Cash Reserve Fund to provide…

Press Release: Events DC Announces $18 Million Hospitality and Tourism Relief Package Amid COVID-19…

Press Release Apr 9, 2020

News Release — Events DC 04/09/2020 Funds support local DC restaurants, hotel industry, destination marketing and undocumented workers (Washington, DC) – April 9, 2020 – Events DC, Washington DC’s official convention and sports…

Press Release: Norton Releases Federal Bureau of Prisons Response after Agency Visits Hope Village…

Press Release Apr 9, 2020

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton April 9, 2020 Contact: Raven Reeder WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) informing her…

District Links: Grocery store shoppers should wear masks, mayor says; over 56K apply for…

Chris Kain and Cuneyt Dil Apr 9, 2020

Good Thursday afternoon. Most supermarkets have been looking a lot different inside than they did a month or two ago, with some shelves completely bare, salad bars closed off and customers for the most part trying to keep their distance…

Washingtonian: DC Farmers Markets Add New Safety Measures After Mayor’s Latest Order

Editor Apr 9, 2020

Markets are now required to submit social-distancing plans to the city if they want to stay open

DCist: D.C. Considers Storage Trailers For The COVID-19 Dead As Region Braces For An Influx Of…

Editor Apr 9, 2020

As deaths related to the COVID-19 outbreak continue to rise across the D.C. region, local officials are facing a tough, bleak challenge: how to store the surge of dead bodies.

City Paper: Mayor Won’t Designate Grocery Workers “First Responders” Despite Calls From Union

Editor Apr 9, 2020

"A shortage of tests is all the more reason that grocery workers need to be designated first responders."

DCist: With Baseball On Hold, Nationals Ticket Holders Are Stuck In Limbo

Editor Apr 9, 2020

Jim Turner was looking forward to the start of baseball season. As he’d done in past years, the Bethesda resident sprang for season tickets to see the Washington Nationals, pooling money with a group of four other guys to purchase four…

Bisnow: Aria Development Seeks To Demolish NoMa Exxon Where It Plans Mixed-Use Project

Editor Apr 9, 2020

The mixed-use development planned for a prime corner in NoMa appears to be moving forward.

Press Release: Norton Encouraged that Rising Voices for Fourth Coronavirus Response Bill Will Help…

Press Release Apr 9, 2020

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton April 9, 2020 Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) works on components she wants in a fourth coronavirus response bill,…

Washington Post: Violent crime drops in District amid the coronavirus, stay-at-home order

Diane Gross Apr 9, 2020

Fewer people in the District are being robbed but more are being assaulted as law-abiding citizens and criminals alike adjust to a new cityscape of empty streets, closed shops and altered routines that are throwing established crime…

DCist: Local Movie Theaters Are Trying Curbside Popcorn, Streaming, And Film Clubs To Stay Afloat

Editor Apr 9, 2020

Bill Oberdorfer, executive director of the Avalon Theatre in D.C.’s Chevy Chase, visited the Connecticut Avenue movie house last Thursday to sign two checks. It was his first time there in three weeks; he’s usually there all day, five days…

City Paper: Virus Doing a Number

Editor Apr 9, 2020

You can scratch off millions in lost revenue for D.C.

Ron Thompson in Greater Greater Washington: The Wharf closure highlights the complexities of social…

Editor Apr 9, 2020

Against the backdrop of a pandemic, pictures and videos of crowds at DC’s Maine Avenue Fish Market, commonly known as the Wharf, circulated over the weekend. On the surface, it was painfully obvious that the six feet social distancing…

WAMU: Unemployment Continues To Spike In Washington Region, Straining Governments’ Ability To…

Editor Apr 9, 2020

The wave of unemployment across the Washington region continues, a month into the coronavirus pandemic. The historic number of people applying for benefits is testing local governments’ ability to accept applications and pay new benefits…

City Paper: The Pandemic Forces Local Candidates To Try Their Hands at Virtual Campaigning

Editor Apr 9, 2020

From thousands of phone calls to Zoombombed virtual happy hours, they're figuring it out.

Associated Press: DC community volunteers provide food for locked-down needy

Editor Apr 9, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A line begins forming as a van pulls into the parking lot of a senior living center in Southeast Washington. By the time the half-dozen masked volunteers set up the folding table and start pulling out plastic bags filled…

Washingtonian: This Online Business Directory Is Making It Easier to Support DC Small Businesses…

Editor Apr 9, 2020

Shop in Place DC is a website listing local businesses open during the Covid-19 crisis.

UrbanTurf: The Butterworth Mansion: From Best New Listing to 11 Units?

Editor Apr 9, 2020

A former Best New Listing — and 19th-century example of missing middle housing — may soon triple in density.

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