City Paper: Plot Twist: Farmers Find Ways to Sell to Consumers While Restaurants Lie Dormant
"It’s the most secure way of getting food and there’s a lot of power in that."
Yearly Archives
2020
WTOP: DC woman finds lost pet bird or did Moki the cockatiel find her?
A crafty pet cockatiel that flew away in D.C. has been safely reunited with his family after being found several days later, several miles away.
Washington Post: Veteran D.C. police sergeant collapses after shift and dies
A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.
jonetta rose barras: Dreaming of a DC reclamation after COVID-19
“It seems like August,” I said recently to a Lyft driver who was taking me to my retina specialist for yet another of those God-awful injections. “What do you mean?” she asked. Many drivers of for-hire services don’t live in the city; they…
WTOP: Farmers markets no longer ‘essential’ in DC; food stores must post signs telling customers to…
Under a new order from the mayor, farmers and fish markets in D.C. are no longer allowed to operate unless they get a waiver, and retail food sellers must inform customers that they need to wear a mask.
WTOP: Trader Joe’s on 14th Street NW in DC temporarily closes due to COVID-19
The Trader Joe’s grocery store in D.C.’s U Street corridor is temporarily closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, the company announced Wednesday.
DCist: Coronavirus Cases At The D.C. Jail Have Grown Seven-Fold Since Last Week
Kamal Dorchy, an inmate at the D.C. Jail, suffers from leukopenia, or a lowered white blood cell count. And as the count of coronavirus cases climbs past three dozen at the jail facilities, he fears the worst.
City Paper: Unemployed D.C. Workers Could Be Waiting Until May to See the $600 Weekly Boost From the…
In addition to the maximum $444 in weekly unemployment benefits that the District will distribute, out-of-work D.C. employees are eligible to receive an extra $600 per week thanks to the massive federal relief package Congress passed in…
Washington Post: Local governments in D.C. region revise budgets, halt projects to blunt economic…
Alexandria officials have begun placing long-awaited projects such as a new Waterfront Park on hold. The D.C. government has frozen hiring and will forgo salary increases. And in Montgomery County, a proposal for a supplemental property…
Washington Post: With baseball paused, the Nationals and José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen hustle…
If there weren’t a deadly virus making the rounds, the Washington Nationals would have been wrapping up a home series with the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, with a World Series banner flapping in the breeze somewhere in the outfield…
Washington Post: They are deaf and blind, and social distancing has now taken their ability to touch
If you could have peeked into a building on Gallaudet University’s campus on a recent day, you would have seen a 6-foot-3 man crawling on the floor.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Issues Order Establishing Social Distancing Protocols for Food Sellers…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
April 8, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, to protect the District’s food supply chain and the District’s frontline food workers during the…
Press Release: Norton Speaks Out on Social Distancing, Balancing Needed with Safe Activities to Get…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
April 8, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement urging authorities to guide…
Washington Post: Coronavirus in D.C.: What the first month tells us about its spread
The next 30 days could show if the District will be in the next wave of hot spots or if social distancing measures have been effective at “flattening the curve”
DCist: How To Get Really Into Birdwatching While You’re Stuck At Home
With D.C. residents under stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, access to nature feels tenuous for many, even as spring marches forward. But there’s at least one socially distant solution: backyard birding, though backyards…
Washington Post: Veteran D.C. police sergeant collapses after shift and dies
A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.
City Paper: Trader Joe’s on 14th Street NW Is Closed Until Saturday
An employee who tested positive for COVID-19 was last in the store on April 5.
WTOP: Safeway follows Giant in limiting the number of customers in its stores
Safeway is following Giant Food’s decision to now limit the number of customers in its grocery stores at any given time.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Launches the District Economic Recovery Team
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 8, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that her Administration has launched a new District…
Press Release: OPC Commends DC Council Passage of Additional Protections for Utility Consumers…
News Release — DC Office of the People's Counsel
April 8, 2020
Sandra Mattavous-Frye, People's Counsel for the District of Columbia, wants DC consumers to know about new relief for utility company customers that the DC Council…