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WAMU: For A Population Already Living On The Edge, New Risks From A Pandemic

Editor Apr 3, 2020

How do you shelter in place when you don’t have a home? Where do you wash your hands when you live on the streets? These are some of the challenges faced by those struggling with homelessness amid the coronavirus outbreak. And advocates…

Jared Flippen in The Post: What happened to protecting D.C.’s homeless children?

Editor Apr 3, 2020

Most people in the District are familiar with the case of Relisha Rudd. In February 2014, the 8-year-old girl was living with her mother at D.C. General, a hospital turned family homeless shelter, when she was abducted. She is believed to…

WTOP: DC-area fire and police departments make coronavirus contingency plans as first responders get…

Editor Apr 3, 2020

As coronavirus spreads, first responders are also getting sick. As a result, D.C.-area departments are planning ahead to ensure they can avoid any changes to emergency response.

WTOP: Metro Board OKs fare hikes, service changes but coronavirus could change budget

Editor Apr 3, 2020

Normally, the Metro Board’s unanimous approval of the first rush-hour fare increases in three years, the restoration of some rail service hours and a number of other service cuts or additions would be a huge deal.

WUSA9: DCRA putting employees, public at risk during coronavirus pandemic, whistleblower says

Editor Apr 3, 2020

Housing inspectors say DCRA has failed to provide workers with adequate protection during the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington Post: Veteran nurse at Howard University Hospital dies of covid-19, family says

Editor Apr 3, 2020

Noel Sinkiat, 64, planned to retire in December after 41 years working as a nurse at Howard University Hospital. He would finally go on a long motorcycle trip with his friends.

Washington Post: Community colleges get creative to survive spring, while prepping for a surge next…

Editor Apr 3, 2020

Latease Jordan’s college, like most colleges, is basically closed. Classrooms have shuttered, offices are locked shut, courses have shifted online.

Washington Post: Delays in overhauling D.C. unemployment site add to turmoil of coronavirus layoffs

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Long before the coronavirus began to decimate the local economy, the D.C. Department of Employment Services promised a modern, user-friendly portal for submitting unemployment claims.

Washington Times: Gallaudet University helps deaf, hard of hearing stay informed on virus

Editor Apr 2, 2020

The global deaf and hard of hearing community has turned to Gallaudet University as their source of bilingual information during the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington Post: D.C. charter schools consider applying for federal loan program for businesses and…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

D.C. charter schools get most of their funding from the government, a revenue stream that continues to flow as the coronavirus grinds the District’s economy to a halt. But some of the schools are now weighing whether they should apply for…

Washington Post: Metro board approves new budget amid fiscal uncertainty created by pandemic

Editor Apr 2, 2020

The Metro board on Thursday approved a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, but acknowledged it may have to be revisited as soon as June because of the fiscal uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington Post: Federal government gave D.C. a fraction of what it sought to fight coronavirus

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Washington-area leaders slammed the Trump administration Thursday over significant shortfalls in the number of hospital ventilators, respirator masks, gloves and other supplies delivered from a national stockpile to help combat the…

Washington Post: D.C. juvenile corrections officer who died of covid-19 was committed to youth at…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Kenneth J. Moore was a father figure wherever he went. By day, he helped counsel and guard teenagers who had been arrested in the District for the city’s Youth Rehabilitation Services. On nights and weekends, he was a dad to his three…

DCist: Working From Home Isn’t An Option For Construction Workers, Deemed ‘Essential’ Under…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

A sparkling new Australian embassy in view of the White House; the big-budget Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge near Nationals Park; a mixed-use development along the U Street NW corridor that will feature housing, offices, and a museum;…

Bisnow: MLB’s Delayed Opening Day Could Give Half Street A Proper Debut

Editor Apr 2, 2020

The Washington Nationals were scheduled to host their first home game since winning the World Series on Thursday, and the new retailers on Half Street were supposed to make their long-awaited debut around the season opener.

Washington Business Journal: D.C. could soon pass rent, mortgage relief measures as coronavirus…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

The D.C. Council is readying a second round of legislation to respond to the growing economic fallout from the coronavirus, this time crafting provisions to provide some rent and mortgage relief for local businesses, tenants and…

WAMU: Prisoners Sue D.C.’s Federal Men’s Halfway House Over Coronavirus Response

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Two people confined in Hope Village, a 300-bed federal halfway house in Southeast D.C., are bringing a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Department of Corrections and Hope Village Inc, the company that…

Washington Post: Coronavirus-related court actions seek release of D.C. prisoners, psychiatric…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Advocates for prisoners and psychiatric patients filed separate court actions Thursday that sought the release of some mentally ill people from District facilities and detainees at the city’s only halfway house for men because of the…

Petula Dvorak in The Post: ‘No way I’m going into a shelter’: Will coronavirus put more homeless on…

Editor Apr 2, 2020

Shelter in place? Stay at home? Not for these guys, who have no home and want nothing to do with a D.C. shelter.

District government

DC recruits Medical Reserve Corps volunteers to support health care workers during pandemic

Jake Maher Apr 2, 2020

Mayor Muriel Bowser is looking for volunteers to take some of the pressure off front-line health care workers amid a rising count of COVID-19 cases in DC and increasingly aggressive steps by the District government to curb the outbreak. …

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