DCist: You Can Catch A Local Music Festival From Your Couch This Weekend
As the live music booker at Comet Ping Pong, David Combs has spent many of his days lately rescheduling shows that were set to take place at the Chevy Chase pizzeria as concerns about the coronavirus pandemic shuttered most businesses.…
WTOP: Masks required at DC voting sites as officials push voting by mail
While officials are urging D.C. voters to cast mail-in ballots in the June 2 primary, there will be voting centers in all eight wards of the city. But, if you plan to vote in person on Election Day, you’ll need to wear a mask to cast your…
Washington Business Journal: Coalition of D.C.’s largest businesses lobbying for massive tax…
Some of D.C.’s largest and most powerful businesses are lobbying for a huge new tax relief program from District lawmakers, arguing that the changes are essential to save the region’s hospitality industry amid the coronavirus crisis.
Washington Blade: InTowner newspaper publisher Peter Wolff dies at 84
Peter L. Wolff, a lawyer turned journalist who is credited with shedding light on important but often overlooked issues affecting D.C.’s local neighborhoods in his role as editor and publisher of the InTowner newspaper for more than 35…
Bo Shuff: The tyranny of congressional oversight strikes again
Late last month Congress cheated DC out of its fair share of federal relief aid, and now we learn that the District faces an anticipated $607 million revenue shortfall due to the impact of COVID-19. Congress saddled Washingtonians with a…
District Links: DC plans public awareness ‘blitz’ to get voters to request mail-in…
Happy Emancipation Day. Elections can turn on how many voters actually cast ballots, and DC's pivot this year to encouraging residents to vote by mail rather than in person presents new challenges for candidates and election officials…
Washingtonian: Yes, DC’s Air Is Cleaner During the Pandemic
Amid the tremendous damage that the novel coronavirus has caused—to human life, to the economy, to relationships—there’s one thing that has inadvertently benefited from the global shutdown: air quality.
DCist: With Streets Emptied, More Than A Quarter Of D.C.-Area Food Trucks Have Had To Suspend…
More than a quarter of the region’s food trucks have suspended operations amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the DMV Food Truck Association.
Washington Post: D.C.-area schools plan their returns, but health officials and teachers unions will…
Expanded summer school. Extra days next year. Staggered start dates in the fall.
Street Sense: While DHS works to shelter and quarantine homeless residents, housing referrals have…
As cases of COVID-19 were rapidly increasing last month, the D.C. Department of Human Services notified housing providers that it was temporarily suspending the Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement (CAHP) program, which is the…
Street Sense: As 12-step meetings halt in person due to the coronavirus, recovery goes online
Elizabeth, a Narcotics Anonymous member and resident of the D.C. metro area, can’t attend her usual meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her Sunday meetings now happen on Zoom. In the previous weeks, as the Centers for Disease Control…
Natalie Hopkinson in The Root: Maybe We Don’t Celebrate DC’s Emancipation Day Because…
Today, April 16, marks the date 158 years ago, when Washington, D.C., became the only American jurisdiction to end slavery by paying $1 million in ransom to slaveholders to free the 3,100 people enslaved in the nation’s capital.
City Paper: Expecting Parents and Pregnancy Experts Adjust to the Coronavirus Pandemic
New parents still welcome babies, and doctors, midwives, and doulas find ways to provide essential care.
City Paper: Tenants Ask Landlords to Cancel Rent Payments Amid D.C. Coronavirus Pandemic
But the Council and mayor don't seem into the idea.
WTOP: DC’s Call Your Mother deli expands during coronavirus pandemic
While most businesses have shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one in the D.C. that is actually expanding.
jonetta rose barras: Is voter depression/suppression coming to DC for the June 2 election? Maybe.
The DC Council mandated last week in its COVID-19 Response Supplemental Emergency Act of 2020 that the DC Board of Elections mail a ballot request form to every eligible voter for the June 2 primary and the June 16 Ward 2 special election.…
WTOP: Lawsuit alleges DC Jail confinement measures are unconstitutional
A federal judge weighing a lawsuit against the District over conditions at the DC Jail has been told by independent inspectors that there are substantial challenges at the jail due to the coronavirus and staff shortages.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: A health care worker chose to quarantine with a disabled man who has…
Right now, in the nation’s capital, a man with intellectual disabilities is in a house, fighting covid-19, with the help of a person who chose to quarantine with him.
Washington Business Journal: So Others Might Eat names first new CEO in 42 years
So Others Might Eat, a D.C. nonprofit that has grown from a small soup kitchen to a major community service provider with a $35 million annual budget, has made its first CEO change in 42 years.
Washington Post: Business shutdowns extended into May around the Washington region amid signs that…
The shutdown of nonessential businesses will extend until May 15 in the District of Columbia and May 8 in Virginia, as leaders warned against letting up on efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.