Washington Post: Tales from an industry fighting for its life
The people behind the D.C. area’s devastated restaurants are just trying to hang on.
City Paper: Local Arts Groups Rely on Community Funding in the Absence of Government Support
“We simply don’t know what, if any, funds will be available for any kind of emergency relief.”
WAMU: Nurses In D.C. Say They Are Not Being Tested After Treating COVID-19 Patients
Nurses and other frontline healthcare staff say they are not being tested for COVID-19, putting them at risk for infection, according to the D.C. Nurses Association (DCNA). The association represents 2,000 nurses and healthcare…
City Paper: A Delayed Makeover of D.C.’s Unemployment Website Impacts Tens of Thousands of Residents
A surge in claims due to COVID-19 makes the delay sting even worse.
City Paper: Not All Small D.C. Restaurants and Bars Will Make It Through the COVID-19 Crisis
Five owners talk about the support they need to survive and what the city would lose if they close.
Washington Post: In a city defined by power, a virus has seized control
First graders and friars, scientists and sanitation workers, teen models and the mayor: 24 hours inside the lives upended by a pandemic in the nation’s capital
Street Sense: DC health clinics adjust operations in face of COVID-19 pandemic
Day-to-day operations look different now in many of the District’s health care providers that serve low-income and homeless residents. Whitman-Walker Health, Community of Hope, Unity Health Care, and La Clínica del Pueblo are re-orienting…
jonetta rose barras: How do you spell relief for DC?
Last week started on a hopeful note for the DC government and its more than 700,000 residents, with the city seemingly on track in addressing the public health emergency and potentially covering the financial costs. That’s not the way it…
WAMU: School Nurses Fight Layoffs For Refusing Coronavirus Work
Nearly 40 school nurses in the District could be temporarily laid off Friday after refusing to help during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a union representing the nurses.
Washington Post: As inmates in D.C., Maryland and Virginia test positive for the coronavirus, jail…
From his cell at the D.C. jail, Kamal Dorchy has spent the past few days writing what he described as “goodbye” letters to his mother, father, ex-wife and 5-year-old daughter. He is afraid he could be the next to get sick.
City Paper: Union Says 37 School Nurses Will Be Temporarily Laid Off For Not Taking Part In COVID-19…
The union is filing an unfair labor practice against management.
DCist: Employee At Columbia Heights Giant Tests Positive For Coronavirus
An employee of a Giant in Columbia Heights has tested positive for the coronavirus, and three other employees of the store have been quarantined as a result, according to the union representing thousands of grocery store employees in the…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Whether D.C. becomes the next hot spot depends on what we do now
MARYLAND GOV. Larry Hogan (R) warned this week that the Washington area could soon be as hard-hit as New York City by the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve doubled over the past just two days, and we look a lot like where New York was just a…
Sergio Peçanha in The Post: One block, at least 140 jobs lost
A closer look at the havoc that the pandemic is causing for retail and retail workers
Washington Post: Coronavirus cases reported at D.C.’s St. Elizabeths Hospital, homeless shelters
A flurry of coronavirus cases at the District’s public psychiatric hospital and in its homeless shelters has led to quarantine measures this week and calls to improve protections for those who work with some of the city’s most vulnerable…
WAMU: How Police Plan To Enforce D.C.’s Stay-At-Home Order
When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a stay-at-home order earlier this week, it came with penalties attached: up to 90 days in jail or a $5,000 fine for anyone who violates it. But in guidance issued Wednesday, D.C. Police Chief Peter…
WTOP: Senators: ‘Shameful’ DC did not get all coronavirus pandemic funding
More than 20 U.S. senators have written Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and urged legislative action to make sure D.C. receives hundreds of millions dollars in funding to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
WTOP: Despite telework, stay-at-home orders, not much change to air quality in DC area
One outcome that is emerging from the mandated stay-at-home orders and other local initiatives related to the coronavirus pandemic is less traffic on D.C.-area roadways.
WTOP: Lawsuit accuses DC Department of Corrections of exposing inmates, officers to coronavirus
Officers and inmates at the D.C. Central Detention Facility have said they fear for their safety and have filed a lawsuit accusing city leaders of not taking the necessary steps to keep the novel coronavirus from spreading inside the…
Press Release: Norton Thanks 25 Senators for Letter Supporting Coronavirus Funding for the District…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
April 1, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement thanking 25 senators, including Senators Chris Van…