UrbanTurf: A Few New Looks For DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park
There are a few new looks for DC's planned 11th Street Park.
DCist: D.C.’s Emergency Alert Caused Some Confusion Last Night. Here’s What It Meant
If you were in D.C. and near your smartphone or someone else’s around 8 p.m. Wednesday, you probably heard loud blaring and buzzing coming from the device.
District Links: Bowser, Mendelson decry Senate coronavirus stimulus for giving DC $750M less than…
Good Thursday afternoon. District leaders are furious over the $2 trillion Senate stimulus bill shortchanging the District by about $750 million, treating it as a territory rather than a state.
Press Release: AG Racine Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters to Stop Price Gouging by District Stores and…
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March 26, 2020
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OAG Found Evidence of Illegal Markup for Disinfecting Products, Gloves, Other Essential Items
WASHINGTON,…
City Paper: The Immigrants Who Feed D.C. Don’t Have the Same Safety Net as Other Out-of-Work…
"If they buy food, they can’t pay rent. If they pay rent, they can’t buy food. It’s a complicated situation."
City Paper: Virus Victim — The once flush D.C. government is facing a fiscal meltdown.
For more than two decades, the District has prided itself on its balanced budgets, with its surplus nearing $1.5 billion dollars.
Street Sense: A text-alert service for DC’s homeless community is tracking which services are still…
A comprehensive list of which D.C. service providers are remaining open during the COVID-19 outbreak was published on Sunday by the Arlington-based nonprofit behind the District’s text-message alert system for the homeless community, Hope…
City Paper: U.S. Parole Commission Bends to Demands From Defense Attorneys and Del. Eleanor Holmes…
New guidelines aim to release detained parolees from DC Jail.
City Paper: D.C. Jail Inmate Tests Positive For COVID-19
The 20-year-old male is being monitored in the infirmary.
City Paper: Local Arts Organizations Rise to Digitally Meet the Demands of an At-Home Public
And they're seeing increased engagement.
WAMU: A D.C.-Grown App To Help Monitor What’s On Store Shelves Is Coming Next Week
Until a few weeks ago, D.C.-based entrepreneur Mark Sussman was gearing up for the public launch of OurStreets, an app that allows users to report dangerous driving behavior and badly parked e-bikes and scooters. The app has been quietly…
City Paper: Nursing Homes Prepare and Protect Residents During Coronavirus Pandemic
"We are doing all we can so that residents don't get lonely or anxious.”
WTOP: Kennedy Center funding included in coronavirus stimulus package
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will get $25 million as part of the $2.2 trillion bill to provide relief to millions of Americans, businesses, health care systems and others impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
WTOP: DC establishes curbside pickup zones, as coronavirus forces new guidelines for restaurants
The District has followed Montgomery County, Maryland, in setting up curbside pickup zones near restaurants to make it easier for customers to get their food and beverages to go.
jonetta rose barras: The coronavirus — taking lives, destroying the economy
Even before the U.S. Senate could settle on its nearly $2 trillion stimulus package as a bulwark against the coronavirus’s ravaging of the national economy, the DC Council had offered its own relief that relied on drawing millions of…
Washington Times: D.C. confirms third coronavirus death, 48 new cases including 8-year-old
The D.C. Department of Health confirmed Wednesday the District’s third death from the novel coronavirus.
WAMU: D.C. Could Get Half As Much Coronavirus Aid As States, Prompting Pushback From City Leaders
D.C. officials are crying foul over a provision of the Senate’s $2 trillion recovery bill that gives each of the 50 states at least $1.25 billion in direct aid while providing D.C. with less than half that amount.
Washington Post: D.C. could get severely shortchanged in federal coronavirus stimulus bill
The $2 trillion federal coronavirus relief bill could shortchange the District by an estimated $750 million by treating the nation’s capital as a U.S. territory, even though Washington has more confirmed cases than many states.
Washington Post: Break-ins at two Anacostia eateries leave owners frustrated during the coronavirus…
Rocks were hurled through windows at Busboys and Poets as well as Turning Natural juice bar in Anacostia, and the culprits grabbed the cash registers. The incidents were, in the words of one owner, “such a small thing,” given worries over…
Washington Post: D.C. will open emergency child-care centers for children of health-care workers
The District plans to open six emergency child-care facilities Thursday to serve the children of health-care workers during the coronavirus crisis, city officials said.