WTOP: DC reveals more insight to contact tracing, preps for future vaccine
A D.C. health official urged more residents who tested positive for coronavirus to better help contact tracers complete necessary interviews within three days.
Washingtonian: DC Mayor Bowser Wants Kids Back in School on November 9
The city is working with public and charter schools to make hybrid learning happen.
DCist: D.C. Is Introducing New Coronavirus Metrics To Make It Easier For The Public To Understand
On Thursday, D.C. officials said they are introducing new, easier-to-understand metrics for the public to better track the spread of the coronavirus.
WTOP: Election 2020 DC voter guide: What to know
D.C. residents won’t only be casting a ballot for the U.S. president this November amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCist: Three Weeks Into The Academic Year, Thousands Of D.C. Students Still Haven’t Enrolled In…
About 4,500 fewer students are enrolled in D.C. schools this academic year compared to the same time last year, officials said, as schools across the city try new ways to reach families during the pandemic.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: A requiem for all the mom-and-pop shops shut down by the pandemic
“Wagner Opticians,” she said, answering her mobile phone with a crisp office voice.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The D.C. Metro could be unrecognizable next year
DRASTIC SERVICE cuts are ahead for the D.C. area’s transit system as officials face a loss of roughly a tenth of the network’s current operating revenue. For a fuller grasp of the potential meltdown facing Metro — second in subway…
City Paper: Landlords Don’t Want the D.C. Council to Extend Its Blanket Eviction Moratorium
Landlords are fighting a legal battle against D.C.'s ban on eviction filings. A judge will eventually decide whether the moratorium violates their constitutional rights.
Washingtonian: Ben’s Chili Bowl Will Host Its First-Ever Pop-Up With Kwame Onwuachi
The former Kith and Kin chef will add Trinidadian flavor to the classic half-smoke
DCist: D.C. Mutual Aid Groups, A Lifeline For Many During The Pandemic, Face Dwindling Funds And…
Miriam Perlacio lived in Ward 2 for 15 years, and remembers how much her neighbors supported her after she immigrated to this country from Peru. She spoke to DCist/WAMU as she was setting up a clothing swap in the Logan Circle neighborhood…
Washington Post: Contact-tracing challenges hurt D.C.’s efforts to control virus’s spread, health…
A lack of information from some D.C. residents who test positive for the novel coronavirus is hurting the city’s efforts to corral the virus’s spread, officials said Thursday.
WTOP: DC preps for future coronavirus vaccine roll out
D.C. is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and updating its data systems to prepare for the possible roll out of a coronavirus vaccine.
DCist: George Washington University Launches In-House COVID-19 Testing For Students, Employees
George Washington University has developed and is launching its own in-house COVID testing, but, it is only to available students and employees of the private university.
Washington Post: American University repeatedly told a top WAMU manager not to fire a suspected…
In 2016, public radio station manager J.J. Yore made repeated attempts to get rid of an employee he suspected was a serial sexual harasser. But the administrators he answered to recommended warnings and reprimands instead.
DCist: Arena Stage Releases ’51st State,’ A Movie About D.C. Statehood
Earlier this summer, demonstrators filled D.C.’s streets to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other victims of police violence. The Trump administration sent in national law enforcement to quell the protests, a move…
DCist: D.C. Water Pledges Financial Relief For Edgewood Sewage Overflow Cleanup, But Some Say It’s…
The D.C. Water and Sewage Authority is offering funds to help residents in the Riggs Park and Edgewood neighborhoods who experienced sewage overflow in their homes, as record-setting rainfall and flash floods hit the region last week.
DCist: In D.C. Neighborhoods Devastated By COVID-19, School Workers Become ‘Emergency Responders’
The urgent phone calls, text messages and emails flooded Art Mola’s phone.
Washington Post: A record rainfall this month left D.C. basements flooded with sewage. Financial…
Sydney Miles heard an ominous swishing sound last Thursday in the basement of her childhood home, which she shares with her mother in Northeast Washington’s Edgewood neighborhood. Dim images of the basement appeared on a security camera:…
WTOP: National Portrait Gallery reopens Friday with 2 new exhibits
The National Portrait Gallery officially reopens at 11:30 a.m. Friday after months of a pandemic shutdown.
Washington Business Journal: Here’s an update on all of Greater Washington’s hospital…
Coronavirus upended just about any plans the D.C. area’s health systems took into 2020. And while the pandemic stalled construction across Greater Washington, it didn’t derail their projects entirely — especially those nearing their…