Press Release: Library Adds Autorenewal and Extends Quarantines for Checked Out Items
For Immediate Release
August 6, 2020
Media Contacts:
George Williams
Measures reduce required trips to Library and incorporate new research on COVID-19 and Library materials
(Washington, DC) - The DC Public Library is…
Press Release: AG Racine Sues NRA Foundation for Diverting Charitable Funds to Support Wasteful…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
Foundation Allowed NRA to Raid Its Coffers Through Multi-Million-Dollar Loans and Unjustified Fees
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DCist: Study Points To Significant Racial Disparities In COVID-19 Among Children
A new study of children tested for COVID-19 in D.C. revealed significant racial and socioeconomic disparities, both in test positivity rates and known exposure to the virus. The study is published in the journal Pediatrics.
WTOP: $1M fund will award grants to DC-area arts and culture organizations
The Greater Washington Community Foundation has $1 million in grant money to award local arts and culture organizations struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
City Paper: Tenants Aren’t Going to Stop Demanding Rent Cancellation
As evictions begin in neighboring jurisdictions, tenants insist payments plans won’t cut it.
Washingtonian: A Candid Conversation About the Future of Live Music
Three key figures in DC's concert industry talk about how they're holding up and what comes next.
City Paper: Why Is D.C. Considering Buying a School Property From a Mysterious, Unnamed Party?
Behind D.C.’s “once in a lifetime opportunity” to acquire Georgetown Day School’s former property.
City Paper: Inflection Point — The decades-long efforts to develop the former industrial…
For nearly 20 years, government agencies had been trying to redevelop Buzzard Point, but they always faced the same issue: Nobody with money seemed to know where it was.
WTOP: Georgetown music treasure Blues Alley barely holding on during pandemic
America’s oldest continually-operating jazz supper club may soon have to close in D.C.
Washington Post: Democrats and Republicans push back on Trump’s desire to deliver convention speech…
Local and national leaders pushed back Wednesday against President Trump’s desire to deliver his convention acceptance speech from the White House, warning that the event could bring protests and novel coronavirus spread to the nation’s…
Washington Post: A public radio station was already in turmoil. Then its own news site dropped an…
Washington’s popular NPR affiliate, WAMU, sought to expand its regional news operations in early 2018 when it acquired DCist, a local news site that had recently shut down. The station pumped money and resources into the operation,…
jonetta rose barras: Skirting DC law with government approval
Some top executives in DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration appear to be suffering from amnesia. Maybe it’s the stress of dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic and public health emergency.
How else to explain why they are…
WTOP: Smithsonian director on what it takes to reopen, transform during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the Smithsonian Institution to consider how its museums and facilities in the D.C. area can be more effective and nimble in the 21st century when they reopen.
Washington Post: D.C. officer accused of using illegal chokeholds on 2 in 2018
A D.C. police officer who has worked for the department for more than three decades has been charged with violating the civil rights of two people in separate July 2018 incidents involving illegal chokeholds, according to court filings.
Washington Times: D.C. officials urge parents to bring their kids in for wellness visits and…
D.C. officials are urging parents to be diligent about visiting their doctors for child wellness checkups and vaccinations, despite the all-remote learning start to the school year for public schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Washington Post: Special education students are not just falling behind — they’re losing key skills,…
Antwon Gibson’s public high school in Northeast Washington didn’t even attempt to teach his “independent living” class virtually this spring. The gregarious 18-year-old has an intellectual disability and reads and performs math below grade…
UrbanTurf: Black Mortgage Applicants in DC Denied at Double Citywide Rate
A new study sheds light on the pervasive pattern of racial disparities in denied mortgage applications.
DCist: Some Georgetown Students Call Financial Aid Reductions A ‘Slap In The Face’ During Pandemic
Students at Georgetown University are reeling after the university released financial aid packages on Friday, as some discovered that their assistance would be significantly reduced for the fall semester. Nearly 1,000 students, alumni, and…
Washington Post: D.C. residents to vote on decriminalization of ‘magic mushrooms’ on November ballot
The D.C. Board of Elections said Wednesday an initiative to decriminalize psychedelic plants, including “magic mushrooms,” will appear on November’s ballot after supporters gathered more than 25,000 signatures amid the coronavirus…
WTOP: Lawmaker presses for answers after 2 DC moms share distressing Secret Service encounter
After two mothers said they were traumatized following an encounter with U.S. Secret Service officers last week on the National Mall, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is demanding more answers about what happened.