City Paper: Eat, Pay, Leave: How to Be a Better Customer at D.C. Restaurants As They Reopen
The notion that the customer is always right is crumbling during COVID-19.
DCist: Goodwill Temporarily Closes Donation Centers In D.C. Because Of Space Concerns
Goodwill has temporarily closed all 18 of its D.C.-area donation centers after a glut of donations during the coronavirus crisis has left them short on space.
Washington Business Journal: Franklin Park to close in days as its reconstruction gets underway
A perimeter fence will soon be posted around downtown D.C.’s Franklin Park, closing off public access to the nearly 5-acre square as its reconstruction gets underway.
WTOP: NPS resumes issuing National Mall event permits after 13-week pause
The National Park Service restarted issuing permits for demonstrations and events on the Mall again Wednesday after a 13-week refrain to combat the spread of coronavirus.
DCist: D.C. Police Made Nine Arrests, Clashed With Protesters At Black Lives Matter Plaza Over Night
Police and protesters clashed for a second night in a row on Tuesday after the protests had largely been peaceful for weeks. A day of demonstrations ended in the early morning with an intense standoff between protesters and police, with…
WTOP: Goodwill temporarily shutters DC-area donation centers after running out of space
Goodwill of Greater Washington is temporarily closing all 18 of its donation centers in the D.C. area and there’s a good reason why: those centers have been overwhelmed with donations since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN: DC National Guard to provide unarmed security for monuments in DC
Washington (CNN) — The DC National Guard will provide unarmed guard members to assist with additional security for monuments in Washington, DC, the National Guard Bureau said Wednesday.
Washington Post: D.C. police clear out fledgling autonomous zone near the White House
D.C. police lined streets around the White House on Tuesday, periodically clearing out tents, barricades and other structures built by protesters seeking to create an autonomous zone in the area that has been at the center of weeks of…
DCist: Protesters At Lincoln Statue Didn’t Tear It Down—But Say They Will Try To This Week
A crowd of about 150 protesters gathered at Lincoln Park just after 7 p.m., calling for a controversial statue of Abraham Lincoln to be removed. Members of the group said it would not attempt to pull the statue down immediately but would…
Press Release: DCHA Receives DCSEU Incentives for Energy Efficiency Upgrades
News Release — DC Housing Authority
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jose C. Sousa
June 24, 2020
The District of Columbia Housing Authority will receive $1.12 million in incentives from the DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU)…
Press Release: AG Racine Sues Gun Manufacturer Polymer80 for Illegally Advertising and Selling…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
Polymer80 Misled Consumers About the Legality of Weapons; Hundreds of Illegal “Ghost Guns” Recovered in…
Press Release: Norton Releases Testimony in Advance of Today’s Rules Committee Hearing on D.C.…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 24, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her testimony in advance of today’s Rules Committee hearing on her…
Washington Blade: LGBTQ groups lower D.C. budget request
A coalition of 10 local LGBTQ or LGBTQ supportive organizations that called on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council in January to approve $22.6 million in the city’s fiscal year 2021 budget for LGBTQ related programs has lowered its…
Washingtonian: Bakers Against Racism Raises Over $1.6 Million For Racial Justice—With More to Come
The virtual bake sale started by DC pastry chefs sparked a global movement.
WTOP: Fencing returns around Lafayette Square; protesters march to Lincoln Park as protests continue…
The fencing in Lafayette Square that was taken down after the height of protests in D.C. following the killing of George Floyd has been replaced after a failed attempt to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson.
Colbert King in The Post: The quest for D.C. statehood can’t end after Friday’s vote
Friday’s expected successful House vote on D.C. statehood will be a historic milestone. But it is just one step in a long journey toward the day when a D.C. mayor can issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two U.S.…
Quinta Jurecic in The Atlantic: Trump Is Exploiting D.C.’s Lack of Statehood
The president’s crackdown in the capital exposes its vulnerability to authoritarianism.
DCist: New Fences Go Up Near Lafayette Square As Protesters Stand Off With Police
A line of D.C. police blocked part of 16th Street Tuesday as protesters crowded against them, inflamed by the dismantling of first aid and supply stations earlier in the day. Behind the police, black fencing once again blocked entrance to…
Washington Post: Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of…
Someday, when scholars attempt to convey the historical undulations of the year 2020, they will write about pestilence, mass death, catastrophic job losses, state violence, oceans of protesters flooding city streets in the name of racial…
Washington Post: A low-flying ‘show of force’
Two military helicopters roared over demonstrators in Washington protesting after the death of George Floyd, producing winds equivalent to a tropical storm.