Press Release: AG Racine Leads 52 Attorneys General Urging Congress to Pass the Safeguarding…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2020
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Bipartisan Legislation Would Help Families of Officers and First Responders Lost to COVID-19 Receive Federal Benefits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Greyhound to Adopt National Anti-Idling Policies and Pay $125K…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
Settlement Resolves OAG Lawsuit Against Greyhound for Excessive Bus Idling at Union Station
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jonetta rose barras: Mayor Bowser’s budget is an example of pragmatic politics
Soon after Washington Teachers’ Union president Elizabeth Davis learned there was a 3% increase in the per-pupil spending for public education in the proposed fiscal year 2021 budget and financial plan, she called DC Mayor Muriel Bowser at…
Yael Smiley and Kimberly Perry: Family, medical and caregiving leave are essential for all of us
The COVID-19 crisis reinforces the need for inclusive, accessible programs for public health and public benefits. Fortunately, the District is almost ready to launch a new program that will help.
DC’s new Universal Paid Leave Program…
Linda Elam: Working together we will meet the needs of our communities
We are living through a shared experience that marks our days and affects our world in profound, pervasive and lasting ways. The COVID-19 pandemic will be a personal and historical point of reference, and we are grappling with effects that…
WAMU: Stretched D.C.-Area Hospital Workers Say They Need More Protective Gear — And Hazard Pay
As coronavirus cases near 83,000 across D.C., Maryland and Virginia, hospital workers say they’re facing hazardous conditions at work and are calling for increased pay and more personal protective gear while they take on the pandemic.
WTOP: Children’s National Hospital: 23 kids with syndrome related to COVID-19
Children’s National Hospital has 23 pediatric patients being treating for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, an illness related to the novel coronavirus, the hospital confirmed to WTOP.
City Paper: Delivering Food in D.C. Has Always Been a Tough Job. Then Came a Pandemic.
Uber Eats, DoorDash, Caviar, and Postmates couriers talk tipping, protective gear, and racing the clock.
City Paper: In Closing
Photographer Darrow Montgomery captures a different-looking D.C. in the midst of a pandemic.
Street Sense: 2020 Primary Voter Guide: 5 Questions on Poverty
Candidates for DC Council respond to questions about housing, homelessness, health care, jobs, and maintaining the city's safety net during the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Washington Informer: Boone Principal Fired for Opposing Militaristic Practices, Backers Say
For the students, teachers and parents of Boone Elementary School, the end of the academic year has been bittersweet, not only because the coronavirus pandemic relegating young people to their homes, but because Carolyn Jackson-King,…
Washington Informer: Parents of DYRS Youth Detainees Demand COVID-19 Response
More than a month after a District juvenile corrections officer lost his life to the novel coronavirus, a group of parents and advocates have coalesced around efforts to ensure the safety of youth detainees at the Department of Youth…
Washington Post: Children’s National Hospital says it is treating 23 patients for inflammatory…
Children’s National Hospital is treating 23 children for an inflammatory syndrome associated with covid-19, a hospital spokesperson said Wednesday night.
Washington Times: D.C. business owner partners with farmer to create produce boxes
Back in March, Sara Polon, owner of a D.C.-based soup and salad business, stopped to check on her tent at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market — and it looked like a “ghost town.”
DCist: National Building Museum Lays Off Two-Thirds Of Its Staff
Less than a month after it put much of its staff on furlough, the National Building Museum is permanently cutting two-thirds of its staff, citing loss of revenue due to the pandemic.
Washington Post Editorial Board: New leadership should reconnect the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C.…
“HEAD-TURNING.” That is what D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) called the churn in leadership at the U.S. attorney’s office in the District. Other words — like stomach-turning — also come to mind to describe the degradation of this…
District Links: Lawmakers note cuts to violence interruption, nutrition programs; community spread…
Happy Wednesday. DC's budget process kicked off yesterday with DC Council members signaling where they're looking to tinker with the mayor's proposal for government spending at a time of falling revenues and economic crisis due to…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: An urn was stolen from a D.C. apartment building. In it were the ashes…
When he got the call from the hospital, saying he should come, Kevin Lynch knew he would be heading to tell his mother goodbye.
Washington Business Journal: D.C. officials see more problems with the Union Station expansion. But…
Union Station neighbors, D.C. leaders and one prominent developer are frustrated because they believe federal officials aren’t listening to their concerns about the massive station expansion project, especially as a new dispute has…
DCist: As Restrictions Ease, Local Officials Are Still Investing In Field Hospitals And Makeshift…
Across the region, coronavirus case numbers appear to be growing more slowly, with jurisdictions achieving key reopening metrics as the weeks go by. The type of surge that hit New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., hasn’t…