Bisnow: Scores Of Restaurants Are Likely To Close For Good, Reshaping The Retail Market
The restaurant industry is preparing for a long, uphill battle.
Washington Post: U.S. House drops plans to reconvene in D.C. as local covid-19 cases have yet to…
The U.S. House on Tuesday abruptly abandoned plans to reconvene in Washington next week, with officials citing the rising number of coronavirus cases in the District and its surrounding suburbs.
Washington Post: At 105, D.C.’s oldest coronavirus victim was a woman of faith who lived alone until…
Edna Adams defied expectations her entire life.
DCist: Amid Recent Tough Times, Local Rats Might Turn To Cannibalism
Amanda Becker was about to head out on a run when she saw the rat in her toilet.
WTOP: Washington Sports Club bows to pressure, won’t charge fees during coronavirus crisis
Washington Sports Club will stop charging membership fees while gyms are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Monday.
Washington Post: They got married in the middle of the friendliest street in town — and the…
About an hour before she was to marry her fiance in the middle of the street Saturday, Amanda Mason walked out of her house on Walter Street SE in a white lace jumpsuit and peach tulle skirt to find big, bubbly hearts drawn in chalk all…
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Launches Online Survey for ReOpenDC
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2020
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Residents, Workers & Employers Can Also Provide Feedback at a Virtual Town Hall on Wednesday at 5 pm
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Brandi Thompson-Summers in Next City: Authenticity and “Post-Chocolate” Cool in a Rapidly…
How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser Expands Coronavirus Testing for Essential Workers
News Release —Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2020
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Under New Guidance, Asymptomatic Grocery Store Workers and Other Critical Infrastructure Workers with a Known COVID-19…
WTOP: Bowser expands coronavirus testing for DC grocery store workers
D.C. is expanding how it prioritizes coronavirus testing to include critical infrastructure workers who have been exposed but are asymptomatic, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday.
Washington Business Journal: Muriel Bowser recruits Michelle Obama, José Andrés, former mayors to…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has recruited a long list of public figures to assist with strategies to reopen the District, while also enlisting former first lady Michelle Obama for public service announcements related to the coronavirus…
WTOP: What DC can learn from the 1918 flu epidemic
Ever since the novel coronavirus began infecting millions globally and having an unavoidable impact on American life, a lot of people have been reminded about a public health crisis from more than a century ago.
City Paper: Washington Teachers’ Union Excluded From New ReOpen Committee for Schools
The education committee is also without any current K-12 teachers or principals.
Washington Business Journal: Baltimore Greek restaurant Souvlaki expands to D.C.
Souvlaki, a tiny Greek restaurant in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood, added a new location in Adams Morgan at a rather inopportune time.
Washingtonian: Washington Sports Club Will No Longer Charge Its Members During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The group Town Sports International, which operates the Washington Sports Club line, will no longer charge its clients membership fees during the pandemic, the DC Office of the Attorney General announced today in a press release. All…
WAMU: Local Officials Offer Housing For Inmates Transferred Out Of D.C. Halfway House
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has transferred upwards of 180 people out of D.C.’s largest halfway house ahead of the facility’s closure later this week.
Press Release: Mayor Bowser and First Lady Obama Encourage Residents with COVID-19 Symptoms to Get…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2020
CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM)
Recording Featuring First Lady Obama Going Out to District Residents Over Next Two Weeks
(WASHINGTON, DC) –…
Press Release: Norton Urges Federal Bureau of Prisons Not to Relocate 30-40 Hope Village Residents…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
April 27, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After learning that 30-40 District of Columbia at Hope Village, the men’s halfway house in the District of…
Press Release: AG Racine Announces Washington Sports Club Will Stop Charging Members During COVID-19…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Office of Communications
Gym Chain Automatically Freezing Memberships, Crediting Accounts for Dues Charged During Gym Closures,…
District Links: Bowser picks high-profile nat’l figures to lead group to reopen city; District…
Happy Monday. Mayor Muriel Bowser has tapped two national figures — Susan Rice, former national security adviser, and Michael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security — to lead the advisory group that will offer recommendations on…