Elliot C. Williams
- Prince George’s County has the most COVID-19 cases of any Maryland county, and its hospitals are reporting an influx of critically ill patients. [Post]
- Ticketmaster quietly updated the wording of its refund policy, ticketholders aren’t happy. [USA Today]
- Liberty University in Leesburg is facing a lawsuit over a refund policy of its own. [WDBJ]
- After the Washington Ballet’s layoffs, members of its studio company—its youngest dancers—are struggling to regain financial footing. [DC Line]
- More on Deon Crowell, the first person in the D.C. Jail to die from COVID-19. [WCP]
- Mayor Bowser says more coronavirus data collection strategies need to include communities of color. [CNN]
- Researchers and officials can’t agree on the risks coronavirus poses for the District. [US Nes]
- A burglar broke into H Street’s Dio Wine Bar and stole $2,000 in bottles of wine. [Washingtonian]
- The Rockefeller Fund has donated $100,000 to Hook Hall and RAMW for its meal distribution network. [WTOP]
- Loki the therapy Rottweiler is delivering care packages to ICU nurses at a Maryland hospital. [WJLA]
- You can go to a virtual cannabis baking—excuse me, “baked baking”—class tonight. [Designing the District]
- For two hours, vehicles drove through a parking lot for a drive-by funeral for the late Bishop James Flowers, who died of COVID-19-related complications. [Post]
- ICYMI: D.C.’s medical dispensaries can temporarily deliver marijuana because of the pandemic.
- ICYMI: A suspect was arrested in connection with anti-Semitic vandalism at a Rockville synagogue.
- This Day in DCist: Bowser put statehood on the ballot.
