“There should be a better response to people who have to ask for help and have to plead for food,” one elderly Washingtonian says.
D.C., Maryland and Virginia have mapped out phased reopenings for long-term care providers, but lags in testing and rising cases in the community are making their futures uncertain.
They plan to hold a sit-in each day of this week against the influence of money in politics.
Last weekend, we noted that the city’s main provider of meals to home-bound elderly had abruptly declared bankruptcy, leaving the city scrambling. But here’s good news: D.C. Central Kitchen has stepped up to fill the void.
The D.C. Office on Aging is scrambling after Nutrition Inc., a contractor which was providing more than 13,000 meals to home-bound elderly residents in the Washington area, abruptly shut down operations.
>> D.C. police will spend $3 million in the 3rd Police District on an anti-gang initiative. [WaPo] >> Montgomery County Del. Jane Lawton, 63, died of an apparent heart attack this morning, collapsing after giving a speech in downtown Washington. Lawton also served as a four-term mayor of Chevy Chase. [Md. Moment] >> If you have an elderly relative living at either Carolyn Boone Lewis Health Care Center in D.C. or Ruxton Health of…
Last April I sold my elderly car for a few hundred dollars. I was tired of the expense of repairs, gas and insurance, no longer needed a vehicle for work, and the wide availability of car-sharing services in the D.C. metro area made the switch to no longer owning my own car seem easy and obvious. I hadn’t regretted my decision for a minute — until I got the following press release in my inbox…
“It was time for me to embrace my African heritage.” This was jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s state of mind when she decided to trace her lineage in hopes of finding her native roots. Unfortunately, Bridgewater (pictured right), who is performing on Sunday at the Kennedy Center, could only trace them back 150 years, to Mississippi. She then began listening to a variety of West African music, and it was Mali’s music that struck the…
Written by DCist Contributor Stephanie Taylor Mark Andersen came to Washington decades ago as a student of international relations, but was heartbroken by what he saw right in his own backyard. What he describes as the distance between the city’s idealism and its reality, particularly in terms of radical income disparities and the effects of historic racism, were too much for him to ignore. So he became a different type of diplomat, founding Positive Force…
If you live in Virginia and take public transportation into Washington every day, WMATA is looking for you. Metro’s Riders’ Advisory Council needs commuters from Virginia to fill three vacant positions on the Council, two from Fairfax County and one from Arlington County. To be eligible for the positions, you need to live in either Fairfax or Arlington counties, ride bus, rail and/or MetroAccess, and not be a Metro employee, contractor or elected official. You…
