Though overall service on Metro is increasing and weekend fares are being slashed, some area residents still aren’t getting their bus route after Labor Day.

Frequent cleaning and social distancing were factors that riders cited as key to bringing them back to Metro.

“He cannot bear to see health care be offered even at the local level,” says D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

With the federal individual health insurance mandate disappearing in January, D.C. is one of a number of jurisdictions that has worked to instate a local mandate.

Eleanor Holmes Norton is getting ready for a fight in the Senate.

Restrictions on abortion, marijuana legalization, and needle exchanges in the District also remain.

A report says the decrease “was pervasive and not linked to any particular event or weather.”

Without full statehood, Norton said, Congress will always find a way to interfere in D.C.’s affairs.

Another proposal which will be considered by the D.C. Taxicab Commission tomorrow would allow drivers to ask for pre-payment of the estimated fare at the start of the ride during the hours of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Dining and dashing is a well-known problem for many restaurants, but is riding and running a similar problem for cab drivers? That was the question that the D.C. Taxicab Commission discussed today.