Monday, June 7, 2021 (Washington, DC) – The District’s reported data for June 4-6, 2021, includes 42 new positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the District’s overall positive case total to 49,110. The District reported no additional COVID-19 related deaths. Tragically, 1,136 District residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19. Visit coronavirus.dc.gov/data for interactive data dashboards or […]
Monday, June 7, 2021 Investments Include $10 Million in “Flexible Funding” Including Cash Assistance to Support Returning Citizens (Washington, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser was joined by public safety officials and gun violence prevention advocates at the Douglass Community Center to highlight her $59 million investment in reducing gun violence and building safer neighborhoods in
Monday, June 7, 2021 (Washington, DC) – On Monday, June 7, at 11:30 am, Mayor Muriel Bowser will visit the Douglass Community Center to highlight the $59 million investment in her Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal in Building Blocks DC. Building Blocks DC is a whole-of-government, public health approach to reducing and preventing gun violence
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Finally, D.C. is reopening! And a beloved yearly tradition is back. The Capital Pride Alliance is quickly getting ready for the annual June Capital Pride Celebration, following Mayor Bowser’s recent D.C. reopening guidelines. It’s great news for the LGBTQI+ community and allies, who have wondered if 2021 would have a public, outdoor celebration. The District just recently
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What does it say about the state of American politics that over four months after the end of the previous presidential administration, which was panned internationally, brought for the first time ever to two separate impeachment trials, and overwhelmingly regarded as perhaps the most morally reprehensible, dishonest, illegitimate, and unintelligently managed four years in recent
Not too long ago, I wrote an article on Black/Asian Solidarity United Against a Common Foe: Racism. The piece highlighted the coming together of Blacks and Asians in light of the brutal attacks against Asians throughout the city and the interconnectivity of the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements. Now, or should I
Not too long ago, I wrote an article on Black/Asian Solidarity United Against a Common Foe: Racism. The piece highlighted the coming together of Blacks and Asians in light of the brutal attacks against Asians throughout the city and the interconnectivity of the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements. Now, or should I
Not too long ago, I wrote an article on Black/Asian Solidarity United Against a Common Foe: Racism. The piece highlighted the coming together of Blacks and Asians in light of the brutal attacks against Asians throughout the city and the interconnectivity of the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements. Now, or should I
Have you seen the cicadas? After lying low underground for 17 years, they are boring upward, coming out of the ground, feeling the warmth of the D.C. sunshine and shedding their crisp cases. They’re lumbering over the rocks and mulch, climbing the trees and walls. It’s cicada mating season. By late May, the insects are at
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The weather is starting to warm up. Spring is in full bloom and Summer is right on its heel. Millions of people have been vaccinated. Since COVID appears to be dropping off and as the cities around the state begin to open, most people are anxiously waiting to be able to fully move about the
