Metrobus service is being halted across the DMV because road conditions have worsened as snow continues to fall across the region.
Rapid test pick up operations at DC public schools pushed back by a day because of snow.
District Government will operate in a telework posture for non-essential/non-emergency employees. Essential employees will report for duty as previously scheduled, unless otherwise directed. All in-person programming at DC Government agencies will be closed. Virtual appointments and online services will continue unless otherwise stated.
Test Yourself DC at-home PCR tests and Test Yourself Express rapid tests will be available for pick-up on Monday, January 3 from 2:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (or until supplies run out) at four firehouses:
All other testing sites will be closed. Residents will still be able to drop off Test Yourself DC tests at drop boxes at libraries and recreation centers before 8:00 p.m. Engines 4, 8, 31, and 33 will also accept Test Yourself DC drop-offs on January 3 during the hours listed above.
Snow across the DMV on this first Monday of 2022 is forcing closings, delays and cancellations.
Federal Government Closed. Emergency employees and telework employees continue to work.
Howard University has adjusted its on campus status for Monday, January 3rd to remote operations, telework, and critically essential personnel only.
DC Public Schools closed.
Maryland Public School Districts:
Anne Arundel Public Schools Closed
Calvert County Public Schools closed
Carroll County Public Schools closed
Charles County Public Schools closed
Frederick County Public Schools closed
Howard County Public Schools closed
Montgomery County Public schools closed
Prince George’s County Public Schools closed
Queen Anne’s Public Schools closed
Virginia Public School Districts:
Alexandria City Public Schools closed
Arlington County Public Schools closed
Culpeper County Public Schools closed
Fairfax County Public School closed
Fall Church City Public Schools closed
Fauquier County Public Schools closed
Fredericksburg City Public Schools closed
Loudoun County Public Schools closed
Manassas Park City Public Schools closed
Stafford County Public Schools closed
Veteran sports broadcaster Greg Mosso has passed after a lengthy illness. Mosso worked at WHUR from 1973 to 1992.
“It is never easy to lose a member of the WHUR family. While Mosso’s tenure with WHUR occurred well before I arrived, his legacy and contributions to WHUR remain. We are forever grateful to the valuable work he brought to the Sports Department and to the overall history of WHUR. Our heartfelt sincere condolences go out to his family and to all those who loved Greg Mosso,” said WHUR General Manager Sean Plater.
With a unique voice making him recognizable on and off the air, Mosso had an uncanny way of delivering sports news with facts and commentary in rhyme. Beloved by his colleagues and radio listeners, when news broke of Mosso’s passing, tributes and condolences poured in on social media. Former WHUR Newscaster and personality Karen Campbell called Mosso an awesome sports journalist who always conducted great interviews. “He was also a great salesman too. I think I still have a few things I purchased from Mosso,” added Campbell.
Mosso attended Howard University. During his time as a student in the School of Communications, he compiled research and statistics for WHUR which helped to land him a coveted internship with the radio station and later a full-time job. Mosso was the on-air sportscaster for morning and afternoon drive. Some of the highlights of his career included covering the 1983, 1988, and 1992 Super Bowl games of the Washington Football Team (formerly Washington Redskins) and interviewing sports greats like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Dexter Manley, Zena Garrison, and Magic Johnson.
“Greg was a one of a kind. With a Cuban background and New York upbringing, he did all of his early sports reporting on radio in rhyme. He loved trash talking, but was somehow still mild mannered and soft spoken. Mo was a joy to be around and he will be missed,” wrote Kojo Nnamdi, a veteran broadcaster and former WHUR News and Information Director. 
After leaving WHUR, Mosso was employed at the Afro-American Newspaper where he worked in Sales until he retired. While at the newspaper, Mosso continued to have a close relationship with WHUR helping to foster a relationship between the radio station and the Afro that resulted in weekly commentaries of Afro staffers on WHUR.
Mosso’s unique voice and style returned to the radio station last year as a featured voice on a real estate commercial with his daughter.
Mosso is survived by his wife Beverly A. Rolson-Mosso; children Gregory Joel Mosso, Antonio Mosso, and Trian Johnson; grandson Jimmie O. Johnson III; and a host of other family members and friends. Gregory Thomas Mosso was 70. Funeral arrangements are still being made.
A Black History museum in Richmond, Virginia will take possession of Confederate monuments that were removed, including that of Robert E. Lee
Included in the transfer would be an enormous statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed earlier this year. Under the plan announced by Gov. Ralph Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, the Black History Museum would work with The Valentine museum of Richmond and the local community to determine the memorials’ fates.
The deal requires the City Council’s approval, which Stoney said he would seek next month.
According to the Centers for Disease Control children are being hospitalized with coronavirus at a record pace.
SEATTLE (AP) — The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is putting children in the hospital in close to record numbers, and experts lament that most of the youngsters are not vaccinated.
“It’s just so heartbreaking,” said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious-disease expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “It was hard enough last year, but now you know that you have a way to prevent all this.”
During the week of Dec. 21-27, an average of 334 children 17 and under were admitted per day to hospitals with the coronavirus, a 58% increase from the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The previous peak over the course of the pandemic was in early September, when child hospitalizations averaged 342 per day, the CDC said.
On a more hopeful note, children continue to represent a small percentage of those being hospitalized with COVID-19: An average of over 9,400 people of all ages were admitted per day during the same week in December. And many doctors say the youngsters coming in now seem less sick than those seen during the delta surge over the summer.
The issue is timing in many cases, said Dr. Albert Ko, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. Younger children were not approved for the vaccine until November, and many are only now coming up on their second dose, he said.
Offit said none of the vaccine-eligible children receiving care at his hospital about a week ago had been vaccinated, even though two-thirds had underlying conditions that put them at risk — either chronic lung disease or, more commonly, obesity. Only one was under the vaccination age of 5.
The scenes are heart-rending. “They’re struggling to breathe, coughing, coughing, coughing,” Offit said. “A handful were sent to the ICU to be sedated. We put the attachment down their throat that’s attached to a ventilator, and the parents are crying.” None of the parents or siblings was vaccinated either, he said.
The next four to six weeks are going to be rough, he said: “This is a virus that thrives in the winter.” Aria Shapiro, 6, spent her 12th day Thursday at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She tested positive for COVID-19 after getting her first dose of the vaccine Dec. 17.
Aria, who is considered “medically fragile” because she has epilepsy, suffered prolonged seizures in the hospital, and a breathing tube had to be put down her throat at one point, though she has since improved.
Overall, new COVID-19 cases in Americans of all ages have skyrocketed to the highest levels on record: an average of 300,000 per day, or 2 1/2 times the figure just two weeks ago. The highly contagious omicron accounted for 59% of new cases last week, according to the CDC.
Still, there are early indications that the variant causes milder illness than previous versions, and that the combination of the vaccine and the booster seems to protect people from its worst effects.
In California, 80 COVID-19-infected children were admitted to the hospital during the week of Dec. 20-26, compared with 50 in the last week of November, health officials said.
Seattle Children’s also reported a bump in the number of children admitted over the past week. And while they are less seriously ill than those hospitalized over the summer, Dr. John McGuire cautioned that it is early in the omicron wave, and the full effects will become apparent over the next several weeks.
New York health authorities have also sounded the alarm.
The number of children admitted to the hospital per week in New York City with COVID-19 went from 22 to 109 between Dec. 5 and Dec. 24. Across all of New York state, it went from 70 to 184. Overall, almost 5,000 people in New York were in the hospital with COVID-19.
“A fourfold increase makes everybody jump with concern, but it’s a small percentage,” Ko said of the New York City figures. “Children have a low risk of being hospitalized, but those who do are unvaccinated.”
Dr. Al Sacchetti, chief of emergency services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey, likewise said vaccinated children are handling the omicron outbreak extremely well.
“It makes a big difference in how these kids tolerate the disease, particularly if the child’s got some medical issues,” he said.
COVID-19 deaths have proved rare among children over the course of the pandemic. As of last week, 721 in the U.S. had died of the disease, according to data reported to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The overall U.S. death toll is more than 800,000.
Almost 199,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported during the week of Dec. 16-23, the pediatrics group said. That was about 20% of the more than 950,000 total cases recorded that week.
While many of these children will recover at home, they may have contact with others who are at much greater risk, said Dr. Jason Terk, a pediatrician in North Texas. He cared for a 10-year-old boy with COVID-19 who managed the disease well, but his father got sick and died, he said.
“The death of a parent is devastating, but the toxic stress for a young person in this situation is difficult to measure,” he said.
Covid-19 brought about many changes in our daily lives in 2021 and with it still here and growing, what should we anticipate for 2022?
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Mayor Bowser and DC Schools chancellor announced Wednesday that staff and students of DC schools must test negative for Covid before returning to the classroom on January 5th.
A man who opened fire on Montgomery County police was shot and killed by officers who returned fire.
Getting your finances straight for 2022.
Michelle Singletary – Washington Post Personal Finance Columnist
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The effects of the coronavirus on the world of sports
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John Madden passes away at 85
(AP) John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach turned broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday morning, the league said. He was 85.
The NFL said he died unexpectedly and did not detail a cause.
Madden gained fame in a decade-long stint as the coach of the renegade Oakland Raiders, making it to seven AFC title games and winning the Super Bowl following the 1976 season. He compiled a 103-32-7 regular-season record, and his .759 winning percentage is the best among NFL coaches with more than 100 games.
But it was his work after prematurely retiring as coach at age 42 that made Madden truly a household name. He educated a football nation with his use of the telestrator on broadcasts; entertained millions with his interjections of “Boom!” and “Doink!” throughout games; was an omnipresent pitchman selling restaurants, hardware stores and beer; became the face of “Madden NFL Football,” one of the most successful sports video games of all-time; and was a best-selling author.
Most of all, he was the preeminent television sports analyst for most of his three decades calling games, winning an unprecedented 16 Emmy Awards for outstanding sports analyst/personality, and covering 11 Super Bowls for four networks from 1979-2009.
“People always ask, are you a coach or a broadcaster or a video game guy?” he said when was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “I’m a coach, always been a coach.”
He started his broadcasting career at CBS after leaving coaching in great part because of his fear of flying. He and Pat Summerall became the network’s top announcing duo. Madden then helped give Fox credibility as a major network when he moved there in 1994, and went on to call prime-time games at ABC and NBC before retiring following Pittsburgh’s thrilling 27-23 win over Arizona in the 2009 Super Bowl.
“I am not aware of anyone who has made a more meaningful impact on the National Football League than John Madden, and I know of no one who loved the game more,” Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement.
Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars. He rode from game to game in his own bus because he suffered from claustrophobia and had stopped flying. For a time, Madden gave out a “turducken” — a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey — to the outstanding player in the Thanksgiving game that he called.
“Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “He was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today.”
When he finally retired from the broadcast booth, leaving NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” colleagues universally praised Madden’s passion for the sport, his preparation, and his ability to explain an often-complicated game in down-to-earth terms.
“No one has made the sport more interesting, more relevant and more enjoyable to watch and listen to than John,” play-by-play announcer Al Michaels said at the time.
For anyone who heard Madden exclaim “Boom!” while breaking down a play, his love of the game was obvious.
“For me, TV is really an extension of coaching,” Madden wrote in “Hey, Wait a Minute! (I Wrote a Book!).”
“My knowledge of football has come from coaching. And on TV, all I’m trying to do is pass on some of that knowledge to viewers.”
Madden was raised in Daly City, California. He played on both the offensive and defensive lines for Cal Poly in 1957-58 and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the school.
Madden was chosen to the all-conference team and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but a knee injury ended his hopes of a pro playing career. Instead, Madden got into coaching, first at Hancock Junior College and then as defensive coordinator at San Diego State.
Al Davis brought him to the Raiders as a linebackers coach in 1967, and Oakland went to the Super Bowl in his first year in the pros. He replaced John Rauch as head coach after the 1968 season at age 32, beginning a remarkable 10-year run.
With his demonstrative demeanor on the sideline and disheveled look, Madden was the ideal coach for the collection of castoffs and misfits that made up those Raiders teams.
“Sometimes guys were disciplinarians in things that didn’t make any difference. I was a disciplinarian in jumping offsides; I hated that,” Madden once said. “Being in bad position and missing tackles, those things. I wasn’t, ‘Your hair has to be combed.’”
The Raiders responded.
“I always thought his strong suit was his style of coaching,” quarterback Ken Stabler once said. “John just had a great knack for letting us be what we wanted to be, on the field and off the field. … How do you repay him for being that way? You win for him.”
And boy, did they ever. Many years, the only problem was the playoffs.
Madden went 12-1-1 in his first season, losing the AFL title game 17-7 to Kansas City. That pattern repeated itself during his tenure; the Raiders won the division title in seven of his first eight seasons, but went 1-6 in conference title games during that span.
Still, Madden’s Raiders played in some of the sport’s most memorable games of the 1970s, games that helped change rules in the NFL. There was the “Holy Roller” in 1978, when Stabler purposely fumbled forward before being sacked on the final play. The ball rolled and was batted to the end zone before Dave Casper recovered it for the winning touchdown against San Diego.
The most famous of those games went against the Raiders in the 1972 playoffs at Pittsburgh. With the Raiders leading 7-6 and 22 seconds left, the Steelers had a fourth-and-10 from their 40. Terry Bradshaw’s desperation pass deflected off either Oakland’s Jack Tatum or Pittsburgh’s Frenchy Fuqua to Franco Harris, who caught it at his shoe tops and ran in for a TD.
In those days, a pass that bounced off an offensive player directly to a teammate was illegal, and the debate continues to this day over which player it hit. The catch, of course, was dubbed the “Immaculate Reception.”
Oakland finally broke through with a loaded team in 1976 that had Stabler at quarterback; Fred Biletnikoff and Cliff Branch at receiver; tight end Dave Casper; Hall of Fame offensive linemen Gene Upshaw and Art Shell; and a defense that included Willie Brown, Ted Hendricks, Tatum, John Matuszak, Otis Sistrunk and George Atkinson.
The Raiders went 13-1, losing only a blowout at New England in Week 4. They paid the Patriots back with a 24-21 win in their first playoff game and got over the AFC title game hump with a 24-7 win over the hated Steelers, who were crippled by injuries.
Oakland won it all with a 32-14 Super Bowl romp against Minnesota.
“Players loved playing for him,” Shell said. “He made it fun for us in camp and fun for us in the regular season. All he asked is that we be on time and play like hell when it was time to play.”
Madden battled an ulcer the following season, when the Raiders once again lost in the AFC title game. He retired from coaching at age 42 after a 9-7 season in 1978.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia, and two sons, Joseph and Michael. John and Virginia Madden’s 62nd wedding anniversary was two days before his death.
A victim shot himself after first being shot by an assailant at the Anacostia Metro station.
Police say the incident happened around 10:30 am when a victim was shot multiple times by an assailant. Police say after that, the victim then shot himself. He would later die at an area hospital. Police are searching for the initial shooter who they say was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and traveling in a black sedan.
Howard University will start its 2022 Spring Semester January 18th as COVID cases skyrocket across the Washington, D.C. region.
In response to this new variant and rise in cases, all faculty, staff and students will be required to receive a COVID-19 booster by Monday, January 31, 2022, if you are already eligible for a booster, or within 30 days after becoming eligible. Approved medical and religious exemptions will continue to be granted.
Booster vaccines are available on campus on the first floor of the Howard University Hospital; Freedmen’s Hall; on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 3 pm. No appointment is necessary. Students should continue to upload vaccine documentation in MedProctor. Employees should upload vaccine documentation in Workday.
We are also requiring that everyone returning from winter break to the campus for the Spring, 2022 semester will be required to provide proof of a negative PCR test within 4 days prior to arrival. We will continue our weekly testing policy along with requirements for mask usage indoors, and in groups outdoors.
The new changes for Howard comes as the highly contagious omicron variant is wreaking havoc across the country and right in the heart of the Metropolitan Washington area. Just this past Christmas holiday weekend, the DMV reported nearly 50k new cases and over 40 deaths from COVID.
Montgomery County schools officials want parents to report their kids positive Covid tests over the winter break.
The Washington Football team thoroughly beaten by arch rival the Dallas Cowboys, 56-14.
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggests airline passengers traveling domestically in the U.S. be vaccinated.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Monday the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signaling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden administration has previously eschewed, as COVID-19 cases spike.
Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief science adviser on the pandemic response, said such a mandate might drive up the nation’s lagging vaccination rate as well as confer stronger protection on flights, for which federal regulations require all those age 2 and older to wear a mask.
“When you make vaccination a requirement, that’s another incentive to get more people vaccinated,” Fauci told MSNBC. “If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that’s something that seriously should be considered.”
The Biden administration has thus far balked at imposing a vaccination requirement for domestic air travel. Two officials said Biden’s science advisers have yet to make a formal recommendation for such a requirement to the president.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said a vaccine mandate on planes could trigger a host of logistical and legal concerns.
Federal rules don’t require people travelling by air within the U.S. to show a negative test. Hawaii requires travelers to test or show proof of vaccination to avoid a mandatory quarantine.
Biden did not respond to questions on whether he was considering implementing a domestic air travel vaccination requirement, but he told reporters the subject was discussed on a call with the nation’s governors Monday morning.
“They asked Dr. Fauci some more questions about everything from whether or not he thought he was going to move to test at home — I mean, on air flights and that kind of thing,” Biden said of the call before departing the White House for his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
During the virtual meeting with governors, Biden pledged the full support of the federal government to states facing surges in COVID-19 cases from the more-transmissible omicron variant and a run on at-home tests that dominated headlines over the holiday season.
“My message is: If you need something, say something, and we’re going to have your back any way we can,” Biden said. He acknowledged long lines and chaotic scenes as Americans sought out testing amid the case surge and as they looked to safely gather with family and friends over the holiday.
“Seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more work to do,” he said. He referenced his administration’s plan to make 500 million rapid tests available to Americans beginning next month through an as-yet-to-be-developed website.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the National Governors Association chairman, raised concerns Biden’s plan could get in the way of state efforts to boost supply of tests.
“That dries up the supply chain for what we might offer as governors,” he said, saying the lack of supply “has become a real challenge.”
Biden assured Hutchinson that the federal effort won’t interfere with state actions. “This gets solved at the state level,” he said.
A White House official said the new tests would come from new manufacturing capacity and wouldn’t interfere with existing supply chains.
Earlier this year the White House explored a domestic vaccination requirement for flights, or one requiring either vaccination or proof of negative test. But officials have not been eager to mandate vaccination for domestic air travel because they expected it to face immediate legal challenges, mitigating its potential effectiveness as a tool to drive up vaccinations.
Pressed last week on why Biden had not mandated vaccinations for domestic air travel, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told MSNBC that “we know that masking can be, is, very effective on airplanes.”
“We also know that putting in place that additional restriction might delay flights, might have additional implications,” she added. “We would do it, though, if the health impact was overwhelming. So we rely always on the advice of our health and medical experts. That isn’t a step at this point that they had determined we need to take.”
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show more than 241 million Americans, about 77% of the eligible population age 5 and over, have received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. Officials believe, though, that there is some overcount in the figures due to record-keeping errors in the administration of booster shots.
Since the summer, the Biden administration has embraced various vaccination requirements as a way to get unvaccinated Americans to roll up their sleeves. It has instituted requirements that federal workers, federal contractors and those who work in health care get their shots, and that employers with 100 or more employees institute vaccination-or-testing requirements for their workers.
Those vaccination requirements have been mired in legal wrangling, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments Jan. 7 in cases seeking to overturn them.
Condolences and tributes pour in around the world for anti-apartheid leader and global activist Desmond Tutu.
Tutu’s coffin will be displayed Friday at the St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town. Tutu worked at the cathedral to unite South Africans of all races against apartheid. The bells will toll daily at noon for five days to mark Tutu’s life and legacy.
“We ask all who hear the bells to pause their busy schedules for a moment in tribute to Tutu,” said Thabo Makgoba the current archbishop of Cape Town.
A Mass will be held Saturday and Tutu’s remains will be cremated and his ashes will be placed in the cathedral’s mausoleum. Additionally, an ecumenical and interfaith service will be held for Tutu Thursday in Pretoria, which is the capital of South Africa.
U.S. health officials now say COVID positive persons need only to isolate for 5 days instead of 10.
The new recommendations come as the omicron variant wreaks havoc across the globe and here in the U.S. The CDC says the new guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with COVID are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.
What do you wear? What do you NOT wear?
What are your rights when it comes to custody, joint custody, physical custody and all of the other confusing terms?
Jurors are deciding the fate of Kim Potter.
You will get your results in about 15-minutes but you must report your status to D.C. Health online.
Community’s Choice is packed with details about non-profit events and services. To get your’s on the air and web, email Renee Nash at rnash@whur.com at least three weeks before your event.
Support the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Round up your orders and make a donation thru December 31st at Weis Markets. www.weismarkets.com
H.O.P.E. Inc.
Get beyond that holiday debt. Housing Options and Planning Enterprises, Inc. Provides assistance to help Prince George’s County residents. www.hopefinancial.org.
Housing Counseling Services
Housing Counseling Services will be holding free webinars throughout the month of January 2022 for people looking to rent, buy or keep their housing in the DC metro area. Registration is required. You may register at www.housingetc.org.
National Council on Aging
The National Council on Aging has information to connect older adults to benefits that can help pay for food prescriptions, utilities, transportation, and more. www.ncoa.org.
New Hope Housing
Do you have a heart for serving? New Hope Housing is hosting a hiring event January 10th at the South County Government Center in Alexandria. On the spot job offers will be made. www.newhopehousing.org
Dress for Success DC
You can empower women to succeed. Dress for Success DC is in need of donations of new or gently used women’s clothing. www.dcdressforsuccess.org
WHUR Community’s Choice
To get your non-profit on the air and web email Renee Nash at rnash@whur.com at least three weeks prior to your event.
National Portrait Gallery
Enjoy the arts and engaging conversation. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announces virtual programs throughout the month of December. www.npg.si.edu
Author of a new book chronicles her struggles and success with weight loss.
Why is this happening now and what is the city doing to address this issue?
Letitia James is exploring whether the Trump Organization manipulated the value of its properties to obtain favorable insurance and loan rates and lower its tax obligations.
Former Minnesota police officer charged with killing an unarmed Black man
DC reinstating mask mandate through January and requiring all government workers to get fully vaccinated and boosted.
The decision comes as infections spike across the city. Friday, DC reported over 800 new cases. City health officials say the increase is of concern. But said the District is poised to handle the influx while at the same time again urging the unvaccinated to take the shot.
Maryland Governor Hogan is latest political leader to test positive for the coronavirus
Hogan is a cancer survivor and is fully vaccinated. He has also received his booster. In a tweet, the republican governor urged all residents “to get vaccinated or get your booster as soon as possible.”
Governor Hogan’s positive test comes as states around the country are seeing a dramatic rise in infections as the omicron variant takes hold. Maryland has not been able to provide an update on its cases because of a computer hack two weeks ago.
7 Guitars is running through December 26th
August Wilson’s 7 Guitars runs from November 26th – December 26th at Arena Stage. For tickets go here:
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In the video, people in her home can be heard using racial slurs as they watch security footage of a foiled burglary attempt at the house.
Whitier Elementary School will move to virtual learning through December 22nd due to an increase in COVID cases at the school.
So far there have been 14 cases reported among students and staff at the school prompting the pivot to online learning. Whitier’s decision comes days after third and fourth grade students at J.O. Wilson Elementary School returned to virtual learning because of coronavirus cases this week at the school.
Step Afrika presents it’s Musical Holiday Step Show
Step Afrika is the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. It blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities; traditional African dances; and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into a cohesive compelling artistic experience. For more information go here:
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The ban is in effect through January 15th but will be revisited on January 7th.
Prosecutors will seek a sentence of about 25 years behind bars.
Former reporters talk about their past experiences with WHUR News and The Daily Drum
The Northern Virginia Family Services offers free Head Start programs
Northern Virginia Family Services Early Head Start and Head Start programs. For more information go here:
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Meadows has defied a subpoena to testify before the House committee investigating the January 6th attack.
Meadows was former President Trump’s last chief of staff. He was with Trump in the White House during the hours of the Capitol attack and received numerous text messages from allies urging him to convince the President to do something to stop it. Meadows is a former Republican congressman from North Carolina.
It’s an effort to regain millions the district spent defending the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th riot.
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Black juvenile offenders in Virginia are twice as likely to be referred to jail compared to their white counterparts.
Findings show young Black offenders are more than twice as likely to be referred to jail as their white counterparts. The report found that law enforcement accounted for the greatest racial disparity in referrals .
SOME is currently hiring social workers
So Others Might Eat or SOME is currently hiring social workers with the following licensures LICSW, LPC, CACII. For more information go here:
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