health
Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country (The 51st)
It’s Just Calm:’ How Community Organizers Harness Nature For Youth Healing In Ward 8 (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
Exhausted By Another Crisis Year, Local Hospital Workers Demand Change (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
Racial Disparities In Opioid Arrests Underscore Need For Decriminalization, Advocates Say (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
As Local Opioid Fatalies Climb, Harm Reduction Advocates Push For Overdose Prevention Center (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
When Will Marylanders Actually See A Market For Legal Weed? It’s Complicated (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
criminal justice
‘Why Is My Child Always On Lockdown?’: Confinement At D.C.’s Youth Jail Worries Parents, Advocates (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
A D.C. Task Force Meant To Reduce Murders Fell Apart. Some Say It’s A Part Of A Broader Pattern (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
‘Invest In People’: Residents Call For More Mental Health, Trauma-Focused Solutions To Gun Violence (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
As Budget Vote Looms, Lawmakers At Odds On Future Of D.C.’s Troubled Crime Lab (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
D.C. ACLU Sues The City For Sending Armed Police To Mental Health Emergencies (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
housing
As Climate Change Increases Extreme Rain And Flooding, D.C.’s Most Vulnerable Residents Pay The Price (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
D.C. Scrambled To Shelter Unhoused Residents In Hotels After COVID Hit. What Did We Learn From PEP-V? (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
D.C. Hesitates To Expand Hotel Shelter Program For Medically Vulnerable Residents As Waitlist Grows (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
Dozens Of Men Are Living In A Ward 2 Shelter That Was Supposed To Close For Repairs (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
misc?
Cats aren’t jerks. They’re just misunderstood. (Washington Post)
Why a pet’s death can hurt worse than losing a human loved one (Washington Post)
BASE jumps can be deadly. Thrill-seekers are still leaping at national parks. (Washington Post)
Mount Everest has a poop problem. Now climbers are required to bag it. (Washington Post)
For Two Local Palestinians With Family In Gaza, Each Day Is ‘Exhausting’ (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
Why So Many Tattes? We Traversed The Bakery’s D.C. Empire In One Day To Find Out (DCist.com)
How ‘Buy Nothing’ Groups Bring Locals Together…And Tear Them Apart (DCist.com)
The Pieces Have Together At The Capital Checker Club’s Adams Morgan Clubhouse (DCist.com/WAMU 88.5)
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