ABCDE

Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington.

Partly sunny 91/75 • Tomorrow: T-storm 87/74 B8 Democracy Dies in Darkness thursday, july 9 , 2020
Su v1 v2 v3 v4

. $2

Court upholds
contraceptive
care exception
aCa mandate for employers is weakened
Ruling widens ability to opt out on religious grounds
BY R OBERT B ARNES
The Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday that the Trump ad-
ministration may allow employers
and universities to opt out of the
Affordable Care Act requirement
to provide contraceptive care be-
cause of religious or moral objec-
tions.
The issue has been at the heart
of an intense legal battle for nine
years — first with the Obama ad-
ministration sparring with reli-
gious organizations who said of-
fering contraceptive care to their
employees violated their beliefs,
OCtAvIO JOnES/GEtty ImAGES and then with the Trump adminis-
Health-care workers administer coronavirus tests at a drive-thru site in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Wednesday. as the state faces a rise in tration broadening an exemption,
positive cases, it is rushing some 100 new health-care workers to Miami-dade county’s public hospital network to help with the influx. angering women’s groups, health
organizations and Democratic-led
states.
Wednesday’s decision greatly
expands the ability of employers
to claim the exception, and the
government estimates that be-
tween 70,000 and 126,000 women
could lose access to cost-free birth
control as a result.
The decision was one of several
that has made the Supreme
Court’s term strikingly successful
for religious interests. By the same
7-to-2 vote as in the contraceptive
cases, the court on Wednesday
also ruled for the ability of reli-
gious organizations to hire and
fire without offending some anti-
discrimination laws.
And last week religious groups
achieved a longtime goal when the
court ruled that states that pro-
vide support to private education

Wave of patients strains health field

See cOurt ON a22

Hiring, firing teachers: Ruling in favor of two schools, the justices affirm
religious institutions are protected from some employment lawsuits. A22

A tandem Virus hot spots

toll as U.S. race to add Trump pushes and threatens
overdoses soar beds and gear in bid to fully reopen schools
BY W ILLIAM W AN BY C HELSEA J ANES, “The president said today we
AND H EATHER L ONG I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER, just don’t want the guidance to be
L ENNY B ERNSTEIN
For safety, however, too tough,” Pence told reporters.
The bodies have been arriving AND J OSHUA P ARTLOW many districts aim to mix “And that’s the reason next week
at Anahi Ortiz’s office in frantic the CDC is going to be issuing a
spurts — as many as nine over- Coronavirus patients are
in-class, remote learning new set of tools.”
dose deaths in 36 hours. “We’ve pouring into hospitals across the Pence, speaking at a briefing of
literally run out of wheeled carts American South and West, the White House coronavirus task
to put them on,” said Ortiz, a straining front-line doctors and BY L AURA M ECKLER force, was replying to a question
coroner in Columbus, Ohio. nurses and draining supplies of about the CDC’s recommendation
In Roanoke County, Va., police protective gear and testing President Trump on Wednes- that students be kept six feet apart
have responded to twice as many equipment, according to health- day intensified his demand that to prevent the spread of the novel
fatal overdoses in recent months care workers around the country. schools fully reopen this fall, slam- coronavirus.
as in all of last year. CAllAGHAn O’HARE/REutERS In pandemic hot-spot states ming the Centers for Disease Con- School officials across the coun-
In Kentucky, which just cele- a shift change Wednesday at Houston’s texas Medical center, such as Florida, Arizona, Califor- trol and Prevention, pressuring it try have concluded they cannot
brated its first decline in overdose where 45 percent of icu beds are filled with covid-19 patients. nia and Texas, hospitals are add- to loosen guidance and threaten- fully reopen while following that
deaths after five years of crisis, ing new intensive care unit beds ing to cut funding for schools that guidance, because classrooms are
many towns are experiencing an and special airflow systems to do not open. too small to accommodate all stu-
abrupt reversal in the numbers. A new PPE shortage: Experts say it could worsen as cases climb. A7 treat the growing demand as The CDC was already planning dents with the recommended dis-
Nationwide, federal and local Uptick in Japan: Cases rise, but officials say no to new closures. A11 virus hospitalizations set records to issue new guidelines for schools tancing.
officials are reporting alarming almost daily. To cope with the in the coming days. But Vice Presi- The White House is pressing
See OverdOSeS ON a8 Nursing homes: Facilities kept taking patients — and some died. B1 See viruS ON a6 dent Pence on Wednesday explic- the case that opening school is
itly tied the effort to Trump’s ire. See ScHOOLS ON a7

Body cam transcripts give fuller picture of Floyd’s fear
BY H OLLY B AILEY
MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd
repeatedly begged police officers
not to shoot him and complained
of being claustrophobic as they
tried to place him in a squad car in
the minutes before he was killed
on a South Minneapolis street cor-
ner in May, according to tran-
scripts of police body camera foot-
Facebook’s civil rights auditors blast its policy decisions
BY E LIZABETH D WOSKIN
AND C AT Z AKRZEWSKI
The civil rights auditors Face-
book hired to scrutinize its civil
rights record delivered on
Wednesday a long-awaited and
scathing indictment of the social
media giant’s decisions to priori-
tize free speech above other val-
ues, which they called a “tremen-
age from the scene released
Wednesday.
The transcripts make clear that
Floyd was trying to cooperate with
police but was deathly afraid of
them, at times telling them that he
had had covid-19 and was worried
that he was going to die because he
couldn’t breathe while in their
custody. As one of the officers —
Derek Chauvin — pressed a knee
dous setback” that opened the
door for abuse by politicians.
The report criticized Face-
book’s choice to leave untouched
several posts by President Trump,
including three in May that the
auditors said “clearly violated”
the company’s policies prohibit-
ing voter suppression, hate
speech and incitement of vio-
lence. The report also found that
into his neck and held Floyd on the
ground, he told Floyd that he must
be okay because he was able to
speak, saying that he was using up
a lot of oxygen pleading for help.
“They going to kill me,” Floyd
said as officers sat atop him in the
street, according to the tran-
scripts. “They’re going to kill me
man.”
See FLOyd ON a4
Facebook provides a forum for
white supremacy and white na-
tionalism.
The conclusions by Facebook’s
own auditors are likely to bolster
criticism that the company has
too much power and that it bends
See FacebOOk ON a18
roger stone: Facebook closes
accounts linked to trump ally. A18
Arab world confronts its own racism
Lower status of African and Asian workers is deeply entrenched
BY S ARAH D ADOUCH
BEIRUT — After she was fired
without warning from her job as a
housekeeper, the ethiopian wom-
an said, she was dumped at the
side of the highway by her Leba-
nese employer.
He had intended to leave her
outside the ethiopian Consulate,
where dozens of other ethiopian
domestic workers have been
abandoned by their employers
during the recent weeks of eco-
nomic crisis here, but he stopped
short, afraid of being spotted by
news crews outside. The woman,
named Tigist, said her employer
had not given back her passport
and phone or paid the year’s
salary she was due.
Abuse of domestic workers has
HASSAn AmmAR/ASSOCIAtEd PRESS long been a problem in the Arab
an ethiopian domestic worker waits at the ethiopian consulate world under the “kafala” system,
in beirut on June 4 after her Lebanese employer abandoned her. See arabS ON a12

In the News al aid, said it may fur-

THE NATioN
in Florida, the voting
eligibility of some felons
is in question after an ap-
peals court ruling. A2
as Joe biden’s lead in
polls widens, liberals and
left-leaning activists are
optimistic about a fall
win, but less so about
his agenda. A4
post for now: a four-star
hotel with a view of a key
protest zone. A10
President trump and
his visiting Mexican
counterpart signed a
proclamation hailing the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada
trade agreement. A12
THE ECoNomy
retail employees find
lough nearly 36,000 em-
ployees, almost 40 per-
cent of its workforce. A16
the trump administra-
tion is pushing tax incen-
tives for sports leagues
that have been unable to
reopen because of the
pandemic. A17
THE rEgioN
the d.c. council
moved to extend voting
rights to incarcerated
Maryland will hold a
“normal election” in No- Inside
vember, Gov. Larry Ho-
gan said, sending absen- loCAl liviNg
tee forms, not ballots, by
reels and wheels
mail and opening every
Fly fishing and roller-
precinct, raising con-
skating are making
cerns about staffing. B1
pandemic comebacks.
Nearly a dozen people
were detained after skir- sT ylE
mishes with law enforce- Finally in demand
ment near protest hot
For anti-racism trainers, a
spot Lafayette Square, bittersweet moment. C1
D.C. officials say. B2
richmond removed the

THE world
mElInA mARA/tHE WASHInGtOn POSt
chinese security offi-
Vindman leaving army The national security cials, in Hong Kong to
implement a new law
aide who testified in the Trump impeachment cracking down on dis-
hearings cited presidential “retaliation.” A3 sent, have a command
themselves at the center
of the latest culture war:
between mask-wearers
and mask-resisters. A14
united airlines, which
received billions in feder-
1
felons. B1
“Vindicatrix,” the latest BUsiNEss NEws ....................... A14 CONTENT © 2020
virginia eliminated a The Washington Post / Year 143, No. 217
Confederate statue on ComiCs ....................................... C5
backlog of 2,665 untest- oPiNioN PAgEs.........................A19
Monument Avenue to be
ed rape kits, but only one loTTEriEs...................................B3
prosecution has resulted
taken down in the wake oBiTUAriEs ................................ B6
TElEvisioN ................................. C4
of recent protests. B2
so far. B1 world NEws............................A10
a2
H a P P EN I N G t O D a Y
For the latest updates all day, visit washingtonpost.com.
8:30 a.m. | the Labor Department issues jobless claims for the week
ended July 4, which are estimated at 1.375 million, down from
1.427 million the previous week. For developments, visit
washingtonpost.com/business.
10 a.m. | the commerce Department issues wholesale inventories for
may, which are expected to decline 1.2 percent. Visit
washingtonpost.com/business for details.
1 p.m. | Defense secretary mark t. esper and gen. mark a. milley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, testify at a House armed services
Committee hearing on defense department authorities and the role of
civilian law enforcement. For developments, visit washingtonpost.com/
national.
KLMNO
NEWsPaPER DELIVERY
For home delivery comments
or concerns contact us at
washingtonpost.com/subscriberservices or
send us an email at
homedelivery@washpost.com or call
202-334-6100 or 800-477-4679
tO sUBscRIBE
800-753-Post (7678)
tO aDVERtIsE
washingtonpost.com/mediakit
Classified: 202-334-6200
display: 202-334-7642
MaIN PHONE NUMBER
202-334-6000
tO REacH tHE NEWsROOM
metro: 202-334-7300;
metro@washpost.com
National: 202-334-7410;
national@washpost.com
Business: 202-334-7320;
business@washpost.com
sports: 202-334-7350;
sports@washpost.com
Reader advocate: 202-334-7582;
readers@washpost.com
tO REacH tHE OPINION PaGEs
letters to the editor:
letters@washpost.com or call
202-334-6215
opinion:
oped@washpost.com
Published daily (IssN 0190-8286).
PostmasteR: send address changes to
the Washington Post, 1301 K st. NW, Washington,
d.C. 20071.
Periodicals postage paid in Washington, d.C., and
additional mailing office.
Download the
Washington Post app
stay informed with award-winning
national and international news,
PlUs complete local news coverage
of the d.C. metro area. Create
customized news alerts, save
articles for offline reading in my
Post, browse the daily print edition
and scroll through our the discover
tab to find stories that interest you.
Free to download on the app store
and Play store, subscribers enjoy
unlimited access.
MILL
CUSTOM
Summer Specials
UP
TO 50% OFF
Window Treatments • Upholstery • Slipcovers
Cornices • Valances • Swags • Decorative Drapery Hardware
Fabric • Cushions • Toss Pillows • Table Coverings
Custom Bedding • Wallpaper • Area Rugs
FREE SHOP AT HOME 1.800.666.3727
12057-A Nebel St
Rockville, MD 20852
301-881-6585
millendshop.com
What’s for dinner?
S0115-2x1.5
cO RREc tI O Ns
l The Health Code Violations
listing in today’s Local Living
section incorrectly says that
Vibes Hookah Lounge in
Rockville was closed starting
June 2 because it was not part of
Montgomery County’s Phase 2
reopening. The closure began
July 2 and affects only indoor
service.
l A July 5 Arts & Style article
about the portrayal of religion in
the video game “The Last of Us
Part II” incorrectly said that in
another video game, “Bible
Adventures,” players took the
role of Moses’s mother and were
tasked with throwing baby
Moses into the river. Players
instead played as Moses’s sister
and were tasked with keeping
him out of the river.
the Washington Post is committed to
correcting errors that appear in the
newspaper. those interested in
contacting the paper for that purpose
can:
Email: corrections@washpost.com.
call: 202-334-6000, and ask to be
connected to the desk involved —
National, Foreign, metro, style, sports,
Business or any of the weekly sections.
Comments can be directed to the
Post’s reader advocate, who can be
reached at 202-334-7582 or
readers@washpost.com.
Upcoming Washington
Post Live events
all programs will be streamed
live at washingtonpostlive.com, on
Facebook Live, Youtube, and
twitter. email postlive@washpost.
com to submit questions for our
upcoming speakers.
tHURsDaY, JULY 9
coronavirus: Leadership During
crisis With Phoenix Mayor Kate
Gallego
streaming begins at noon
Hosted by Jonathan Capehart
Race in america: aurora James,
founder and creative director of
Brother Vellies
streaming begins at 4 p.m.
Hosted by Robin Givhan
FRIDaY, JULY 10
coronavirus: Leadership During
crisis With New Jersey Gov. Phil
Murphy
streaming begins at 11 a.m.
Hosted by Robert Costa
the Washington Post live is the
newsroom’s live journalism
platform. top-level government and
business leaders, emerging voices
and newsmakers discuss the most
pressing national and global issues
of the day.
END SHOPS
INTERIOR DÉCOR
”
“
Virtual
Appointments
Now Available
Call for Details
3769-B Pickett Rd 73 Forest Plaza
Fairfax, VA 22031 Annapolis, MD 21401
703-425-4887 410-224-2360
@millend_shops Mill End Shops
Search our database of tested
recipes by ingredient or name.
washingtonpost.com/recipes
eZ m2
Fla. felons’ voting rights in question
Advocates work to figure
out people’s eligibility
after appeals court ruling
BY L ORI R OZSA
Voting rights advocates scram-
bled this week to understand the
impact of an appeals court deci-
sion blocking some Florida fel-
ons’ eligibility to participate in
elections — a blow to efforts to
restore voting rights to as many as
1.4 million people in the state.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 11th Circuit in Atlanta last
week halted a judge’s order from
May that had cleared the way for
hundreds of thousands of felons
in the state to register to vote. The
lower court judge had found that
a state law requiring them to pay
fines and fees first amounted to
an unconstitutional voting tax if
they are unable to afford it.
The appeals court has sched-
uled a hearing on the issue for
Aug. 18 — the same day as Flori-
da’s primary election. It’s unclear
if the court will decide the issue in
time for the November presiden-
tial election, or if the court’s even-
tual ruling will be appealed to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, lawyers from
the Campaign Legal Center in
Washington filed a motion with
the Supreme Court on behalf of
several Florida felons who want
to vote asking it to vacate the
circuit court ruling, saying it has
“thrown the election rules into
chaos.”
“It is disappointing, and it will
surely mean that we are once
again in a state of some confusion
when it comes to people’s eligibil-
ity, as we were before,” said Sean
Morales-Doyle, an attorney with
the Brennan Center for Justice’s
Democracy Program.
“I think many people who have
already registered are good to go.
If they’re eligible and they’re reg-
istered, they’re fine,” he said. “But
if they have questions, they prob-
ably want to talk to their supervi-
sor of elections, or perhaps an
attorney, to determine that. We
don’t get clear answers from the
state, and we haven’t for months.”
A spokesperson for Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said this
week that because it is an ongoing
legal matter his office will not
Harvard, MIT file suit to protect foreign students
Argue that ICE decision
aims to force schools to
offer in-person classes
BY S USAN S VRLUGA
AND N ICK A NDERSON
Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology sued the Trump adminis-
tration Wednesday over an order
that would require international
students to take classes in person
this fall, despite rising coronavi-
rus caseloads that are complicat-
ing efforts by colleges and univer-
sities to offer in-person learning.
The lawsuit represented a swift
response to an unexpected order
issued this week by the federal
government, as universities rush
to protect the status of thousands
of international students. It also
marks a new battle line in the war
between Trump and education
leaders over how to safely reopen
schools in the midst of his reelec-
tion bid.
“We will pursue this case vigor-
ously so that our international
students — and international stu-
dents at institutions across the
country — can continue their
studies without the threat of de-
portation,” Harvard’s president,
Lawrence S. Bacow, told the Har-
vard community Wednesday.
Northeastern University in
Massachusetts joined the suit,
with Joseph E. Aoun, the school’s
president, saying the new guid-
ance “creates chaos for interna-
tional students and has the effect
of weakening American higher
education — one of our nation’s
signature strengths.”
On Monday, the federal Stu-
dent and Exchange Visitor Pro-
gram announced that visas would
not be issued to students enrolled
in schools that are fully online
this fall. Under the rule, those
students would be barred from
entering the country. And to keep
their visas, students already in
the United States would need to
leave the country or transfer to a
school with in-person instruc-
tion.
The rule has not been pub-
lished yet, but the guidance is-
sued Monday stunned university
officials and panicked students.
Though international students
Clarence Singleton registers to vote in Fort Myers, Fla., in January 2019. He is among the thousands of
felons who have been able to register to vote because of a state amendment passed in 2018.
comment until there is a final
ruling by the appeals court.
But voting rights activists wor-
ry the uncertainty of the issue
may discourage “returned citi-
zens” from trying to register even
if they’re eligible.
The re-enfranchisement of fel-
ons in Florida has been a conten-
tious issue in the swing state since
voters passed Amendment 4 in
2018. The amendment — support-
ed by more than 65 percent of
voters — cleared the way for most
felons, except those who had been
convicted of murder or felony
sexual offenses, to register to vote.
An estimated 85,000 felons
have registered since Amend-
ment 4 went into effect on Jan. 8,
2019. Previously, Florida had
been one of a handful of states
that barred felons from voting for
life.
But a law signed by DeSantis
last year added the requirement
that fines, fees and restitution be
paid first. Without a system to
help them get the information,
felons were left on their own to
find out if or how much they owe.
That created “an administra-
tive nightmare,” U.S. District
Judge Robert Hinkle said when
he ruled against the state after
several felons sued.
were previously required to take
classes in person, the government
had offered schools and students
flexibility this spring, after the
pandemic shut down most cam-
puses. And it had said that the
new guidance would remain in
effect for the duration of the
emergency.
So as university officials
worked to finalize fall plans,
many assumed that their interna-
tional students would be allowed
in the country even if they weren’t
in the classroom. With cases ris-
ing across the country, most col-
leges are at least prepared to
switch to fully virtual instruction
if needed. Others, including Har-
vard and the sprawling California
State University System, have al-
ready announced plans to offer
little to no in-person instruction.
Harvard has about 5,000 inter-
national students, and MIT
4,000. In their suit, the universi-
ties argue that U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement’s deci-
sion was designed to force univer-
sities to conduct in-person class-
es, part of an apparent political
strategy from the Trump admin-
istration to pressure schools,
from kindergarten to graduate
school, to fully reopen this fall,
even as virus cases soar.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.
District Court in Massachusetts,
seeks a temporary restraining or-
der that would quickly stop the
government from enforcing the
policy. The schools argue that the
rule violates the Administrative
Procedure Act, which governs
rulemaking by federal agencies.
The Department of Homeland
Security did not immediately re-
spond to requests for comment.
Carissa Cutrell, a spokeswoman
for ICE, said the agency “is unable
to provide further comment due
to pending litigation.”
The lawsuit cites remarks from
acting deputy secretary of home-
land security Ken Cuccinelli on
Tuesday, in which he said the
directive “will . . . encourage
schools to reopen.”
The decision also reflects the
administration’s continued ef-
forts to limit and reduce the
presence of international stu-
dents in the country, the lawsuit
argues.
The Trump administration
contends the new policy will pro-
vide more flexibility for colleges
and universities. Cuccinelli indi-
the washington post
Hinkle’s ruling in May ordered
the state to tell felons whether
they are eligible to vote and what
they owe, and if they don’t get an
answer from the state within 21
days, they can register to vote.
In the legal twists and turns
over this issue, the 11th Circuit
court, which leans conservative,
has twice agreed with Hinkle, a
President Bill Clinton appointee.
But the state’s latest appeal re-
sulted in freezing his order until
after the August hearing.
“My heart went out to the
countless number of returned cit-
izens who were looking forward
to participating in an election
maybe for the first time, or the
first time in a long time,” said
Desmond Meade, president of the
Florida Rights Restoration Coali-
tion. “To see their hopes dashed
like that, because of politics, that
really brought me to tears.”
Meade spent three years in
prison on a drug charge. He regis-
tered to vote in January 2019, and
later found he out he still owed
about $1,000 in fines, fees and
restitution. He paid them, and
plans to vote in August for the
first time in 30 years.
His group is helping others pay
their fines if they can’t afford it,
but they can’t reach all felons in
cated Tuesday that international
students could remain in the
United States as long as they
receive at least some face-to-face
instruction.
“Anything short of 100 percent
online classes,” he told CNN in an
interview. Cuccinelli denied that
the administration was seeking
to “force” universities to offer
in-person teaching. But he ac-
knowledged that the administra-
tion wants to spur movement in
that direction. “This is now set-
ting the rules for one semester,
which we’ll finalize later this
month that will, again, encourage
schools to reopen,” he told CNN.
The ICE ruling frightened in-
ternational students, who wor-
ried they risked deportation if
their schools were not providing
classes in person.
“That’s horrifying — I couldn’t
sleep,” said Mita Rawal, who’s
studying pharmacology at the
University of Georgia. “It’s not
just me, it’s my son, he goes to
school here. If I had to pack up my
bags and go to Nepal,” she said,
and then broke off.
She had already been through
a tumultuous spring and sum-
mer, with a sudden need for a
computer for her own studies and
a secondhand laptop for her 5-
year-old son’s schooling, paid for
with the help of an emergency
grant from a nonprofit. Her dis-
sertation was put on hold, and
she was unable to travel home for
the summer.
And then news broke from ICE.
“I had not anticipated in my
wildest dreams that I would be in
this situation,” she said.
Outraged faculty are mobiliz-
ing to defend international stu-
dents. Some are brainstorming
ways to work around the policy,
creating makeshift classes for in-
ternational students.
Dana R. Fisher, a sociology
professor at the University of
Maryland at College Park, said
she woke up Wednesday to 25
emails from terrified students.
She had fielded even more frantic
emails the day before. On Twitter,
she offered an independent-study
course to any student who needs
to take an in-person class this
semester. Dozens are interested,
she said.
Sarah Parkinson, an assistant
professor of political science and
international studies at Johns
Hopkins University, said there is
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
Joe Raedle/getty Images
the state, and sometimes finding
out if they owe anything is diffi-
cult, even with the help of pro
bono attorneys who are working
with the group.
“This should be nonpartisan
issue. We’ve always said, people
above politics,” Meade said. “At
the end of the day, what should
happen is more people will be
participating in elections. But it
seems like the governor is dead
set against that.”
The office of Florida Secretary
of State Laurel Lee did not re-
spond to requests for comment.
Mohammad Jazil, a lawyer who
represented the state in the law-
suit filed by felons, has said that
because Amendment 4 included
the language that “all terms of
sentence” must be met, that
means financial obligations.
Hillsborough County State At-
torney Andrew Warren created a
“rocket docket” to help felons
determine if they owed any mon-
ey, and if they could afford to pay.
He said so far, 26 people have
been cleared to register to vote.
“I wish it could be 25,000 peo-
ple,” Warren said. “But even just
that one person who goes through
the process, it means everything
to them.
national@washpost.com
talk among professors about
holding improvised face-to-face
sessions with anyone who might
need them to ensure they don’t
get caught in a crackdown. Hold-
ing a class session in a park with a
few students, sitting six feet
apart, could be an option.
The administration’s policy
prompted an array of higher edu-
cation leaders to defend the ide-
als of international education
and student exchange. Millions of
students have come to the United
States in the past century, they
said, an extraordinary pipeline of
talent that has promoted democ-
racy around the world and helped
build the U.S. economy.
MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif,
told the campus: “Our interna-
tional students now have many
questions — about their visas,
their health, their families and
their ability to continue working
toward an MIT degree. Unspo-
ken, but unmistakable, is one
more question: Am I welcome?
“At MIT, the answer, unequivo-
cally, is yes.” He wrote about his
own memories of the anxiety of
arriving in the United States to
study, “excited to advance my
education, but separated from my
family by thousands of miles. I
also know that welcoming the
world’s brightest, most talented
and motivated students is an
essential American strength.”
For the past several years, ac-
cording to the Institute of Inter-
national Education, the United
States has hosted a little more
than 1 million international stu-
dents. Fall typically heralds the
arrival of a new group of more
than a quarter-million. But edu-
cators worry the pandemic could
lead to a sharp drop, slashing
tuition revenue for colleges
across the country. The adminis-
tration’s new policy adds to those
concerns.
“The present effort by Ameri-
can leadership to eliminate this
truly successful, strategic asset of
American economic and cultural
leadership is a deeply misguided
mistake,” Michael M. Crow, presi-
dent of Arizona State University,
which has more than 10,000 in-
ternational students, wrote in an
email.
susan.svrluga@washpost.com
nick.anderson@washpost.com
lauren lumpkin contributed to this
report.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
Vindman retires over Trump ‘bullying’ after testimony
Army officer took part in
impeachment hearings,
was up for promotion
BY M ISSY R YAN
AND S HANE H ARRIS
An Army officer who played a
high-profile role in President
Trump’s impeachment proceed-
ings is retiring from the military
over alleged “bullying” and “re-
taliation” by the president, his
attorney said Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,
who served as a national security
aide at the White House until
earlier this year and was up for
promotion to colonel, will leave
the military instead, his attorney,
David Pressman, said in a state-
ment.
“Through a campaign of bully-
ing, intimidation, and retalia-
tion, the president of the United
States attempted to force LTC
Vindman to choose: Between
adhering to the law or pleasing a
President. Between honoring his
oath or protecting his career.
Between protecting his promo-
tion or the promotion of his
fellow soldiers,” Pressman said.
“LTC Vindman’s patriotism has
cost him his career.”
In a message posted on Twit-
ter, Vindman said he had re-
quested retirement from the
Army, “an organization I love.”
“My family and I look forward
to the next chapter of our lives,”
he said about his decision, which
was first reported by CNN.
NeW MeXiCO
Body cameras made
mandatory for police
New Mexico will require that
all state and local police officers
wear body cameras in response
to concern about excessive use of
force by law enforcement, under
a bill signed Wednesday by Gov.
Michelle Lujan Grisham (D).
The changes apply to local and
state law enforcement officers
with the exception of tribal
governments. Law enforcement
agencies must archive body
camera footage for at least
120 days.
The state’s Democratic-led
legislature approved the policing
changes during a four-day
special session in June that also
focused on closing a state
government budget deficit.
Lujan Grisham first called for
mandatory police body cameras
amid demonstrations set off by
George Floyd’s killing at the
hands of Minneapolis police.
Sen. Joseph Cervantes of Las
Cruces, the bill’s sponsor, has
invoked the death of Antonio
Valenzuela at the hands of Las
Payments
as low as
$
149
STRICTLY
FOLLOWING
CDC
GUIDELINES
MHIC #125450 | DC #67004413 | VA #2705 108835A | WVA #036832
Politics & the Nation
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives for a House hearing in November. The National Security Council
expert testified on a call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Vindman, who was the Na-
tional Security Council’s Ukraine
expert, testified under subpoena
last fall about his concerns sur-
rounding a call between Trump
and Ukrainian President Volod-
ymyr Zelensky. In that call, Vind-
man told House investigators,
the president appeared to link
military aid to Ukrainian moves
to open an investigation into
former vice president Joe Biden,
who is now the presumptive
Cruces police officers in a video-
recorded encounter in February
that has led to a charge of
involuntary manslaughter
against one officer.
Until now, at least a half-
dozen sheriff ’s departments in
New Mexico have gone without
body cameras — including the
Bernalillo County Sheriff ’s
Department, which oversees the
state’s most populous county,
encompassing Albuquerque.
The newly signed bill also
includes sanctions for officers
convicted of unlawful use of
force or failure to stop excessive
force by colleagues.
— Associated Press
KANsAs
Man gets jail for killing
woman on cruise ship
A Kansas man was sentenced
Wednesday to 12 years in federal
prison for killing his girlfriend
by strangling her and pushing
her over a balcony on a cruise
ship off the coast of Florida.
Eric Newman, 55, of Topeka,
also was sentenced to five years
of supervised release during a
m m
Su E C I A L r
60
• Quality You Can Afford
• Complete Bath Remodel
Democratic nominee for presi-
dent.
The Washington Post last
month reported that govern-
ment officials have been con-
cerned that the White House
would try to prevent the promo-
tion of Vindman, who along
with hundreds of other officers
had been selected by the Army to
be elevated to become a full
colonel.
While the White House had
Di gest
Firefighters survey the damage from a partial collapse of a building
under construction in Manhattan. One person was injured, and the
incident snarled traffic and sent dust and debris throughout the area.
hearing in federal court in
Kansas, the Kansas City Star
reported. He pleaded guilty in
December to second-degree
murder in the January 2018
death of Tamara Tucker, 50, of
Lawson, Mo.
The couple was on a Carnival
e
SP
%off
installation
Call Now
for $2500 OFF
703-468-1540 VA
301-841-8322 MD
202-794-9033 DC
eZ Re
MATT MCClAin/The WAshingTon PosT
not taken any action to strike his
name, officials have said that
Trump strongly disliked Vind-
man and might move to block
him.
A senior defense official,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity to discuss personnel
decisions, said that Defense Sec-
retary Mark T. Esper had official-
ly signed off Monday on the list
of officers slated to be promoted
to colonel, with Vindman’s name
CARlo AllegRi/ReuTeRs
cruise from Jacksonville, Fla., to
the Bahamas and was staying in
a cabin on the 13th deck.
Newman admitted during his
plea hearing that the couple
argued in their cabin. He said he
strangled Tucker then pushed
her over the cabin room balcony

FOUNDATION AND STRUCTURAL REPAIR
JES FOUNDATION REPAIR
understands that foundation
cracks are stressful and
damage your home.
We provide expert solutions
with nationally-backed
tranferable warranties, keeping
your home safe and healthy.

Foundation and
Structural Repair
FOLLOWING
CDC
GUIDELINES
202-794-7757 | 301-494-1405 | 703-437-9576
A3
on it, and that it was expected to act to stymie Vindman moving
be relayed to the White House by
the end of the week. The White
up in rank.
If Vindman hadn’t retired, he
House would then be responsible would either have been promot-
for reviewing the list and trans-
mitting it to the Senate for
ed or, if not promoted, would
have been eligible again for po-
approval. tential promotion in a year.
The official declined to say In a statement, Rep. Eliot L.
whether the White House had Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the
communicated its intentions House Foreign Affairs Commit-
surrounding Vindman’s poten- tee, said he believed Trump and
tial promotion. his allies would “privately cheer”
Vindman was removed from Vindman’s retirement and cited
his position at the White House alleged retaliation against the
following the impeachment former White House aide.
proceedings, in which Trump “That’s how the President and
was acquitted. On Twitter the his enablers regard public ser-
president has repeatedly as- vants — in uniform or otherwise
sailed Vindman, who received a — who uphold their oaths to the
Purple Heart for his actions in Constitution, rather than giving
Iraq. into the cult of personal loyalty
His fate has presented a poten- that has rotted our government
tial dilemma for Esper, who from the inside for the last three
recently clashed with the presi- and a half years,” he said.
dent over the possible use of the John Gans, a former Pentagon
military in the government re- speechwriter who wrote a book
sponse to civil unrest related to about the National Security
racism and police brutality. Council, said that some military
The episode generated a crisis officers who have served at the
for Pentagon leaders, who scram- NSC in past years have been
bled to distance themselves from punished by the military for
the president and the perception appearing to be too close to the
they were allowing the military president, a situation he charac-
to be employed against protest- terized as very different from
ers or used for political ends. that of Vindman.
Last week, Sen. Tammy Duck- “The 30,000-foot view of Vind-
worth (D-Ill.) said she would man’s punishment is desperately
block the promotion of more worrying: The Army appears
than 1,000 officers unless Esper willing to lose an officer long
ensured that Vindman would not seen as a credit to the service by
be subjected to retaliation. those in and out of uniform,” he
On Wednesday, after Vind- said.
man’s plans to retire became missy.ryan@washpost.com
known, Duckworth said she shane.harris@washpost.com
would keep her hold on promo-
tions in place until Esper verified Tom hamburger contributed to this
to her in writing that he did not report.
railing to the 11th deck, killing allegedly masterminding a graft
her. network that stole $2.4 billion
At the time, the cruise ship from state coffers through
was about 30 nautical miles from fraudulent currency deals with
New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Venezuela’s oil monopoly.
— Associated Press Gorrín did not immediately
respond to a request for
FLORiDA comment.
A former resident of Miami,
81 vehicles bound for Gorrín was involved last year in
Venezuela are seized a furtive effort to bridge
differences with the Trump
Federal investigators said administration by brokering a
Wednesday they have seized 81 potential soft exit for Venezuelan
vehicles worth an estimated President Nicolás Maduro in
$3.2 million that were bound for exchange for sanctions relief.
Venezuela as part of a smuggling No charges have been brought
ring operated for wealthy and in relation to the seized vehicles,
politically connected people. which were on display
Anthony Salisbury, chief of the Wednesday at Port Everglades in
Miami Homeland Security Fort Lauderdale. Many of them
Investigations office, said the are equipped with police
vehicles were to be smuggled in packages, such as flashing lights
violation of U.S. export laws and and sirens, officials said.
sanctions against the socialist Since 2017, Salisbury said HSI
Venezuelan government, and federal prosecutors have
According to Salisbury, many seized more than $450 million in
of the vehicles are linked to bank accounts as well as yachts,
Venezuelans already facing luxury properties, horses and
indictments in the United States, other assets linked to
including billionaire Raul Venezuelans charged with
Gorrín. Gorrín is a government- money-laundering in the United
connected media magnate States and elsewhere.
wanted in the United States for — Associated Press
Your home is your sanctuary.
We help you protect its health.
Special Financing Offer*
NO NO
INTEREST PAYMENT
UNTIL AUGUST 2021
* Financing offer subject to credit approval. Interest accrues after the promotional period. All interest
is waived if purchase amount is paid before expiration of promotional period. 9.99% interest rate if
not paid off within 12 months. Ask inspector for further details. Coupon must be presented at time of
inspection. This offer may not be combined with any other offer. Offer valid through 7/31/2020.

Basement
Crawl Space Repair
Concrete Lifting
Waterproofing and Encapsulation and Leveling
Call Today for a FREE Estimate
A4
Liberals want more from Biden than anti-Trump rhetoric
Some point to a lack of
specifics on policies from
the former vice president
BY S EAN S ULLIVAN
Joe Biden has seized a clear
advantage in the polls over Pres-
ident Trump, rallied a fractious
party behind him and raised
heaps of cash — trends that are
giving liberals and left-leaning
activists growing confidence
that he will win.
But as they envision what
Biden’s agenda as president
would look like amid historic
national crises, many are less
optimistic. Some question his
commitment to the transforma-
tional franklin D. roosevelt-
style presidency he says he as-
pires to, pointing to a lack of
specifics and an abundance of
caution on certain policies. oth-
ers feel his intense focus on
Trump will undercut his ability
to build a political mandate for
sweeping reforms.
“If I am to accept him as being
a transformative leader, then I
need to see evidence of his own
transformation, and I haven’t,”
said LaTosha Brown, the head of
the civil rights group Black Vot-
ers matter. Brown said she is
unsure what a Biden presidency
would look like beyond “Trump
is gone.”
The concerns come as Biden’s
“unity task forces,” which in-
clude liberal and moderate
Democrats, issued policy recom-
mendations on health care, im-
migration and climate change
Wednesday. And Thursday
Biden will release long-awaited
economic ideas, which will serve
as a test of his commitment to
the “revolutionary institutional
changes” he says are necessary.
Biden will deliver a speech
Thursday in Pennsylvania on his
plan to boost jobs and wages
and “help America build back
better,” according to his cam-
paign.
Even as he has talked of more
sweeping change, the presump-
tive Democratic nominee is run-
ning as a broadly acceptable
alternative to Trump, refusing to
adopt polarizing positions such
as defunding the police or re-
moving statues of the founding
fathers that the activist wing of
his party has championed.
While he supports expanding
the Affordable Care Act, he does
not favor medicare-for-all. And
his plans to battle the novel
coronavirus have stopped short
of the ideas advanced by left-
leaning members of Congress.
This posture has helped him
build a lead over Trump in the
polls and frustrated republi-
cans seeking to tag Democrats
as extremists, but it has also
stoked confusion about how he
would govern.
Aiming to meet these con-
cerns, Biden is aggressively
building the foundation of a new
government he would seek to
install and is sketching a clearer
picture of his earliest days in
office. He is preparing policy
rollouts and plotting his first
legislative steps with advisers.
Transcripts show Floyd
already feared the police
Floyd from A1
floyd went lifeless minutes lat-
er and was pronounced dead.
The newly disclosed transcripts
of audio from body cameras worn
by J. Alexander Kueng and Thom-
as K. Lane, two of the four former
minneapolis police officers
charged in floyd’s killing, were
disclosed in court Wednesday as
Lane’s attorney sought to have
charges against his client dis-
missed, arguing that there is not
enough evidence that he commit-
ted a crime.
Lane, according to the tran-
scripts, appeared to ask Chauvin
— the most senior officer at the
scene — whether they should re-
position floyd. Chauvin, accord-
ing to the transcripts, declined
and opted to wait for emergency
medical help to arrive, keeping his
knee on floyd’s neck well after he
lost consciousness.
The transcripts offer an ex-
panded view of the events that led
up to the memorial Day killing of
floyd, 46, who died after being
pressed into the pavement for
about eight minutes. It was eight
minutes that would inspire one of
the largest and most sustained
series of protests in U.S. history,
eight minutes that would change
the course of the American con-
versation on police brutality, so-
cial justice and racism.
The transcripts also offer more
Protesters lie on the street for 8 minutes, 46 seconds — the amount of time George Floyd was pinned by a Minneapolis police officer —
outside of a building used for a June 25 campaign event by presumptive democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in lancaster, Pa.
Beyond that, Biden aides are
canvassing Democrats in Con-
gress for ideas, according to
aides and lawmakers; compiling
a list of black women he could
nominate to the Supreme Court
and enlisting a close confidant
to assemble a transition team.
But Biden’s pitch is missing
some major details that activists
want to see sooner. He vowed in
early may to unveil the blueprint
for economic recovery in “the
coming weeks” and has prom-
ised to send Congress legislation
on his first day in office to open a
path to citizenship for undocu-
mented immigrants. “I already
have a bill written,” he said
recently, but his campaign de-
clined to provide further infor-
mation or any draft text.
To some, Biden’s plans for his
presidency often feel like sec-
ondary themes. At a pair of
recent speeches in Pennsylvania
and Delaware, Biden devoted
much of his time to blistering
attacks on Trump’s leadership.
And in the video that launched
his campaign, Biden focused
sharply on the president, point-
ing to Trump’s comments that
there were “very fine people” on
both sides of a deadly white
supremacist rally in Charlottes-
ville.
“While it’s true that Trump is
destroying himself, so it’s tempt-
ing to just let him do that, it is
important to give hope to work-
ing families and be more specific
about how government stimulus
can put people back to work in
sustainable ways,” said Larry
Cohen, the chairman of our
revolution, a liberal group
aligned with Sen. Bernie Sand-
ers (I-Vt.).
“I think it’s dangerous to set
as the main protagonist of your
details about floyd’s encounter
with police and perhaps lay out
the arguments that will dominate
the proceedings as the officers are
tried. They show that floyd ap-
peared to be afraid of any dealings
with police, saying he had been
previously shot by an officer and
did not want it to happen again.
He said he did not want to be
placed in a squad car, said he
wouldn’t hurt anyone and ex-
plained numerous times that he
couldn’t breathe and worried that
he was going to die.
They also show that officers at
least briefly questioned the tactics
of their superior, only to be re-
buffed as floyd took his last gasps
of air.
Chauvin, the white officer who
was shown with his knee on
floyd’s neck, has been charged
with second-degree murder, while
the three other officers at the
scene — Kueng, Lane and Tou
Thao — have been charged with
aiding and abetting murder.
officers had responded to a 911
call from Cup foods complaining
of a customer who had passed a
counterfeit $20 bill. Kueng and
Lane were the first officers on the
scene, and the transcripts show
that a store clerk pointed them to
where floyd and two others sat in
a parked car nearby.
Transcripts show that Lane ap-
proached the car and called on
floyd at least five times to show
eZ su
campaign somebody other than
yourself,” said maurice mitchell,
the national director of the
Working families Party, a liberal
organization.
Biden’s defenders note that he
has presented policy proposals
dating back to the primary, and
that he has underlined his ideas
a central part of his contrast
with Trump. And Trump has
plunged into historic levels of
unpopularity for an incumbent,
giving Biden an opening to run
an effective campaign that taps
into opposition to his rival.
“To the extent it’s a referen-
dum on Donald Trump, Donald
Trump has made it a referen-
dum,” said Anita Dunn, a senior
Biden adviser who accused the
president of “disastrous leader-
ship.”
She added, “What Joe Biden
has done from the beginning of
his campaign is lay out his vision
for what America can be.”
Biden’s strategy is also an
acknowledgment that even
Democratic voters see this elec-
tion as a referendum on Trump.
Just 33 percent of Biden voters
said they view their vote more as
an expression of support for
him, while 67 percent said they
view it as a vote against Trump,
according to a recent Pew re-
search Center poll. Seventy-six
percent of voters supporting
Trump said they view their bal-
lot primarily as a vote for the
president.
many Democrats said the ur-
gency of defeating Trump is the
glue binding together a party
with a history of internal war-
fare and messy disputes.
If Trump is out of the picture
come January, the old ideologi-
cal disputes are expected to
come roaring back, they said,
his hands, drawing his gun when
he didn’t. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,”
floyd responded, according to a
transcript of Lane’s body camera.
“I didn’t do nothing. . . . What did I
do though? What did we do, mr.
officer?”
As Lane asked him to step out of
the car, floyd apologized several
times and repeatedly asked the
officer not to shoot him.
“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. God
dang man. man, I got shot. I got
shot the same way, mr. officer,
before,” floyd told Lane, the tran-
scripts show. “mr. officer, please
don’t shoot me. Please man.”
“I’m not going to shoot you,”
Lane replied.
The transcripts show that floyd
continued to ask officers not to
shoot him as he stepped from his
vehicle, and suggest that he strug-
gled with officers as they tried to
handcuff him. “Stop resisting
floyd!” Shawanda renee Hill, a
witness inside the car, called out,
according to the transcript of the
footage from Lane’s camera.
As Kueng walked floyd across
the street, Lane asked Hill about
floyd’s behavior. “Why’s he get-
ting all squirrelly and not showing
us his hands and just being all
weird like that?” he asked, accord-
ing to the transcript.
“I have no clue, because he’s
been shot before,” Hill said.
Lane asked whether floyd was
“drunk” or “on something.”
“No, he got a thing going on, I’m
telling you, about the police,” Hill
replied. “He have problems all the
time when they come, especially
when that man put that gun like
that.”
Along with the body camera
further complicating the chal-
lenge Biden would face.
“Unquestionably, there will
be dissension and disagreement
because we are Democrats and
that’s what we do,” said Sen.
richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
“And it will be open and some-
times heated because again,
that’s what we do. And Biden
will, I think, accept the disagree-
ment, because that’s who he is.”
Biden’s team is keenly aware
of this challenge, which would
only compound what would be
an already daunting task: taking
the reins of a country riven by
divisions that deepened over the
past four years and reeling from
economic and public health
emergencies as well as a difficult
reckoning with racism and po-
lice brutality.
“Does it seem like there’s
earlier planning than in previ-
ous cycles?” said Sen. Christo-
pher A. Coons (D-Del.), a close
Biden friend. “It feels like it’s
more urgent to have answers to
those questions, because there
won’t be a period of relative
calm and prosperity to say, ‘Well,
let’s have some big discussions,
let’s do a policy retreat.’ ”
The historic scope of the chal-
lenge has prompted Biden and
his aides to begin mapping out
the earliest days of his presiden-
cy, according to aides and allies.
Conversations about what to
tackle first have focused heavily
on the pandemic. Biden’s team
“is kind of looking at January
20th of next year and anticipat-
ing that he will be facing, still,
these three overlapping crises
that have gripped the country
this year,” said Jake Sullivan,
one of Biden’s top policy advis-
ers. “The first order of business
will be, wherever we find our-
footage transcripts, Lane’s attor-
ney filed several photos from in-
side floyd’s car, including one that
he said depicts two counterfeit
$20 bills. The image does not show
the bill that prompted the 911 call
from Cup foods, which was
turned over to police.
Ben Crump, an attorney repre-
senting the floyd family, did not
respond to a request for comment
about the new court filings.
According to the transcript of
footage from Kueng’s body cam-
era, the officer sat floyd down on a
sidewalk and explained that he
was being detained for suspicion
of passing fake U.S. currency.
floyd said he understood.
“And do you know why we
pulled you out of the car? Because
you was not listening to anything
we told you,” Kueng told him, ac-
cording to the transcript.
“right, but I didn’t know what
was going on,” floyd replied.
“You listen to us, and we will tell
you what’s going on, all right?”
Kueng said.
“Yes sir,” floyd told him.
Lane asked floyd whether he
was on drugs while Kueng pointed
out the “foam” around his mouth.
But floyd insisted he was on
“nothing” and had been playing
basketball earlier.
“You acting real erratic,” Kueng
said.
“I’m scared man,” floyd replied.
According to the transcripts,
the officers tried placing floyd in
the squad car, but he resisted, re-
peatedly telling them he was
“claustrophobic” and had “anxi-
ety.” He begged to be released from
his handcuffs, promising he
wouldn’t hurt anyone. “Y’all, I’m
the washington post
MaRk Makela/ReuteRs
selves in the trajectory of the
pandemic come January, to get
the virus under control.”
The exact response, Sullivan
said, will depend on the situa-
tion, and could entail seeking to
implement the proposals Biden
has already put forward, such as
free coronavirus testing and
paid family leave for those af-
fected. Biden may also consider
expanding social safety-net pro-
grams and enhancing the pro-
duction and distribution of vac-
cines and treatments.
In addition, Biden’s team is
eying an economic relief pack-
age to assist families, small-
business owners and state and
local governments. “There’s the
recovery side of this — the build
back better side,” Sullivan said.
Among other ideas, Biden’s
team is looking at how to invest
in job creation, clean energy and
infrastructure, as well as bring-
ing back manufacturing to the
United States to reduce depen-
dence on other countries, Sulli-
van said. His team is also look-
ing at ways to increase pay for
caregivers and educators.
Biden alluded to these ideas
on may 8 when he promised, “in
the coming weeks, I’ll be laying
out a detailed plan for the right
kind of economic recovery.” He
has not yet released a plan,
though he is expected to provide
more clarity in his Thursday
speech.
A senior Biden campaign offi-
cial attributed the lag to Biden’s
desire to use his platform to
focus attention on fighting rac-
ism and police violence in the
wake of recent killings and hold-
ing Trump to account for the
new spike in coronavirus cases.
Some supporters put little
stock in comprehensive cam-
going to die in here,” he told them.
“I just had CoVID man, don’t want
to go back to that.”
By then, Chauvin and Thao had
arrived as Kueng and Lane were
struggling to get floyd in the car.
floyd began to bleed from the
mouth, after bumping his head
inside the vehicle, and Lane called
emergency medical help to the
scene. floyd began to complain
that he couldn’t breathe. “I just
had CoVID, man,” floyd said. “I
can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.
Please one of you listen to me.”
Chauvin asked whether floyd
was going to jail, and the officers
pulled him from the car. “Get him
down on the ground,” Chauvin
said.
The transcripts show floyd
continued to complain that he
couldn’t breathe and called out for
his mother. The officers restrained
him on the ground — Lane at his
feet, Kueng at his back and Chau-
vin at his head. “You’re under ar-
rest guy,” Chauvin told him.
“All right, all right. oh my god. I
can’t believe this. I can’t believe
this,” floyd said. “mama, I love you
. . . Tell my kids I love them. I’m
dead.”
“You’re doing a lot of talking,
man,” Chauvin replied.
As the officers held floyd to the
ground, Chauvin asked the other
officers whether floyd was “high.”
Kueng told him they’d found “a
pipe on him.” floyd again told the
officers he couldn’t breathe.
“You’re doing fine. You’re talking
fine,” Kueng said, as Lane told him
to take a “deep breath” and Chau-
vin told him to “relax.”
“They going to kill me,” floyd
said. “They’re going to kill me
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
paign proposals. “I do not think
he should put forward a detailed
plan at this point. It would be
superficial and electoral,” Jef-
frey Sachs, Columbia University
economics professor, wrote in
an email. “Serious plans take
time and consultation across the
country.”
Beyond combating the pan-
demic, Biden has vowed to sign
executive orders “on day one” to
restore obama-era environmen-
tal rules nullified by Trump. He
has said he will send Congress “a
transformational plan for a
clean energy revolution” within
his first 100 days.
He has also released an immi-
gration outline and a plan for
black America, two areas where
his response has drawn concern
from activists.
Less clear is his strategy for
expanding the Affordable Care
Act with an optional public
insurance program, a likely mas-
sive undertaking that could re-
quire immense political capital
and months of negotiation.
Campaign officials have said
this is a priority but have not set
a specific timetable.
The Biden camp has already
begun to think about how to
bring together the Democrats’
liberal and moderate wings.
Biden, who served in the
Senate for 36 years and has close
relationships with many law-
makers, has asked his team to
engage members of Congress for
policy ideas. Sullivan, policy di-
rector Stef feldman and others
have engaged in the talks, cam-
paign officials said. Blumenthal
recalled the campaign seeking
his thoughts on “what we should
be thinking about doing.”
House Democrats, led by
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.),
have passed scores of bills to
overhaul police training, cli-
mate change, gun control and
other topics that have gone
nowhere in the republican-con-
trolled Senate, giving party lead-
ers some ready-made blueprints
for legislation next year. Biden is
in regular touch with Pelosi and
Senate Democratic Leader
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.),
Sullivan said.
The Biden campaign has also
begun to think about personnel.
Biden said for the first time
publicly last week that he is
vetting a list of black women
who he would potentially name
to the Supreme Court if elected.
The former vice president has
also said he will have a diverse
administration that will “look
like America,” amid criticism
that his campaign operation is
too white.
Biden has tapped Ted Kauf-
man, a former chief of staff who
succeeded him in the Senate, to
start putting together a transi-
tion operation for the campaign.
After the convention, the full
transition effort will likely be
announced, as is historically the
norm, Dunn said.
“New presidents get a few big
bites at the apple,” said Jared
Bernstein, who served as chief
economist to Biden when he was
vice president and still advises
him informally. “Putting things
off is probably going to be the
enemy of legislating them.”
sean.sullivan@washpost.com
man.”
“Takes a heck of a lot of oxygen
to say that,” Chauvin said.
Attorneys for Lane and Kueng,
rookie officers who had been on
the force for less than a week
before floyd’s death, have argued
that their clients were merely fol-
lowing orders from Chauvin, the
senior officer at the scene, as they
kept floyd pinned to the ground
even as he complained of strug-
gling to breathe.
The transcripts show Lane
asked Chauvin several times
whether floyd should be moved.
“No, leave him,” Chauvin told
him. “Staying put where we got
him.”
Lane told Chauvin he was wor-
ried about “excited delirium,” cit-
ing a term used by medical exam-
iners to describe the sudden in-
custody death of people who may
be under the influence of drugs or
in an agitated state.
“That’s why we got the ambu-
lance coming,” Chauvin said.
“okay, I suppose,” Lane replied.
A few seconds later, he told Chau-
vin that he believed floyd had
passed out. When an off-duty fire-
fighter on the scene pressed the
officers to check floyd’s pulse,
Kueng couldn’t find one.
“Huh?” Chauvin replied, ac-
cording to the transcript.
In the filing, Earl Gray, an attor-
ney for Lane, pressed for charges
against his client to be dismissed,
citing the body camera footage as
proof that his client had not
played “an intentional role in aid-
ing the commission of a crime” or
that he was aware that Chauvin
was committing a crime.
holly.bailey@washpost.com
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
Cities no longer path to middle class for black Americans
Loss of middle-wage jobs
has hit urban minorities
harder, study shows
BY A NDREW V AN D AM
For Americans without an elite
profession, connections or educa-
tion, cities were once the ultimate
ticket to the middle class.
This held particularly true for
black workers who moved from
smaller communities to cities to
be factory and construction work-
ers, office assistants and salespeo-
ple supporting the countries’ fast-
innovating urban economies.
They earned a substantial premi-
um over their small-town coun-
terparts.
Around the turn of the millen-
nium, something broke, new data
suggests. Moving to cities is still a
pretty good choice for most white
people. But for black Americans,
especially those without a college
degree, cities no longer guarantee
the kinds of opportunity they
used to.
Consider the accompanying
chart, part of a new report by
leading labor economist David
Autor of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. Autor calcu-
lates growth rates from 1980 to
2015, then measures how differ-
ent those growth rates have been
in the biggest cities vs. smaller
ones. Here, Autor calculates that
since 1980, pay for urban white
people with college degrees in-
creased between 6 percentage
points for men and 13 percentage
points for women more quickly
than it did for their small-commu-
nity counterparts — even after
adjusting for inflation. He did this
by comparing Census Bureau
data for the most urban quarter of
the country with the least urban
one.
For whites without a college
education, this urban premium
has remained steady. But for black
people without a college degree,
the urban premium has plummet-
ed. The wages of black men in big
cities grew 17 points more slowly
than their small-community
counterparts; for black women,
the gap was 13 points.
Even college-educated black
Americans have experienced few-
You know
the feeling
when you actually
wake up early to
work out?
Rolling over your old 401k can bring you that same sense of satisfaction—without the alarm clock. Our team of
rollover specialists will walk you through the process step by step, and even call your old provider. We do the
heavy lifting so you can focus on feeling accomplished.
Visit tdameritrade.com/rollover to get started today.
A rollover is not your only alternative when dealing with old retirement plans. Please visit tdameritrade.com/rollover for more information on rollover alternatives.
TD Ameritrade, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. © 2020 TD Ameritrade.
A stereograph shows crowds of passengers around the Brooklyn Bridge Street railroad station in New
York in 1907. For decades, cities offered more middle-class opportunities for less-educated workers.
er gains, while educated white
folks have thrived in cities. The
situation of Hispanic Americans
is similar, albeit less pronounced.
“An increasing share of GDP is
produced by just a relatively small
handful of superstar cities, and
people are paying an arm and leg
just to get in there,” Autor said.
“And that’s where you go if you’re
highly educated and highly spe-
cialized. So college grads have
done well in urban places, but
white college graduates have
done much better than blacks and
Hispanics.”
The wage growth gap doesn’t
even factor in housing costs, Au-
tor said. When accounting for
housing and other cost-of-living
factors, less-educated, urban
black and Hispanic workers earn
less now than they would have
made compared with their small-
city counterparts in 1980.
What happened? Automation
replaced many of the jobs that
had lifted less-skilled workers
into the middle class. By the turn
of the millennium, corporations
had turned to spreadsheets, fancy
phone systems and robots to re-
place specialists in many repeti-
tive jobs. Lower-paying service
sector jobs at restaurants, retail-
ers and hotels rose up to take their
place.
Plus, many middle-class facto-
ry and manufacturing jobs that
lured African Americans to big
eZ re
one who has followed Autor’s
work, but his newest research
adds an important dimension.
“Polarization has not been
evenly felt. It’s much more con-
centrated among minorities,” said
Autor, who also helps direct the
MIT Task Force on the Work of the
Future, which released the study.
“Changes in occupational struc-
ture, in cities, have been larger
and arguably less favorable
among blacks and Hispanics than
among whites.”
First, consider the plight of
big-city college graduates. Espe-
cially among black and Hispanic
college graduates, middle-wage
jobs have decreased relative to the
smallest communities, but the de-
cline is somewhat subdued and —
for many of these most-educated
workers — somewhat offset by
Library of Congress gains in higher-skill jobs.
When you look at that pattern
for city-dwelling workers without
a bachelor’s degree, the labor-
In cities, less educated find little earnings bonus market carnage becomes immedi-
The difference in the speed of wage growth in the most urban quarter ately evident. The losses of mid-
of the country versus the least urban one, from 1980 to 2015 dle-wage jobs are much more se-
vere, especially for black and His-
LESS THAN BACHELOR’S DEGREE BACHELOR’S OR HIGHER panic workers. These jobs have
10 percentage points
been replaced almost entirely by
low-paying roles such as janitors,
Black Hispanic White cooks, waiters, transportation
0
workers, repair workers and secu-
Black Hispanic White rity guards.
−10 Women
With that in mind, look at
Men Autor’s charts showing how cit-
−20
ies were once engines of middle-
Inflation-adjusted average hourly earnings, by population density class opportunity for all workers,
but evolved to be the province of
1980 1990 2000 2015 the top-earning elite and the less-
$35
Bachelor’s educated, low-paid workers who
30 degree or
higher serve them. Focus on the slope of
25 each line. When it’s higher to-
ward the right, it means people
20 are earning more in big cities
Higher
pay
than they are in the smallest
15 ones. That’s the urban wage pre-
mium.
Less than a For college grads, the line just
bachelor’s
10 keeps getting steeper, meaning
10 100 1000 10 100 1000 10 100 1000 10 100 1000
people per square mile cities are paying graduates more
and more. Meanwhile, in 1980 the
Denser city
urban premium for less-educated
Note: Urban and less-urban areas are measured based on the population density of their workers is about equal to that of
commuting zone -- a broader measure of the labor market that surrounds a metropolitan area. their educated peers, but the rela-
Source: David Autor’s analysis of Cenus Bureau data obtained via IPUMS tionship soon breaks down. By
2015, the line is almost flat, indi-
cities during the Great Migration available was no longer available. cating less-educated workers
have been automated or com- And so they are crowded into a don’t earn much more in major
pletely lost, as companies moved narrower set of traditionally cities than they do in tiny ones.
jobs to lower-wage countries such lower-paid, lower-productivity And overall, their urban wages
as Mexico and, particularly, China occupations,” Autor said. have actually deteriorated, ad-
after 2000. The pattern of occupational po- justing for inflation.
“Middle-skill work that was larization will be familiar to any- “What we learn from Autor’s
A5
work is that non-college workers
can no longer expect that moving
to a high-paying city will be a
mechanism of upward mobility,”
said Melissa Kearney, a University
of Maryland labor economist.
Kearney was not directly involved
in the research, but she directs the
Economic Strategy Group at the
Aspen Institute, which commis-
sioned the paper.
Less urban areas have changed
too, exacerbating the gap between
big cities and small ones. Over the
years, smaller cities — think Cum-
berland, Md., Duluth, Minn., or
Santa Fe, N.M. — find their de-
mand for skilled workers increas-
ing, even as they have fewer and
fewer workers available, Autor
said.
He found that, outside of large
cities — such as New York, San
Francisco or Tampa — workers
without a college education are
moving into managerial roles.
“Growing inequality is not just
about robots and automation
eliminating middle-skill jobs,”
said Elisabeth Reynolds, execu-
tive director of the MIT task force.
“Other factors have contributed,
including import competition in
manufacturing, a stagnant feder-
al minimum wage and a decline in
unions.
“There’s a host of different poli-
cy decisions that have been taken
that have, in the end, weakened
the position of workers in terms of
their earnings as well as their
voice,” she said.
Now, it seems, there’s a new
layer of difficulty for black and
Hispanic workers, on top of less
wage growth in big cities.
“Minority populations are
bearing the public health and eco-
nomic costs of this current pan-
demic recession harder than oth-
ers,” Kearney said. “This is just
another episode where we’re see-
ing that the least advantaged
among us are bearing the largest
burdens.”
Many less-educated, minority
workers already have lost their
jobs. Just half of the black adult
population is employed, and the
service industry may never be
the same. Autor points out that,
as white-collar workers use their
newfound work-from-home le-
verage to scatter throughout the
country, service-industry work-
ers will once again be left behind.
andrew.vandam@washpost.com
A6
As hospitalizations rise along Sun Belt, health-care workers feel the pressure
Virus from A1
wave of patients, hospitals are
canceling elective surgeries to
free up space for those sick
with the virus. medical staff
warn they could become over-
whelmed.
Hospitalizations are rising
quickly in key jurisdictions in
several states. The number of
coronavirus patients hospital-
ized in Harris County, Tex., which
includes Houston, has more than
quadrupled to 2,196 people over
the past month, according to
data from the Southeast Texas
regional Advisory Council.
“This community has got to do
something to change the direc-
tion of the virus,” said David
Persse, Houston’s chief public
health doctor. “Despite all the
good work of the hospitals,
they’re going to get overrun if we
don’t do something to slow down
the virus.”
The United States passed the
3 million case mark on Wednes-
day, and more than 129,000 peo-
ple have died.
florida is rushing some 100
new health-care workers to
miami-Dade County’s public
hospital network to handle the
influx of coronavirus cases, in-
cluding 75 nurses who will be
ready to work in intensive care
units. But miami hospital work-
ers fear that might not be
enough.
The large Jackson Health Sys-
tem in miami has opened new
floors and new units to handle
the increasing number of pa-
tients, said Lilian Abbo, the hos-
pital’s head of infection preven-
tion. “If we continue this trend,
we may not have enough staff,”
she said.
Staff at its main hospital, Jack-
son memorial, say it has grown
crowded, with doctors and nurs-
es working long hours. Hospital
workers are adding negative-
pressure systems to rooms so
they can be used for covid-19
patients, said Nicholas Namias,
chief of trauma and surgical
critical care.
“We’re not in some sort of
apocalyptic scene, but we’re very
actively creating beds,” he said.
In states with surging cases,
We’re All In This Together, We Continue To Serve Customers with
Protect
your home
A permanent
solution for
clogged gutters
SINCE 1981
deaths have not spiked as sharp-
ly as hospitalizations — a point
touted by President Trump,
who falsely claimed this week
that the United States had the
world’s lowest mortality rate
from the virus. Numerous coun-
tries have maintained lower
death rates.
Epidemiologists, health offi-
cials and physicians in some of
the hardest-hit states said the
prevalence of new cases among
younger people may explain why
there are fewer fatalities than
raw case numbers would sug-
gest. But they also stressed that
fatalities are a lagging indicator,
sometimes following hospital-
izations by weeks.
Deaths are rising in a number
of places, especially in the Sun
Belt.
Texas on Wednesday reported
98 deaths from covid-19, a one-
day high that surpassed its earli-
er record reached on Tuesday,
when Arizona and mississippi
also reached one-day highs. Ari-
zona and Texas also hit new
highs this week in seven-day
rolling averages of deaths, ac-
cording to data tracked by The
Washington Post.
florida is also beginning to see
a sustained rise in fatalities, as
documented in a federal Emer-
gency management Agency re-
port obtained by The Washing-
ton Post. The report shows a
rebound in the seven-day rolling
average of fatalities starting
about two weeks ago and notes,
“State is monitoring bed census
daily and making contingency
plans in the event capacity be-
comes an issue.”
At this point, juggling virus
patients with people suffering
other ailments has become more
challenging. Hospitalizations for
the virus in Texas have more than
doubled in the past two weeks,
filling nearly 80 percent of the
state’s hospital beds.
About 45 percent of the Texas
medical Center’s 1,364 intensive
care unit beds are now filled with
coronavirus patients. The Hous-
ton-area hospitals have already
canceled many elective surger-
ies, and there are still recurring
needs for intensive care unit
beds for planned procedures
Health & Safety Being Our #1 Objective
EZ RE
the coronavirus pandemic
New coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m.
62,751
CASES
Total
3,040,944 60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
7-day
average
10,000
0
Feb. 29
such as organ transplants and
unplanned emergencies like
heart attacks and strokes,
said Persse, the health authority
for the Houston Health Depart-
ment.
“There’s precious little else
they can do,” he said.
Health-care workers in hard-
hit states say they are rationing
protective gear such as N95
masks so they don’t face severe
shortages such as in the early
weeks of the pandemic. Some say
they use one mask per day now,
as opposed to throwing them out
after each patient.
Equipment shortages have al-
ready become acute in some
hospitals.
Two nurses at the Good Sa-
maritan medical Center in West
Palm Beach, fla., who spoke on
the condition of anonymity for
fear of professional retribution,
said nurses are being assigned
just one gown per day, some-
times moving between con-
firmed covid-19 patients and sus-
pected patients without chang-
ing their gear and with only
minimal cleaning supplies. Some
are now using nonmedical N95s
and pairing them with surgical
masks to make the coverings
waterproof, they said.
“The standards have been
lowered so much the attitude
is basically, ‘Put the best protec-
tion you can on your eyes and
mouth, and go for it,’ ” one nurse
said.
ryan Lieber, a spokesman for
the Good Samaritan medical
Center, said covid-19 patients are
*Offer expires 7/31/20, call for more details. Min. purchase is required. Offer applies to Gutter Helmet gutter protection installations only
and must be presented at time of estimate, cannot be combined with any other offers and subject to change without notice. Void where
prohibited by law. †Subject to credit approval. Interest does accrue during promotional period but all interest is waived if paid in full within
12 months. Lednor is neither a broker nor a lender. Financing is provided by 3rd party lenders, under terms & conditions arranged directly
between the customer and such lenders, satisfactory completion of finance documents is required. Any finance terms advertised are
estimates only. MD MHIC #48622 - VA #2705036173 - DC#420218000007 © 2020 Lednor Corporation.
DEATHS
Total 2,500
129,208
2,000
1,500
897
1,000
7-day
average
500
0 said. Emergency room wait times
July 8 Feb. 29 July 8
treated in an isolated unit of the
hospital, where caregivers have
“appropriate PPE” and where
“we follow strict cleaning and
sanitation guidelines.”
“Like many other health sys-
tems, we have implemented
strategies for PPE conservation,
consistent with CDC guidance, to
address continued availability of
PPE and the safety of our staff,”
he added in a statement.
At Jackson memorial, one key
shortage now is the rapid coro-
navirus tests, particularly the
reagents needed to process sam-
ples. Namias, the trauma chief,
said the miami hospital “fre-
quently” runs out, which forces
staff to assume patients who
enter the emergency room have
the virus. That puts more strain
on the entire hospital, because it
requires staff to add extra protec-
tion for themselves and treat
patients in special environ-
ments.
“If we had enough rapid tests,
everything would be much easi-
er,” Namias said. “You could
identify who should go to the
right bed, who should go to a
covid bed.”
Namias said he could envision
the hospital being overrun by
covid-19 patients if the state’s
infection numbers continue up-
ward.
“It could happen,” he said.
“That’s why we ask people for
vigilance in wearing a mask and
keeping a distance.”
Hospitals are also feeling the
strain in Los Angeles County,
which is averaging around
For safety, FREE gutter evaluations
and estimates outside your home,
no physical contact necessary.
Anniversary Sale!
20% OFF* NO Money Down
+ Extra 5
For Veterans & Seniors
Call Today, FREE Estimates
888-417-0653
www.HarryHelmet.com
the washington post
2,300 new cases each day. Anne
Caputo-Pearl, a nurse at Califor-
nia Hospital medical Center,
which treats a majority of low-in-
come and minority patients, said
she has seen an influx of patients
who live in crowded housing or
without housing at all, and who
are therefore unable to isolate at
home.
Nurses are constantly busy
with sick patients, often extend-
ing 12-hour shifts without being
asked, she said. Intensive care
units are at or near capacity, she
have grown.
Caputo-Pearl and her fellow
nurses are being forced to “use
personal protective equipment
until it is unusable,” which
means wearing gowns until
they’re unsafe and N95 masks for
as long as possible. Thankfully,
she said, they still switch out
gloves when possible. Caputo-
Pearl said Dignity Health, the
system that runs her hospital,
maintains its staff has enough
PPE to operate safely.
“This whole notion of what’s
enough — I think nurses and
doctors are going to have a very
different definition of what’s
enough than hospital adminis-
trators and even the CDC,” Capu-
to-Pearl said. “But we’ve all been
asked to reuse our PPE, and that
is the expectation.”
A spokesperson for California
Hospital medical Center and
Dignity Health did not immedi-
ately reply to a request for com-
ment.
Some doctors have noticed
that a larger proportion of
younger patients are now con-
tracting the virus. They tend to
recover and be discharged more
quickly than older patients, help-
ing to free up beds faster.
rajiv Bahl, an emergency
medicine physician in orlando,
saw that happening in early
June. But lately, more older peo-
ple have become infected, he
said, “and we’re now seeing peo-
ple with underlying conditions
coming in to the emergency
department and getting more
sick.”
There’s now an “overall stress
on the system,” Bahl said,
“whether it be protective equip-
Expires 7/31/2020
NO Interest
%
NO Payments†
GUTTER
® Ro
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
ment, staff, ventilator needs.”
“I don’t think we can hang our
hats on the fact that deaths
haven’t increased with cases,” he
added.
Health-care workers are now
juggling incoming patients,
searching for open beds in their
own hospitals or at others in the
area. Sometimes, patients are
held in the emergency room for
far longer than they would be
normally.
one emergency room doctor
in Houston, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity due to
fear of retribution from his em-
ployer, said in the past two weeks
he saw a man waiting for a
transfer linger in the emergency
room for more than three days
because no hospitals within
50 miles had room.
Texas authorities are also ask-
ing some health-care workers to
relocate to areas in need of staff,
said Carrie Kroll, vice president
of advocacy, quality and public
health for the Texas Hospital
Association.
Bustling hospitals are also re-
shuffling staff within their walls.
Cindy Zolnierek, head of the
Texas Nurses Association, said
some hospitals are implement-
ing “just-in-time” training to
boost their staff.
registered nurses who would
normally be helping monitor
ventilation and assisting in oper-
ating rooms are now being called
to assist on covid-19 floors.
And many nurses are dealing
with the emotional fallout of
working in the kind of high-in-
tensity care usually reserved for
ICU staffs.
“I’m hearing nurses are feeling
a lot of distress from how these
patients are decompensating
so quickly. one moment, some-
one looks okay. An hour later
they’re crashing,” Zolnierek said.
“Some of them are young, and
unless you work in trauma,
you’re not used to seeing young
people so, so sick and barely
hanging on. So that takes an
emotional toll.”
chelsea.janes@washpost.com
isaac.stanley-
becker@washpost.com
leonard.bernstein@washpost.com
joshua.partlow@washpost.com
S
G
9
ut
ter
Helm
et
ofin
g
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ sU A7

As cases spike, health-care workers again short on protective equipment

BY W ILLIAM W AN
Health-care workers on the
front lines of the coronavirus
pandemic are encountering
shortages of masks, gowns, face
shields and gloves — a frustrating
recurrence of a struggle that
haunted the first months of the
crisis.
Nurses say they are reusing
N95 masks for days and even
weeks at a time. Doctors say they
can’t reopen offices because they
lack personal protective equip-
ment. State officials say they have
scoured U.S. and international
suppliers for PPE and struggle to
get orders filled. Experts worry
the problem could worsen as cor-
onavirus infections climb, strain-
ing medical systems.
“A lot of people thought once
the alarm was sounded back in
march surely the federal govern-
ment would fix this, but that
hasn’t happened,” said Deborah
Burger, a California nurse and
president of National Nurses
United, a union representing reg-
istered nurses. Like many health-
care workers, Burger blamed the
Trump administration for the
lack of equipment, noting the
administration has insisted the
responsibility falls to state and
local officials, with the federal
government playing only a sup-
porting role.
The specter of equipment
shortages comes as other issues
that plagued the country’s early
response to the pandemic return:
surging cases, overwhelmed hos-
pitals, lagging testing and contra-
dictory public health messages.
But the inability to secure PPE is
especially frustrating, health-
care workers say, because it is
their main defense against catch-
ing the virus.
for weeks, nurses have posted
online testimonials about a lack
of PPE, with some given surgical
masks instead of N95 masks be-
cause of shortages. In a video
posted last week, a florida nurse
said she breaks the oath she took
“to do no harm” every time she
goes to work without protection
and worries constantly she may
be infecting her patients, co-
workers and family.
In interviews, White House of-
ficials said concerns over PPE
shortages are overblown. They
said U.S. manufacturing and
stockpiles of protective equip-
ment have improved dramatical-
ly and are adequate in most
states.
“I’m not going to tell you we’re
able to meet all demand, but
there’s significantly less unful-
filled orders today than in April,”
said rear Adm. John Polowczyk,
whom President Trump put in
charge of coronavirus-related
supplies. “I have not found a
hospital system that is in threat of
running out. . . . I don’t have the
sense of there being severe short-
ages.”
Polowczyk said that the Trump
administration has helped in-
crease domestic manufacturing
of PPE and that demand contin-
In June, the Franklin County Forensic science Lab in Columbus, Ohio, instructed people to reuse face shields. Medical associations and
elected officials have pleaded for federal help in getting protective equipment, but White House officials say the concerns are overblown.
ues to outstrip supply because
hospitals, states and the federal
government are trying to stock-
pile supplies. He blamed some of
the concern about shortages on
outdated letters to Congress from
march and April.
But the administration’s reas-
surance contrasts with growing
alarm from medical associations,
governors, nursing homes and
members of Congress — all of
whom have pleaded for federal
help within the past month.
Demand for protective equip-
ment has soared, but unlike in
march, when efforts focused on
getting PPE for major hospitals —
especially in New York, Detroit
and Chicago — supplies now are
desperately needed by primary
care offices, nursing homes, pris-
ons and psychiatric and disability
facilities. As many states contin-
ue to reopen their economies,
demand has also surged from the
construction industry and other
sectors. With soaring demand,
prices have skyrocketed.
Some hospitals say much of the
PPE they have acquired has been
exorbitantly priced. At a legisla-
tive hearing, a hospital associa-
tion executive detailed how one
maryland hospital that spent
$600,000 on PPE last year ex-
pects to spend $10 million this
year. The struggles have been
especially acute for smaller and
rural providers that can’t com-
pete with bigger health systems
on price and large-scale orders,
experts say.
In a letter last week, the Ameri-
can medical Association told the
federal Emergency management
Agency that doctor’s offices out-
side big systems — including
those providing primary care,
chemotherapy and minor surger-
ies — have struggled to reopen
because they are unable to secure
PPE. The association, which
pleaded for transparency and a
coordinated national strategy,
said it is unclear “whether the
central problem is in the avail-
ability of raw material, produc-
tion backlogs, gaps in the distri-
bution systems, or some combi-
nation of all three.”
In a second letter, the medical
association urged the White
House to invoke the Defense Pro-
duction Act to compel manufac-
turers to increase supplies of N95
masks and gowns.
In a survey of 23,000 registered
nurses, National Nurses United
found 85 percent were asked to
reuse masks designed for single
use. A survey of 14,300 nurses by
the American Nurses Associa-
tion, an advocacy group, found 79
percent being asked to reuse
masks and 45 percent reporting
PPE shortages at their facility.
In Washington state, Gov. Jay
Inslee (D) said state officials have
struggled to find domestic and
international suppliers. In a let-
ter to Trump last month, Inslee
said he has tried to buy $400 mil-
lion in equipment, but only
10 percent of orders have been
filled.
“It is clear that the status quo is
not working,” Inslee said, point-
ing to an inadequate federal
stockpile, reliance on foreign sup-
pliers and limited domestic pro-
duction. He described a counter-
productive and “unnecessary,
chaotic, 50-state scramble to se-
cure badly needed PPE” and cited
the continued lack of a coordinat-
ed federal response. “It is akin to
fighting a war in which each state
is responsible for procuring its
own weapons and body armor.”
As the virus has rampaged
through America, it has pum-
meled the ranks of health-care
workers, infecting at least 94,000
and killing at least 500, according
to an incomplete count by the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. The true number is
believed to be much higher.
A study of U.S. and British
medical workers found their risk
of testing positive for the corona-
virus was 12 times higher than the
general public’s. The researchers
from massachusetts General Hos-
pital and King’s College London
found that workers with inade-
quate PPE access were at an even
higher risk.
“The limited availability of ad-
equate PPE, such as masks,
gowns and gloves, has raised con-
cerns about whether our health
care system is able to fully protect
our health care workers,” senior
author Andrew T. Chan, chief of
the Clinical and Translational Ep-
idemiology Unit at massachu-
setts General, said in a statement.
Last month, Sen. maggie Has-
san (D-N.H.) successfully pressed
fEmA to release an internal re-
port that showed alarming short-
ages of medical gowns and no
meaningful increase in their pro-
duction since march, when nurs-
es and doctors in New York re-
sorted to wearing trash bags. The
ty Wright for the Washington Post
fEmA report states bluntly, “The
demand for gowns outpaces cur-
rent US manufacturing capabili-
ties.”
The report also suggests
health-care workers will need to
keep reusing N95 masks for
months to come. And it notes
there remain no domestic manu-
facturers of nitrile gloves, mean-
ing hospitals must continue rely-
ing on foreign suppliers.
At a congressional hearing last
week, House Democrats raised
similar concerns and revealed
their findings from an investiga-
tion into the Trump administra-
tion’s handling of supply-chain
problems. Their report alleged
failures to provide data and guid-
ance needed to address shortages
in manufacturing and distribu-
tion. The report found Trump’s
policy of shifting responsibility to
state leaders resulted in a disas-
trous competition for resources.
In interviews with committee
staff, large medical equipment
companies cautioned that prices
for raw materials have risen dra-
matically. one executive told con-
gressional staff that “raw materi-
al for gowns is unavailable at any
price, at least in the quantities we
need to make gowns” and warned
continuing to supply PPE under
these conditions is “not sustain-
able.”
In a 45-minute phone inter-
view Tuesday with The Washing-
ton Post, Polowczyk, the adminis-
tration’s point person on corona-
virus-related supplies, defended
White House efforts. Its strategy
of emphasizing local and state
control, bolstered by federal sup-
port, is working, he said, with
60 to 70 percent of states having
nearly a two-month PPE supply.
He said the other states should be
okay because they are requiring
counties and hospitals to have a
month’s worth of supplies.
“I just talked to a hospital
system in Houston, Texas, where
you would read the mainstream
news and think the world is
ending and they’re running out of
stuff. But multiple hospitals
across the region have millions of
isolation gowns, masks and also
hundreds of thousands of N95
masks,” Polowczyk said.
Nurses at a hospital in Hum-
ble, Tex., went on strike monday,
protesting a lack of adequate
PPE. Hospital executives in Hous-
ton — where case numbers keep
breaking records — have said
they have enough PPE for now
but expressed worries of running
out if cases continue to spike.
Polowczyk said he briefs gover-
nors weekly and that fEmA has
ensured equitable distribution of
supplies. While he acknowledged
continuing problems with unmet
demand, he said those issues are
decreasing.
And he said that since the start
of the pandemic, the White House
has invoked the Defense Produc-
tion Act more than 20 times.
Critics, however, have noted the
Trump administration has rou-
tinely invoked the act hundreds
of thousands of times for issues
outside the pandemic and ques-
tioned the administration on its
hesitancy to use it to address PPE
problems.
When Polowczyk took over the
PPE effort in march, the federal
government had already given
away the 18 million N95 masks in
the national stockpile. Since then,
the White House said, the nation-
al stockpile has been replenished
with 36 million N95 masks. offi-
cials want to have 152 million
masks by September and 314 mil-
lion by December.
But health-care workers say
they find little evidence shortages
have abated.
Doctors throughout the nation
created a volunteer organization
in march called #GetUsPPE to
marshal donations and make
bulk purchases. In recent weeks,
the number of PPE items request-
ed has surged, said co-founder
megan ranney, an emergency-
room doctor and researcher at
Brown University. Some of that
may reflect greater awareness of
their group, ranney and others
said. But a drastic increase in
calls for gowns and coveralls
tracks with shortages document-
ed by fEmA and industry leaders,
and a spike in requests from
Texas arrived as cases there
surged.
“We thought we were creating
this thing that would be around a
few weeks, like a temporary fix to
this problem others would solve
once they saw just how bad it
was,” ranney said. “Here we are
months later and it’s like nothing
has changed.”
william.wan@washpost.com

Trump intensifies push to convince Americans that the

nation is experiencing a “great
American comeback” after the
lines for opening schools” and said
he disagreed with the advice. re-
ferring to the CDC, he wrote: “they

to reopen schools in fall economy and American life

sCHOOLs from A1
necessary for students’ academic
and social-emotional well-being,
and Trump’s allies see a political
imperative in convincing Ameri-
cans that the nation has recovered
from the coronavirus crisis.
They’re applying the same pres-
sure to colleges and universities.
Trump this week chided Harvard
University for offering classes on-
line. And immigration officials on
monday announced rules that
would block international stu-
dents from studying in the United
States if they are not taking classes
in person. Harvard and the massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
sued over the rule on Wednesday.
The administration is finding it
nearly impossible to control the
situation, with the president’s
views often at odds with those of
his health advisers, and decision-
making resting with 50 states,
more than 13,000 districts and
thousands of colleges and univer-
sities.
on Wednesday, New York City
schools, the nation’s largest school
system, announced a plan that
will have most students in school
two days a week and learning from
home the other three. many other
systems have announced or are
considering similar plans.
Trump did appear to get help
this week from florida, where the
administration of Gov. ron De-
Santis (r) ordered all schools to
open five days a week. But even
there, some superintendents
quickly pushed back. Broward
County Schools Superintendent
robert runcie said that he does
not see a realistic path to reopen-
ing five days a week and that he
“will never compromise the
health” of students, teachers and
staffers. miami-Dade County Pub-
lic Schools Superintendent Alber-
to Carvalho said his district would
not reopen until coronavirus rates
have been reduced.
Administration officials gave
conflicting answers Wednesday as
to whether hybrid models like
New York’s would satisfy Trump’s
call for schools to reopen.
Education Secretary Betsy De-
Vos said schools “must fully open
and they must be fully operation-
al,” and she singled out plans in
fairfax County, Va., for a hybrid
system as a failure.
CDC Director robert r. red-
field played down Trump’s criti-
cism of the CDC guidelines, saying
after the briefing that the two were
“totally aligned. “We’re both try-
ing to open the schools,” he said.
But he said he is comfortable
with different school systems
adopting different approaches.
“The advantage of everybody
not doing it in the exact same way
is you begin to learn what aspects
are more effective than others,” he
said after the briefing. “There’s no
definition of ‘open.’ It can be any
variety of how the schools decide
to do it.”
He said his agency’s goal is to
work with districts to help them
overcome challenges and find
ways to open their doors.
He also sought to minimize the
President Trump has taken a harsh tone in seeking a full reopening
of schools. For related video, visit: wapo.st/trumpschools0709
risks to children of a virus whose
worst effects have been seen in
older Americans. He noted that
children are far less likely to be-
come ill and said there is no evi-
dence that children transmit the
virus to others. other experts say
the ability of children to spread
the pathogen is unknown.
Since the CDC guidance was
issued in mid-may, the number of
coronavirus cases has soared,
driven by infections in the Sun
Belt. on Wednesday, thousands of
new cases in florida and Arizona
pushed the total number of con-
firmed infections in the United
States past 3 million, according to
data tracked by The Washington
Post. The U.S. coronavirus death
toll topped 129,000.
At the coronavirus briefing
Wednesday, officials took an opti-
mistic tack, saying the situation
was improving in some states. And
they pressed the administration’s
campaign to open school build-
JaBin Botsford/the Washington Post
ings. Pence and other senior offi-
cials repeatedly said the CDC guid-
ance should not be used as an
excuse to keep schools closed.
“reopening schools comes with
some risk, but there are risks to
keeping kids at home, too,” said
Health and Human Services Sec-
retary Alex Azar. “At home, kids
aren’t benefiting from social stim-
ulation. They may be falling be-
hind in learning. . . . They may not
be getting the nutrition that they
get at school. And it may be diffi-
cult for parents to get back to
work” with children still at home.
But Trump’s dismissal of the
agency’s work again raised ques-
tions about whether its recom-
mendations would be driven by
science or by the president’s pref-
erences.
four months from Election
Day, Trump has also pressed local
and state officials to reopen busi-
nesses and churches and to lift
coronavirus restrictions, seeking
slowed sharply this spring.
The president’s allies see his
reelection riding on whether
Americans see the country as mov-
ing past the coronavirus crisis or
still mired in it. Schools are a key
element: many parents cannot go
back to work if their children are
at home. And while there were
successes, remote instruction cob-
bled together in the spring was a
disaster in much of the country.
Still, parents are divided, with
some eager to get back to normal
and others fearful that reopened
schools will put their children and
families at risk. An ABC News-Ip-
sos survey last month found about
half of parents of children under
18 were willing to send their chil-
dren to school and about half un-
willing.
School officials also are divided.
A poll of 1,450 principals released
Wednesday by the National Asso-
ciation of Secondary School Prin-
cipals found just over a third were
somewhat or extremely confident
in their schools’ or district’s “abili-
ty to preserve the health of staff
and students as schools physically
reopen in the fall.”
Districts also face budget cuts,
making it difficult to pay for the
supplies and staff they’ll need to
keep students and teachers
healthy. meanwhile, many teach-
ers are reluctant to return to the
classroom, especially as the num-
ber of virus cases continues to rise.
on Tuesday, Trump promised a
pressure campaign aimed at open-
ing schools this fall, and on
Wednesday, he was true to his
word. In a pair of morning tweets,
he accused the CDC of issuing
“very tough & expensive guide-
are asking schools to do very im-
practical things. I will be meeting
with them!!!”
He also asserted that schools
have opened in other countries
without problem and argued that
Democrats think that opening
them will be politically damaging.
He ended with a nebulous threat:
“may cut off funding if not open!”
Trump has no power to cut fed-
eral funding already allocated to
states and districts, but the vice
president suggested the adminis-
tration would seek to tie any fu-
ture aid to opening of schools.
“As we work with Congress on
the next round of state support,
we’re going to be looking for ways
to give states a strong incentive
and an encouragement to kids get
back to school,” Pence said.
Democrats agreed that schools
should reopen but said Trump was
putting politics ahead of safety.
“The president is irresponsibly
trying to bully schools into re-
opening, no matter the risk,” said
Sen. Patty murray (Wash.), the top
Democrat on the Senate Educa-
tion Committee.
rep. robert C. “Bobby” Scott
(D-Va.), the chairman of the House
Education Committee, accused
Trump of “prioritizing politics
over the health and safety of stu-
dents, parents and educators.”
“This move is not only irrespon-
sible, it is dangerous,” he said.
The House has passed a new
coronavirus stimulus package
that includes $90 billion for edu-
cation, but it has not advanced in
the republican-controlled Senate.
laura.meckler@washpost.com
toluse olorunnipa and Valerie strauss
contributed to this report.
A8
Social stresses, treatment infrastructure woes are factors as overdoses soar
oVErDosEs from A1
spikes in drug overdoses — a
hidden epidemic within the coro-
navirus pandemic. Emerging evi-
dence suggests that the contin-
ued isolation, economic devasta-
tion and disruptions to the drug
trade in recent months are fuel-
ing the surge.
Because of how slowly the gov-
ernment collects data, it could be
five to six months before defini-
tive numbers exist on the change
in overdoses during the pandem-
ic. But data obtained by The
Washington Post from a real-time
tracker of drug-related emergen-
cy calls and interviews with coro-
ners suggest that overdoses have
not just increased since the pan-
demic began but are accelerating
as it persists.
Suspected overdoses national-
ly — not all of them fatal —
jumped 18 percent in march com-
pared with last year, 29 percent in
April and 42 percent in may,
according to the overdose Detec-
tion mapping Application Pro-
gram, a federal initiative that
collects data from ambulance
teams, hospitals and police. In
some jurisdictions, such as Wis-
consin’s milwaukee County, dis-
patch calls for overdoses have
increased more than 50 percent.
When the pandemic hit, some
authorities hoped it might lead to
a decrease in overdoses by dis-
rupting drug traffic as borders
closed and cities shut down. The
opposite seems to be happening.
As traditional supply lines are
disrupted, people who use drugs
appear to be seeking out new
suppliers and substances they are
less familiar with, increasing the
risk of overdose and death. Syn-
thetic drugs and less common
substances are increasingly
showing up in autopsies and toxi-
cology reports, medical examin-
ers say.
Social distancing has also se-
questered people, leaving them to
take drugs alone and making it
less likely that someone else will
be there to call 911 or to adminis-
ter the lifesaving overdose anti-
dote naloxone, also known as
Narcan.
making matters worse, many
treatment centers, drug courts
and recovery programs have been
forced to close or significantly
scale back during shutdowns.
With plunging revenue for servic-
es and little financial relief from
the government, some now teeter
on the brink of financial collapse.
Even before the pandemic, ex-
perts note, the nation’s infra-
structure for helping people with
substance use disorders was un-
derfunded and inadequate. With-
out government intervention, lo-
cal officials and drug policy ex-
perts warn, overdoses and deaths
will continue to climb during the
pandemic and the existing sys-
tem will be inundated.
What’s needed, advocates say,
is emergency funding to keep
afloat treatment programs, recov-
ery centers and needle-exchange
programs. medical associations
have also urged federal officials to
relax restrictive barriers to opioid
treatments such as buprenor-
phine and called for wider distri-
bution of naloxone.
President Trump and conser-
vatives have repeatedly cited the
possible rise of overdoses and
suicides when calling for states
and businesses to hurry their
economic reopening. Yet of the
nearly $2.5 trillion approved for
emergency relief, Congress and
the Trump administration have
designated only $425 million —
barely more than a hundredth of
1 percent — for mental health and
substance use treatment.
“If it weren’t for covid, these
opioid deaths are all we’d be
talking about right now,” said
Natalia Derevyanny, spokeswom-
an for the medical examiner’s
office in Cook County, Ill., which
includes Chicago.
Last year, the Cook County
medical examiner recorded
473 overdose deaths from Janu-
ary to June. This year, the total
through may reached 656, with
more than 400 additional sus-
pected overdoses pending inves-
tigation and toxicology reports.
The county’s forensic staff — al-
ready inundated by the flood of
coronavirus deaths — has added
shifts and longer hours to deal
with the incoming corpses from
both crises.
“one epidemic began,”
Derevyanny said, “but the other
one never stopped.”
The lonely silence
Addiction is a disease of isola-
tion.
“It’s when you feel alone, stig-
matized and hopeless that you are
most vulnerable and at risk,” said
robert Ashford, who runs a re-
covery center in Philadelphia and
has been in recovery for seven
years. “So much of addiction has
nothing to do with the substance
itself. It has to do with pain or
distress or needs that aren’t being
met.”
As the pandemic has pushed
massive doses of fear, uncertain-
ty, anxiety and depression into
people’s lives, it has cut off the
human connections that help
ease those burdens.
Steven manzo, 33, lost his job
at an Irish pub in mount Clemens,
mich., after it was forced to close
just before St. Patrick’s Day. from
the apartment he rented above
the bar, he described the disquiet
welling up inside of him, with
nothing to do but stand on the
balcony and watch the empty
street below.
“Everything looks normal, but
it doesn’t feel normal. I live down-
town with bars and restaurants
and nobody is here,” he said on
march 20. “We have no idea how
long it will be.”
manzo spent much of his early
20s struggling with a heroin ad-
diction. It took huge effort — and
the help of family members, co-
workers and two treatment pro-
grams — for him to turn his life
around. He secured a job as a
cook and bartender and discov-
ered a gift for making customers
laugh.
The pandemic took it all away,
he said.
Two weeks after manzo talked
to a Washington Post reporter
about his sudden unemployment,
he was found dead in his apart-
ment from an apparent overdose.
His mother, JoAnne manzo,
fought back tears as she de-
scribed the rainy night she drove
to her son’s apartment just after
his body was discovered.
Talking to his friends, she tried
to piece together his last mo-
ments. He and a younger friend —
also in recovery — had been
drinking that weekend and got
bored. They bought $40 worth of
cocaine and heroin, telling them-
selves they would use just that
one time. Shortly after midnight,
manzo saw his friend out the
door. manzo’s body was discov-
ered two days later, sprawled out
on the kitchen floor not far from
his five guitars and drum set.
“He was clean for eight years.
He would always tell me, ‘my
trigger is depression. That is my
trigger,’ ” his mother said.
The virus, she believes, took
away one of the strongest forces
in manzo’s life — the presence of
people who loved him. “If he had
still been working, he would have
been able to fight that urge, be-
cause he was busy. He loved that
job. He loved people.”
reasons for the rise
michigan — where manzo died
— now ranks third in the United
States for the highest unemploy-
ment rate, with 1 in 5 workers out
of a job. Nationwide, more than
20 million are unemployed as the
nation faces its worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression.
research has established
strong links between stagnating
economies and increases in sui-
cides, drug use and overdoses. In
recent years, economists Anne
Case and Nobel Prize winner An-
gus Deaton have dubbed such
increasing fatalities in declining
blue-collar communities “deaths
of despair.”
for months, the Trump admin-
istration and several governors
have seized on such research as
their central argument for re-
opening states and businesses at
any cost.
“We have to reopen — for our
eZ sU the washington post
the coronavirus pandemic
Photos By ty Wright for the Washington Post
Overdose deaths swell after lockdown in Chicago ble increase in overdoses — is the
Deaths by week reported by the medical examiner’s office in Cook County, Ill. implied assumption that nothing
can be done to avert it.
Known overdoses Probable overdoses pending toxicology reports The focus, many economists
March 20 and health experts agree, should
Illinois stay-at-home order begins be on finding safe and sustain-
able ways to reopen the economy,
60 reported deaths
while increasing access and fund-
ing for mental health and sub-
stance use care.
“We need to multitask as a
40 society,” said Nora Volkow, direc-
tor of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, a federal research
agency.
20
The problem is a lack of politi-
cal will, said Alex H. Kral, an
epidemiologist at the nonprofit
research institute rTI Interna-
tional.
0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May “We may not have a vaccine for
2019 2020
covid, but we actually have very
effective treatments for opioid
Note: Suspected overdoses are typically confirmed in 6-8 weeks, but coronavirus use disorder,” Kral said. “We have
deaths have slowed case closings at the medical examiner’s office. Overdoses medication and proven interven-
through May 31; data last updated on June 22. tions. It doesn’t have to play out
the way we fear it will.”
Source: Cook County Medical Examiner Case Archive ALYSSA FOWERS/THE WASHINGTON POST
‘Cries for help’
Monthly overdoses grew during the pandemic Before the pandemic hit, na-
tional efforts to stem the opioid
For every 10 suspected crisis were just starting to show
overdoses reported to progress.
ODMAP in May 2019 ... In January, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
... 14 overdoses were
reported in May 2020.
released 2018 data showing a
slight decline in fatal overdoses
for the first time in 28 years. But
Overdoses increased 50% year-over-year increase decades into the opioid epidemic,
+42%
up to 42% per month federal and state agencies still
during the pandemic, +29% lack a system to collect overdose
as compared to the data in real or near-real time.
same months in 2019. +16% +18%
The closest thing that exists
comes from the overdose Detec-
-0.3% tion mapping Application Pro-
0
January February March April May gram (oDmAP), which receives
county-level data from emergen-
Note: Growth references the 1,201 agencies reporting to the Overdose Detection cy agencies. Since it began in 2017,
Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) by January 2019. oDmAP has forged agreements
Source: ODMAP
with a patchwork of about 3,300
agencies in 49 states that volun-
health,” Health and Human Ser- Hollingsworth and other econ- tarily provide data.
vices Secretary Alex Azar wrote omists, including Case, who of the counties participating,
recently in a Post op-ed. “The spearheaded much of the re- 62 percent have reported in-
economic crisis brought on by the search on “deaths of despair,” creased overdoses since march.
virus is a silent killer.” As evi- point out that their findings are And among counties that took
dence, Azar cited a study suggest- based on previous recessions that part in the program last year and
ing that for every one percentage were wildly different from this this year, data provided to The
point increase in the unemploy- one. Post by oDmAP show a 42 per-
ment rate in past recessions, the one big difference is how sud- cent increase in may.
opioid death rate appears to in- denly this downturn occurred — ortiz, the coroner in Columbus
crease by more than 3 percent. causing tens of millions of Ameri- and surrounding franklin Coun-
But in an interview, the lead cans to lose their jobs almost ty, said she and her staff just
researcher behind that study re- overnight. Deaths of despair nor- moved this year into a facility
jected Azar’s premise as a misuse mally occur after years of hard- three times the size of their old
and an oversimplification of his ship. The pandemic has also in- office so they could handle exact-
data. troduced unprecedented disrup- ly this kind of added volume.
many factors — not just job loss tions into individual habits and They’re already out of space.
— trigger opioid use, said Alex society, making it difficult to fore- “There’s just so many. And the
Hollingsworth, a health econo- see the exact effect. bodies absolutely can’t go on the
mist at Indiana University. “Don’t But the biggest objection to floor, out of respect for the dece-
use opioid deaths as a reason to such arguments — that tie the dents,” she said. “We’re trying to
reopen,” he said. declining economy to an inevita- borrow carts that emergency
management was saving for hos-
pitals and the possible covid
surge.”
ortiz and more than half a
dozen other coroners nationwide
described a dangerous trend from
recent years that has accelerated
during the pandemic: dealers
mixing long-standing narcotics
such as heroin and cocaine with
much more powerful synthetic
drugs, including fentanyl and
carfentanil.
The American medical Associ-
ation recently issued a warning,
citing reports from officials in
34 states about the increased
spread of such synthetic drugs
and rising overdoses.
Sandy rivera, an emergency
medical technician in Union City,
N.J., said she saw an abrupt
ToP: Anahi ortiz, the coroner in Columbus and surrounding change in may in the types of
Franklin County, ohio, has run out of places for bodies as overdose cases to which her ambulance
deaths spike during the pandemic. ABoVE: Drug paraphernalia was responding.
awaits testing at Franklin County’s forensic science center. ortiz for weeks it had been almost
and others blame powerful synthetic drugs in part for the rise. all respiratory illnesses and cardi-
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
ac arrests related to the coronavi-
rus. Then, suddenly, nearly half of
her cases became overdoses and
suicide attempts, a ratio she has
never encountered in 15 years
working on ambulances.
“one night, that’s all I had,”
rivera said. one patient took a
bottle of Tylenol. Another took
medication that belonged to her
children. An elderly patient had
been drinking and swallowed 10
pills of Benadryl.
“They were cries for help,” she
said.
shuttered doors
At a time when they are needed
most, some treatment centers
and addiction clinics are strug-
gling to stay solvent and have
begun closing programs.
In may, Austin recovery Net-
work, the oldest addiction treat-
ment provider in Texas, shuttered
its clinics. “It is only a matter of
time until we run out of money,”
the board of the nonprofit organi-
zation told staff members.
Lynn Sherman, chairman of
the treatment provider’s board,
said the decision to close the
clinics was “hard as hell.”
The organization is still hold-
ing online support groups and
running a shelter for parents and
children, Sherman said, but, she
added, “I don’t think our area will
have enough capacity in the fu-
ture to provide the help that’s
needed.”
Even as Austin recovery Net-
work shut down its residential
treatment programs for adults, it
has seen an increase in people
walking into its offices, begging
for detox treatment and a place to
stay amid the pandemic.
In normal times, most non-
profit behavioral health centers
operate on extremely thin mar-
gins and rely on reimbursements
from major government health
programs such as medicaid and
medicare and grants from local
government.
During the pandemic, they
have struggled to treat patients,
leading to severe drops in reim-
bursement, said Chuck Ingoglia,
president of the National Council
for Behavioral Health, which rep-
resents 3,326 treatment organiza-
tions. In a recent survey, 44 per-
cent of the council’s members
said they will run out of money in
the next six months.
many are bracing for deeper
cuts in the coming year, as states
grapple with budget crunches.
“mental health and substance
use programs are often the first
thing cut,” said Tami mark, a drug
policy researcher at rTI Interna-
tional. “The last recession deci-
mated behavioral health funding
so badly it took them 10 years just
to get back to previous levels.”
‘Failures of the system’
When the Democratic-con-
trolled House passed a $3 trillion
coronavirus relief bill in may, the
legislation, dubbed the Heroes
Act, designated $3 billion for
mental health and substance use
disorders programs — seven
times more than the amount Con-
gress approved in march.
But the White House and re-
publicans have declared the bill
dead on arrival, leaving it unclear
whether any additional funding
will go toward programs for men-
tal health and substance use dis-
orders.
“We as a society often have a
tendency to stigmatize and blame
those who use drugs,” said Ash-
ford, the recovery center director
in Philadelphia. “But if overdoses
really increase during this pan-
demic, it will be because of fail-
ures of the system.”
Since her son’s death, JoAnne
manzo has asked herself the same
question over and over: What
exactly happened? “I know in my
heart he did not want to take his
life,” she said.
on friday, she finally received
the official death certificate. Un-
der cause of death, it said: “acute
fentanyl and cocaine.”
The autopsy took nearly three
months because county officials
were overwhelmed with covid-19
cases. The pandemic also made it
impossible to hold a funeral, so
she had her son’s body cremated.
JoAnne manzo took the ashes
and put a small portion into a
heart necklace she now wears
every day.
She knows how lonely her son
felt during the last days of his life.
Since his death, she has tried to
keep him as close as possible.
william.wan@washpost.com
heather.long@washpost.com
alyssa fowers and ariana eunjung
Cha contributed to this report.
If you or someone you know is
struggling with addiction, the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration can help you
locate treatment at
www.findtreatment.gov or at this free
help line: 800-662-HELP (4357).
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ re A9

the coronavirus pandemic

Whistleblower spurs new TSA virus safety e≠orts

BY I AN D UNCAN
The head of the Transportation
Security Administration ordered
new coronavirus safety precau-
tions last week after meeting with
a whistleblower who alleged that
the agency wasn’t doing enough
to protect employees and travel-
ers, according to the whistleblow-
er’s attorney.
The new measures require offi-
cers to wear eye protection when
they are in close contact with
travelers and aren’t protected by a
plastic screen, the attorney said.
Officers must also change their
pandemic, and with each health
and security enhancement, we
have made announcements.”
Such investigations can take
months, but Tom Devine, Brain-
ard’s lawyer and the legal director
at the Government Accountabili-
ty Project, said both the special
counsel’s office and the TSA
moved quickly, culminating in a
meeting last week between Brain-
ard and Pekoske and the new
safety measures.
The pace stunned Devine, who
has been working with whistle-
blowers for four decades.
“The system responded with
The special counsel’s office or-
dered the investigation June 18,
determining that Brainard’s alle-
gations had a “substantial likeli-
hood” of being true. The office
doesn’t have the power to conduct
its own reviews and relies on
government agency leaders to in-
vestigate and report their find-
ings.
The TSA said then that it was
following guidance from the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention in handling the virus.
In the letter to the Office of
Special Counsel, Devine wrote
that Brainard wouldn’t have been
Officers were ordered to wear
masks, and the agency sought to
install clear plastic barriers at
checkpoints to separate officers
from travelers.
But Brainard alleged that those
procedures contained gaps.
The agency’s new actions do
not resolve all of his concerns.
Brainard also alleged that officers
hadn’t received specific training
on responding to the outbreak
and did not have guidance on how
to handle passengers who appear
to be sick.
Union leaders representing
aviation workers, with the back- chIP somodevIllA/getty ImAges

gloves or sanitize them after pat-
ting down passengers, handling
identification documents or
checking in luggage.
The Office of Special Counsel,
an independent federal watch-
dog, had ordered the Department
of Homeland Security last month
to conduct an investigation into
the whistleblower’s allegations.
The complaint was filed by Jay
Brainard, the TSA’s director in
Kansas.
Brainard said in a statement
that the new measures mean the
agency “has taken necessary steps
to make air travel safer for the
public and enhance protective
measures in the workplace for our
front line employees.”
R. Carter Langston, a TSA
spokesman, confirmed that Brai-
nard had spoken with TSA Ad-
ministrator David Pekoske and
that the changes outlined had
been implemented.
He said the agency appreciates
feedback from whistleblowers as
one internal source among many.
“Most importantly, we take the
responsibility to protect both pas-
sengers and our employees from
COVID-19 very seriously,” Langs-
ton said in an email. “TSA has
adopted a continuous improve-
ment approach throughout the
lightning speed to the truth about able to succeed in getting change ing of Democrats in Congress, Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske
a significant threat,” he said. “I’ve without its help. have clashed with airlines and the ordered new sanitizing and other coronavirus protective measures
never seen the truth make a differ- “America’s flying public owes Trump administration over safety just days after meeting with the whistleblower in late June.
ence so quickly.” your agency a debt of gratitude,” at airports and aboard planes.
A spokesman for the special he wrote. With only limited direction from dures. ing the number of passengers on
counsel’s office declined to com- The TSA had previously re- the federal government, airlines While the government has de- flights and changes to check-in
ment. vamped its security screening and airports have been adopting clined to impose new rules on the procedures to encourage social
Air travel dropped dramatical- process in an attempt to reduce their own approaches, leading to industry, it last week issued distancing.
ly in the early days of the corona- the chance of spreading the virus. a patchwork of a different proce- guidelines that recommend limit- ian.duncan@washpost.com
virus pandemic, from a typical
2 million passengers a day to few-
er than 100,000 on some days. But
the number of travelers has been
steadily increasing, a trend that
has shown no signs of reversing,
even as the virus appears to be
taking hold again in many states.
Pekoske met with Brainard
June 29, according to Devine, and
You Inspire Us
the agency imposed the new mea- We want to give back to the
sures before the July 4 holiday
weekend. Nearly 2.7 million peo- communities that have been
ple were screened by the TSA
between Thursday and Sunday, so supportive of us by donating
according to the agency.
Brainard alleged in a June 3
100% of all new CaseStudy® fees.
complaint that the TSA had fum- Inspiring Homeowners Since 1961.
bled its initial response to the
crisis, refusing to let state-level
leaders hand out protective
masks to front-line workers, even
as the virus quickly sickened offi-
cers across the country; 997 TSA
employees have fallen ill and six
employees and a contractor have
died.

sIPhIwe sIbeko/AssocIAted Press

A volunteer in an international covid-19 vaccine trial receives an

injection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg on
June 24. The trial is underway in South Africa, Britain and Brazil.

Volunteers can now

sign up to take part
in large vaccine trials
BY C AROLYN Y . J OHNSON
A network of more than 100
clinical trial sites at hospitals and
medical clinics in the United
States and across the world will
take on the unprecedented chal-
lenge of testing covid-19 vaccines
and other preventive treatments,
federal officials announced on
Wednesday.
The Covid-19 Prevention Net-
work, which knits together the
existing federal clinical trial infra-
structure developed largely to test
HIV vaccines and treatments,
launched with a website (www.
coronaviruspreventionnetwork.
org) for volunteers to sign up to be
considered when the first trials
begin this month.
The scientific effort to develop
a covid-19 vaccine will depend on
tens of thousands of volunteers in
a gargantuan scientific, medical
and logistical undertaking. The
aim is to provide “substantial
quantities of a safe, effective vac-
cine by January 2021,” Health and
Human Services Secretary Alex
Azar said in a statement.
Testing a vaccine is a conceptu-
ally simple idea, but it is a careful
and methodical process that un-
folds through a phased system of
trials that grow progressively
larger. Early clinical trials, some of
which have reported encouraging
results, assess the right dose of the
vaccine and monitor for any safety
concerns in as many as a few
hundred patients. But the ulti-
mate test of these vaccines will be
large trials designed to test
whether they are effective at pre-
venting or reducing the severity of
the disease.
The first late-stage vaccine
trial, in which 30,000 people will
be randomly assigned to receive
either an experimental vaccine
made by the biotechnology com-
pany Moderna or a placebo, is
expected to begin in the second
half of July. There are expected to
be at least five such large vaccine
trials conducted through the net-
work over the coming months —
as well as trials of other preventive
measures, such as monoclonal an-
tibody drugs.
“This is what we do for a living
and have done for a living,” said
Larry Corey, a virologist and past
president of the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Center, who is co-leading
the trial network. “We have
a considerable infrastructure,
probably the country’s biggest in-
frastructure in vaccines.”
Launching trials of this scale in
such a short time requires enor-
mous coordination to ensure that
the data is consistent across many Gratitude. Empathy.
locations.
In the Moderna trial, 30,000 We have taken every step imaginable to ensure the
volunteers will be followed for two
years and will be asked to keep a safety of our clients and of our team - but we want
diary of symptoms and be avail- to do more. For the month of July we are donating
able for weekly check-in phone
calls, according to Richard Novak,
100% of all CaseStudy® fees to the local charity or
chief of the Division of Infectious organization of your choice.
Diseases at the University of Illi-
nois at Chicago College of Medi- Our CaseStudy® process is a comprehensive first
cine. He said he will be recruiting step to help you make smart decisions about your
1,000 volunteers for that study.
“It really is an intense effort,” home. We’ll virtually collaborate on ideas, develop
Novak said. The necessary infra- three unique design options - with your dream
structure includes equipment CaseDesign.com I 844.831.5966
that is regularly audited to show design virtually rendered in 3D - and include
that freezers never fail, staff to budgeting information and timelines.
screen potential participants and
a call center to facilitate thou- Visit our website to set a virtual appointment
sands of check-ins. It also requires or to learn more.
building bridges to the communi-
ty to ensure that diverse groups of
people — and particularly those at
the greatest risk of contracting MD MHIC #1176 | VA # 2701039723 | DC # 2242
covid-19 — sign up.
“Getting this up and running is
a 24/7 job,” Novak said.
carolyn.johnson@washpost.com
A10
Students in flooded
Chinese town brave
waters to take exam
BY E VA D OU
First the coronavirus pandem-
ic, now flooding is upending life
across China.
On Wednesday, as the critical
“gaokao” college entrance exam
began, students in one town clung
to wheel loaders — tractors with
front-end shovels — to cross
waist-deep water to their test site.
“Don’t worry students! We are
coming!” read the caption of a
video released by local police offi-
cers ferrying the students across
rushing water.
The gaokao was already de-
layed a month because of the virus
outbreak. On Wednesday, high
school students braved the worst
flooding in decades to vie for a
place in college.
The floods across China’s
heartland and south are a blow to
the country’s recovery efforts af-
ter the coronavirus pandemic.
The heavy rains are causing bil-
lions of dollars’ worth of damage
to cities, homes and businesses.
Officials have not confirmed a
nationwide toll from the current
In Hong Kong, posh digs for security agency
Chinese officials sequester a 4-star hotel with a rooftop pool — and views of a park that is a key protest zone
BY D AVID C RAWSHAW
in HOnG KOnG
W
hen China’s state se-
curity officials came
to town, they needed
a home — and fast.
So they did what any newcom-
er would do: They sequestered a
33-story hotel with a rooftop
pool and panoramic harbor
views, then erected seven-foot-
high barriers to limit public
access to their new digs.
Early Wednesday, under a
heavy police presence and before
any public announcement about
the matter, officials inaugurated
the Office for Safeguarding na-
tional Security of the Central
People’s Government in the
Hong Kong Special Administra-
tive Region at a ceremony that
took place behind water-filled
barricades. They played the Chi-
nese national anthem and raised
the Chinese flag, although local
media weren’t invited. When the
ceremony was over, reporters
were finally able to photograph
the building’s front door.
The Metropark Hotel on the
edge of the city’s Causeway Bay
district will be the initial base for
the new agency, staffed by Chi-
nese security officials. it will be
tasked with collecting intelli-
gence and implementing a new
law that sharply curtails political
freedoms as Beijing takes greater
control of the territory after
anti-government protests last
year.
it’s the first time the Chinese
government’s state security ap-
paratus has been permitted to
operate in Hong Kong, marking a
milestone in officials’ efforts to
dismantle the firewall that sepa-
rated the city from the authori-
tarian mainland.
The security law, which took
effect July 1, specifies four broad-
ly defined crimes against nation-
al security that can invite pun-
ishment of up to life imprison-
ment: subversion, secession, ter-
LeBANON
Man convicted in U.S. of
Hezbollah aid returns
A Lebanese businessman
serving a five-year sentence in the
United States for providing
millions of dollars to the militant
Hezbollah group arrived
Wednesday in Beirut after his early
release, local media reported.
Kassim Tajideen was sentenced
last year for his role in a money-
laundering conspiracy aimed at
evading U.S. sanctions. He was
arrested in Morocco and
extradited in 2017 to the United
States, where he was charged with
laundering money for Hezbollah.
A federal judge in Washington
had ordered Tajideen’s release in
May. The national, an English-
language newspaper in the United
Arab Emirates, said the 64-year-
old was granted compassionate
crisis, although local media have
reported two fatalities in Anhui
province.
While the rain has come down
in historic volumes, the damage
may have been exacerbated by
failures in safeguards. On
Wednesday, the Chinese Commu-
nist Party’s official mouthpiece,
the People’s Daily, ordered offi-
cials to heighten vigilance.
“Some smaller reservoirs have
no one looking after them,” the
commentary said. “in each place,
there needs to be designated peo-
ple responsible for flood preven-
tion policy, technology and in-
spections.”
Economically, the floods will
make it more challenging for Chi-
na to deliver growth this year,
after the virus stalled factory pro-
duction for months. Politically, it’s
another crisis facing leader Xi
Jinping, who is already juggling
the pandemic, hostile U.S.-China
relations and global backlash over
Beijing’s moves in Hong Kong.
Beijing set up its new national
security office in Hong Kong on
Wednesday, after fast-tracking a
rorism and collusion with for-
eign forces. in practice, lawyers
and other experts say, it effective-
ly extends mainland legal provi-
sions to Hong Kong, ending the
autonomy that China promised
the financial center would enjoy
until 2047.
The new office is headed by
Zheng Yanxiong, a senior Com-
munist Party official known for
quashing popular unrest on the
Chinese mainland. Luo Huining,
Beijing’s top official in Hong
Kong, has been appointed as an
adviser to the agency.
Addressing delegates at the
release because of his health and
fears of coronavirus infection in
prison. The Justice Department
had contested the release.
Tajideen was accused of
conspiring with at least five other
people to conduct more than
$50 million in transactions with
U.S. businesses in violation of
sanctions barring him from doing
business with U.S. nationals and
firms because of his support for
Hezbollah. Washington has
designated the iran-backed
Hezbollah a terrorist group.
Tajideen pleaded guilty last year
and agreed to pay $50 million.
— Associated Press
seRBiA
Amid protests, leader
backs off lockdown
Serbian police fired tear gas at
protesters after being pelted with
eZ Re
The World
contentious law last month.
For high school seniors in Hu-
bei province’s Huangmei County,
the floods came as a nerve-rack-
ing complication to the most im-
portant test of their lives. The
gaokao is the key determinant for
college entry in China, unlike in
the United States, where other
factors such as extracurricular ac-
tivities and personal essays carry
significant weight.
Classes had already been dis-
opening ceremony Wednesday,
Luo rejected criticism of Bei-
jing’s moves. The United States
and its allies have condemned
the crackdown as a breach of the
Sino-British handover agree-
ment and a serious blow to Hong
Kong’s autonomy and political
rights.
“While people who love China
and [Hong Kong] are welcoming
the establishment of the office,
those with ulterior motives and
who are anti-China and seek to
destabilize Hong Kong have not
only stigmatized the office, but
also smeared the legal system
Di gest
flares and stones Wednesday as
thousands demonstrated outside
the parliament despite warnings
that such gatherings could spread
coronavirus infections.
The evening before, violence
erupted in Belgrade when a
crowd stormed the parliament in
protest of plans to reimpose a
lockdown following a new spike
in cases. Forty-three officers and
17 protesters were injured, and
there were 23 arrests.
Although he had said a day
earlier that a new lockdown
would be imposed in the capital
this weekend, President
Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday
that he had ultimately advised
the government and health
authorities not to introduce it.
The government will announce a
new set of restrictive measures on
Thursday, he said.
Serbia, a country of 7 million,
has reported 17,076 covid-19 cases
rupted this year across Hubei as
officials locked down the prov-
ince. Huangmei County lies to the
southeast of Wuhan, the provin-
cial capital where the virus out-
break was first detected.
With heavy rain forecast,
Huangmei’s government ordered
businesses across town to delay
the start of the workday on
Wednesday and Thursday to en-
sure students could make it on
time for the two-day test.
and rule of law in the Chinese
mainland in an attempt to stir up
unnecessary worries and fears
among the Hong Kong resi-
dents,” Luo said. “The Chinese
mainland has a healthy legal
system and a sound environment
for the rule of law.”
Zheng told the few dozen
attendees that his agents would
abide by the law and would not
infringe on “the legitimate rights
and interests of any individual or
organization.”
Workers overnight installed
China’s national emblem on the
hotel, a four-star brand by HK
and 341 deaths. Health
authorities say hospitals are
running at full capacity. The
number of new infections rose
from 299 on Tuesday to 357 on
Wednesday.
Critics blame the government’s
decisions to allow soccer matches,
religious festivities, parties and
private gatherings to resume, and
parliamentary elections to go
ahead on June 21.
— Reuters
180 bodies found in Burkina
Faso mass graves, group says:
At least 180 bodies were found in
mass graves in northern Burkina
Faso, with evidence suggesting
that the army was involved in
large-scale executions, Human
Rights Watch said. The bodies
were dumped in groups of up to
20 under bridges, in fields and in
vacant lots, the group said in a
report. The killings occurred
the washington post
ChInATOPIx /AssOCIATeD PRess
Residents swim past a
riverside pavilion
submerged by the
flooded Yangtze River
in Wuhan, China.
Floods across the
country’s heartland and
south are a blow to
recovery efforts after
the coronavirus
pandemic.
AnThOny KwAn/geTTy ImAges
A woman takes a photo
in front of a plaque
outside the Office for
Safeguarding National
Security of the Central
People's Government in
the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region
after its official
inauguration. Officials
will be collecting
intelligence and
implementing a new
law that sharply
curtails freedoms.
between november last year and
June. This is the latest accusation
of extrajudicial killings against
Burkina Faso’s military, which is
struggling to stem islamist
extremist violence.
Pro-India leader, 2 family
members killed in Kashmir:
Unidentified assailants fatally
shot a pro-india politician along
with his father and brother in
Kashmir, police said, in the first
major attack on members of
india’s ruling party in the
disputed Himalayan region.
Police blamed militants fighting
indian rule in the Muslim-
majority valley for the attack on
Sheikh Wasim Bari, a leader with
Prime Minister narendra Modi’s
Bharatiya Janata Party, and his
family. no rebel group asserted
responsibility for the attack.
Rebels have been fighting indian
rule since 1989.
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
“You only need to make sure
you brave the wind and waves.
Huangmei’s police will protect
your ship,” said a police an-
nouncement posted on Tuesday.
But Wednesday morning, sev-
eral hundred high school board-
ing students in Huangmei found
themselves stuck in their dorm
with five feet of water outside,
according to an online post by the
town’s police.
Photos posted by police
showed students in white-and-
navy school uniforms being fer-
ried in inflatable rafts and wheel
loaders, before they were rushed
to the test site on buses.
The 500 students received ex-
tra time for the morning part of
the exam and were able to take the
afternoon part normally, accord-
ing to an online post by the Peo-
ple’s Daily.
The heavy rains also flooded
farmers’ fields around Huangmei
and resulted in a local dam leak-
ing, according to official notices.
in the first half of 2020, 119
people died or disappeared in
China because of flooding, ac-
cording to the Ministry of Emer-
gency Management.
On Tuesday evening, the minis-
try upgraded the response level to
the flood and sent emergency re-
sponse teams to 11 provinces.
eva.dou@washpost.com
wang yuan in Beijing contributed to
this report.
CTS Hotels, a wholly owned
subsidiary of the state-owned
China national Travel Service
Group.
“Regardless of whether you
are here for business or leisure,
we would offer a helping hand to
make your stay a memorable
one,” the company’s website says
of the Metropark, which has 266
guest rooms.
The hotel overlooks Victoria
Park, a key protest zone and the
starting point for many of the
huge rallies last year calling for
greater political freedoms and
police accountability, among
other demands.
For decades, tens of thousands
of Hong Kongers have assembled
in the park every June 4 to
commemorate the anniversary
of Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on
democracy activists in Tianan-
men Square. Officials tried to
ban the vigil this year, citing
social distancing measures, but
activists gathered in defiance for
what many worry could be the
last time.
“it used to be a tranquil neigh-
borhood with many small busi-
nesses. it’d be hard to imagine
what will it become of after
today,” tweeted Rachel Wong, an
academic researcher and a local
news reporter, as the security
cordon went up around the secu-
rity agency’s new headquarters.
Hotel reservation websites
showed the Metropark no longer
had availability through the end
of the year.
The hotel had mostly positive
ratings online, with reviewers
praising its location and spectac-
ular views over Hong Kong.
Some reviewers noted, though,
that it appeared to have a prob-
lem with dampness.
“Service was excellent but the
hotel room had an unpleasant
smell,” remarked one reviewer.
david.crawshaw@washpost.com
shibani mahtani contributed to this
report.
Colombia offers path to civilian
life for dissident rebels:
Colombia is offering rebels who
have rejected the nation’s historic
peace deal and remain armed a
path forward as civilians if they
agree to surrender their weapons
and cooperate in any judicial
proceedings against them. The
decree is aimed at dissidents with
the former Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, or FARC, as
well as those belonging to three
other groups. The groups are
estimated to have several
thousand militants who continue
to carry out violence in conflict-
ridden parts of the country. The
offer is similar to past government
efforts aimed at persuading
individual members of illegal
armed groups to surrender rather
than negotiate a collective peace
deal, as was done with FARC in
2016.
— From news services
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
In Japan, no political will for new closures as cases spike
Leadership says it won’t
shutter economy again,
despite medical warnings
BY S IMON D ENYER
TOKYO — Japan is facing a sud-
den spike in coronavirus cases,
but this time with no political will
for another round of economical-
ly punishing shutdowns.
At the end of last month, the
national government abruptly
dismantled a panel of medical
experts that had been guiding the
response to the virus, and re-
placed it with a group that in-
cludes envoys from the business
world and others.
Tokyo’s municipal government
also abandoned an alert system
based on numerical targets that
could have triggered fresh shut-
downs if the virus started spread-
ing again.
The message from Japan’s
leadership has been clear: The
virus will be tackled only through
measures “that would not further
harm the economy,” according to
Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike.
Japan’s covid-19 crisis is less
severe than many countries’ in
raw numbers — fewer than 1,000
deaths by official count. But the
economy-first policy marks a jar-
ring contrast to other places as
varied as California and Mel-
bourne, Australia, which reim-
posed restrictions after reopen-
ing and seeing coronavirus cases
surge back.
The tug of war between the
economy and virus containment
is familiar in many parts of the
world. So are the warnings from
public health experts.
“Are they going to politicize
science again?” Kentaro Iwata,
who studies infectious diseases at
Kobe University, tweeted when
the panel was disbanded, calling
it a “dumb” decision. “Things will
continue to deteriorate, and we
will be going back to the old
Japan.”
Until recently, Japan’s govern-
ment had been preening over
what it portrays as a successful
CORONAVIRUS
Leadership
During Crisis:
Phoenix Mayor
Kate Gallego
Hosted by The Post’s Jonathan Capehart
on Thurs. July 9 at 12:00 p.m. ET
To receive a live stream reminder for
this event, visit: washingtonpostlive.com
A crowd walks in Tokyo’s Shibuya district on July 2. Soon after a state of emergency was lifted in late May, Tokyo’s nightspots started to
come back to life and its offices, trains and streets began to fill. In the past six days, new infections rose by an average of 219 a day.
response to the virus.
But the backslapping may have
been premature.
Soon after the state of emer-
gency was lifted in late May,
Tokyo’s nightspots gradually
started coming back to life and its
offices, trains and streets started
to fill up again.
In the past six days, the num-
ber of new infections rose by an
average of 219 a day, more than
half of them in Tokyo, and many
among people in their 20s and
30s. At one point in the spring,
the daily rate of new infections
fell to just a few dozen a day from
a peak of more than 700. Japan
has confirmed about 20,000 cases
eZ re
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
eugene hoshiko/associated Press
Coronavirus infections in Japan of the coronavirus since the out-
New confirmed cases per day break began.
“The situation is different to-
720 day from early April when we
issued the state of emergency,”
Japan said Yasutoshi Nishimura, the
economy minister, who is in
500 charge of the government’s coro-
navirus response. He argued that
the health-care system was not
274
under strain, while the capacity
198 to conduct tests was greater than
Tokyo it had been three months ago.
But Hitoshi Oshitani, a virolo-
0 gist at Tohoku University and
Apr. 2020 May Jun.
leading member of the original
expert panel, noted several wor-
Sources: Health Ministry, Tokyo Metropolitan Government rying signals: Some severe cases
SIMON DENYER/THE WASHINGTON POST have emerged in younger people.
A11
The virus has spread outside
Tokyo as well as back into at least
one hospital and a nursing home
— all indications of a rise in
“community transmission,” he
said.
“There is a time lag between
infection and reporting,” he add-
ed in an interview. “What we are
seeing now reflects what hap-
pened 10 to 14 days ago. We are
going to see the real situation
now in 10 or 14 days, so we have to
monitor the situation closely, and
we need more effective control
measures for these nightlife set-
tings.”
The now-dismantled panel of
experts had come under criticism
for not being transparent because
minutes of its meetings were nev-
er published. It also was accused
of not being sufficiently indepen-
dent of the government.
Now, the panel has effectively
been replaced with two new sub-
committees of advisers.
Oshitani and other infectious-
disease experts are still there, but
they are joined by economists and
public health bureaucrats, as well
as experts in health-care commu-
nications and artificial intelli-
gence, business representatives
and a Nobel Prize-winning genet-
icist.
Oshitani admits it will be
“more difficult to get consensus”
within the panel.
But there is little doubt who is
calling the shots.
Despite the rise in cases, the
government says there is no need
for another broad shutdown,
while plans to admit fans to base-
ball and soccer matches will go
ahead beginning Friday, albeit in
smaller-than-usual numbers.
“The previous expert panel was
not perfect — they were strug-
gling between the science and the
politics, but they tried to do what-
ever they could,” said Kenji
Shibuya, a professor of global
health at King’s College London.
“But now the process went back
to the old system, where the bu-
reaucrats prepare all the propos-
als and the panel just endorses it.”
simon.denyer@washpost.com
akiko kashiwagi contributed to this
report.
A12 eZ re the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

Global protests spark a debate over racism in Arab world

araBs from a1
which excludes foreigners from
labor laws and makes their resi-
dency — and fate — subject to
their employer’s whims.
But the global uproar over rac-
ism, prompted by the police kill-
ing in minneapolis of George
floyd, has contributed to height-
ened dismay over the treatment
of these often darker-skinned mi-
grant workers from Africa and
Asia and sparked wider debate
among Arabs about racism in
their own societies.
“This crisis coinciding with
Black Lives matter forced society
to face the systemic racism inher-
ent in the kafala system and in the
way we treat migrant workers,”
said Aya majzoub, a Lebanon
researcher for Human rights
Watch. “People started to under-
stand that the abuse against mi-
grant domestic workers was not
caused by ‘a few bad employers,’
but rather by a system that en-
ables and even encourages soci-
ety to treat these women as sec-
ond-class humans.”
U.S. protests in recent weeks
have been cheered by many in the
Arab world, even as they have
turned a spotlight on deeply en-
trenched racism in the region.
Abeer Sinder, a black Saudi
model and beauty video blogger,
has used her online platform for
years to discuss racism in the
Arab world. Inspired by the Black
Lives matter protests, she recent-
ly posted some of the offensive
things people say to her, includ-
ing: “This is your husband??!!”
(referring to her lighter-skinned
spouse), “How did you get this
job?” and “It’s true you’re black
but you’re pretty, bless Allah.”
In June, dark-skinned Egyp-
tian actor mohamed ramadan
posted a photo of himself with his
son on facebook and received
hateful comments about their
skin color. “Black like his father,”
one said. “The disaster is that no
one from his family has the beau-
ty of their mother nor her color.”
“I am proud of my color and the
color of my father and my chil-
dren, whom God created,” rama-
dan responded. “And I am happy
that my children are going to
grow up to be against racism,
especially that their mother and
father are of different colors.”
In the Arab world, people often
use derogatory words to refer to
black people; President Barack
a policeman confronts a woman as dozens of stranded Ethiopian domestic workers gather outside the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut after
being abandoned by employers who claimed they could no longer afford to pay their salaries amid Lebanon’s recent economic troubles.
obama was frequently called “al-
abd,” or “the slave.”
The same word is used in the
name of a traditional homemade
Syrian dessert, made from date
balls covered in coconut flakes
and called “ras al-abd,” or “head
of the slave.” That name had also
long been given to a Lebanese
chocolate and marshmallow
treat, until the manufacturer
changed it 10 years ago to Tar-
boosh, the Arabic word for fez.
In one of her Instagram posts,
Sinder recounted being called a
slave when she was 6 years old by
another child, who had repeated
what she’d heard from her par-
ents. “And this is how racist words
become natural and normal for
some,” Sinder wrote. “Be better.”
Two Arab celebrities, who say
they were trying to show support
for the Black Lives matter move-
ment, recently posted online pho-
tographs of themselves in black-
face. one, a moroccan actress,
later took her photo down after
facing criticism. The other, a Leb-
anese singer who posted a photo-
shopped picture of herself with
darker skin and an Afro, wrote,
“All my life I dreamed of being
black.” She defended the photo as
an act of solidarity.
multinational companies such
as Unilever and Johnson & John-
son have long marketed skin-
lightening creams in the middle
East and India, reinforcing the
idea that light skin is better in a
region where dark skin is pre-
dominant. following a backlash
last month, Johnson & Johnson
announced it would halt sales of
its Clean & Clear fairness line of
products. Within days, Unilever
said it would be changing its
products and removing words
such as “whitening” and “fair”
from labels.
But it is through the kafala
employment system that racism
in the Arab world is often most
viciously felt, taking its toll not
only on domestic workers from
Ethiopia, Ghana and other Afri-
can countries but also on darker-
skinned Asians from Indonesia
and the Philippines.
These employees at times suf-
fer physical, psychological and
sexual abuse with little recourse.
They are frequently locked up
inside homes and stripped of
their identification papers. for-
mer Lebanese labor minister Ca-
mille Abousleiman likened kafala
to “modern-day slavery.”
In late June, an Ethiopian
housekeeper named Hawwa ran
away after, she said, her Lebanese
employer’s beatings grew so vio-
lent that she feared for her life.
She said she had not been paid in
a year. “They would have killed
me,” she said, stone-faced, in an
interview.
HAssAn AmmAr/AssociATed Press
A Beirut cabdriver, seeing her
bleeding heavily from the nose
and face, had offered to take her
to the hospital at no charge, but
she insisted on going to the Ethio-
pian Consulate.
She was among a dozen Ethio-
pian women languishing outside
the consulate on a recent day.
most said their employers had
not returned their passports or
phones.
Women like Hawwa and Tigist
traditionally send dollars back to
their families in Ethiopia. But
amid Lebanon’s worsening eco-
nomic crisis, particularly after
the outbreak of the novel corona-
virus, many families no longer
have the currency to pay their
employees, and some have decid-
ed to abandon them on the curb.
“So now that there is corona,
and there’s no money, you just
throw me out?” Hawwa said bit-
terly.
Grass-roots activists have been
providing the abandoned women
with clothes, food and shelter.
Some Ghanaian women were re-
cently flown home.
majzoub said the sudden rash
of workers being dumped on Bei-
rut roadsides is “the natural cul-
mination of the kafala system
that treats these workers as less
“There is an element of
racism in kafala ... in
viewing these workers
as if they were servants,
as if they didn’t have
their own personal lives
and their own hopes.”
Aya Majzoub, researcher at Human
rights Watch
than human.” But, she said, “the
outrage that has been generated
by these horrific scenes that we’ve
been seeing has created a lot of
momentum to finally start re-
forming the system.”
The kafala system is prevalent
not only in Lebanon but also
across the Gulf Arab countries
and in Syria before its war. many
videos showing abuses have sur-
faced over the years. A video
recently circulated on social me-
dia showing a man from the
Persian Gulf yelling at his African
housekeeper to pour water over a
soiled menstrual pad and then
drink it. A woman in the back-
ground egged him on.
“Definitely, there is an element
of racism in kafala,” majzoub said,
“and in viewing these workers as
if they were servants, as if they
didn’t have their own personal
lives and their own hopes and
dreams and aspirations.”
Tigist recounted how she had
requested to be paid what she was
owed. Her employer hit her, at his
wife’s repeated urging, to make
Tigist stop asking.
“She can do what she wants,
but Allah is watching,” Tigist said,
her voice shaking with anger and
her eyes brimming with tears.
sarah.dadouch@washpost.com
Kareem Fahim in Washington
contributed to this report.

Trump, visiting Mexican president extol trade pact and improved relations
Canadian leader absent
as his partners mark
start of reworked deal
BY D AVID N AKAMURA
AND D AVID J . L YNCH
President Trump on Wednes-
day marked the start of a three-
nation regional trade deal in a
rose Garden ceremony with mex-
ican President Andrés manuel
López obrador that took on a
celebratory tone discordant with
the widespread economic dam-
age of the coronavirus pandemic.
The two populist-leaning pres-
idents, from opposite ends of the
political spectrum, signed a joint
proclamation hailing the
U.S.-mexico-Canada Agreement,
which took effect at the start of
July, as the beginning of a new
chapter in North America’s eco-
nomic partnership.
The event represented an at-
tempt by the White House at
counterprogramming as Trump
has faced tumbling public ap-
proval over his handling of the
pandemic and the mass demon-
strations for racial justice across
the country. And it served as a
reminder that the president had
hoped to cruise to reelection on a
strong economy — a strategy
dashed as tens of millions of
Americans have been forced out
of work since march.
Canada was not represented at
the signing after Prime minister
Justin Trudeau reportedly turned
down an invitation. But Trump,
who said he spoke with Trudeau
by phone, and López obrador
lavished praise on one another
and touted their unlikely partner-
ship. Bilateral relations had
frayed over immigration tensions
before the leftist mexican leader
took office 18 months ago.
Trump thanked his counter-
part for responding to U.S. pres-
sure to help curb a major spike in
unauthorized immigration last
year, saying border control has
“been very, very tight, and you’ve
done a great job.” Border cross-
ings began falling last year after
mexico adopted stronger new
policies and the Trump adminis-
tration took measures to speed
President Trump and Mexican President andrés Manuel López Obrador sign a proclamation hailing
the U.s.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement at the White House on Wednesday.
deportations and try to block
asylum seekers. The numbers
continued to drop until last
month, when they rose slightly.
López obrador responded that
Trump has “honored our position
as an independent nation” and
“behaved with kindness and re-
spect.”
The positive comments from
the two leaders on Wednesday
were striking when compared
with the tensions between the
neighboring countries in recent
years.
Trump was elected on an anti-
immigration platform and said
he would build a wall along the
U.S.-mexico border and force
mexico to pay for it. mexico re-
jected that idea outright and U.S.
taxpayers have funded the barri-
er, which is under construction.
Last year, Trump also threatened
to impose tariffs on mexico if its
leaders didn’t do more to prevent
migrants from entering the Unit-
ed States. A deal was struck to
avoid a trade war, but not without
hard feelings on both sides.
Later in the day ahead of a
dinner at the White House, López
obrador nodded at the past ten-
sions in an attempt to minimize
them.
“The forecasts failed. We didn’t
fight. We are friends, and we’re
going to keep being friends,” he
said.
The bonhomie at the event did
little to mask Trump’s political
struggles. The president and his
White House allies spent a second
consecutive day on a public cam-
paign to reopen schools this fall
despite public health concerns
from local jurisdictions and med-
ical experts as nationwide virus
infection rates have spiked to a
record high of more than 50,000
per day. Trump and his aides
disputed school reopening safety
guidelines set by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
as too muscular and suggested
that they would be rewritten.
During his rose Garden re-
marks, Trump offered an upbeat
but inaccurate assessment of the
administration’s response to the
virus.
“We’re safely reopening the
country and, more importantly,
we’re safely reopening our
JABin BoTsFord/THe WAsHingTon PosT
schools,” he said, even though
experts said that infection rates
have increased as states have be-
gun to restart business activity.
The three North American na-
tions signed the USmCA in late
2018 after more than a year of
negotiations that began when
Trump threatened to pull the
United States out of the North
American free Trade Agreement,
a deal that had been in effect
since 1994.
Analysts have said the new
pact represents a modest rework-
ing of the old deal, but Trump has
touted it as a major improvement
that will bolster American manu-
facturing.
“We’re already seeing the
fruits,” Trump said.
The deal aims to reshape North
American auto production by re-
quiring that more work be per-
formed in high-wage factories in
the United States. But an inde-
pendent assessment last year
concluded that the agreement
would have a limited effect on the
overall U.S. economy.
In a 379-page report, the Inter-
national Trade Commission said
USmCA would boost output in
the $21 trillion U.S. economy by
just 0.35 percent. And modest
gains in auto industry production
and employment would come at
the expense of other sectors, with
production in the United States
becoming more expensive and
exports declining.
At the time, the administration
disputed those findings, saying it
was privy to confidential auto
industry investment plans that
promised greater rewards.
During a news briefing, White
House press secretary Kayleigh
mcEnany called the deal “good
for businesses as President
Trump rebuilds the strongest,
most inclusive economy in histo-
ry. . . . It will help jump-start our
economy.”
López obrador’s decision to
join Trump provoked some criti-
cism in mexico City that the trip
— the mexican leader’s first out-
side his country since taking of-
fice — could appear as an en-
dorsement the conservative U.S.
president in an election year. He
took a commercial flight to Wash-
ington, sitting in coach and mak-
ing a connection in Atlanta, a sign
of López obrador’s effort to dis-
tance himself from the perks en-
joyed by past mexican presidents.
“We had a good debate in my
country about the convenience of
this trip,” he said through an
interpreter in the rose Garden. “I
decided to come because it’s very
important to be launching this
agreement. I also wanted to be
here to thank the people of the
United States and its govern-
ment, and thank you, President
Trump, for being increasingly re-
spectful with” mexico.
Though the two expressed con-
fidence that the pact would pay
dividends, experts have raised
questions over how well some of
the new trade deal’s core provi-
sions will work out.
The Trump administration last
year agreed to modify the deal
under pressure from House Dem-
ocrats, who were delaying ratifi-
cation. New language was added
at the 11th hour to make sure that
mexico implemented various do-
mestic labor reforms, including
granting workers the right to
form independent unions.
In recent congressional testi-
mony, robert E. Lighthizer, the
president’s chief trade negotiator,
called USmCA “the best trade
agreement in U.S. history” but
acknowledged that enforcing the
labor provisions would be tough.
The agreement includes a nov-
el provision that would allow the
United States to temporarily
block exports from specific mexi-
can factories if it thinks worker
rights were being violated there
while awaiting a decision from an
independent panel of experts.
Even as López obrador arrived
at the White House, there were
signs of trouble on the labor front.
Susana Prieto, a mexican attor-
ney representing workers in ma-
quiladora factories near the U.S.
border, accused the mexican gov-
ernment of seeking to intimidate
her with a prosecution on
trumped-up charges.
Prieto, who has sought higher
wages and changes to make facto-
ry work safer during the pandem-
ic, was released from a mexican
jail on July 1. She had been held
for three weeks on charges that
included inciting a riot, after
seeking to register an indepen-
dent union. The terms of her
release required her to leave the
border region near Texas for the
state of Chihuahua, hundreds of
miles away. But prosecutors there
also have warrants for her arrest,
she said.
At a news conference, Prieto
called López obrador’s visit to
Washington “completely inap-
propriate.”
Also on Wednesday, far from
the White House, officials in flor-
ida detained the former governor
of Chihuahua state, mexican offi-
cials said — in what amounted to
a coup for López obrador. While
Trump didn’t mention the arrest
of Cesar Duarte, it was widely
seen in mexico as a goodwill
gesture from the White House.
The mexican president had
promised to win the extradition
of the notorious politician, who is
wanted on corruption charges.
“A gift from the U.S. — the
capture of Cesar Duarte” read the
headline on the website of the
daily reforma. Duarte has been a
fugitive since 2017.
david.nakamura@washpost.com
david.lynch@washpost.com
mary Beth sheridan in mexico city
contributed to this report.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ Re A13

Bounty claims a ‘downright lie,’ Russian diplomat says

He dismisses as mischief
allegations that Moscow
targeted U.S. troops
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
U.S. media reports of a Rus-
sian bounty program to kill U.S.
soldiers in Afghanistan are a
“downright lie,” Moscow’s am-
bassador in Washington said
Wednesday, and are “poisoning
the atmosphere of cooperation”
on Afghan peace between the
two countries.
“No concrete evidence has
been presented” of allegations
that a Russian military intelli-
gence unit offered to pay Taliban-
linked militants to target Ameri-
can and other coalition forces,
Anatoly Antonov said.
Authors of the reports are
“trying to create an impression
that our country is an enemy of
the United States,” he said.
But beyond Afghanistan, he
said, overall U.S.-Russia relations
are in a “deplorable state,” which
he attributed largely to U.S. with-
drawal from multilateral arms
control treaties and refusal to
extend or seriously renegotiate
the bilateral New START nuclear
arms reduction treaty that ex-
pires in February.
“It would be no exaggeration
to say that arms control issues
have always been a core of the
U.S.-Russia relations,” he said.
“We are deeply concerned about
the United States actions leading
to the collapse of strategic stabil-
ity.”
Antonov spoke in a virtual
discussion with the Center for
the National Interest, a Washing-
ton think tank.
Now in his third year as am-
bassador to the United States,
after serving as Russia’s deputy
minister of both foreign affairs
and defense, his remarks echoed
many of those previously made
by Russian President Vladimir
Putin in recent months.
While he characterized con-
versations between Putin and
President Trump, including five
telephone calls in late March and
April, as constructive, Antonov
said that “unfortunately, it is not
always possible to implement in
practice the constructive tone of
the presidents’ talks.”
U.S. critics of Trump have long
accused him of kowtowing to
Putin, and even some inside the
administration have expressed
concern that Trump has been
unable or unwilling to stand up
to the Russian leader.
Trump and Putin are not
known to have spoken since
allegations of the Russian bounty
program surfaced. Trump has
called the reports a “hoax.”
On other issues, Antonov said
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump meet at the Group of 20 nations’ summit in
Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. Trump is accused at home of failing to stand up to the Russian leader.
that Russia, which has a veto in
the U.N. Security Council, will
oppose U.S. efforts there to reim-
pose sanctions on Iran’s sale or
purchase of weapons that are to
be lifted in October as part of the
Iran nuclear deal.
Antonov repeated Russia’s
contention, shared by others par-
ty to the Iran agreement, that
Trump’s decision to withdraw
from the agreement more than
Kevin LamaRque/ReuteRs
two years ago “means that the
United States has not any right to
trigger or to start ‘snapback,’ ” as
the reimposition of sanctions is
known.
“We can’t see any legal and
technical ways for such a deci-
sion,” he said.
Antonov declined to be drawn
into current U.S. domestic politi-
cal tensions. “Of course I am
shocked. Shocked [by] what I see
today in the United States,” he
said. But “I have to be very
cautious. I am the ambassador of
a foreign country.”
Much of his remarks focused
on arms control, and particularly
a meeting in Vienna last month
between newly appointed U.S.
special envoy Marshall S. Billing-
slea and Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s
deputy foreign minister, to dis-
cuss New START. Neither side
reported progress.
The Trump administration
has said that China, with only a
small fraction of the interconti-
nental weapons possessed by the
United States and Russia, should
be part of any new treaty, and
invited the Chinese to the talks
over Russian objections. China
declined, saying it would be
happy to talk with the United
States if Washington wanted to
decrease its warheads to “parity”
with Beijing’s.
“The Chinese factor was in the
center of discussion in Vienna
between our delegations,” An-
tonov said. “Frankly, to my re-
gret, Washington has de facto
taken the START treaty hostage
by insisting” on making it a
trilateral accord.
karen.deyoung@washpost.com

Fed lending program has few large banks making loans to new customers
BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
More than three months after
the Fed announced a new effort to
shore up the economy aimed at
small and medium-size business-
es, its $600 billion loan program
has only one of the nation’s largest
banks signed on to deliver the
loans to new customers.
On Wednesday, the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Boston disclosed
the list of lenders that have agreed
to participate in the Main Street
Lending Program, extending Fed-
backed loans to new customers.
Of the nation’s largest banks, only
Bank of America has registered.
The Fed’s Main Street program
has become a sort of litmus test
for how effective the central
bank’s multifaceted response to
the recession can be. Thousands
of banks are eligible to sign up
and have been able to register
since mid-June. But last week,
Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell said
only about 300 had registered,
including firms making loans
solely to existing customers, for
which there is no public list.
Meanwhile, businesses eager for
loans have said they’re hard-
pressed to find banks that will
issue them.
George Selgin, director of the
Center for Monetary and Finan-
cial Alternatives at the libertarian
Cato Institute, said participation
by the large banks can help the
Fed’s program have broader im-
pact and reach. Having an array of
branches, he said, makes it easier
for banks to close a deal with
nearby customers.
The Fed lists participating
banks by state, but the central
bank doesn’t say much about
where the banks are and how
extensive their footprints are.
“Without knowing how well-
distributed the branches are, it’s
hard to say how many prospective
borrowers are out of the running,”
Selgin said.
The Fed’s list of banks will
continue to be updated, but it’s
unclear how much more enthusi-
asm will follow the program.
JPMorgan Chase told The Wash-
ington Post it intends to partici-
pate in the program. Citigroup is
also registering and will limit
loans to existing clients, a spokes-
woman said. Wells Fargo did not
immediately respond to a request
for comment. Along with Bank of
America, the banks are the coun-
try’s largest, with at least $1 tril-
lion in assets.
“Now that the program is fully
operational and ready to pur-
chase loan participation, we en-
courage more lenders to register,”
Eric Rosengren, president of the
Boston Federal Reserve Bank,
which is administering the pro-
gram, said in a statement. “The
list of participating lenders is
likely to grow as more and more
banks register.”
Other banks on the list with
relatively large footprints include
BBVA, Truist, Citizens and Zions.
Some states have many more
banks registered than others,
while Bank of America is the only
lender listed for all of Hawaii.
The Main Street program al-
lows banks to make low-interest
loans to businesses, and then the
Fed purchases 95 percent of the
loan from the bank.
Unlike Congress, which is de-
bating whether to expand direct
relief to households and strug-
gling businesses, the Fed has
lending power, not spending
power. Testifying before the
House Financial Services Com-
mittee last week, Powell said that
for many companies buckled by
the recession, going into further
debt “may not be the answer
here.”
Powell said the Fed was open to
revising the Main Street program,
including lowering the minimum
loan amount, which has already
been reduced from $1 million to
$250,000. The maximum loan
amount is $300 million. The pro-
gram offers five-year term loans.
rachel.siegel@washpost.com

Maternal Health
in America
Moderated by Paige Winfield Cunningham
For video highlight from this event, visit: washingtonpostlive.com

CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS REP. LAUREN UNDERWOOD

Founder, Every Mother Counts (D-Ill.)

Content from Children’s National

LEE BEERS, MD, FAAP CATHERINE LIMPEROPOULOS, PhD

Pediatrician, Medical Director, Director, Institute for the Developing Brain,
Children’s National Children’s National

P R E S E N T I N G SP O N S O R
In support of its new Clark Parent & Child Network, helping to improve the mental health and well-being of young children and families.
a14
 Dow 26,067.28
UP 177.10, 0.7%  naSDaQ 10,492.50
UP 148.61, 1.4%
Customers wait to enter the first Starbucks store, a popular tourist destination, at Pike Place Market in Seattle on Tuesday, the first day of a new statewide order
requiring people to wear facial coverings inside businesses. The company says it requires customers to wear masks where required by local authorities.
Retail workers confront culture war
Mixed messaging on masks meets politicization of the public-health issue, and employees are caught in the middle
BY A BHA B HATTARAI
It’s been nearly a week since
the city of Mobile, Ala., began
requiring masks in public. But
inside the discount store where
Kae Palmer works, not much has
changed.
Most shoppers still come in
without face coverings. Workers
are quick to remove masks when
they’re not on the sales floor.
Palmer, who brings her own
masks from home, worries about
her health but doesn’t feel like
there’s much she can do about it.
Corporate guidance, she says, has
been, “Just serve the customer
and don’t talk about their lack of a
mask.”
Like millions of other retail
and service workers, she has been
pulled into the front lines of a
growing culture war between
those who are willing to wear
masks and those who aren’t.
Mixed messaging and politiciza-
tion have turned a public health
safeguard into a lightning-rod
issue. As a result, workers have
been berated, even assaulted, by
aggressive anti-maskers.
“State and local governments
have taken different approaches,
but they all have one thing in
common: They leave business
owners and employees to change
peoples’ behavior at a time when
tempers are already running
high,” said Lindsay Wiley, direc-
tor of the Health Law and Policy
retail
Judge dismisses GM
racketeering lawsuit
A federal judge on Wednesday
threw out a racketeering lawsuit
General Motors had filed against
smaller rival Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles, saying the No. 1
U.S. automaker’s alleged injuries
were not caused by FCA’s alleged
violations.
GM officials said in statement
they “strongly disagree” with the
order by U.S. District Judge Paul
Borman, whom the automaker
had sought to have removed
from the case, and would appeal.
GM filed the racketeering
lawsuit against FCA last
November, alleging its rival
bribed United Auto Workers
union officials over many years
to corrupt the bargaining
process and gain advantages,
costing GM billions of dollars.
GM was seeking “substantial
damages” that one analyst said
could have totaled at least
$6 billion. FCA had called the
case meritless and asked Borman
Economy & Business
 S&P 500 3,169.94
UP 24.62, 0.8%
Program at American Universi-
ty’s Washington College of Law.
“Retail workers — who are al-
ready at great risk because they’re
being exposed to people all day —
have now also been put in the
position of asking people to mask
up.”
As the pandemic intensifies,
more states and cities are man-
dating face coverings in public to
slow the spread of the novel coro-
navirus. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, which
originally downplayed the impor-
tance of masks, now calls them “a
critical preventive measure” and
says they should be worn in pub-
lic. Economists, meanwhile, say
nationwide mask requirements
could prevent a return to wide-
spread shutdowns and further
economic turmoil. But there are
no federal rules mandating
masks, and retail workers say
what little enforcement or over-
sight there is often falls to them.
Some workers say they have
been told they cannot refuse ser-
vice to maskless customers, even
if local laws require it. Others feel
they’ve been put in the awkward
and sometimes dangerous posi-
tion of confronting shoppers who
refuse to wear the coverings. In
recent weeks, retail workers have
been punched in the face, suf-
fered broken limbs and, in the
case of a security guard at a
Family Dollar store in Michigan,
killed while trying to enforce
to dismiss it.
On Wednesday, Borman
dismissed the lawsuit “with
prejudice,” meaning GM cannot
refile the complaint.
— Reuters
tecHnology
Microsoft announces
Teams upgrades
Microsoft says it has a few
new ways to make
videoconferencing more
interactive and easier to figure
out who’s talking, or who is
trying to.
New features for the
company’s Teams
videoconferencing software
announced Wednesday include
one in which participants are
arranged side-by-side in white
chairs seated in auditorium-style
tiers.
The company also developed a
touch-screen display as a
companion to a computer that
can be used with Teams to access
calendars, messages and calls.
The voice-controlled devices will
eZ Re
 golD $1,820.60
UP $10.70, 0.6%
mask requirements.
At least 20 states and the Dis-
trict now mandate face coverings
in some capacity. The surge of
coronavirus cases in recent weeks
has led to a new round of mask
requirements, with states like
Kansas, Oregon and Texas man-
dating them, and others like
Washington state warning retail-
ers and restaurants that they
could lose their business licenses
for serving customers without
masks.
“People see it as this big politi-
cal message when it’s really just
about public health,” said Shilo
Barrett, 26, a shift supervisor at a
Starbucks in Los Angeles, where
about 10 percent of shoppers
come in without masks despite
local and state mandates. “It’s
already unfair that we have to
work right now because we have
bills to pay, and now you’re going
to put us in a compromising
situation because you don’t want
to wear a mask for 5 minutes?
That’s not cool.”
Barrett said customers often
become angry or belligerent
when she tells them they need to
wear a mask inside the store.
Some tell her covid-19 is over-
blown, or roll their eyes and
storm out.
In other parts of the country,
Starbucks workers say they have
been told by managers to stop
posting signs about mask re-
quirements and avoid approach-
Di geSt
be made by partners such as
Lenovo and will be available
later this year.
The theater-style seating is
called “together mode.”
Microsoft said the idea is to
better show participants and let
them interact with one another.
The feature will be available to
all users in August, the company
said in a statement.
— Bloomberg News
alSo in BuSineSS
Cipla has priced its generic
version of remdesivir, Cipremi, at
$53.34 per 100 mg vial, the
Indian drugmaker said on
Wednesday, making it among the
lowest-priced versions of the
covid-19 treatment available so
far globally. Nikhil Chopra, Cipla
India business chief executive
and executive vice president,
said in an emailed statement
that the company was launching
Cipremi commercially on
Wednesday and aims to supply
over 80,000 vials within the first
month.
U.S. utilities are producing
fewer greenhouse gases as they
 cruDe oil $40.90
UP $0.28, 0.7%
ing customers who aren’t wear-
ing mandated face coverings.
Anthony Pasqualone, who
works at a Starbucks in Bergen
County, N.J., said customers typi-
cally ignore him when he tells
them masks are required. A few
days ago, he says, a shopper start-
ed screaming about the compa-
ny’s mask requirement and, when
informed that the bathrooms
were closed because of the pan-
demic, proceeded to unzip his
pants and urinate in front of the
store.
“We have signs outside that say
you need a mask, but it seems like
a lot of [people] just don’t care,”
he said.
Starbucks declined to discuss
the issue, noting that its position
is outlined on its website. Cus-
tomers are asked to wear masks
where required by local authori-
ties, it said, and employees “have
the right and responsibility to
refuse service to customers who
are not wearing facial coverings
where mandated by law.”
The lack of federal guidance
has added to the confusion, retail-
ers and legal experts say. Major
chains and service workers are
trying to navigate a patchwork of
rules with few enforcement
mechanisms in place. Some, like
Target, are placing security
guards at the door in areas where
masks are legally required. Oth-
ers, like Home Depot and Kroger,
have posted signs at entrances.
A teardrop-shaped tent hanging from a tree is a popular option this
summer for Belgians who want to stay local instead of vacationing
abroad during the pandemic. Created by Dutch artist Dre Wapenaar,
the tents cost 70 euros per night, or about $79, and sleep two people.
Reservations include access to a bathroom and a barbecue.
continue to shift away from coal.
Carbon dioxide emissions from
the 100 biggest U.S. electricity
producers fell 8 percent last year,
the washington post
 10-year treaSury
DOWN $2.00 per $1,000; 0.66% yield $1=107.26 YeN, 0.88 eUROS
TeD S. WARReN/ASSOciATeD PReSS
Only a handful of national retail-
ers, including Costco and Apple,
have blanket policies requiring
masks at all of their stores.
“The challenge is that we’re
trying to change peoples’ behav-
iors and habits very rapidly,” said
Wiley, the law professor. “If you
think about seat belts or smoking
at bars and restaurants, it took
years — decades, even — to
change people’s thinking.”
Industry groups have been vo-
cal about the challenges and risks
of navigating new mask require-
ments. The Retail Industry Lead-
ers Association, which represents
companies like Walmart, Target
and Best Buy, this week called on
the nation’s governors to issue
“concise statewide orders” re-
quiring masks in public. Front-
line workers, it said, have been
faced with mounting hostility
and violence from customers who
view masks as a violation of their
civil liberties.
“Wearing a mask is about re-
specting others and preventing
the spread of a deadly disease,”
Brian Dodge, the group’s presi-
dent, wrote in a letter to the
National Governors Association.
“This should no longer be up for
debate.”
It isn’t clear exactly how many
front-line workers have been
caught in the fray, but recent
incidents that have bubbled up
on social media show just how
fraught the situation has become
FRANcOiS LeNOiR/ReUTeRS
according to a report Wednesday
from the environmental group
Ceres. Sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides, two other key
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
currencieS
for employees and others who
confront shoppers without
masks. A video on Twitter this
week showed a man at a Florida
Costco threatening a customer
who asked him to adhere to the
company’s mask requirements. “I
feel threatened,” he shouted,
along with a string of expletives.
The man’s employer later tweeted
that he had been fired. It was just
the latest of such incidents —
including at Trader Joe’s and Star-
bucks — to go viral in recent
weeks.
“Unfortunately it’s up to em-
ployees to ask customers to wear
their masks properly, which be-
comes exhausting, especially
when you have to do it all day
long,” said Julia, a Whole Foods
Market employee in California
who spoke on the condition that
only her first name be used be-
cause she fears retribution.
“Sometimes you’ll ask and they
will pull it up and then just pull it
down again.” (Whole Foods is
owned by Amazon, whose found-
er, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washing-
ton Post.)
Rachel Malish, a Whole Foods
spokeswoman, said the company
follows local ordinances and pro-
vides face masks for customers at
store entrances. In places where
masks are required, an employee
is stationed at the entrance to
make sure customers have face
coverings.
Some shoppers say spotty en-
forcement makes them feel un-
safe. Aileen McNally was sur-
prised to encounter unmasked
customers during a recent trip to
the hardware store in Ulster
County, N.Y., where she lives.
Masks have been mandatory in
the state since mid-April, when
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D)
signed an executive order requir-
ing them in public spaces.
McNally, 55, said she confront-
ed the two shoppers, who shouted
expletives at her and told her to
mind her own business. Nearby
employees, she said, didn’t step
in, and the store manager told her
“he can’t make any customers
wear masks.”
“Home Depot’s lack of respon-
sibility to help mitigate the
spread of the coronavirus is very
troubling,” she said, adding that
she doesn’t plan to shop at the
chain anymore. “They’re basically
telling their masked customers:
‘We don’t care about you.’ ”
Margaret Smith, a spokeswom-
an for Home Depot, said the
company has posted signs and
makes frequent announcements
asking customers to wear masks
in stores where local mandates
require them. But, she said, the
company is not asking “stores to
police local mandates, because it
can be dangerous to put our
associates in that position.”
Back in Alabama, the discount
store where Kae Palmer works
began requiring employees to
wear masks in mid-June, though
she says workers often remove
them in stockrooms, break areas
and management offices. Just
about everybody — supervisors,
employees, shoppers — com-
plains about having to wear them,
she said, and there is very little
enforcement of the rules.
Palmer said she is careful not
to call out shoppers without
masks. Even then, it’s not always
possible to avoid confrontation:
Some customers give her a hard
time for wearing a mask.
“I don’t really want someone to
pick a fight with me over a mask,”
she said.
abha.bhattarai@washpost.com
pollutants produced by burning
coal, declined by 23 percent and
14 percent, respectively. The
results reflect the increasing
impact of the green transition as
power producers shutter coal
plants in favor of cheaper and
cleaner natural gas and
renewables.
Oil flip-flopped between
gains and losses after a U.S.
government report showed a
mixed supply picture: rising
crude inventories and declining
gasoline stockpiles. The Energy
Information Administration
report showed domestic crude
inventories rose by 5.65 million
barrels last week, while gasoline
supplies tumbled by 4.84 million
barrels, the largest draw since
March when pandemic-related
shutdowns closed much of the
U.S. East Coast.
— From news reports
coming toDay
8:30 a.m.: Labor Department
releases weekly report on
unemployment benefits.
10 a.m.: Freddie Mac releases
weekly mortgage rates.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
Conservative members of Congress, advocacy groups received relief funds
BY T OM H AMBURGER,
A ARON G REGG
AND A NU N ARAYANSWAMY
Conservative members of Con-
gress and advocacy groups that
ardently criticize excessive gov-
ernment spending were among
those accepting small-business
pandemic relief funds from the
Treasury this year, according to
data released Monday.
Americans for Tax Reform
Foundation, led by firebrand
anti-tax advocate Grover
Norquist, took a loan between
$150,000 and $350,000 from the
Paycheck Protection Program.
The Ayn Rand Institute and Citi-
zens against Government Waste
likewise accepted loans funded
by the program.
Groups on the left also re-
ceived these government funds.
But applying was an especially
tough decision for many long-
time critics of big government,
who suddenly found themselves
in need of federal support.
“The CARES Act has created a
moral dilemma for those Ameri-
cans who value freedom,” reads
an explanatory essay posted by
organization leaders on the web-
site of the Ayn Rand Institute.
“The pandemic has cost them
their jobs, their savings, their
businesses. And they blame a
significant part of this loss on the
government. But because they
oppose government handouts,
they worry that accepting CARES
money would be a breach of
integrity.”
The organization, named for
the mid-20th-century author
who influenced libertarian and
conservative thought, said that it
chose to take government funds
unapologetically. “For advocates
of freedom, individual rights, and
limited government to turn down
these relief funds means choos-
ing to play only the victim’s role
in the government’s bizarre game
of ‘loot and be looted.’ ”
Americans for Tax Reform
Foundation is one of two related
groups led by Norquist, who fa-
mously said: “I don’t want to
abolish government. I simply
want to reduce it to the size
where I can drag it into the
bathroom and drown it in the
CORONAVIRUS
Leadership
During Crisis:
New Jersey Governor
Phil Murphy (D)
Hosted by The Post’s Robert Costa
on Friday July 10 at 11:00 a.m. ET
To receive a live stream reminder for
this event, visit: washingtonpostlive.com
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, seen last year. His Americans for Tax Reform Foundation took a
loan of $150,000 to $350,000 from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, according to new data.
bathtub.”
In a statement, the foundation
said it applied for the funds after
being badly hurt by the govern-
ment response to the pandemic.
It did not oppose the program
when it passed, received the loan
“and has as a consequence been
able to maintain its employees
without laying anyone off,” the
statement said.
At Citizens Against Govern-
ment Waste, communications di-
rector Alexandra Abrams made a
similar argument to justify ac-
cepting a loan between $150,000
and $350,000.
“In our 36-year history, we
have never sought or accepted
taxpayer money,” she said. “But
the unprecedented closing down
of the U.S. economy to fight
against the spread of covid-19
had a significant impact on our
funding sources and threatened
our ability to provide continued
employment to our staff. Had we
laid off our staff, they would have
qualified for unemployment ben-
efits at a significant cost to the
taxpayers. We determined the
better path was to apply for the
the coronavirus pandemic
federal funds and provide em-
ployment continuity to our em-
ployees.”
Another government watch-
dog, Taxpayers for Common
Sense, applied the same logic.
Steve Ellis, president of the
widely cited nonprofit advocacy
group, said he wrestled with
whether to accept government
help. The organization’s $178,500
loan is the first government fund-
ing the nonprofit has accepted in
its 25-year history, he said.
It is necessary to continue the
organization’s work, which in-
cludes advocating in favor of
Cares Act spending transparency.
“I didn’t take the decision to
apply [for a PPP loan] lightly. . . .
If I was sitting on a pile of cash, I
wouldn’t have applied,” Ellis said
in an email. “But we’re not, and I
need staff to work with me to
hold policymakers accountable
for how our tax dollars are being
spent in the future.”
It wasn’t just the spending
hawks who received these funds.
A loan of $432,000 was provided
to Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington, a group
eZ re
andrew Harnik/associated Press
co-founded by Norm Eisen, who
worked in senior positions in the
Obama administration.
Several capital-area consult-
ing firms received loans includ-
ing Fusion GPS, a firm that in
2016 investigated Donald
Trump’s Russia ties for Republi-
can and Democratic clients, in-
cluding Hillary Clinton’s cam-
paign. The company declined to
comment. A leading conservative
fundraising firm, FLS Connect,
received a loan up to $2 million,
according to government re-
cords. The firm, which has
worked for the Trump campaign,
did not respond to requests for
comment.
Full House Resorts, a casino
company headed by the husband
of Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), was
among several gambling organi-
zations that received PPP fund-
ing.
At least five other members of
Congress benefited from PPP
loans given to businesses owned
by them or their spouses. The list
includes Reps. Roger Williams
(R-Tex.), Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.),
Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), Mark-
wayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Vern
Buchanan (R-Fla.).
Williams, one of the wealthiest
members of Congress, said in a
May 5 blog post that his auto
dealerships had received PPP
loans. Although Williams has
been supportive of Cares Act
spending, he has traditionally
advocated for a sharply limited
role of government in U.S. soci-
ety.
“I’d like to see us get to where
government does three things:
collect my taxes, defend my bor-
ders, help [with] infrastructure
and get the heck out of every-
body’s life,” Williams said in an
interview with Epoch Times in
March.
“A socialist wants you to get a
check from the government . . . a
capitalist wants you to get a
check from the place that you
work,” he later continued.
The R Street Institute, a think
tank that supports free-market
economic policies, was among
several libertarian-leaning advo-
cacy groups that received PPP
loans.
R Street Institute’s president,
Eli Lehrer, said his organization
supports the Cares Act and also
supports making PPP loan appli-
cants public, adding that he
would prefer to see even more
transparency with respect to loan
recipients.
“Our position has never been
that the government had no role
in the economy,” Lehrer said,
adding that the Cares Act “is
exactly the sort of situation
where we do support govern-
ment intervention.”
Among the loan recipients re-
vealed Monday is a company
owned by Hern, KTAK Corpora-
tion of Tulsa, which owns fast-
food franchises. It received be-
tween $1 million and $2 million
that it said would support 220
jobs.
Hern, an outspoken advocate
of balanced budgets, urged the
Senate to increase the size of PPP
loans available to franchises, ac-
cording to a March 24 letter to
Senate leaders Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) and Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.)
“In the last 10 years our coun-
try’s national debt has grown
A15
from $10 trillion to nearly
$22 trillion . . . this trajectory is
not sustainable,” Hern said in
2018. “While there is no easy fix
to this, the first step is clear —
stop adding to it.”
But in 2020, as the economic
crisis set in, Hern voted in favor
of the Cares Act despite its contri-
bution to the national debt, say-
ing in a release: “This isn’t a
bailout. It’s a repayment of what
the government has taken away
from American workers and
businesses.”
Miranda Dabney, a spokes-
woman for Hern, said the letter
was “a bipartisan idea meant to
simplify the way loans were cal-
culated” and said the franchise
rule that Hern advocated did not
benefit KTAK because it employs
fewer than 500 people.
She said the program has
achieved its intended objectives.
“These PPP loans are all about
paying employees so any expan-
sion or increased funding mea-
sures were aimed at helping em-
ployees of franchisees stay em-
ployed,” Dabney said. “The whole
program was designed to keep
people off of unemployment.”
Three businesses owned by
Buchanan match the names and
locations of businesses that re-
ceived PPP loans. Car dealership
Sarasota 500 received between
$2 million and $5 million; anoth-
er auto dealer registered as “600,
L C” received between $350,000
and $1 million; and Nissan of
Elizabeth City received between
$350,000 and $1 million. Buch-
anan’s office did not return a
request for comment.
Several businesses affiliated
with Mullin match the names
and locations of entities that
received PPP funds.
They include Mullin Plumbing
Inc., which received between
$350,000 and $1 million, and
Mullin Plumbing West Division,
which received between
$150,000 and $350,000. Mere-
dith Blanford, a spokeswoman,
said Mullin is not involved in the
day-to-day operation of his busi-
ness and referred specific ques-
tions to his companies.
tom.hamburger@washpost.com
aaron.gregg@washpost.com
anu.narayanswamy@washpost.com
A16
United may lay o≠ nearly 36,000 workers despite receiving billions in aid
BY L ORI A RATANI
United Airlines announced
Wednesday that despite receiving
billions in federal aid, it may
furlough nearly 36,000 employ-
ees Oct. 1, a scenario one union
official called a “gut punch.”
The number represents nearly
40 percent of the Chicago-based
airline’s workforce.
Government grants received
through the $2 trillion Cares Act
require airlines to keep front-line
workers on the job through Sept.
30. In addition to receiving
$4.9 billion in grants, United
signed a letter of intent this week
to accept roughly $4.5 billion in
loans through the law. But execu-
tives said that with demand for
air travel unlikely to return in
2020, they have no choice but to
warn employees of layoffs.
“The reality is that United
simply cannot continue at our
current payroll level past October
1 in an environment where travel
demand is so depressed,” the
airline said in a memo sent to
employees. “And involuntary fur-
loughs come as a last resort, after
months of companywide cost-
cutting and capital-raising.”
Under the Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification Act,
most firms with 100 or more
Brooks Brothers files for
bankruptcy protection
BY J ACOB B OGAGE
AND A BHA B HATTARAI
The coronavirus recession has
done in one of the nation’s oldest
and best-known retailers: Brooks
Brothers.
The 202-year-old brand that
claims to have dressed all but four
U.S. presidents and legions of
business executives in crisp Ox-
fords, classic suits and polos for
casual Friday, filed for bankrupt-
cy protection Wednesday as it
continues its search for a buyer,
according to a company spokes-
person.
Race in America
A Conversation with Aurora James,
Founder & Creative Director,
Brother Vellies
Hosted by The Post’s Robin Givhan
on Thursday, July 9 at 4:00 p.m. ET
To receive a live stream
reminder for this event,
visit: washingtonpostlive.com
@POSTLIVE #POSTLIVE
United ticket machines in Tampa stand idle in April. With demand
unlikely to return soon, the airline said, job cuts could come Oct. 1.
employees must give them 60
days’ notice of mass layoffs or
plant closings. What is happen-
ing at United will probably be
repeated as carriers struggle to
survive the worst economic crisis
in the industry’s history. Airline
executives have already signaled
they expect to emerge from the
crisis with smaller workforces.
In a message to employees in
March, Oscar Munoz, then Unit-
ed’s chief executive, and Scott
Kirby, then the airline’s presi-
dent, said that while taking care
of employees would be their top
priority, “if the recovery is as slow
The company expects to close
51 of its 250 North American
stores and will halt production
next month at its factories in
Massachusetts, North Carolina
and New York, which produce less
than 7 percent of its finished
goods. Remaining stores will re-
open in compliance with local
public health orders tied to the
coronavirus pandemic.
Brooks Brothers, owned by its
chief executive, Claudio Del Vec-
chio, has long sought a buyer and
has not struggled to field bids. But
the pandemic, along with chang-
ing workplace fashion trends, dis-
eZ re
the coronavirus pandemic
chris o'meArA/AssociAted Press
as we fear, it means our airline
and our workforce will have to be
smaller than it is today.”
Still, Wednesday’s announce-
ment was a blow to employees.
“The United Airlines projected
furlough numbers are a gut
punch, but they are also the most
honest assessment we’ve seen on
the state of the industry,” said
Sara Nelson, president of the
Association of Flight Attendants-
CWA, which represents nearly
50,000 flight attendants at 19 air-
lines, including United.
United employs roughly
95,000 people worldwide. The
rupted the sale process. The com-
pany secured $75 million in debt-
or-in-possession financing to
continue its operations during
the sale process. Adding to the
company’s woes are sky-high
rents in some of the nation’s prici-
est shopping centers. Brooks
Brothers has seven stores in Man-
hattan alone, as well as flagships
in downtown Chicago and San
Francisco’s Union Square.
In its bankruptcy filing, the
company said it owes between
$500 million and $1 billion to as
many as 25,000 creditors, includ-
ing at least $8 million in rent. It
listed assets of $500 million to
$1 billion.
“Our priority is to start this
important chapter with a new
owner that has appreciation for
the Brooks Brothers legacy [and]
a vision for its future,” Del Vecchio
number of furloughs could be
fewer depending on how many
employees accept early retire-
ment, voluntary separation or
other programs, executives said.
Already, more than 20,000 Unit-
ed employees have taken volun-
tary unpaid leaves of absence.
The airline has also cut other
costs, but officials said it is burn-
ing through $40 million a day.
Demand for travel has in-
creased slowly but remains far
below 2019 levels. In its June
forecast, the International Air
Transport Association estimated
that carriers worldwide would
lose $84.3 billion in 2020. Reve-
nue is expected to fall 50 percent,
from $838 billion in 2019 to $419
billion this year.
United said even though it has
begun to add flights, capacity is
expected to be down 75 percent in
July compared with the same
month last year. Some growth is
anticipated in August, but the
numbers are still projected to be
down 65 percent compared with
last August.
The recent spike in coronavi-
rus cases in numerous states,
including California, Florida,
Texas and Arizona, is further
diminishing hopes of a recovery,
with many saying demand proba-
bly won’t return to normal levels
said in a statement.
Brooks Brothers is the latest
large American apparel retailer to
struggle under the weight of the
pandemic, following J.C. Penney,
J. Crew and Neiman Marcus into
bankruptcy court. Ascena Retail,
which operates Ann Taylor and
Lane Bryant, could be next;
Bloomberg News reported that a
filing could come as soon as this
week.
Founded in Manhattan in 1818,
Brooks Brothers is the country’s
oldest clothing retailer. Over the
years, it has also become some-
thing of a cultural icon: The com-
pany has dressed nearly every
U.S. president, as well as Civil War
soldiers, and is credited with in-
troducing ready-to-wear suits,
Madras shirts and Shetland
sweaters to American consumers.
President Abraham Lincoln was
the washington post
until treatments or a vaccine
become widely available. On
Wednesday, the number of con-
firmed infections in the United
States surged past 3 million, ac-
cording to data tracked by The
Washington Post, and there have
been more than 129,00 deaths.
The AFA and other unions
have called on Congress to extend
payroll support offered through
the Cares Act, warning that lay-
offs in aviation will ripple
through the entire economy. U.S.
airlines and cargo carriers direct-
ly employ an estimated 750,000
worldwide.
Joe DePete, president of the
Air Line Pilots Association, Inter-
national — which represents
more than 63,000 pilots at 34
airlines in the United States and
Canada said: “The economic im-
pact COVID-19 has had on the
airline industry has been pro-
found for the workers who keep
our skies safe and our world
connected. Unfortunately, in the
past few weeks, thousands of
pilots and crew members have
received furlough notices and,
absent congressional action, it is
likely that there will be more to
come.”
On a phone call with reporters
Wednesday, United executives
said they were aware of the
wearing a custom Brooks Broth-
ers coat when he was assassinat-
ed.
But in recent years, the brand,
known for its “formal, old-school
approach,” has been slow to keep
up with consumer tastes and
styles, said Neil Saunders, manag-
ing director of GlobalData Retail.
It also has lost relevancy as corpo-
rate America goes casual, replac-
ing business suits and ties with
jeans and puffy vests. Younger
shoppers, in particular, have
flocked to more accessible com-
petitors such as Suitsupply, Tie
Bar, Bonobos, even J. Crew, which
specialize in more modern styles.
“Brooks Brothers has long suf-
fered from a failure to decisively
adapt to changing trends,” Saun-
ders wrote in a note to clients. “It
has become increasingly out of
step with a new generation of
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
unions’ push for an extension to
the payroll support program, and
while they would continue to
engage with leaders in Washing-
ton, they were not counting on
Congress to act.
“We don’t feel like we can
count on additional government
support,” a United executive on
the call said.
At least one lawmaker signaled
support for an extension.
“United’s announced fur-
loughs are a canary in the coalm-
ine for the industry,” Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in a
statement. “It’s clear that an ex-
tension of the Payroll Support
Program is necessary to help
airline workers keep their jobs
and health insurance in the
months ahead. I will continue to
push for additional aid that puts
workers and consumers first —
and keeps airlines accountable.”
Of the 36,000 United employ-
ees who could be affected, rough-
ly 15,000 are flight attendants,
and 11,000 are customer service
or gate agents. About 1,800 cater-
ing workers, 1,000 contact center
employees, 5,500 technical oper-
ations employees and 225 net-
work operations workers also
could be affected. Among pilots,
2,250 could be harmed.
lori.aratani@washpost.com
consumers who are looking for a
more edgy approach to smart
casual.”
The novel coronavirus dealt
another blow. Millions of white-
collar employees are now work-
ing from home, where they have
little need for new button-downs
or wingtip shoes. Sales of men’s
formal clothing fell 74 percent in
the second quarter, compared
with a year earlier, he noted, and
it could be years before demand
returns to pre-pandemic levels.
On Wednesday, the company’s
website was awash in deep dis-
counts, including an extra 70 per-
cent off clearance items. Suits
originally priced at $998 had
been marked down to $299, while
$128 corduroy pants were selling
for $38.
jacob.bogage@washpost.com
abha.bhattarai@washpost.com
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ Re a17

the coronavirus pandemic

Trump eyes breaks to coax back baseball fans, even though they’re barred
Experts say tax incentive
could misfire as leagues
face an uncertain future
BY J EFF S TEIN
Senior White House economic
official Larry Kudlow told report-
ers last week that the administra-
tion wants to approve new tax
breaks for baseball games to en-
courage Americans to return to
the ballpark.
The next day, Minor League
Baseball announced it would play
no additional games this year
because of the coronavirus pan-
demic. The future of Major
League Baseball looks up in the
air, too, with several league stars
opting out of the season recently
over fears of spreading the virus
and the Washington Nationals
and the Houston Astros canceling
workouts on Monday due to prob-
lems with testing. Fans won’t
even be allowed to attend the
truncated baseball season when it
starts later this month, at least
initially.
“It’s a little weird to see the
administration discuss some-
thing like a tax credit, when es-
sentially no team has announced
a policy on even bringing fans
back to the ballpark this year,”
said one official involved in base-
ball operations at a Major League
Baseball franchise, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
discuss industry reaction.
President Trump and White
House economists have pushed a
range of tax breaks intended to
prod Americans to return to nor-
mal economic life and revive bat-
tered industries. Trump has en-
dorsed an “Explore America” tax
credit that would give Americans
a federal reimbursement for tak-
ing vacations in the United States.
The president has told restaura-
teurs that he wants a tax break
that would allow companies to
claim a tax deduction off employ-
ee meal expenses. He has pushed
similar tax deductions for the
entertainment industry.
But there are growing signs
that the tax breaks the White
House wants to use could fall flat,
because many of the venues it is
eyeing — such as sporting events
and certain restaurants — are
either closed or operating in a
much different manner than they
were before the outbreak.
The push reflects White House
officials’ long-standing faith in
the power of tax cuts to spur
Nationals Park remains closed Sunday during summer camp workouts. Expanded tax deductions have figured prominently into the
White House’s demands for the next congressional relief package, but many analysts are skeptical as the coronavirus continues to spread.
economic growth, as well as their
broader demands for a suite of tax
cuts in the next stimulus package.
Many economists — including
some analysts in the industries
those credits are intended to help
— say these efforts are unlikely to
prove successful as long as the
pandemic continues to rage
across the country. Huge swaths
of the United States are still strug-
gling to contain the virus. Miami-
Dade County in Florida, for in-
stance, announced the closures of
casinos, movie theaters, restau-
rants and gyms amid a surge in
new cases.
“Reducing the after-tax cost of
taking a vacation is not going to
address people’s fears of getting
the virus while on vacation,” said
Kyle Pomerleau, tax policy expert
at the conservative-leaning
American Enterprise Institute.
“That is the fundamental issue
facing these industries, and what
the White House needs to under-
stand.”
The president and the White
House have for months talked
about providing industry-specific
tax breaks or incentives, demand-
ing their inclusion in the next
congressional stimulus package.
The White House has said it is
focused both on spurring eco-
nomic growth and quashing the
virus. The president celebrated a
drop in unemployment numbers
to 11 percent and said the White
House will be “putting out the
flames” in areas where the coro-
navirus is spiking.
“In preparation for a phase
four package, the White House
continues to review pro-growth
economic measures that provide
tax and regulatory relief and in-
centivize employers to bring back
their hardworking employees
safely to good-paying jobs,” White
House spokesman Judd Deere
said in an email.
Expanded tax deductions have
figured prominently in their set of
demands for the next package. At
the White House in April, Trump
urged that the United States “go
back to the original” version of a
tax deduction for entertainment
and meals. Before the 1990s, com-
panies could deduct 80 percent of
their employee costs on enter-
tainment and recreation, includ-
ing meals, provided they were
related to “business activities.”
That number was decreased to
a 50 percent deduction in a bill
passed by President Bill Clinton
in 1993. The 2017 Republican tax
law further shrunk the loophole
to offset the price tag of that
legislation’s enormous reduction
in corporate taxes. The Republi-
can law zeroed out the deduction
on entertainment and recreation,
although it left intact the 50 per-
cent deduction on the cost of
business meals.
A White House spokesman did
not clarify the exact nature of the
administration’s plan. “Restau-
rants and entertainment — and
that would include sports
leagues, all forms of entertain-
ment — go back to the original,
where they get tax deductibility
for what they’re doing and for
people who come in and buy
tickets or go out for meals. And
corporations can then send peo-
ple into these restaurants who are
going to have a hard time other-
wise opening,” the president said
in April. “And that could be the
same for the sports leagues.”
The president added: “They’ll
send their executives, they’ll send
people there, and they get a de-
duction. That is something that
will really bring life back to the
restaurants; I think make them
hotter than before. You know,
they used to have it. And when
they ended it, it was really never
JoNaThaN NeWToN/The WashiNgToN PosT
the same. It was never the same.”
The president returned to the
deduction unprompted during a
May roundtable with restaurant
executives who had been pushing
the administration for additional
forgiveness on their small-busi-
ness loans. “I think it’s, frankly,
more important than even the
other things we’re talking about,”
the president said of restoring the
deduction. “I guess, short term,
what you’re talking about, is more
important, but long-term, the de-
duction would be phenomenal.”
In May, Kudlow endorsed a
proposal by Sen. Martha McSally
(R-Ariz.) to provide tax credits of
up to $4,000 that would reim-
burse families’ hotel and enter-
tainment expenses while on vaca-
tion in the United States. The plan
only applies to trips taken more
than 50 miles from home. The
plan would offer up to $8,000 in
taxpayer dollars for a couple’s
vacation.
“We’re looking at deductions
for business expenses, restau-
rants, baseball games, if hopefully
they’re going to open,” Kudlow
added last week. “Sightseeing,
tourism — we’re looking at tax
deductions there, too, to help the
economy get going.”
The White House would not
say how much its proposed tax
deductions would cost, but they
are unlikely to compensate for the
enormous blows sustained by the
industries hardest hit by the coro-
navirus.
Experts say restoring the de-
duction to 2017 levels would cost
approximately $2 billion a year.
Restaurants alone are projected
to lose as much as $240 billion in
sales by the end of 2020 because
of the coronavirus, according to
the National Restaurant Associa-
tion, an industry group. Revenue
lost in the sports industry tops
$12 billion. The entertainment
industry faces losses of as much
as $20 billion.
Congressional Republicans are
open to the idea but do not view it
as a top priority, according to two
congressional GOP aides and a
tax lobbyist, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
internal dynamics.
Even some of the White
House’s allies are skeptical about
pushing these tax cuts as the virus
continues to spread. The Heritage
Foundation, a conservative think
tank, sent the White House a
report that found that “changes in
tax policy will not have a particu-
larly significant effect” on spur-
ring economic growth out of the
pandemic. Stephen Moore, a
longtime ally of Kudlow’s, said
that the tax breaks for specific
industry groups were a mistake
that would create the perception
of public subsidies for billionaires
such as sports franchise owners,
and amounted to the government
“picking winners and losers” in
the economy.
“There are people in the ad-
ministration who want to do
something for the economy but
are struggling to come up with
something that isn’t in their usual
playbook — which is tax cuts,”
said one former senior White
House economic official, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss private conver-
sations with members of the ad-
ministration. “It’s almost like
they are on the battlefield getting
shot at and they’re worrying in-
stead about how to feed them-
selves in a few weeks.”
Lobbyists for key industry
groups have told White House
officials that the tax deductions
will be irrelevant if the nation
does not do more to bring the
virus under control, according to
two people aware of internal con-
versations who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity to share de-
tails from private conversations.
jeffrey.stein@washpost.com

the Ma rkets
6 Monitor your investments at washingtonpost.com/markets Data and graphics by

DOW JONES NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX STANDARD & POOR'S

Close Close Close

29,560 11,000 3,390
'19 '19 '19
26,067.28 10,492.50 3,169.94
1D % Change 1D % Change 1D % Change

0.7% 1.4% 0.8%

24,070 2,810
YTD % Change YTD % Change YTD % Change
8,000
-8.7% 16.9% -1.9%

18,590 6,000 2,230

J A S O N D J F M A M J J J A S O N D J F M A M J J J A S O N D J F M A M J J
Dow Jones 30 Industrials RATES S&P 500 Industry Group Snapshot
Company Close
1D % Chg %
Company Close
1D % Chg % Bank Prime 30-Yr Fixed mtge '19 10-yr note Daily %
Chg YTD Chg YTD -78.9% Chg % 1Yr +78.9%
3M Co 154.58 -0.2 -12.4 JPMorgan 93.30 1.1 -33.2
3.25% 3.21% Yield:
0.66%
Industry Group Chg
Internet & Catalog Retail 2.5
AmerExpCo 92.90 -0.1 -25.3 McDonald's 185.85 0.0 -5.9 Federal Funds 15-Yr Fixed mtge Household Durables 2.4
Apple Inc 381.37 2.3 29.5 Merck & Co 77.92 -1.0 -14.3 0.25% 2.73% 5-yr note Capital Markets 2.3
Boeing 180.08 0.7 -44.8 Microsoft 212.83 2.2 34.9 Yield:
Computers & Peripherals 2.3
Caterpillr 128.13 0.7 -13.3 NIKE Inc 98.84 1.8 -2.4 LIBOR 3-Month 1-Yr ARM 0.30% Power Prodct & Enrgy Trdr 2.1
Chevron 86.35 0.0 -28.3 Pfizer Inc 33.75 -0.8 -13.9 0.27% 3.00% Construction & Engineerng -2.5
Cisco Sys 45.81 0.4 -4.7 Prcter& Gmbl 122.89 0.5 -1.4 2-yr note Construction Materials -2.4
Coca-Cola 45.07 -0.3 -18.5 Rythn Tech 61.01 0.0 -30.9 Consumer Rates Yield:
Trading Co's & Distr -2.1
Dow Inc 40.35 -3.2 -26.3 Travelers Cos I 113.18 0.6 -17.2 Money Market Natl 5Yr CD Natl 0.16% Containers & Packaging -1.8
ExxonMobil 43.14 -0.2 -38.2 UntdHlthGr 298.36 0.6 1.5 0.27 0.72
Chemicals -1.7
Gldman Schs 202.25 1.4 -12.0 Verzn Comm 55.38 0.6 -9.9 6Mo CD Natl New Car Loan Natl 6-month bill
Home Depot 249.17 0.7 14.0 Visa Inc 195.07 0.4 3.6 0.35 4.27 Yield: Gainers and Losers from the S&P 1500 Index
1D % 1D %
IBM 117.71 0.1 -12.2 Walgreens 42.29 0.2 -28.3 1Yr CD Natl Home Equity Loan Natl
0.15% Company Close Chg Company Close Chg
Intel Corp 58.61 0.5 -2.2 Walmart 124.44 -2.0 4.8 0.49 5.44 Taylor Morrison Home 22.12 16.9 PA Rl Est Invst Trst 1.31 -7.7
J&J 143.27 0.3 -1.9 Walt Disney 116.66 2.7 -19.5 Denbury Resources 0.27 13.6 MSC Indstr Direct Co 68.20 -7.5
Currency Exchange Synaptics Inc 67.85 13.1 Trinseo SA 20.91 -6.4
Avis Budget Group 28.26 11.6 PebblebrookHotelTrst 11.50 -6.0
COMMODITIES EU € Japan ¥ Britain £ Brazil R$ Canada $ Mexico $
Plantronics Inc 16.02 9.7 QEP Resources Inc 1.28 -5.9
Futures Close 1D % Chg Futures Close 1D % Chg 0.88 107.26 0.79 5.34 1.35 22.70 Kohl's Corp 22.22 9.5 Mosaic Co/The 12.11 -5.9
Copper 2.82 1.0 Silver 19.16 2.5 First Solar Inc 58.06 9.2 Endo International 3.41 -5.8
Crude Oil 40.90 0.7 Sugar 12.08 -0.8 INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
Rayonier Adv Matrl 2.84 8.8 CryoLife Inc 18.20 -5.5
Gold 1820.60 0.6 Soybean 8.97 -0.6 Markets YTD % Chg Enphase Energy Inc 54.93 8.5 EQT Corp 13.31 -5.4
Natural Gas 1.82 -2.8 Wheat 5.17 4.3 Daily Sunrun Inc 28.27 8.0 ANI Pharmaceuticals 29.07 -5.1
Orange Juice 1.28 2.1 Corn 3.46 0.8 -14% +14%
Americas Close % Chg Valvoline Inc 20.59 7.9 CF Industries Inc 27.74 -5.1
BRAZIL IBOVESPA INDEX 99769.90 2.1 Express Inc 1.40 7.7 SproutsFarmersMarket 24.88 -4.9
$1000 invested over 1 Year $1000 invested over 1 Month S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX 15629.19 0.2 SolarEdge Tech 157.92 7.7 Kelly Services Inc 14.27 -4.9
S&P/BMV IPC 37483.88 -0.9 Asbury Auto Group 92.01 7.3 Allstate Corp/The 88.22 -4.8
Exchange-Traded Europe -18.4% +18.4% Twitter Inc 35.41 7.3 Mohawk Industries 91.39 -4.8
$453 $1270 Installed Bldng Prod 72.87 6.9 Cooper-Standard Inc 11.17 -4.7
(Ticker) 1D % Chg STXE 600 (EUR) Pr 366.48 -0.7
Coffee (COFF.L) 1.1 CAC 40 INDEX 4981.13 -1.2 Meritage Homes Corp 82.20 6.7 Corteva Inc 25.86 -4.7
Copper (COPA.L) 0.7 DAX INDEX 12494.81 -1.0 TRI Pointe Group Inc 15.48 6.6 US Ecology Inc 31.45 -4.6
Corn (CORN.L) 0.0 FTSE 100 INDEX 6156.16 -0.5 Matador Resources Co 7.89 6.5 SouthwesternEnergyCo 2.68 -4.3
Cotton (COTN.L) 1.5 Cinemark Inc 13.00 6.4 WA Prime Group 0.75 -4.3
Asia Pacific -16.6% +16.6%
Crude Oil (CRUD.L) -0.2
S&P/ASX 200 INDEX 5920.30 -1.5
Gasoline (UGAS.L) 0.7 Data and graphics by: Note: Bank prime is from 10 major banks. Federal Funds rate is the market
CSI 300 INDEX 4774.00 1.6 rate, which can vary from the federal target rate. LIBOR is the London
Gold (BULL.L) 0.7 Bloomberg Interbank Offered Rate. Consumer rates are from Bankrate. All figures as of
HANG SENG INDEX 26129.18 0.6 4:30 p.m. New York time.
Natural Gas (NGAS.L) -4.2
NIKKEI 225 22438.65 -0.8
Silver (SLVR.L) 2.1
A18
Facebook closes accounts, pages a∞liated with Roger Stone
Trump ally used faked
network to manipulate
public debate, firm says
BY C RAIG T IMBERG
AND I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER
facebook took down a network
of more than 100 pages and ac-
counts Wednesday that it said was
affiliated with felon and former
republican operative roger Stone
for “coordinated inauthentic be-
havior,” taking the company’s
campaign against disinformation
closer to the heart of the nation’s
political establishment.
The offending activity on face-
book and its subsidiary Instagram
dated as far back as 2015 but was
particularly active during the
2016 presidential election season,
when Stone was advising Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign,
and in 2017, as federal investiga-
tors were scrutinizing Stone’s ac-
tivities.
facebook officials said Stone, a
longtime friend of Trump’s, used
fake accounts and other deceptive
measures to manipulate public
debate. On at least a small number
of occasions, Stone also drew at-
tention to posts by anti-secrecy
group WikiLeaks, which at the
time was publishing damaging
Democratic Party emails stolen by
russian hackers, the company
said.
The action comes at a time
when several Silicon Valley com-
panies have gotten more aggres-
sive in enforcing their policies
against disinformation, hate
speech and other problematic
content — even when that in-
volves action against President
Trump or people close to him. The
moves have revived allegations by
conservatives that technology
companies and their mostly liber-
al leadership are squelching con-
servative voices and ideas ahead
of the November election, though
these critics have not provided
systematic evidence for their
claims.
Democrats, civil rights leaders
and independent researchers,
meanwhile, have argued that
technology companies have not
done nearly enough to protect de-
mocracy from disinformation and
Auditors: In free-speech push, Facebook invites political abuse
FACEbOOk frOm A1
and stretches its rules for power-
ful people. Though facebook fre-
quently says it listens to experts
when making judgment calls, the
auditors found that is not always
the case on critical matters of free
expression.
“When you put free expression
on top of every other consider-
ation, I think civil rights consid-
erations take more of a back seat,”
said Laura murphy, a civil rights
lawyer and independent consul-
tant who led the two-year audit.
murphy worked with a team from
civil rights law firm relman Col-
fax, led by partner megan Cacace.
The report was prompted by
years of complaints by civil rights
groups that the company foments
hatred, stemming back to when
the social network was used to
organize a 2017 white nationalist
march in Charlottesville. Since
then, facebook has become more
aggressive about taking down
hate groups, but it has also hard-
ened its stances on protecting
free speech, setting up a tension
that the auditors said was under-
mining facebook’s good faith ef-
forts to improve its service.
Chief executive mark Zucker-
berg’s unwavering position on
free expression is isolating face-
book and leaving it at a perilous
crossroads just months before
the U.S. presidential contest. He
has been widely condemned for
it: by thousands of employees last
month who protested the deci-
sion to leave up one of Trump’s
posts, and now by major advertis-
ers boycotting the social network
as part of a campaign known as
“Stop Hate for Profit.”
Civil rights leaders who met
with Zuckerberg on Tuesday to
discuss the boycott said the com-
pany didn’t appear to be ready to
change. facebook’s counterparts
in Silicon Valley — including
Snapchat, reddit and Twitch —
are taking a tougher tack when
policing Trump and his most
extreme supporters.
The facebook-commissioned
report potentially carries more
weight than other criticisms on
the grounds of civil rights be-
cause the social network granted
the auditors extensive access to
its systems and executives, and it
encompassed feedback from over
100 civil rights groups. However,
it provides no guarantee that
facebook will make major chang-
es to its policies or practices.
“Being a platform where every-
Roger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, seen in Washington last year. Facebook took down
more than 100 accounts and pages it said were linked to Stone for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
hate speech on their platforms,
and they have singled out face-
book as particularly concerning
for what they call lax policies and
enforcement against problematic
content.
Nathaniel Gleicher, head of se-
curity policy for facebook, said
that Stone’s personal accounts
were among 54 facebook ac-
counts, 50 facebook pages and
four Instagram accounts closed
Wednesday for policy violations.
Of Stone’s personal accounts, Gle-
icher said, “We saw them deeply
enmeshed in the activity here.”
Gleicher added that the action
was driven by numerous viola-
tions of facebook’s policy against
“coordinated inauthentic behav-
ior,” not the political views ex-
pressed through the accounts af-
filiated with Stone.
Stone, who has described him-
self as a “dirty trickster,” issued a
statement Wednesday disputing
facebook’s claim that he used fake
accounts or engaged in other types
of online manipulation, saying,
“The reasons for this extraordi-
nary act of censorship which face-
book and Instagram give is entire-
ly fabricated, totally lacking in any
proof and part of a larger effort to
Workers monitor election-related content in Facebook’s “war room” in Menlo Park, Calif. Many
staffers have pushed back against CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s unwavering position on free expression.
one can make their voice heard is
core to our mission, but that
doesn’t mean it’s acceptable for
people to spread hate. It’s not,”
facebook Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a blog
post in response to the report.
“We have clear policies against
hate — and we strive constantly
to get better and faster at enforc-
ing them.”
The report comes on the heels
of a meeting facebook held with
the organizers of a fast-growing
boycott of over 1,000 advertisers,
who have several demands of
facebook, including hiring a top-
level executive who will ensure
the global platform does not fuel
racism and radicalization. The
timing of the publication of the
long-anticipated report led the
civil rights groups organizing the
boycott to argue facebook was
attempting to use it to draw
attention away from their de-
mands, which also include end-
ing exceptions for politicians.
The organizers called the Tuesday
meeting “disappointing.”
facebook denied it was trying
to deflect attention from the boy-
cott.
On Wednesday, the company
also said it had taken down ac-
counts tied to longtime Trump
friend and former campaign ad-
viser roger Stone, after finding
that he violated facebook’s rules
eZ re
BrendAn SmIAlowSkI/AGence FrAnce-PreSSe/Getty ImAGeS
censor supporters of the Presi-
dent, republicans and conserva-
tives on social media platforms.”
facebook’s report on its take-
down of the Stone network said,
“The Page admins and account
owners posted about local politics
in florida, roger Stone and his
Pages, websites, books, and media
appearances, a florida land and
water resources bill, the hacked
materials released by WikiLeaks
ahead of the US 2016 election,
candidates in the 2016 primaries
and general election, and the rog-
er Stone trial.”
Among the posts flagged by fa-
cebook as misleading was one that
said, “What? Hillary Clinton gets a
pass from the fBI but the Demo-
crats want the fBI to investigate
roger Stone?” An account used
the misleading name “President
Bernie Sanders,” the company
said.
The network affiliated with
Stone had about 260,000 follow-
ers on facebook and 61,500 on
Instagram, and it spent up to
$308,000 on advertisements. The
network had extensive connec-
tions with one affiliated with the
Proud Boys, an extremist group
banned by facebook for previous
by using more than 100 accounts
and pages to manipulate public
debate.
facebook’s auditors faulted the
social network for making policy
decisions that undermine civil
rights progress. They said face-
book failed to improve the experi-
ence of people of color who use
the platform. They also said the
company had delayed acting on
calls to hire experts in civil rights
to senior leadership positions,
noting recent decisions over hate
speech were made by senior exec-
utives who lacked specific civil
rights expertise and nuanced un-
derstandings of race — and that
certain decisions were made
against the objections of the audi-
tors.
In the posts about voting in
may, Trump called the use of
mail-in ballots in Nevada and
michigan “illegal” and “substan-
tially fraudulent.”
Because mail-in ballots were
lawful forms of voter registration
in both states, the auditors “vehe-
mently expressed” their views to
facebook that the posts were
prohibited by the company’s vot-
er interference policy, which bans
false representations about voter
registration methods, the report
said.
But senior executives at face-
book found that the posts did not
break the policies, ignoring the
violations that had sought to rees-
tablish its presence on the plat-
form, according to Gleicher.
The network came to light after
several news organizations, in-
cluding The Washington Post, pe-
titioned for the public release of
search warrants used by former
special counsel robert S. mueller
III in his investigation into allega-
tions of improper contact between
the Trump campaign and russian
officials. Information in the war-
rants led to the accounts affiliated
with Stone and his associates, Gle-
icher said.
Network analysis firm Graphi-
ka also investigated the Stone net-
work, finding in a report released
Wednesday that it engaged in co-
ordinated harassment of political
opponents and critics and sought
to give the impression of signifi-
cant online public support for
Stone, including during his trial.
Also Wednesday, facebook an-
nounced the takedown of three
other networks that were primari-
ly active in Ukraine and Latin
America. Some were affiliated
with Brazilian President Jair Bol-
sonaro, though facebook said it
was not clear if he had any direct
role in the accounts.
JeFF chIu/ASSocIAted PreSS
conclusions of the auditors, their
own voting rights consultant, and
the broader civil rights communi-
ty, the report noted. Instead, the
company’s executives interpreted
the posts to mean the president
was accusing state officials of
acting illegally, which it considers
to be permissible criticism. That
“constrained reading” of its own
rules “was both astounding and
deeply troubling,” the auditors
said, “hurtling [facebook] down
a slippery slope” in which basic
facts about how to vote can be
freely misrepresented.
“With only months left before a
major election, this is deeply
troublesome as misinformation,
sowing racial division and calls
for violence near elections can do
great damage to our democracy,”
the auditors wrote.
The auditors also challenged
facebook’s decision to let stand
another may post by the presi-
dent, in which he said, “when the
looting starts, the shooting
starts,” invoking a civil rights-era
reference to describe the military
potentially entering the protests
in minnesota.
Civil rights advocates believe
the comment about shooting peo-
ple for stealing or looting ap-
peared to encourage law enforce-
ment to commit unlawful capital
punishment against protesters.
The choice to leave the post up
the washington post
“At a high level, this entire take-
down marks a reckoning that poli-
ticians around the world also use
information operations to influ-
ence domestic and local issues,”
said Camille francois, chief inno-
vation officer for Graphika.
Though most of the deceptive
activity unfolded in 2016 and 2017,
a small number of assets were still
active this year. few of the posts
ever received much engagement,
with the exception of those that
came from Stone’s own accounts
on facebook and Instagram.
many of the accounts active in
the network bore hallmarks of
falsity, including the use of stock
photos or other images borrowed
from the Web, according to a re-
port by Graphika. for instance, an
account claiming to be based in
Santa monica, Calif., made its pro-
file picture a shot of a YouTube
beauty influencer. Another ac-
count used a photo of Tamar Kho-
masuridze, the United Nations
Population fund’s adviser for sex-
ual and reproductive health based
in Istanbul.
Stone, a Trump confidant who
was convicted in November of wit-
ness tampering and lying to Con-
gress, is due to begin a 40-month
prison term next week.
U.S. District Judge Amy Ber-
man Jackson, in a ruling last
month, delayed the deadline for
him to report to federal prison by
two weeks. He had asked to put off
serving the sentence until Sep-
tember, citing concerns about the
novel coronavirus.
Stone, 67, again monday asked
to postpone the date on which he
must surrender, filing an emer-
gency appeal to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The
appeals court gave the govern-
ment until Thursday to respond to
the request. Stone contends that
his age and underlying health
problems make him acutely vul-
nerable to the virus.
Seven inmates and two staff
members have tested positive at
fCI Jesup, the medium-security
prison in Georgia where he is re-
quired to report, according to the
federal Bureau of Prisons website.
Trump has strongly suggested he
will pardon the longtime GOP op-
erative, recently retweeting a post
that said, “IT’S TImE TO #Pardon-
rogerStone.”
craig.timberg@washpost.com
isaac.stanley-becker@washpost.com
led to an employee uprising and
helped fuel the boycott.
Twitter chose to add fact-
checking and warning labels to
the same posts.
facebook has made some con-
cessions, including copying Twit-
ter by developing fact-checking
labels of its own. The auditors
praised the concessions but said
they did not go far enough.
The auditors also noted that
facebook’s decision to leave
Trump’s “looting” post up has
already encouraged copycat calls
for violence, including political
and merchandise ads that “loot-
ers” and “ANTIfA terrorists” can
or should be shot by armed citi-
zens. facebook ultimately re-
moved the ads, after receiving
more than 200,000 clicks.
Civil rights leaders said the
release of the report is by no
means an “end game” in their
efforts to change the social net-
work. Vanita Gupta, president
and CEO of the Leadership Con-
ference on Civil and Human
rights, said that work is increas-
ingly critical in light of the in-
tense polarization sweeping the
country amid the pandemic and
widespread protests against rac-
ism.
“There is so much at stake in
this moment for the platform to
get it right, for our democracy
and for our communities,” she
said. “The work is going to con-
tinue. We’re going to continue to
press, to push to make these
changes even after the final re-
port comes out.”
The report said facebook has a
long way to go to incorporate civil
rights, including changing its ap-
proach so that the harms from
speech are as valued as free
speech, creating an extensive civil
rights infrastructure of execu-
tives and managers within the
company, and investing more re-
sources in areas of bias and dis-
crimination in its products and
policies. The auditors also asked a
for commitment from facebook
to explore how the platform fo-
ments white supremacy in a man-
ner that goes beyond merely ban-
ning the terms “white separat-
ism” and “white nationalism.” fi-
nally, it called on facebook to
interpret its voter suppression
policies more strongly, noting the
recent exceptions for Trump.
elizabeth.dwoskin@washpost.com
cat.zakrzewski@washpost.com
 more at washingtonpost.com/
technology
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
Walgreens
to open
hundreds
of clinics
Pharmacy reaches deal
to provide access to
primary-care doctors
BY H AMZA S HABAN
Walgreens plans to open hun-
dreds of primary-care clinics in
the coming years as the drugstore
giant continues to expand into
medical care.
The pharmacy chain said
Wednesday it has reached a deal
with VillagemD to staff and oper-
ate 500 to 700 clinics in 30 U.S.
markets within five years.
Though the company did not
identify specific locations, it said
most will be in underserved ar-
eas.
VillagemD, a primary-care
provider that employs more than
2,800 physicians, serves patients
through free-standing clinics. It
plans to recruit more than 3,600
primary-care providers under its
partnership with Walgreens.
Walgreens will invest $1 billion
in equity and debt in VillagemD
over three years and at the end of
that period will claim a 30 per-
cent ownership stake.
“These clinics at our
conveniently located
stores are a significant
step forward in creating
the pharmacy of the
future, meeting many
essential health needs.”
Stefano Pessina, chief executive
of walgreens Boots Alliance
The clinics will be about 3,300
square feet, about a quarter of the
typical Walgreens store, although
some will be as large as 9,000
square feet, the company said.
Though the retailer, which has
more than 18,000 locations, will
continue to sell its array of drug-
store goods, it said it will scale
back on grocery and wellness
merchandise at stores with larger
VillagemD clinics.
The clinics will offer a host of
services, from annual checkups
to preventive care to the treat-
ment of chronic diseases. Nurse
practitioners, physicians’ assis-
tants and social workers will
work out of some locations. At-
home visits and telehealth op-
tions will also be made available.
“These clinics at our conve-
niently located stores are a signif-
icant step forward in creating the
pharmacy of the future, meeting
many essential health needs all
under one roof as well as through
other channels,” Stefano Pessina,
chief executive of Walgreens
Boots Alliance, said in a state-
ment.
The partnership comes as
drugstores are consolidating to
offer more services. In 2018, CVS
acquired Aetna, the nation’s
third-largest health insurer, in a
$69 billion deal. The mega tie-up
was designed to pull CVS’s brick-
and-mortar locations closer to
front-line clinics for basic care
and patient monitoring.
Walgreens said expanding
medical care at its drugstores is
both a convenience for its cus-
tomers and a better way to treat
chronic conditions that require a
host of daily medications. Com-
bining services also leads to bet-
ter health outcomes, the compa-
ny said, based on its trial run
involving a handful of clinics in
Houston.
The clinics will offer compre-
hensive health care and will ac-
cept a range of health insurance
plans, the company said, while
patients without health insur-
ance will be charged on a sliding
scale. It did not disclose what it
might charge for specific services.
more than half of the clinics
will be located in areas where the
federal government has designat-
ed a shortage of health-care pro-
fessionals and where communi-
ties are underserved, Walgreens
said.
The companies envision the
in-store clinic system as an im-
provement over the “episodic”
nature of visiting the doctor, aim-
ing to build a model that empha-
sizes convenient follow-ups and
lowered costs.
Walgreens shares were nearly
flat Wednesday, trading above
$42 a share. The company releas-
es quarterly results Thursday.
hamza.shaban@washpost.com
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
MAX BOOT
It appears we
haven’t evolved
all that much
W
hy is the United States the only
wealthy country where novel
coronavirus cases are hitting
new highs while elsewhere the
virus is being contained? A lot of it has to do
with the rejection of science by many on the
right. A Gallup survey reports that while
98 percent of Democrats reported wearing a
mask outside the home, only 66 percent of
Republicans did. The same denialism ex-
tends to other important issues: A Pew
survey reports that 75 percent of Democrats
regard climate change as a top policy
priority, compared with only 25 percent of
Republicans.
President Trump — who rejects his own
government’s warnings about global warm-
ing and keeps insisting that the coronavirus
will “miraculously” disappear on its own —
is more a symptom than the cause of the
problem. The right’s reign of unreason long
predates his presidency.
This week marks the 95th anniversary of
the Scopes Monkey Trial — the most famous
battle of the early 20th century between
science and religious fundamentalism. The
story is well told in Edward J. Larson’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning account, “Summer
for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s
Continuing Debate Over Science and Reli-
gion,” which is even more timely now than
when it was published in 1997.
On July 10, 1925, high school science
teacher John T. Scopes went on trial in
Dayton, Tenn., for teaching Charles Dar-
win’s theory of evolution. While “Modernist”
(liberal) Protestants and most Catholics and
Jews had accepted evolution as a manifesta-
tion of God’s design, conservative evangeli-
cals known as “fundamentalists” insisted
that God had created the earth in six days
and denied that mankind is related to
monkeys. At the urging of the fundamental-
ists, Tennessee passed a law forbidding the
teaching of evolution. The prosecution of
Scopes was a test case contrived by the town
fathers of Dayton to put their sleepy burg on
the map.
They succeeded beyond their wildest
dreams. Two of the most famous orators in
America volunteered to try the case —
William Jennings Bryan, a former secretary
of state and three-time presidential candi-
date for the prosecution, and Clarence Dar-
row, “attorney for the damned,” for the
defense. About 200 reporters flocked to
Dayton to cover the carnival-like proceed-
ings, which were broadcast on radio and
filmed for newsreels, and later inspired the
play and film “Inherit the Wind.”
The culmination of the trial was Darrow’s
July 20 cross-examination of Bryan — a
populist on economic issues but a conserva-
tive on social ones — about whether he took
the Bible literally.
“Do you believe Joshua made the sun
stand still?” Darrow asked about a biblical
passage that speaks of a miraculously
lengthened day.
“I believe what the Bible says. I suppose
you mean that the earth stood still?” Bryan
replied.
Darrow first feigned innocence (“I don’t
know”) and then sprang his trap: “Now,
Mr. Bryan, have you ever pondered what
would have happened to the earth if it had
stood still?”
“No,” Bryan replied. “The God I believe in
could have taken care of that.”
Darrow: “Don’t you know it would have
been converted into a molten mass of
matter?”
The jury found Scopes guilty, and the
judge fined him $100. The Tennessee Su-
preme Court vacated the fine on a technical-
ity but upheld the anti-evolution law, which
remained on the books until 1967. But the
popular verdict was that the anti-evolution
side had been defeated by being made to
look ridiculous. As Harper’s Magazine edi-
tor Frederick Lewis Allen wrote: “Theoreti-
cally, Fundamentalism had won, for the law
stood. Yet really Fundamentalism had lost
. . . and the slow drift from Fundamentalist
certainty continued.”
It’s true that fundamentalism became less
assertive after the Scopes trial, but it hardly
went away. By the 1980s, it had migrated to
the Republican Party (Bryan was a Demo-
crat) and had become a political force to be
reckoned with. Jerry Falwell, leader of the
Moral Majority, actually thought that Bryan
was a sellout for admitting, under Darrow’s
cross-examination, that the world was not
created in six 24-hour days. Falwell said that
Bryan “lost the respect of Fundamentalists”
for conceding that the Book of Genesis was
referring to longer periods of time.
Today, the theory of evolution is accepted
by most Americans — including most reli-
gious believers — but still resisted by a
significant minority. According to a Pew poll
in 2018, 18 percent of American adults deny
the theory of evolution. Among white evan-
gelical Protestants (a core part of the Trump
base), 38 percent say that humans have
always existed in their present form. Having
18 percent of the adult population in the
anti-evolution camp might not seem like a
lot, but it translates to roughly 37.6 million
people — the population of Canada — who
reject a core tenet of modern science.
I suspect there is a lot of overlap between
anti-evolutionists, anti-maskers and climate
deniers. That hostility to science, found far
more on the right than the left, makes it
much harder to deal with major crises such
as global warming or the coronavirus.
Ninety-five years after the Scopes trial, the
foes of science are more potent politically
than ever — and we are all paying the price.
Twitter: @MaxBoot
THURSDAY Opinion
Black CEOs are rare. Rarer still
is their acceptance on Wall Street.
BY E DDIE C . B ROWN
I
was raised in the Jim Crow South,
when the railroad tracks separated
whites from blacks and African
Americans were considered sec-
ond-class citizens. Raised by common
laborers who worked hard in Florida’s
citrus groves, I had my world widened
by weekend excursions to Orlando,
where seeing white men in suits and
ties behind desks left an impression. It
was there where possibility was seeded.
I began my investment career as the
first African American portfolio man-
ager at T. Rowe Price in 1973, not
because of some quota or the good
graces of white executives, but because
the meritocratic model made me visi-
ble and managers were supportive.
After 10 years in the business, I became
an entrepreneur.
I founded Brown Capital Manage-
ment in Baltimore, which now em-
ploys predominantly African Ameri-
can professionals and manages more
than $14 billion in client assets. Along-
side my business partner Keith Lee,
Brown Capital intentionally hired a
diverse staff to gain broader perspec-
tives and insight, purposely inter-
viewed talent in non-finance profes-
sions and unabashedly approached
black college graduates at conferences
and job fairs, looking for well-rounded
team players with ambition, intelli-
gence and versatility.
But over the years, no amount of
wealth, education or prestige has dis-
tracted me from the discrimination,
prejudice and segregation of opportu-
nity that America’s communities of
color endure. In my years on Wall
Street, I have been doubted, discount-
ed and judged reflexively on the basis
of my skin color. The past few months
have exposed our societal failures even
further. We must heed the call to
dismantle the inequality that makes
I’m a female journalist in the Middle East.
I won’t be silenced by online attacks.
BY G HADA O UEISS
I
t was meant to be a special evening
for me and my husband. We were
celebrating his birthday with a quiet
dinner at home last month when I
received an urgent message from a friend
alerting me to an attack on Twitter.
Though I’ve worked as a journalist in the
Middle East for 20 years and learned how
to deal with the challenges of being a
woman in the field, I had never seen
anything like this before. What I read
made me angry, shocked and scared.
Private photos of me in a swimsuit had
been stolen from my phone and posted
on Twitter with offensive, misogynistic
and false claims that the photos were
taken at the private residence of
Al Jazeera Media Network’s Qatari
chairman, Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer
al-Thani. I watched aghast as the number
of retweets increased by the hundreds
each minute. Within just a few hours,
photos of me in a hot tub — some of them
pixelated to make people believe, incor-
rectly, that I was nude — were tweeted
more than 40,000 times.
This was not the first time that I had
been subjected to cyberbullying or a
coordinated campaign against me on
social media. But this time, it appeared
the attackers had hacked my phone. Just
days later, reports emerged that Saudi
dissident Omar Abdulaziz had received
new warnings from the Canadian police
that he was under threat. Coupled with
the hate-filled, obscene language coming
from Twitter-verified accounts, this
attack shook me to the core.
“Tell us about your night. How was the
prostitution? Were you drunk while you
were naked?” wrote a Twitter user with
the name Saoud Bin Abdulaziz Algharibi
who has been active on the site since
2013. “No wonder she’s naked. She’s a
cheap Christian. She’s old and ugly,” he
continued. Like almost all of the Saudi
accounts attacking me, the majority of
eZ re
DAnieL fiSheL fOr the WAShinGtOn POSt
careers such as mine the exception —
rather than the rule.
It is no coincidence that African
American representation in corporate
America is abysmal when young
blacks are told through societal cues
that they are not as capable, intelli-
gent, viable or even equal to their
white counterparts. The fact that black
adults make up 10 percent of college
grads and 8 percent of professionals
but just 3.2 percent of executives or
senior-level managers, and just five of
Fortune 500 chief executives, is an
abrasive reminder that our country is
committed to structural racism.
Following the death of George Floyd
and the ensuing protests, Fortune 100
company donations to battle racism
and inequality now amount to more
than $2 billion. But what does this all
mean when diversity programs and
pledges throughout the years have still
not been enough? What will change
when corporate leaders still falsely
claim there is not enough black talent
to ascend the ranks?
The push for diversity has shown
little resolve in the last decades. Chief
executives still lack the intent to pro-
mote and retain more diverse leaders,
and not enough attention is given to
minorities, who have to accomplish
twice as much to be considered for
promotions at the next level.
In finance, firms owned by white
men manage 98.7 percent of the
$69 trillion managed by the U.S. asset
management industry. Similarly,
88 percent of senior fund managers are
white, and even analysts and associate
managers, more junior positions, are
more than 70 percent white. When it
comes to the Federal Reserve, the State
Department, the legal profession or
myriad other fields, extraordinary
qualifications are required for blacks to
compete at the same level as their white
colleagues.
Algharibi’s Twitter timeline is filled with
tweets praising Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.
The attacks also targeted my colleague
Ola Al-Fares, a Jordanian news anchor
with millions of online followers. They
used the hashtag #Ola_Sauna to claim
that her success was a result of sexual
favors, telling her to give up on journal-
ism and instead focus on “providing oth-
er services.”
Almost all of the accounts abusing me
displayed the Saudi flag, a picture of
MBS, as the Saudi crown prince is often
known, or a photograph of Abu Dhabi’s
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
Saudi and Emirati public figures, includ-
ing Dhahi Khalfan, former head of Dubai
Police; Naif Al-Asaker, a mufti at the
Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs and a
close ally to MBS; and Hamad
Al-Mazroui, a close associate of the UAE
crown prince, amplified these posts,
which led to ordinary Saudis and Emira-
tis joining the assault. Within hours, the
hashtags #Ghada_Jacuzzi and
#Ola_Sauna were trending in Saudi Ara-
bia, Twitter’s fifth-largest market.
Although I was the target of this latest
assault — no doubt because I regularly
present critical reporting about Saudi
Arabia and the UAE — the message to
journalists across the Middle East is very
clear: Don’t criticize the crown princes.
In this case, the trolls were attacking
Ola and me not only as journalists but as
women who dared to be critical. A car-
toon depicting me sprawled on the desk
of Al Jazeera’s chairman with the caption
“I want a raise” was furiously retweeted.
For these people, it seemed incompre-
hensible that a woman could be success-
ful based on her merit or hard work. After
all, as far as their governments are con-
cerned, women should be seen but not
heard — unless they occupy token posi-
tions to demonstrate a facade of moder-
nity and can be paraded in front of the
world’s media.
The data illustrate contentment
with homogeneity. We hire, support
and mentor those who look like us and
sustain a broken pipeline by playing
down the outsize influence managers
have when it comes to positioning their
employees for success. Executives of-
ten hire neophytes within their close
networks, recycling the same stream of
privilege.
America does not breed talent, it
prefers to breed generational elitism,
where very few minorities get to com-
pete on a level playing field. This has
catastrophic consequences for minori-
ties and for blacks, made visible in the
racial wealth gap. Today, younger gen-
erations of blacks experience the same
economic disparities as their grand-
parents did in the 1950s. Equity owner-
ship, the rocket fuel for wealth cre-
ation, is also in few black hands. Eco-
nomic opportunity and career ad-
vancement are too often denied for
those born without privilege. When
black Americans say they are angry,
believe them.
I have been saddened by the news
and suspicious of the promises made by
corporations and hiring managers that
this time will be different. What gives
me hope is the new faces who know all
too well that this world is not equal, and
who are paying attention to the change
they want to see. I am reinvigorated by
this youthful spirit of the masses and
demand alongside them that we all
deserve the same access, respect, op-
portunities and freedoms.
In the words of Frederick Douglass,
power concedes nothing without a de-
mand. We all have the power to be
change agents within our organiza-
tions. This country cannot afford to be
lulled back to sleep.
the writer is the founder, chairman, chief
executive and senior portfolio manager of
Brown Capital.
There has been a disturbing rise in
gender-related harassment and threats
against female public figures. The move-
ment for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia
has terrified the government, which has
insisted on doling out reforms on its own
terms while detaining the female activ-
ists behind the movement. Loujain
al-Hathloul, the most prominent of the
Saudi women campaigners, and several
others remain behind bars.
It’s their courage, and that of the many
unknown heroes and victims of autocrat-
ic governments in the Middle East, that
inspires me to continue my work, no
matter how brutal and misogynistic the
smear campaigns, no matter how many
death threats I receive.
Last Friday, a Turkish court began
hearings on Post contributing columnist
Jamal Khashoggi’s murder — a stark
reminder that justice has still not been
served nearly two years on. Jamal him-
self once warned me to ignore and block
these Twitter accounts. Even though the
man widely believed to be responsible for
Jamal’s murder may never be held to
account, we must not let him and those
who work for him imperil one of the
fundamental pillars of a free society — a
free press.
At a time when Twitter has taken
proactive steps to stop hate speech — for
example, banning people such as Katie
Hopkins in Britain or by flagging tweets
by President Trump — it is unacceptable
that attacks like this are allowed to con-
tinue. Twitter and other social media
sites must take action to protect journal-
ists such as myself and ensure that its
platform is no longer misused by authori-
tarian regimes.
Ghada Oueiss is a principal anchor and
presenter for Al Jazeera Arabic. She
previously worked for a number of Lebanese
newspapers, television channels and radio
stations, and has spent more than two
decades in broadcast journalism.
A19
The PPP
isn’t a good fit
for all small
businesses
BY R OGER C . A LTMAN
T
he new surge in covid-19 cases
represents a severe blow to micro
businesses all around the coun-
try — those with 20 employees or
fewer. Two months ago, nearly half of
these had closed and laid off their
employees. Now, as many of these busi-
nesses struggle to reopen, they face the
new hurdle of states pulling back on
plans to ease lockdowns.
Unfortunately, the Paycheck Protec-
tion Program to provide forgivable loans
to small business, despite its enormous
size and recently increased flexibility,
failed to help micro businesses in the way
it should have — as underscored by the
new, infuriating disclosure that major
lobbying and law firms, and other ques-
tionable recipients, received so much of
this money. Unless the final round of
economic rescue legislation, expected
later this month, includes more tailored
and more local assistance, a significant
share of these smaller businesses will
never reopen, with devastating conse-
quences for workers and communities.
A National Bureau of Economic Re-
search team surveyed more than
5,800 small businesses in April and
found that 43 percent of them had
temporarily closed due to the virus, and
that their overall employment levels had
fallen 40 percent from January because
of employee health concerns and a lack
of customers. A more recent survey of
small businesses conducted by the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife
revealed that more than half were either
still closed or only partially open. Most of
these very fragile enterprises are micro
businesses, which is not surprising be-
cause 89 percent of all U.S. small busi-
nesses fall into this category.
With the virus resurgent and pros-
pects of a V-shaped economic recovery
diminishing, the impact on these busi-
nesses could worsen, in part because so
many of them require face-to-face con-
sumer interaction. Unfortunately, most
of our smallest businesses are not able to
last for months without much revenue.
One-fourth report less than two months
of remaining cash.
Congress passed the Cares Act, which
authorized $349 billion in loans, in
March. That was replenished by another
$320 billion in April. These are very large
amounts, but they went to only 14 per-
cent of the nation’s small businesses.
Despite good intentions, the Paycheck
Protection Program has not turned out
to fit micro businesses very well. Here’s
why:
Originally, the program required that
75 percent of loan proceeds be spent on
payroll within eight weeks in order for
the loan to be forgivable. That was a
difficult hurdle for micro businesses
because other costs such as rent, utilities
and taxes often make up a relatively high
share of expenses. In addition, if a
business is already shut and with limited
prospects of returning customers, rehir-
ing employees immediately does not
make economic sense.
Last month, Congress amended the
rules to lower this payroll threshold to
60 percent of loan proceeds, extend the
period for spending funds to 24 weeks
and stretch loan terms to five years. Even
so, the new payroll hurdle remains too
high for many micro businesses; for
others, the changes come too late. In
addition, businesses with as many as
500 employees were eligible for loans.
Since these loans are made through
banks, these bigger businesses, which
have the strongest existing banking rela-
tionships, had a leg up on receiving the
money.
There is still time for Washington to
change course as it debates another
economic rescue package, a version of
which passed the House in May. When
the Senate takes up the measure, it
should require that a portion of the
proposed fiscal assistance provided to
states be used for low-interest, long-term
loans to micro business.
This approach would allow states to
work with their local governments on
selecting which micro businesses need
assistance and tailoring that help to their
needs. Unlike Washington, these states
and local governments are close enough
to the real needs of their communities to
make these decisions. They know, for
example, that many businesses need
long-term working capital, not just to dig
out of the hole left by months without
revenue but to cover reopening losses as
customers return only gradually.
Losing even a fifth of America’s micro
businesses would be devastating. Not
only do they employ millions, they form
the fabric of our communities. Moreover,
they provide millions of Americans with
an entrepreneurial spirit and something
to build and run on their own. Let’s help
some of these firms now, instead of
looking back later to see that lobbying
shops, big law firms, real estate develop-
ers and hedge funds, which didn’t need
help anyway, were prioritized over Main
Street shops.
the writer is founder and senior chairman of
evercore and served as deputy treasury
secretary under President Bill Clinton.
a20
ABCDE
The key to the schoolhouse door
Mr. Trump is shouting for schools to reopen. He needs an actual strategy.
P
RESIDENT TRUMP has seized upon a new
campaign battle cry to reopen the schools this
fall, not with distance learning but in person.
Mr. Trump’s call reflects a genuine need, felt
by parents, teachers and students, to get back to the
classroom. In any calculus of recovery, schools must
be a priority. But it is important that reopening be
done smartly, avoiding Mr. Trump’s previous bun-
gling and leadership bankruptcy.
All over the country this week, teachers, parents,
students and administrators are wrestling with the
methods of how to accomplish this, knowing the
stakes are high. Students have already lost months of
work; many parents need to return to jobs; a host of
knock-on effects flow from canceled classes, includ-
ing mental health troubles.
“SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”
Mr. Trump declared on Twitter. But simply shouting
the slogan is not a strategy. Schools must avoid hasty
miscalculations such as those evident in Mr. Trump’s
thoughtless drive in May to reopen states, which
Big benefits for
‘small businesses’
The Paycheck Protection Program’s
dubious loans must be fixed.
T
HE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
pushed more than a half-trillion dollars into
roughly 5 million companies and nonprofit
entities over a few weeks this spring via its
Paycheck Protection Program. It would be surprising if
that vast, rapidly allocated sum seemed ideally distrib-
uted in hindsight. Well, no surprise: Data on the PPP’s
largest beneficiaries released Monday proved that
millions of dollars worth of forgivable low-interest
loans — tantamount to grants — landed at not-so-small
and not-so-obviously-needy firms and nonprofits.
Companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice
(R), a billionaire, got up to $24 million. PF Chang’s and
Silver Diner, restaurant chains backed by private equi-
ty firms, got more than $5 million each. Kanye West’s
apparel brand received a similar amount. Republicans
were furious that 43 Planned Parenthood clinics col-
lected some $60 million. Democrats countered that
entities associated with Trump administration figures
such as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Agricul-
ture Secretary Sonny Perdue and presidential son-in-
law Jared Kushner cashed in, too. Firms linked to
members of Congress from both parties, including
some who helped write the PPP law, benefited. A
$350,000-plus loan to the libertarian Ayn Rand Insti-
tute, a think tank named for the uber-capitalist author
of “Atlas Shrugged,” astonished everyone.
Still, all of the above will probably claim to have
followed the program’s rules, designed by Congress on
a bipartisan basis in March, when the U.S. economy
was in free fall and the prime directive was to save jobs
— and ask questions later. Intentionally, the PPP was
not rigorously targeted: “small business” included
firms with up to 500 employees and up to $5 million in
net income, with plenty of wiggle room and exceptions.
The declining unemployment rates of the past two
months suggest this broad approach did indeed help
save jobs, mostly at small firms: While loans above
$1 million accounted for about a third of the $521 bil-
lion in outlays as of June 30, 86.5 percent of all loans
The Trump administration wins on birth control, for now
Congress will have to make explicit who can get free contraception.
T
HE SUPREME COURT preserved on Wednes-
day a Trump administration rule allowing a
breathtaking number of employers to refuse to
provide contraception coverage to their work-
ers. But the dispute is not over: Advocates for women’s
health still have several avenues to repair the Trump
administration’s damage, almost guaranteeing the is-
sue will end up back at the high court in coming years.
The disagreement revolves around a section of the
Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — meant to guaran-
tee women free preventive care. Congress tapped the
Department of Health and Human Services to decide
what services should be free, and stipulated that
employer health-care plans must cover them. After
painstaking research, the Obama administration de-
termined that contraception must be included, provid-
ing a religious exemption only for churches and closely
related organizations.
After other employers balked, citing religious objec-
tions, the Supreme Court insisted they be accommo-
dated. The Obama administration offered them the
option of certifying to the government that they object-
ed on religious grounds, after which the government
would arrange with their insurance companies to
l O ca l O Pi Ni O Ns
Retrocession is a distraction from D.C. statehood
Whenever D.C. statehood comes up, opponents
trot out various distractions. For example,
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) wants the District to
pay for changing U.S. flags to 51 stars. A pole tax no
doubt.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) backs D.C. retroces-
sion to Maryland. Retrocession has a patina of
respectability. Advocates, however, never get to
specifics, which would cause massive changes.
As claimed, retrocession would give D.C. resi-
dents a vote in the Senate through Maryland’s
senators, but claims of a House seat for the District
are doubtful. There is no guarantee Senate Republi-
cans would allow a seat in the House for the
District. Even if they did, the seat would not last
long. The House only raises its 435-member cap for
new members until reapportionment. Then, Mary-
land would have to shoehorn the new House seat
EZ RE K the washington post
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
EdiTOrials
badly backfired and led to the present pandemic
surge. The current wildfire of infection must be
extinguished as a prerequisite to going back to
classrooms. If Americans can’t wear masks and stay
out of bars and restaurants, they won’t get the school
bells ringing soon.
Reopening will also require major new resources
that states and localities do not have. Ninety percent
of school funding is local, and the governments are
struggling under crushing pandemic burdens and tax
revenue falloff. Philadelphia School Superintendent
William R. Hite Jr. estimated on Wednesday that the
city would need $60 million to $80 million more just
to meet the requirements of physical distancing, face
masks, additional staff to clean and sanitize schools,
and proper ventilation in old buildings. Some other
estimates are that schools nationwide will need an
additional $200 billion to safely reopen. Where is this
coming from? A fresh economic stimulus package
does not seem imminent from Washington.
Some schools are trying to cope with it all by
TOm TOlEs
were for less than $150,000. The PPP still has $132 bil-
lion on hand: Loose as they were, the PPP’s rules
regarding the use of the loans were still too restrictive
for many businesses.
Disclosure of the largest loan recipients is itself a
good check against conflicts of interest, real and appar-
ent. All the more reason Congress was right to demand
it and the Trump administration was wrong to resist it,
until now. To strengthen that deterrent, the SBA
should reinstate ethics rules, which it quietly waived
for the PPP, requiring preapproval from the agency’s
provide their employees contraception coverage with-
out company involvement.
Yet some employers, such as Catholic charity
groups, objected even to this accommodation because
the act of certifying their objection would still lead
their employees to get contraception coverage. So,
after President Trump took office, his administration
ripped an enormous hole in the policy, offering a total
exemption to employers who object to providing con-
traception coverage on religious or even on moral
grounds — available even to publicly traded companies
— a move that the administration itself estimates
would immediately eliminate free contraception cov-
erage to between 70,500 and 126,400 women. The
states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania sued.
In a 7-to-2 ruling, the court rejected the states’
arguments that the Trump administration lacked the
authority to exempt more than just churches from the
contraception mandate. The majority opinion by Jus-
tice Clarence Thomas reasoned that Congress, under
the Affordable Care Act, clearly delegated the authority
the Trump administration needed to decide what gets
covered by who. In a concurrence, Justice Elena Kagan
argued that the law was unclear on that point, but that
into its delegation.
Accommodating the District’s more than
700,000 residents would require Maryland to add a
slew of state senators and delegates. Regionally, the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s
board would go from two seats each for the District,
Maryland, Virginia and the federal government to
who-knows-what.
Would the District’s laws go away? If so, when
and how? Would Congress pay for Maryland
gaining the District’s residents, vehicles, schools,
bonds, etc.? If not, who would?
Finally, there is the District’s $16 billion budget.
It spends its own money without Congress. Would
it lose control to Annapolis?
The further you are from retrocession, the better
it looks. Closer scrutiny shows its flaws.
Carl Bergman, Washington
creating hybrid plans, sharing in-classroom time
with online instruction, to which Mr. Trump sniffs, “I
think it’s an easy way out.” To make matters worse,
Mr. Trump on Wednesday threatened schools in a
tweet, “May cut off funding if not open!” How is that
going to help? Mr. Trump also ominously insisted he
would press the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention — the public health experts — to loosen
guidance for school reopenings. He knows better?
Another huge issue that must be faced is the
vulnerability of adults. As the group Resolve to Save
Lives pointed out, younger people are less prone to
get seriously ill, and may not transmit the virus as
much as adults. But the viral load in infected children
has been shown to be similar to adults. Schoolchil-
dren do not exist in a vacuum, but rather in a web of
adult contacts, from parents to teachers, who may be
more prone to infection and illness. Nearly a third of
public school teachers are 50 or older. It is not a
simple matter to just wave a magic wand and declare
schools must open.
Standards of Conduct Committee for loans to compa-
nies in which certain officials or a “household mem-
ber” have a stake. In its next economic support pack-
age, Congress should target a narrower range of small
businesses — while allowing those firms to spend the
money for a wider range of purposes, beyond main-
taining payroll.
Realistically, the huge and hasty PPP was bound to
make a lot of questionable loans. Now, however, Con-
gress has enough time and data — as well as a duty — to
fix it.
the court should defer to the executive branch’s inter-
pretation.
Yet Justice Kagan noted that the states could still
argue that the Trump administration had abused its
discretion, promulgating an unreasonably broad rule
that potentially exempts massive numbers of employ-
ers on all sorts of grounds when only a narrow exemp-
tion for a specific set of employers was needed. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania should do so now that the
justices have kicked the case back down to lower
courts.
Moreover, the majority opinion was notably silent
on the extent and strength of the exemption or accom-
modation that religious freedom laws may require the
government to provide to religious objectors. So a new
administration could move to narrow or eliminate the
Trump administration’s recklessly broad exemption.
To make clear its intent, Congress, too, could get
involved, specifying explicitly that women must have
free contraception coverage through their health plans
except in very narrow circumstances. Ensuring that
women have easy access to free contraception will,
along with many other crucial issues, be on the ballot
this November.
ABCDE
FREDERICK J. RYAN JR., Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
News pages:
MARTIN BARON
Editorial and opinion pages:
Executive Editor
CAMERON BARR
Managing Editor
EMILIO GARCIA-RUIZ
Managing Editor
TRACY GRANT
Managing Editor
Associate Editorial Page Editor
SCOTT VANCE
Deputy Managing Editor
BARBARA VOBEJDA
Deputy Managing Editor
Vice Presidents:
JAMES W. COLEY JR......................................................................................Production
L. WAYNE CONNELL..........................................................................Human Resources
KATE M. DAVEY..................................................................................Revenue Strategy
ELIZABETH H. DIAZ ................................................. Audience Development & Insights
GREGG J. FERNANDES........................................................Customer Care & Logistics
STEPHEN P. GIBSON...................................................................Finance & Operations
SCOT GILLESPIE.........................................................................................................Arc
KRISTINE CORATTI KELLY...................................................Communications & Events
JOHN B. KENNEDY.................................................................General Counsel & Labor
MIKI TOLIVER KING........................................................................................Marketing
KAT DOWNS MULDER........................................................................Product & Design
SHAILESH PRAKASH...............................Digital Product Development & Engineering
JOY ROBINS...........................................................................................Client Solutions
The Washington Post
1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071 (202) 334-6000
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
lETTErs TO Th E Ed iTOr
letters@washpost.com
A cruel irony
There was a cruel irony at the heart of Curt
Levey’s defense of conservative jurisprudence in
his July 2 Thursday Opinion essay, “Roberts has
gone full Anthony Kennedy.” He suggested that
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Jr. cannot have arrived honestly at his positions on
abortion law, “dreamers” and employment discrim-
ination. He suggested that Justice Roberts’s moti-
vation is political — to decide
cases that do not lead to protests
and appeal to “the nation’s lead-
ing editorial pages and law
schools” — or an egoistic desire
to burnish his reputation as a
centrist.
Mr. Levey sees no merit in
protecting the children of immi-
grants who have spent their en- Roberts
tire lives here from deportation
to God-knows-where if that is what the law can be
made to impose. He would see the same hardship
imposed upon women in the vulnerable position of
wanting an abortion and transgender people who
simply want to be treated as people. In Mr. Levey’s
view, the humanitarian and egalitarian view is now
only “politically correct,” and what should motivate
conservatives is not the person affected or protect-
ed by the law but the law itself, abstracted from
people.
It is sad commentary because to an independent
like myself, the strength of the conservative
argument has always been its concern for the
individual in contrast to “big government.” Now,
according to Mr. Levey, the point of conservative
jurisprudence is to make laws that protect the
government and that insulate it from working on
behalf of the individuals, with complicated lives
and needs, whom it is set up to serve.
Michael Barr, Washington
A callous position on unemployment
Andy Puzder, who earned as much as $10 million
a year while serving as chief executive of CKE
Restaurants, revealed that he is upset by the
$600 weekly unemployment benefit that was part
of the Cares Act, and even more so by the
Democrats’ desire to extend these payments after
the authorization for them expires at the end of July
[“Unemployment benefits are causing a worker
shortage,” op-ed, July 3].
No surprise there. He also opposed the Obama
administration’s effort to raise the federal mini-
mum wage from $7.25 to $10.10.
Mr. Puzder claims, with some empirical support,
that these benefits, the equivalent of earning $15 an
hour for a 40-hour workweek, are discouraging
some of the unemployed from returning to
work. But there is a solution he doesn’t consider.
Businesses, like the restaurant chain he once
managed, should try paying their workers more
than $15 an hour, and maybe they should pay their
executives substantially less.
Richard Lempert, Arlington
What will never cease to amaze me is people
such as Andy Puzder writing from the safety and
comfort of his office about the dignity of work.
While, of course unemployment insurance should
be temporary, the solution to our current econom-
ic crisis is the implementation of an effective
coordinated national response to the novel coro-
navirus pandemic.
Isn’t it sad that restaurants in Orange County,
Calif., with a median household income of $85,398
per year, can’t find workers to serve those who
safely telework at home? With reports of a bar in
Arizona that continued to employ workers who
tested positive for the virus and other businesses
with inadequate safety protocols, of course labor
will be in short supply. Perhaps Mr. Puzder should
turn to the National Institutes of Health’s infec-
tious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci for economic
advice if he is truly interested in solving the United
States’ problem.
Carol Fernandez, Bethesda
I had never given much thought to the
$600 weekly payment to the unemployed through
the Cares Act until I read Andy Puzder’s July 3
op-ed, “Unemployment benefits are causing a
worker shortage.” Obviously, the $600 comes from
assuming an hourly rate of $15 for 40 hours per
week. It seems logical that it is in the best interests
of workers who may even make $15 per hour to not
go back to work if they are able to stay at home to
care for dependent children rather than pay for
child care and/or travel to work. Mr. Puzder’s op-ed
actually argued for a minimum hourly wage of
more that $15 so that workers can net the
equivalent of the $600 weekly they are receiving
now after going back to work and paying for child
care and transportation costs.
Kenneth W. Hopper, Washington
In abstract mathematical terms, what Andy
Puzder said makes some sense. If a person makes
less than $15 an hour, then it would be rational to
accept the unemployment benefit rather than work.
However, it is not clear that the small-business
owners trying to hire are looking for the people in
the cohort of 31.5 million who have applied for
unemployment benefits, and those individuals may
not have the jobs skills being sought, regardless of
the amount of unemployment benefit offered.
Cost of living varies a lot in different parts of the
country, so $15 an hour may be above-market in
some areas but woefully inadequate in others.
Orange County, Calif., is a very wealthy county, and
there is no way that there would be a large pool of
people willing to work for a sub-living wage there.
FRED HIATT There may be individuals in neighboring areas
Editorial Page Editor
JACKSON DIEHL
willing to work there, but the mass-transit infra-
Deputy Editorial Page Editor structure is inadequate, so potential workers
RUTH MARCUS
Deputy Editorial Page Editor cannot get to the job.
JO-ANN ARMAO
It is a sad statement about the state of our
country and type of economy we have when for
tens of millions of people, $15 an hour would
represent a significant salary increase.
Charles H. Stubin, Rockville
 Letters can be sent to letters@washpost.com.
Submissions must be exclusive to The Post and should
include the writer's address and day and evening
telephone numbers. Letters are subject to editing and
abridgment. Please do not send letters as attachments.
Because of the volume of material we receive, we are
unable to acknowledge submissions; writers whose letters
are under consideration for publication will be contacted.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
george F. Will
A calm
running mate
for calmer days
T G
oday’s racial turmoil, which was
detonated by a Minneapolis in-
stance of lethal police behavior
toward an African American, is
more serious than any since 1992. Then,
after the verdict exonerating the police
who beat an African American, Rodney
King, six days of rioting engulfed a swath
of Los Angeles, killing 63 and injuring
2,383. This far exceeded the calamity of
1965, when a traffic stop by a white LAPD
officer of an African American driver
spiraled into the Watts riots, which over
six days killed 34 and injured 1,032.
Both conflagrations occurred largely in
what is now the congressional district
represented by Karen Bass, an African
American Democrat now in her fifth
term. Her public career, which has been
shaped by her district’s memories of both
disasters, suits her to be Joe Biden’s vice-
presidential selection. Her impeccably
progressive credentials would soothe her
party’s fermenting left wing. Her even-
keeled disposition — “She’s not someone
who bristles,” says an admirer who has
“never heard her raise her voice” — would
appeal to the large majority of Americans
who have had a surfeit of bristling from
both ends of the political spectrum.
The daughter of a letter-carrier father
and a homemaker mother, Bass grew up
in the decidedly nonaffluent half of her
district, which includes the posh Century
City area. Her public career has revolved
around what will be 2020’s two central
issues: health care and criminal justice
reform.
Health care, which will be 2020’s most
salient issue when statue-smashing has
run its course, “obsessed” her, she says,
when in her 30s two epidemics — AIDS
and crack cocaine — ravaged African
American communities. She says crack
provoked benighted policies that “crimi-
nalized a public health problem.” Leaving
her position as a clinical instructor at the
University of Southern California’s De-
partment of Family Medicine, she found-
ed in 1990 the nonprofit Community
Coalition (CoCo) to devise nonpolice
measures for addressing crime.
Karen Bass would appeal
to Americans who have had
a surfeit of bristling
from both ends of the
political spectrum.
“We were completely wrong” — when is
the last time you heard a politician admit
that? — in thinking that crack houses
were the heart of the problem, she says.
CoCo discovered that liquor stores were
centers of criminal activity. Two hundred
of them burned in 1992, and CoCo helped
ensure that the most problematic ones
did not reopen. It also worked with older
gang members to cut the homicide rate.
Her focus today on criminal justice issues,
particularly prison reform, would dilute
progressives’ resentment of Biden’s large
role in passing the 1994 crime bill.
Elected to the state assembly in 2004,
in three terms Bass became majority
whip, then majority leader, then speaker.
When the Great Recession clobbered Cal-
ifornia in 2008, she was compelled to
undertake the distasteful task of pruning
about a third — $40 billion — of the state
budget. There, she got to know Kevin
McCarthy, now Republican leader in the
U.S. House, who has called Bass his favor-
ite Democrat because of her collaborative
talents. Faint praise, perhaps, but notable
in today’s toxic political climate.
She was one of only nine freshman
Democrats sent to Congress by the dispir-
iting (for her party) 2010 elections that
elevated “tea party Republicans.” The
highlight for the “Noble Nine” was dinner
at Biden’s vice presidential residence.
In Florida, the most important swing
state, some Democrats resent Bass’s too-
respectful 2016 statement on Fidel Cas-
tro’s death, calling him “comandante en
jefe” (commander in chief ). Their anxiety
would be assuaged by her service on the
board of the government’s most cost-
effective program, the National Endow-
ment for Democracy, where she has sup-
ported 65 grants totaling $6 million for
democracy movements in Cuba.
Today, Bass chairs the Congressional
Black Caucus, a former leader of which is
South Carolina’s James E. Clyburn, now
in his 14th term and third-ranking in the
Democrats’ House leadership. Rarely has
a presidential nominee owed to a sup-
porter a debt as large as Biden’s debt to
Clyburn. His political muscle made his
state’s primary resuscitate Biden’s falter-
ing campaign and propel it to victory.
Speaking by phone Monday from his
district, Clyburn, who has not endorsed
anyone, said “three big things” in Bass’s
favor are her “legislative acumen” honed
in California and on Capitol Hill, the fact
that she “is no stranger to foreign affairs”
and — “the biggest thing of all” — Biden
would not need to worry about her “one-
upping him,” because she has “no aspira-
tions” to be president.
Bass will be 67 on Jan. 20, when Biden
will be 78. Biden-Bass would be the na-
tion’s oldest winning ticket, transitional
leadership to get the world’s oldest party,
and the world’s oldest democracy, to
calmer days.
georgewill@washpost.com
Washington football team owner Dan Snyder at FedEx Field in Landover in December.
Dear Dan Snyder: Don’t pick a
new native-inspired team name
BY K EVIN G OVER
O
n Friday, Washington football
team owner Daniel Snyder
announced that the team will
engage in a thorough review
of its name — a name I refuse to
repeat since it is the dictionary defini-
tion of a racial slur. Social media has
since been abuzz with proposed re-
placement names, including some
alleged to honor this country’s indige-
nous peoples.
Do us a favor, Mr. Snyder. Don’t
pick a new, native-inspired name or
mascot that references our culture.
Being your mascot is not an honor,
nor does it honor the bravery of
native people. In fact, it would be
doubling down on the way your team
has mocked our history and culture,
reinforced stereotypes and promoted
prejudice. It would further harm the
self-esteem of American Indian
young people and undermine the
educational experiences of all com-
munities — especially those who have
had little or no contact with indige-
nous peoples. And it would distract
from real life-or-death challenges
American Indians face today, such as
the disappearance of an untold num-
ber of American Indian and Alaska
Native women and girls under suspi-
cious circumstances; the dispropor-
tionate number of our brothers and
sisters affected by the novel coronavi-
rus; and the fact that Native Ameri-
cans are more likely to be killed in
police shootings than other people.
Snyder’s about-face comes against
the backdrop of the Black Lives Mat-
ter movement and as the country
confronts its shameful past relating
to black Americans, indigenous
Americans and people of color. It
coincides with the removal of Confed-
leana S. Wen
A checklist for reopening schools
V
ice President Pence says it is
“absolutely essential that we get
our kids in the classroom for
in-person learning.” His remarks
Wednesday followed President Trump’s
announcement that “we’re very much
going to put pressure on governors and
everybody else to open the schools” —
and a follow-up tweet threatening to cut
off funding if schools remain closed.
Pence and Trump are right about the
importance of in-person instruction. But
the Trump administration can’t just set a
timeline without committing to the nec-
essary work to ensure the health and
safety of students, teachers and their
families.
The single most important require-
ment for resuming in-person instruction
is suppressing the level of covid-19 infec-
tions in the community. Imagine if
schools tried to open now in areas
undergoing massive surges, including
Houston, Miami and Phoenix. Groups of
children gathering indoors would add
fuel to the flame and worsen the crisis.
This is why the White House’s own
guidelines prohibit schools from reopen-
ing until the community has reached
Phase 2 — defined, at minimum, as
recording a consistent decline in new
infections.
Right now, more than 40 states have
increasing cases. To reverse this trend,
governors will need to reimpose restric-
tions and make difficult tradeoffs. Some
businesses, such as bars and nightclubs,
may need to stay closed for the summer
to keep virus levels low enough for
schools to be open in the fall. The Trump
administration needs to support these
actions rather than cast doubt on the
severity of the current surge.
Another urgent and long-overdue
step: The administration needs to imple-
eZ Re
erate battle flags and statues, and
companies retiring images that are
based on racial stereotypes.
Let’s be honest: Snyder did not
undergo some spontaneous moral
enlightenment that moved him off
his 2013 promise that he would “NEV-
ER” change the team’s name. Rather,
he had little choice once major spon-
sor FedEx asked the team to change
its name and D.C. Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser said the name is an obsta-
cle to the team returning to a new
stadium in the city. Pressure on the
team continued on Saturday when
The Post’s editorial board reiterated
its previous calls for a name change,
saying, “Every time the R-word is
used, something disrespectful is hap-
pening.”
Reporting suggests that fans favor
new names along the lines of “War-
riors” or “Braves,” assuming they
would honor Native Americans in
general and native veterans in partic-
ular. But adopting any variation on
that theme will actually have the
opposite effect. It will embolden dis-
respectful fans of this team and other
teams across the country to continue
painting their faces, donning head-
dresses and participating in that de-
spicable tomahawk chop. It will pro-
long the silliness of dressing cheer-
leaders in faux-native fashions. And it
will perpetuate the unseemly practice
of parading native veterans in front of
rowdy fans during halftime shows.
Enough is enough; our veterans are
not your entertainment, and they are
not your mascots. They are men and
women who have served in the
U.S. Armed Forces since the Ameri-
can Revolution and hold a special
place in our tribal cultures.
Among the things we have learned
from the Black Lives Matter move-
ment a national testing strategy and
substantially ramp up testing capacity.
Some schools in Germany require stu-
dents and staff to pass self-administered
covid-19 tests every four days. This would
be an option that many U.S. parents and
teachers will want, and some proposals,
such as pooled testing, may offer a path
to do so. Given the current shortage of
tests and the lack of agreement on who
would pay for testing, that seems unlike-
ly to happen by the fall. At the very least,
there must be sufficient tests that all
those who have symptoms or exposure
could be tested immediately, with results
available the same day.
In addition, the community needs to
have the capability to conduct contact
tracing and regular surveillance. If there
is a cluster of infections linked to a
particular school, prompt action needs to
be taken, including quarantining close
contacts and even temporary school clo-
sure. This is another reason to suppress
the level of virus in the community now:
Constant outbreaks will quickly over-
whelm the public health infrastructure.
During Wednesday’s news conference,
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, em-
phasized that his agency’s guidelines are
just recommendations — they are not
mandatory. Why not? There should be a
checklist of, say, 20 things that must be
done to ensure safety in schools. The
language must be unambiguous. No
more nebulous messages such as desks
should be spaced apart “when feasible”
and communal spaces closed “if possi-
ble.” Firm rules don’t limit local autono-
my; they provide a clear road map for
superintendents, while reassuring par-
ents and teachers.
All these new measures would require
enormous amounts of planning. To space
John McDonnell/the Washington Post
ment is that merely speaking out
against racism is not enough. We
need to aggressively oppose racism
every time we see or hear it. As a
Native American director of one of
the Smithsonian museums, I feel a
special responsibility to practice anti-
racism. As Secretary Lonnie Bunch
III said when he became the leader of
our institution: “It’s crucial for us to
model the behavior, model the expec-
tations, model the hopes that we want
for the rest of the country.”
Snyder now has the opportunity to
do something truly important lead-
ing up to this year’s NFL season — not
just by changing the name and mas-
cot of the hometown team, but also by
setting an example for the Cleveland
Indians, Chicago Blackhawks, Kansas
City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves and the
hundreds of schools across the coun-
try that continue to maintain their
own teams’ racist names and mas-
cots. Mr. Snyder, you can lead if you
choose to do so.
Defeating racism is the work of
generations. As individuals, we may
not live to see the end of racism, but
we can build on the work of our
ancestors by devoting our lives to
fighting it at every opportunity.
Throughout my career — as a lawyer,
as assistant secretary for Indian af-
fairs and as a museum director — I
have done what I can to spare my own
children the pain of seeing profes-
sional sports make a mockery of our
culture. While this moment of change
may have come too late to spare them,
perhaps the home team can do the
right thing for my grandchildren.
the writer is the director of the
smithsonian’s national Museum of the
american indian and a citizen of the
Pawnee tribe of oklahoma.
students out, there would likely be differ-
ent configurations of classes, at different
hours, that require more buses and addi-
tional teachers. New hand-washing and
sanitizing stations would need to be
installed and new cleaning protocols
implemented. Nurse aides might be
hired to conduct symptom screenings.
Students and staff will need masks and
other personal protective equipment.
Congress has already allocated $13 bil-
lion, but the cost will be much more.
Instead of making a commitment for
this needed funding, the Trump admin-
istration is attacking local officials who
are trying to balance complex competing
priorities. Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos criticized one of the largest school
districts in the country, Virginia’s Fair-
fax County, for its plan to offer part-time
in-person instruction. “A choice of two
days per week in the classroom is not a
choice at all,” she said.
Actually, a hybrid of remote and in-
person teaching may well be the best
option. There will be some children who
cannot return because of their own
health conditions. There will be older
teachers with multiple risk factors who
can only safely work remotely. The
Trump administration needs to support
the enormous efforts undertaken by
school districts to accommodate vulnera-
ble students and teachers, not to shame
and threaten them.
We have already seen what happens
when reopening occurs too soon and
without the proper safeguards. If getting
schools back is the top priority that the
Trump administration says it is, it needs
to do the hard work and provide the
necessary funding to get there. Arbitrary
timelines and empty rhetoric will only
harm students, parents and teachers.
Twitter: @DrLeanaWen
a21
e.J. Dionne Jr.
Why can’t we
settle on
contraception?
iven that more than two-thirds of
Americans believe, in principle
at least, that private health insur-
ance plans should cover contra-
ception, it’s strange that we can’t seem to
settle the matter. You would think a
functioning democracy could work this
issue out in a reasonable way that re-
spected the rights of women as well as the
rights of those with religious objections
to contraception.
Instead, the question of whether
health plans issued under the Affordable
Care Act should cover birth control has
been the subject of an ongoing, maximal-
ist culture war. The Supreme Court’s
decision on Wednesday will make things
worse.
The ruling concerned a Trump admin-
istration regulation that allows even
publicly traded corporations — not just
family-owned companies — to deny
their female employees this coverage if
they have religious objections.
Since most employers seem likely to
continue to cover contraception, the deci-
sion’s immediate impact may be limited
to an estimated 70,000 to 126,000 wom-
en, which is little comfort to those who
will be affected. And giving large busi-
nesses expansive rights to invoke religion
to deny employees a particular benefit
creates serious dangers. The Trump rule
falls far short of balancing legitimately
competing interests.
The vote was technically 7 to 2, but
actually, and importantly, it was 5 to 2 to
2. Writing for herself and Justice Ste-
phen G. Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan
agreed with the five conservative jus-
tices in sending the case back to the
lower courts. But she raised serious and
proper questions about whether the
administration’s rules reflect the “rea-
soned judgment” that the law demands,
and added: “Other aspects of the depart-
ments’ handiwork may also prove arbi-
trary and capricious.”
The rule’s “overbreadth causes serious
harm,” Kagan wrote. She questioned ex-
tending the religious exemption to “even
publicly traded corporations” and allow-
ing closely held companies and not-for-
profits to block contraception coverage
not only on religious grounds but also for
more nebulous “moral” reasons.
And, in dissent, Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Soto-
mayor, asked exactly the right question:
“May the Government jettison an ar-
rangement that promotes women work-
ers’ well-being while accommodating
employers’ religious tenets and, instead,
defer entirely to employers’ religious be-
liefs, although that course harms women
who do not share those beliefs?”
That is the nub of an issue that has
been vexing since the Obama administra-
tion issued its initial ACA rules in 2012,
providing an extremely limited exemp-
tion on contraception. It covered only
narrowly defined “religious employers.”
It exempted churches, for example, but
not religious universities or social-
service agencies and hospitals.
The administration back then was
wrong not to recognize it had a broader
obligation to accommodate religious con-
cerns. After an uproar, President Barack
Obama recognized the error and gave a
broader group of religious institutions a
chance to opt out of providing the contra-
ception coverage, and placed the coverage
requirement on private insurers.
This move was a reasonable compro-
mise, and it was welcomed at the time by
many religious providers of social servic-
es. But it was not enough for more conser-
vative religious groups. They argued that
even the act of asking for the exemption
made them complicit in a policy they
found objectionable. Since then, religious
conservatives have pressed for ever-
broader exemptions, culminating in the
Trump administration’s rules and
Wednesday’s court decision.
There’s good reason to wonder wheth-
er history might have turned out differ-
ently if the Obama administration had
been more accommodating to religious
groups at the outset. But once Obama did
signal a willingness to compromise,
many religious groups resisted working
with the administration to avoid a show-
down. Conservatives in large numbers
seemed more interested in a confronta-
tion with liberalism than in creating a
sustainable consensus for religious liber-
ty in a pluralist society.
We desperately need to stop this cycle
of seeking zero-sum victories. During the
oral argument on the case, Chief Justice
John G. Roberts Jr. and Breyer both
expressed frustration over the inability of
the dueling parties to find a way to
respect the rights of religious not-for-
profits and the right of women to contra-
ception coverage in their health-care
plans.
Obama, after initially failing, at least
tried to find this common ground. But
the Trump administration is allergic to
the words “common ground.” It thrives
on orchestrating as many cultural con-
flicts as it can across as many fronts as
possible.
As Kagan suggested, it falls first to the
lower courts to examine Trump’s over-
reach in writing these expansive rules.
But, ultimately, it will be for the voters to
decide whether we want leadership that
seeks reasonable and durable settle-
ments of divisive cultural questions. Do-
ing so will help us move on to such
pressing concerns as getting everyone
health coverage in the first place.
Twitter: @EJDionne
A22
Justices uphold broadened ACA birth control exemption
CourT from A1
must allow religious schools to
participate.
“It’s a big term,” said mark rien-
zi, president of the Becket fund for
religious Liberty. And Wednes-
day’s decisions showed that
“broad agreement for religious in-
terests and religious diversity.”
The Supreme Court’s decisions
will conclude Thursday with what
could be a blockbuster decision
abut whether President Trump
may shield his private financial
records and tax returns from con-
gressional committees and a New
York prosecutor.
It will be a fitting finale to a
term in which the court has left
few politically controversial topics
untouched: It said federal law pro-
tects LGBTQ workers from dis-
crimination, disappointed anti-
abortion activists and gun rights
supporters, and stopped the
Trump administration from end-
ing the program that protects un-
documented immigrants brought
to the United States as children.
The contraceptive case involves
a long-running dispute over
obamacare, as the ACA is known,
and a requirement that employers
provide cost-free birth control for
female employees. The law itself
doesn’t specify the rules, leaving it
to federal agencies to determine
how contraceptives fit into the
mandate for cost-free “preventive
care and screenings.”
The obama administration re-
quired contraceptives and had
narrower exceptions for churches
and other houses of worship. It
created a system of “accommoda-
tions,” or workarounds, for reli-
giously affiliated organizations
such as hospitals and universities.
Those accommodations would
provide the contraceptive care but
avoid having the objecting organi-
zations directly cover the cost.
The Trump administration
moved in 2018 to expand the types
of organizations that could opt out
to include religious groups and
nonreligious employers with mor-
al and religious objections.
Under the rules, the employers
able to opt out include essentially
all nongovernmental workplaces,
from small businesses to fortune
500 companies. And the employer
has the choice of whether to per-
mit the workaround. (most com-
panies are happy to provide birth
control.)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 3rd Circuit had put the Trump
administration exemptions on
hold, and said the agencies didn’t
have the broad authority to grant
them.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who
wrote the majority opinion, said
that was wrong.
“We hold that the [administra-
tion] had the authority to provide
exemptions from the regulatory
contraceptive requirements for
employers with religious and con-
scientious objections,” wrote
Thomas, who was joined by Chief
Justice John G. roberts Jr. and
Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil
m. Gorsuch and Brett m. Ka-
vanaugh.
Thomas reasoned that if an ad-
Fired religious-instruction workers cannot sue employers, high court rules
BY R OBERT B ARNES
The Supreme Court on
Wednesday broadened the abili-
ty of religious organizations to
hire and fire employees without
offending federal anti-discrimi-
nation laws, affirming that the
Constitution provides freedom
to choose who teaches the faith.
In a 7-to-2 decision, the court
strengthened the “ministerial ex-
ception” it found in 2012 that
protects religious organizations
from some employment law-
suits. It said two teachers at
parochial schools who wanted to
contest their firings in court
were the kinds of employees who
were covered by the exception
and thus unable to sue.
It indicated that those in-
volved in almost any kind of
religious instruction would be
considered “ministers” of the
faith, no matter their official title
or even if they practiced the faith
themselves.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and
ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented,
saying the decision gave reli-
gious employers “free rein to
discriminate.”
Judges on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San
francisco had said the teachers
could proceed with their law-
suits against Catholic schools in
California.
Agnes morrissey-Berru al-
leged age discrimination against
our Lady of Guadalupe School in
the Los Angeles area. In the other
case, Kristen Biel sued St. James
School in Torrance. She said her
firing after a diagnosis of breast
cancer violated the Americans
With Disabilities Act. (Biel lost
Tom Alexander holds a cross outside the Supreme Court. The court’s ruling on coverage of contraceptive care expands employers’ ability to claim an exemption from the
Affordable Care Act mandate, and the government estimates that between 70,000 and 126,000 women could lose access to cost-free birth control as a result.
ministration’s agencies have “vir-
tually unbridled discretion to de-
cide what counts as preventive
care and screenings,” he said, they
must also have “the ability to iden-
tify and create exemptions” from
those guidelines.
Liberal Justices Elena Kagan
and Stephen G. Breyer agreed
with the court’s conservatives that
the administration had the right
to create an exemption, but they
said lower courts should examine
whether the administration’s
rules were “consistent with rea-
soned judgment.”
Justice ruth Bader Ginsburg
issued a blistering dissent, in
which she said her colleagues had
gone too far to appease religious
conservatives.
Until now, “this Court has taken
a balanced approach, one that
does not allow the religious beliefs
of some to overwhelm the rights
and interests of others who do not
share those beliefs,” Ginsburg
wrote in a brief joined by Justice
Sonia Sotomayor.
“Today, for the first time, the
Court casts totally aside counter-
vailing rights and interests in its
zeal to secure religious rights to
the nth degree.”
Ginsburg said Congress meant
her battle with the disease last
year, and her husband, Darryl
Biel, had taken her place in the
lawsuit.)
But both “performed vital reli-
gious duties,” said Justice Samu-
el A. Alito Jr., who wrote for the
court’s majority.
“The religious education and
formation of students is the very
reason for the existence of most
private religious schools, and
therefore the selection and su-
pervision of the teachers upon
whom the schools rely to do this
work lie at the core of their
mission,” Alito wrote.
“Judicial review of the way in
which religious schools dis-
charge those responsibilities
would undermine the indepen-
dence of religious institutions in
a way that the first Amendment
does not tolerate.”
Conservatives on the Supreme
Court have been more broadly
supportive of religious rights
and organizations. Last week,
the court ruled that states that
aid private schools may not ex-
clude religious ones.
But in the case decided
Wednesday, Justices Stephen G.
Breyer and Elena Kagan, usually
part of the court’s liberal bloc,
voted with the majority.
The teacher cases asked the
court for further guidance on
when an employee of a religious
organization should be consid-
ered secular and, thus, able to
take advantage of anti-discrimi-
nation laws — or religious, and
thus unable to do so.
In a unanimous decision in
2012, the court said the “ministe-
rial exception” meant that a for-
mer teacher at a michigan Lu-
eZ re
to provide “gainfully employed
women comprehensive, seamless,
no-cost insurance coverage for
preventive care protective of their
health and wellbeing.”
The court’s action, she wrote,
“leaves women workers to fend for
themselves, to seek contraceptive
coverage from sources other than
their employer’s insurer, and, ab-
sent another available source of
funding, to pay for contraceptive
services out of their own pockets.”
Thomas countered that it was
Congress that left the decisions up
to federal agencies. “Contrary to
the dissent’s protestations, it was
Congress, not the departments,
that declined to expressly require
contraceptive coverage in the ACA
itself.”
reproductive rights groups
were alarmed by the decision.
“The Supreme Court’s decision
to allow the Trump administra-
tion to put control over people’s
birth control in the hands of the
whims of their bosses and employ-
ers is deplorable,” NArAL Pro-
Choice America President Ilyse
Hogue said in a statement. “This
decision just further exposes that
ultimately, the radical right is
really about controlling women
and our lives with no eye towards
Antiabortion demonstrators pray in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. In a win for religious
organizations, the court affirmed a 2012 decision that protects them from some employment lawsuits.
theran school could not sue her
employer.
The key, Alito said, is the
Constitution’s protection of the
free exercise of religion.
“This does not mean that reli-
gious institutions enjoy a gener-
al immunity from secular laws,
but it does protect their autono-
my with respect to internal man-
agement decisions that are es-
sential to the institution’s central
mission,” he wrote. “And a com-
ponent of this autonomy is the
selection of the individuals who
equality or public health and well
being.”
religious groups said the legal
battles should stop.
In addition to the Trump ad-
ministration, the Little Sisters of
the Poor defended the rules. The
order of nuns, which runs homes
for the elderly and employs about
2,700 people, pointed out that the
government provided exemptions
from the beginning for religious
organizations such as churches. It
said the accommodation provi-
sion violates the 1993 religious
freedom restoration Act, the law
that says the government must
have a compelling reason for pro-
grams that substantially burden
religious beliefs.
“We are overjoyed that, once
again, the Supreme Court has pro-
tected our right to serve the elder-
ly without violating our faith,” said
mother Loraine marie maguire of
the Little Sisters of the Poor, whose
employees work in the group’s fa-
cilities. “our life’s work and great
joy is serving the elderly poor and
we are so grateful that the contra-
ceptive mandate will no longer
steal our attention from our call-
ing.”
White House press secretary
Kayleigh mcEnany said in a state-
play certain key roles.”
As in 2012’s Hosanna-Tabor
Evangelical Lutheran Church
and School v. EEOC, the majority
declined to set up a specific
formula that should be applied
in all cases.
Although they joined the ma-
jority opinion, Justices Clarence
Thomas and Neil m. Gorsuch
said that it did not go far enough
and that any decisions about
which employees qualified
should be left up to the organiza-
tions’ “good-faith claims.”
the washington post
ment that the decision was “a big
win for religious freedom and
freedom of conscience.”
“Since Day one, the Trump Ad-
ministration has sought to lift bur-
dens on religious exercise for peo-
ple of all faiths,” she said, adding
the administration would work to
allow “women who lack access to
contraceptive coverage because of
their employer’s religious beliefs
or moral convictions to more easi-
ly access such care” through feder-
al programs.
The states of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey initially challenged
the rules, noting that when wom-
en lose coverage from their em-
ployers, they seek state-funded
programs and services.
While Thomas’s opinion leaned
more heavily on administrative
law than religious liberty, he
praised the nuns who have been
involved in challenging the man-
date from the beginning.
“for over 150 years, the Little
Sisters have engaged in faithful
service and sacrifice, motivated by
a religious calling to surrender all
for the sake of their brother,” he
wrote.
“. . . After two decisions from
this court and multiple failed reg-
ulatory attempts, the federal gov-
ChIp somodevIllA/getty ImAges
“This deference is necessary
because, as the court rightly ob-
serves, judges lack the requisite
‘understanding and apprecia-
tion of the role played by every
person who performs a particu-
lar role in every religious tradi-
tion,’ ” they said.
Sotomayor said the court’s de-
cision distorts its “careful” 2014
ruling and “strips thousands of
schoolteachers of their legal pro-
tections.”
She continued: “It gives an
employer free rein to discrimi-
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
pAtrICk semAnsky/AssoCIAted press
ernment has arrived at a solution
that exempts the Little Sisters
from the source of their complici-
ty-based concerns — the adminis-
tratively imposed contraceptive
mandate.”
But the legal fight might not be
over.
In a concurring opinion, Alito
and Gorsuch said the court had
not gone far enough to settle the
issue for good.
“We now send these cases back
to the lower courts, where the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and the State of New Jersey are all
but certain to pursue their argu-
ment that the current rule is
flawed on yet another ground,”
Alito wrote.
He would have found that the
religious exemption was not just
authorized, but also required un-
der the religious freedom resto-
ration Act.
“I would bring the Little Sisters’
legal odyssey to an end,” Alito
wrote.
The cases are Little Sisters of the
Poor v. Pennsylvania and Trump
v. Pennsylvania.
robert.barnes@washpost.com
Ann e. marimow contributed to this
report.
nate because of race, sex, preg-
nancy, age, disability, or other
traits protected by law when
selecting or firing their ‘minis-
ters,’ even when the discrimina-
tion is wholly unrelated to the
employer’s religious beliefs or
practices. That is, an employer
need not cite or possess a reli-
gious reason at all; the ministeri-
al exception even condones ani-
mus.”
Stanford law professor Jeffrey
L. fisher, who argued the case on
behalf of the women, said he
believed the decision would re-
move protection for about half of
the 300,000 lay teachers in reli-
gious schools — “those who
teach a general curriculum in
elementary schools and those
who teach religion in middle or
high schools. It remains to be
seen whether the court will de-
clare employment discrimina-
tion laws unconstitutional as ap-
plied to the other half who teach
only secular subjects.”
Eric rassbach, a senior coun-
sel at the Becket fund for reli-
gious Liberty, which represented
the schools, said the decision was
a “huge win for religious schools
of all faith traditions.”
“The last thing government
officials should do is decide who
is authorized to teach Catholi-
cism to Catholics or Judaism to
Jews. We are glad the Court has
resoundingly reaffirmed that
churches and synagogues, not
government, control who teach-
es kids about God,” he said in a
statement.
The cases are Our Lady of
Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-
Berru and St. James School v. Biel.
robert.barnes@washpost.com

8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m.
78 86 89 84
° ° ° °
Nursing homes kept taking patients — and some died
New admissions help
facilities financially,
but safety issues persist
BY R EBECCA T AN
AND R ACHEL C HASON
Lorraine Sheppard moved into
Potomac Valley Rehabilitation
and Healthcare Center for physi-
cal therapy in mid-April, just as
the Rockville nursing home re-
ported its first novel coronavirus
case.
Within three weeks, the largely
healthy 92-year-old was dead.
Va. clears
its backlog
of 2,665
rape kits
Five years’ testing has
yielded one prosecution
so far, officials said
BY T OM J ACKMAN
Virginia has eliminated a back-
log of 2,665 untested rape kits
that had sat on shelves in local
police departments for years,
state Attorney General Mark R.
Herring announced Wednesday.
Herring (D) said a law that
requires police to submit their
kits to the state crime lab within
60 days should prevent such a
backlog from occurring again,
and victims can now track the
progress of testing on their kits.
Herring said tests on 851 of
those kits resulted in DNA pro-
files that were entered into
CoDIS, the national combined
DNA index system, and 354 of
those profiles resulted in “hits”:
names sent to local law enforce-
ment for further investigation.
But only one person has been
charged so far, in Spotsylvania
County, Herring said.
SEE BACKLoG oN B3
What’s in a
name? More
than what the
polls show.
on a recent
afternoon, I
clicked on the
website of a
publication I
theresa
don’t normally
read and landed
Vargas on a piece that
left me
immediately regretful.
It was a 12-paragraph push
against some of the recent calls
for Washington’s football team
to change its name.
Many anti-name-change
pieces have, of course, found
homes on conservative
platforms since Friday, when the
team announced plans to
conduct a “thorough review” of
the moniker, which has been a
source of controversy, lawsuits
and protests for decades.
That pushback is predictable.
It has come before when the
team has faced intense pressure
to drop the r-word from its
identity.
That pushback is also not
particularly illuminating. Most
of it has relied on the same
recycled reasoning for clinging
to the past.
I have read many of those
types of articles over the years,
first as a reporter who covered
the name controversy and now
SEE VArGAs oN B5
KLMNO
METRO
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . washingtonpost.com/regional eZ re B
High today at JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON THE DISTRICT OBITUARIES
approx. 3 p.m.
the cellphone bill came Civil rights groups allege ida haendel, 96, a Polish-
91° in her late husband’s D.C. police helped federal born prodigy, was known
Precip: 10% name. getting it changed authorities forcibly clear as “the grande dame of
Wind: E
7-14 mph wasn’t easy. B3 lafayette square. B6 the violin.” B6
Sheppard was one of at least up hospital beds, but less atten- Known cases in region
five newly admitted short-term
residents who contracted the vi-
tion has been paid to the implica-
tions of nursing homes choosing there have been 148,878 reported
rus after arriving at Potomac Val- to accept non-coronavirus pa- coronavirus cases in the District,
Maryland and Virginia, including
ley in April or May, family mem-
bers said. Three of them died as
tients into their ranks.
For these facilities, closing the 1,173 new ones, through 5 p.m.
the nursing home struggled to door to new residents means shut- Wednesday.
contain a growing outbreak. ting off a source of revenue and
D.C. MD. VA.
Their deaths point toward a turning away people in desperate
thorny question faced by all nurs- need of care. But continuing ad- 10,642 70,861 67,375
ing homes this year: Whether to missions risks exposing new and +73 +465 +635
continue taking new patients dur- existing residents to the virus, es-
ing a pandemic that has devastat- pecially if the facility is unable to Coronavirus-related deaths
ed the elderly and infirm, leaving properly isolate patients or lacks As of 5 p.m. Wednesday:
many facilities short-staffed and SEE nursinG homes oN B4
D.C. MD.* VA.
overwhelmed.
Governments in New York and Pleasant View nursing home in 564 3,275 1,905
other states have been lambasted Carroll County, md., site of an +3 +9 +24
for forcing nursing homes to ac- early outbreak, was barred by
cept coronavirus patients to free KAtherine Frey/the WAshington Post the state from new admissions. * Includes probable covid-19 deaths
Hogan calls
Richmond dismantles another Confederate monument for ‘normal
election’ in
November
absentee forms,
not ballots in mail
After long primary lines,
all Md. precincts to open
BY E RIN C OX
Maryland will conduct Novem-
ber’s election as a “normal” affair,
Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednes-
day, opening every precinct and
early-voting center while arming
election workers with protective
equipment to limit spread of the
novel coronavirus.
Hogan (R) did not endorse a
proposal to mail ballots to every
voter, as the state did for its June
2 primary. He said he will ask the
State Board of Elections to in-
stead send an application to vote
by mail to all eligible voters, part
of an effort to reduce how many
people need to vote in person.
His directive selects an option
that election officials had previ-
ously discarded as unworkable
because of logistical challenges.
But the governor said he hopes
the approach will spread out
SEE eLeCTion oN B5
Legislation
to let D.C.
felons vote
in custody
Council passes provision
as part of emergency
policing reform effort
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
The nation’s capital is on the
verge of allowing felons to vote
while they are still incarcerated
and proactively mailing absentee
ballots to D.C. residents held at the
local jail and in federal prisons
across the country.
The District would join Maine
and Vermont in permitting incar-
cerated felons to vote, under a
John MCDonnell/the WAshington Post provision in emergency police re-
form legislation passed Tuesday
A crew removes the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument from a tall pedestal in Richmond’s by the D.C. Council.
The bill is expected to take ef-
Libby Hill Park on Wednesday. Unveiled in 1894, the statue is one of a handful of icons that have fect in the coming weeks, with
come down during recent weeks in the wake of unyielding protests. Story, B2. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) un-
likely to veto it, but as emergency
legislation it would expire in 90
days unless the council approves a
permanent version this fall.
Federal inmates could request
absentee ballots for the November
election, but officials would not be
required to send those ballots to
all prisoners this year.
SEE VoTinG oN B5
B2
Richmond removes statue of South’s ‘Vindicatrix’
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
RICHMOND — Workers used a
crane to pluck a bronze female
figure known as the South’s “Vin-
dicatrix” from the remains of this
city’s Jefferson Davis monument
on Wednesday afternoon, after
taking down the Confederate Sol-
diers and Sailors Monument ear-
lier in the day.
The statues are the latest to be
taken down in the former capital
of the Confederacy in the week
since Richmond Mayor Levar
Stoney (D) ordered the removal
of city-owned monuments to the
“Lost Cause.”
Stoney had work begin July 1,
as a new state law took effect
giving local authorities control
over war memorials on their
property. His order, issued with-
out a City Council vote and
against the city attorney’s advice,
came amid a national uproar over
police brutality and racial injus-
tice.
Richmond’s Confederate trib-
utes, particularly the five tower-
ing statues on its famed Monu-
ment Avenue, became a focal
point for the protests that erupt-
ed in late May after the killing of
George Floyd in Minneapolis po-
lice custody.
Stoney said he had the authori-
ty to act without delays mandat-
ed under the state law because
the city is under a state of emer-
gency, which Gov. Ralph
Northam (D) declared and ex-
tended at the mayor’s request
Confectioner’s commute
The Carnival Sweets and Treats wagon sits on the side of Sharpsburg Pike in Hagerstown, Md., on the Fourth of July. Usually found working about
20 locations on the local fair and carnival circuit from April to October, the wagon’s owners have had to improvise amid widespread cancellations because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
The ReGion
Coronavirus caseload rises slightly, with key metrics mixed
BY D ANA H EDGPETH,
J ULIE Z AUZMER
AND E RIN C OX
The daily influx of new corona-
virus cases increased slightly in
the Washington region Wednes-
day, with hospitalizations rising in
Virginia for the second consecu-
tive day and Maryland Gov. Larry
Hogan saying he was closely
watching surrounding states for a
surge to cross the border.
As caseloads spike in states
across the South and West, Hogan
(R) warned: “We are not immune
to this.”
It was not clear whether the
more than 1,110 new coronavirus
cases and 36 deaths reported by
Virginia, Maryland and the Dis-
trict on Wednesday represent a
blip or change in a trajectory.
Hogan noted during a radio
Subscriber Exclusives
A steelworker ties the “Vindicatrix” statue onto a flatbed trailer after it was removed from a pillar atop
the former monument to Jefferson Davis in Richmond on Wednesday. The statue of Davis, part of a
row of Confederate monuments, was toppled from its pedestal by protesters in early June.
over the unrest. Stoney said he
feared that protesters would get
injured or killed if they tried
taking the monuments down
themselves. He also said the stat-
ues might contribute to the
spread of the novel coronavirus
by attracting large protests.
Protesters took matters into
interview on WBAL’s “C4 Show”
that caseloads in the Mid-Atlantic
are in far better shape compared
with elsewhere. But case numbers
are not in a widespread decline
and people — especially young
people — need to be vigilant, he
said.
“It can change and turn on a
dime,” Hogan said.
Virginia reported 635 new cas-
es and 24 deaths Wednesday, with
both numbers above the state’s
recent averages. Five jurisdictions
in the Hampton Roads area have
average daily caseloads at least
double, and in some cases more
than triple, what they reported
three weeks ago. Northern Virgin-
ia’s daily average, meanwhile, has
dropped to levels last seen in late
March.
The 73 new cases reported in
the District helped push the city’s
Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. ET: Coronavirus – Leadership During Crisis
New Jersey bore a heavy burden at the outset of the pandemic, as the tri-state region became the epicenter of COVID-19 in America.
As part of the Leadership During Crisis series New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) joins Washington Post national political reporter
Robert Costa to discuss the toll the virus has taken on the Garden State, both in lives and dollars. He’ll also outline the progress his
state is making in its phased reopening and the challenges he sees ahead. The conversation is part of Washington Post Live, the
newsroom’s live journalism platform. Tune in at washingtonpostlive.com.
eZ Re
their own hands last month by
toppling the statue of Davis, but
they could not tackle the Vindica-
trix, perched high atop a granite
column.
On July 1, Stoney’s crews start-
ed with the statue of Stonewall
Jackson, which was taken down
during a thunderstorm. Former
rolling seven-day average to 40
new cases per day, up from an
average of 33 cases over the week-
end. The city also reset its clock on
“It can change and turn
on a dime.”
Maryland Gov. Larry hogan, on
staying vigilant because virus cases
are not on a widespread decline
key metrics to determine when
the virus’s spread within the com-
munity has been blunted enough
for more businesses to reopen.
As of Wednesday, the city has
registered three out of the 14 days
of sustained decline in communi-
ty transmissions necessary to be-
John mcDonnell/the WaShington PoSt
Confederate Naval commander
Matthew Fontaine Maury was
dismantled the next day. J.E.B.
Stuart fell Tuesday.
That has left just one iconic
monument standing on the ave-
nue, a bronze equestrian statue of
Robert E. Lee owned by the state.
Northam has ordered its remov-
michael S. WilliamSon/the WaShington PoSt
gin considering Phase 3.
District officials said it was not
necessarily cause for concern, say-
ing variation in daily case counts
can be normal for this stage of
recovery.
One of the key measurements of
the virus’s spread — the number of
people sick enough to be hospital-
ized — is moving in different direc-
tions in the Washington region.
While Maryland and the Dis-
trict logged their fewest number
of hospitalized patients since
March — 398 and 86, respectively
— Virginia reported 179 people
had been hospitalized with the
virus in the past two days, with 971
patients total. It marked the high-
est number since June 14.
In Maryland, Hogan continued
to warn against complacency and
raised alarm about the virus
spreading faster among younger
the washington post
al, but work has been delayed by a
court challenge.
With the biggest city-owned
monuments down, work crews
carried on Wednesday with the
lower-profile Confederate Sol-
diers and Sailors Monument,
which was unveiled in 1894 in the
city’s Libby Hill neighborhood.
Then it was back to Monument
Avenue, where workers in a cher-
ry picker used drills and ham-
mers to loosen the female figure,
who stood with her right arm
pointing to the sky.
In literature created for the
statue’s dedication, she was de-
scribed as “the emblem of South-
ern womanhood . . . the immortal
spirit of her land, shining un-
quenched within her eyes, and
her hand uplifted in an eternal
appeal to the God of justice and
truth,” according to virginiaplac-
es.org, a historical attractions
website.
She was also known as “Miss
Confederacy,” according to a 2017
Richmond Magazine article on
her creation.
Hooked to the crane as dozens
of people looked on, she looked
like Mary Poppins as she made
her sweeping descent, arm ex-
tended as if holding an umbrella.
A worker in a hard hat with a
cigar in his mouth steadied her
landing onto the grassy median
and then helped load her onto a
flatbed truck, with a couple of old
tires underneath to cushion her
ride to storage.
laura.vozzella@washpost.com
people.
He said a concerning statistic is
the proportion of positive test re-
sults among people under age 35.
Nearly twice as many people in
that age group receive a positive
result compared with those older
than 35, and the gap between the
groups is growing.
As of Wednesday, the positivity
rate for those under 35 was 6.35
percent, vs. 3.82 percent for every-
one else, according to the gover-
nor’s office.
“Our young people are not lis-
tening,” Hogan said.
The District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia have recorded more than
148,000 coronavirus cases and
about 5,700 deaths since the start
of the pandemic.
dana.hedgpeth@washpost.com
julie.zauzmer@washpost.com
erin.cox@washpost.com
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
The DiSTRiCT
11 detained
as tensions
flare near
White House
4 charged in skirmishes
with law enforcement,
apparent Trump backer
BY E MILY D AVIES
AND M ARTIN W EIL
Eleven people were detained
Tuesday evening in a series of
skirmishes with law enforcement,
and in one case an apparent sup-
porter of President Trump, near
Lafayette Square and Black Lives
Matter Plaza, according to D.C.
police and court records.
At least four people were
charged Wednesday in D.C. Supe-
rior Court, while prosecutors
chose not to pursue other cases,
according to court records and
proceedings following the arrests.
The Tuesday night incidents
that stretched over hours are the
latest confrontations to transpire
near the White House, where pro-
testers have been gathering daily
for more than a month to protest
for racial justice after the killing
of George Floyd in the custody of
Minneapolis police.
In one of the incidents that
occurred just before 7 p.m. Tues-
day, officials in charging docu-
ments said that a person later
identified as Dre Thompson, 40,
confronted and punched some-
one shouting “four more years,
four more years” near the White
House.
As D.C. police officers attempt-
ed to arrest Thompson, who they
say initially resisted, another pro-
tester broke through the crowd-
control line and assaulted a ser-
geant, charging documents state.
Joseph Diamond III, 46, attempt-
ed “to impede and obstruct offi-
cers from making the arrest,”
court documents said.
Prosecutors charged Thomp-
son with simple assault and Dia-
mond with resisting arrest and
assault on a police officer.
Another peaceful demonstra-
tion escalated about 10:45 p.m.
that night, when a person who
officials later identified as 22-
year-old Darius Wilson of the Dis-
trict confronted an officer in a
police line and threatened to as-
sault him, authorities asserted in
charging documents. Wilson was
detained Tuesday and later
charged with threatening bodily
harm.
About an hour after Wilson’s
arrest, Tayvon Turner, a 27-year-
old from the District., spray-
painted concrete barriers erected
by the D.C. Department of Public
Works, officials said in court doc-
uments. He was stopped and de-
tained a block away from the
scene and later charged with de-
facing property, police said.
Diamond, Thompson, Wilson
and Turner all entered pleas of
not guilty during a court hearing
Wednesday, when they were all
released ahead of their upcoming
court dates. Their attorneys could
not be immediately reached for
comment.
Leigh McAlpin, a professional
fundraiser with combat medic
training who helps run the aid
station at Black Lives Matter Pla-
za, said arrests started in the early
evening when protesters were
walking peacefully back and forth
across H Street NW, thwarting
efforts by the police to keep traffic
flowing. McAlpin was in the area
starting about 3 p.m. and wit-
nessed protesters getting de-
tained hours later.
Videos posted on Twitter ap-
peared to show some of the ten-
sion Tuesday. One shows at least
one person being taken into cus-
tody at 16th and H streets NW
after a struggle with officers. An-
other shows two men engaged in
a heated conversation before one
person punches the other in the
face. Police attempted to arrest
the man moments later as a
crowd of protesters swarmed
around them.
“The police have picked off the
ones of us who have been there
the longest, who are the most
vocal,” McAlpin said. “We lost a
pretty big voice last night.
emily.davies@washpost.com
martin.weil@washpost.com
Peter hermann contributed to this
report.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
From phone bills to charity mailers, the dead can live on in some odd ways
At first, Judith
wasn’t bothered
by seeing her
dead husband’s
name at the top
of every Verizon
John bill that came in
Kelly's the mail. “Hi,
Washington Richard!” the
monthly bill
began.
After all, it was richard who
had bought a mobile phone for
Judith and set up the account.
“He filled in his name without
thinking about it,” said Judith,
who lives in Arlington (and
asked that I not use her last
name). “I was paying it when he
was alive. He gave me the
phone. He didn’t give me the
monthly payment.”
richard died in 2014. As time
went on, the cheery greeting —
“Hi, richard!” — made Judith a
little sad. So last year, she
contacted Verizon and asked
them to change the name on the
bill to hers.
Cellphone companies such as
Verizon offer an important
product. I’m not one of those
people who likes to dump on
them for sheer sport. (I save that
for cable companies.) I know
that Verizon and its competitors
L o CA L dI G ES T
THE dISTRICT
Tennis racket wielded
as weapon in robbery
A tennis racket was wielded as
a weapon Tuesday by one of a
group of robbers who took a
man’s car on Capitol Hill,
according to a D.C. police
account.
Another of the robbers had a
gun, a police captain said in a
report on the incident, which
occurred shortly before sunrise
on Seventh Street NE near the H
Street corridor.
The incident began about
5 a.m. as the victim was sitting in
his car in the 700 block of
Seventh Street, according to an
account posted on a police
Internet bulletin board.
five people came up and
pulled the driver out of the car,
the account said. Leaving the
vehicle with its motor still
running, the driver fled along
Seventh Street, toward f Street,
the account said.
When he went back to the car,
the account said, his attackers
showed up in a car of their own.
one of them, according to the
police account, struck the victim
on the head with a tennis racket.
The assailant wielding the racket
appeared to be about 12 years
old, the posted report said.
The youthful attacker
demanded the man’s wallet. It
was not clear whether he got it.
A second attacker then
brandished what the police
described as a long gun. He
appeared to be about 20, and the
other three members of the
group appeared to range in age
from 14 to 16, the statement said.
Some members of the group
got into the victim’s car, a blue
Toyota Prius, and drove off in it,
the police statement said. The
rest left in the silver vehicle in
which they apparently arrived.
Police said they are
investigating. Whether the
victim was injured is unclear.
— Martin Weil
mARYLANd
Man charged with
murder after assault
A man was charged with
murder after a fatal assault
Tuesday in montgomery County,
authorities said Wednesday.
officers went to the 8300
block of flower Avenue in
Takoma Park on Tuesday about
12:20 a.m. for a report of an
results from July 8
L o T T ERI ES
dISTRICT
day/dC-3: 8-6-1
dC-4: 7-2-3-6
dC-5:
night/dC-3 (Tue.):
3-4-1-2-5
0-3-8
dC-3 (wed.): 3-9-6
dC-4 (Tue.):
dC-4 (wed.):
7-9-2-2
2-2-0-0
dC-5 (Tue.): 9-6-3-6-9
dC-5 (wed.): 0-4-3-4-5
mARYLANd
mid-day Pick 3: 8-6-9
mid-day Pick 4: 5-1-1-6
night/Pick 3 (Tue.): 7-1-3
Pick 3 (wed.): 0-0-5
Pick 4 (Tue.): 3-8-6-7
Pick 4 (wed.): 0-0-6-7
match 5 (Tue.): 3-7-11-24-28 *26
match 5 (wed.): 7-9-12-17-26 *29
5 Card Cash: JC-4S-5C-7C-aS
have to deal with deadbeat
customers and scammers and
criminals who crash their vans
into stores late at night and
scoop up armfuls of phones.
But when a customer calls
you and says, “my husband
richard is dead. Can you take
his name off the bill and change
it to mine?” then I think a little
care is called for.
Judith had to produce
richard’s death certificate.
(Again, I get it. People probably
fake death all the time to get out
of their contracts.) Even so,
Judith said, the bill kept coming
“Hi, richard!”
Eventually, a Verizon
representative promised Judith
that things would soon be
straightened out. The bill would
start coming in her name. one
other thing: The bill would be
$5 more a month. The package
that richard had was no longer
being offered.
“He was grandfathered, I am
not,” Judith said. “It just seems
to me so uncaring.”
I emailed Verizon and asked if
this was standard procedure.
Was there a simpler way to fix
the problem? A company
representative emailed back
that a Verizon team had been in
assault, Takoma Park police said
in a statement. They found an
unresponsive michael Lavon
Woods, 44, of Hyattsville, police
said. He was taken to a hospital,
where he died.
on Wednesday, police said
Eric Alton Andrews, 41, of
Hyattsville was charged with
first- and second-degree murder
in Woods’s death.
— Justin Wm. Moyer
Ex-Air Force employee
charged with stealing
A maryland man who worked
as an Air force travel
coordinator has been indicted on
charges that he stole more than
$774,000 of government funds.
monday’s federal indictment
charges Eddie ray Johnson Jr.,
59, of Brandywine with theft of
government property and money
laundering, prosecutors said in a
news release.
Johnson was a civilian Air
force employee from 2003 to
2018. His duties included
planning congressional travel
and reviewing and approving
accounting packages submitted
by trip escorts, according to
prosecutors.
The indictment accuses
Johnson of using a government-
issued credit card to obtain more
than $1.1 million in cash
advances and diverting at least
$774,000 for his personal use.
Johnson’s initial court
appearance for the indictment
was not immediately scheduled.
The theft charge carries a
maximum penalty of 10 years in
prison. The charge of money
laundering is punishable by up
to 20 years in prison.
— Associated Press
VIRGINIA
Man found dead on
Loudoun roadway
The death of a man whose
body was found on a road in
Loudoun County is being
investigated as a homicide.
The body was discovered
around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on
Emerald Point Terrace and
Winding road in Sterling. The
man was not publicly identified
so that his relatives could first be
notified.
The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s
office did not detail how the
man died but called the case “an
apparent homicide.”
— Dana Hedgpeth
VIRGINIA
day/Pick-3:
Pick-4:
Cash-5: 9-11-14-30-32
night/Pick-3 (Tue.):
Pick-3 (wed.):
Pick-4 (Tue.):
Pick-4 (wed.):
Cash-5 (Tue.):
Cash-5 (wed.):
1-18-25-26-32
10-12-26-29-30
Bank a million: 8-9-25-28-30-37 *3
muLTI-STATE GAmES
mega millions: 16-20-25-30-43 **18
megaplier:
Powerball: 3-10-34-36-62 †5
Power Play:
Cash 4 Life: 4-13-15-19-26 ¶1
*Bonus Ball **mega Ball
¶ Cash Ball †Powerball
for late drawings and other results, check
washingtonpost.com/local/lottery
Some cellphone bills use personalized greetings to seem more
friendly. But a bill is a demand for money, not a letter from a friend.
touch with Judith and was able
to “reach out and resolve the
issue.” He included a link to the
Verizon Web page on managing
an account after a loved one
passes away.
Judith told me that after our
conversation, a very solicitous
Verizon rep called her. Judith
said she has been switched to an
Va. clears rape kit backlog in 5 years
BACKLOG from B1
A spokeswoman for the attor-
ney general’s office, Charlotte
Gomer, said, “The law enforce-
ment agencies who have hits will
now begin to reopen their cases
and investigate, so we’re antici-
pating that there could be more
charges in the future as those
investigations continue.”
Untested rape kits have been a
national problem on which pros-
ecutors have focused in recent
years, in part because of people
such as Debbie Smith. The Wil-
liamsburg woman became a na-
tional symbol of the problem
after her own rape evidence kit
went untested for six years. A test
ultimately led to an arrest and
conviction. A federal law provid-
ing funding for such testing is
named the Debbie Smith Act.
At a richmond news confer-
ence with Herring on Wednesday,
Smith grew tearful as she recalled
being led into an evidence room
years ago where, she said, “from
floor to ceiling, there were noth-
ing but [rape] kits, there were
boxes and bags and baskets. That
there was no money to test them
and that we didn’t have the peo-
ple to test them.
“That is what got me started in
my advocacy,” Smith said, “be-
cause I knew what the testing of
my kit gave me: It gave me free-
dom. for the first time after the
cold hit was found because my kit
was tested, I took a walk in my
own neighborhood. I was able to
walk around freely without feel-
ing like maybe he was watching
me. The fear was gone.”
The state used two grants over
the past five years totaling
$3.4 million to have a private lab
OUR PRESSES
DON’T STOP.
0-5-7
8-4-0-4
7-1-3
8-7-2
5-5-3-0
NEITHER
7-3-0-2
SHOULD YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION.
Enroll your Washington Post
subscription in Easy Pay, and
3x we’ll automatically charge your
card when a payment is due.
10x No fuss. No hassle. No interruptions.
ENROLL TODAY
Visit sub.wpsubscribe.com/easy
or call 202-334-6100.
S0447A 1x7
eZ m2
iSToCk
autopay account that is $10 a
month cheaper than her old
rate.
I’d like to think Verizon
would do that for anyone in a
similar situation, not just
someone who involved a
member of the press.
“I can’t wait to get a bill that
says, ‘Hi, Judith,’ ” Judith said.
Boxes with rape kits containing biological material are seen in
storage at the Virginia Beach Police Department in January 2018.
in Northern Virginia, Bode Tech-
nology Group of Lorton, open and
test the evidence kits, and then
pay the overtime to have scien-
tists from the Department of fo-
rensic Science (DfS) review the
tests and enter the data into DNA
databases.
Gomer, the spokeswoman for
Herring’s office, declined to say
why more cases have not led to
ENTRY DOOR
SPECIAL OFFER
50% Off Installation
Quality Entry Doors Installed In One Day
Professional, Highly Trained Craftsmen
Sliding Patio Doors and French Doors Available!
12 months 0% interest
NO payments for 12 months
monthly payments as low as $59.*
“Then I’ll know it’s finally
settled.”
The fact is, no massive,
faceless corporation wants to be
seen as a massive, faceless
corporation. That’s why so many
spend so much money on
branding campaigns that are
meant to make customers feel
warm and fuzzy toward them.
But there are drawbacks to
this approach. A bill may read
like a letter from a friend, but
it’s not. It’s a demand for money.
I wonder whether it would be
better for everyone if that’s how
they were written.
Dead letter office
Is death final? Not when it
comes to bills, bureaucracy and
fundraising mailings.
my mother-in-law died 15
years ago. Kathy never lived
with us, but after her death, my
Lovely Wife had her mail
forwarded here as she took care
of the estate.
It’s nearly impossible to notify
every single group that has your
address on some mailing list. I’d
expect that after 15 years,
charities that Kathy was
involved with would realize she
hadn’t made a donation in quite
some time. And yet, a few keep
adam ewing for The waShingTon PoST
charges in the five years since the
backlog testing launched. Police
have said that reopening old sex-
ual assault cases can come with
complications associated with re-
luctant or missing witnesses and
suspects, as well as other evi-
dence problems.
And even with the backlog
eliminated, rapid results from
testing may not occur. Virginia
202-816-8808 DC
301-661-3168 MD
703-552-4480 VA
VA #2705029456A | MHIC #46744 | DC #67000878 | NC #77474
B3
coming. (I’m looking at you,
Colonial Williamsburg.)
my father-in-law, Bill, died in
1999. We thought his estate was
buttoned up years ago, then in
2018 we spotted his name on
one of those unclaimed property
lists that state governments
publish.
my wife, Ruth, looked into it.
It turned out that the publisher
of an engineering textbook that
Bill co-authored had some
royalties to distribute. Not a lot:
about $40 a year. Getting it
required pulling out all sorts of
documents: death certificates,
powers of attorney, old letters
that had to be newly notarized.
Last week, ruth finally got
everything together and sent it
off. fingers crossed.
The final countdown
What’s the longest or strangest
life-after-death experience
you’ve had involving
bureaucracy? Send it — with
“Life After Death” in the subject
line — to me at
john.kelly@washpost.com.
john.kelly@washpost.com
Twitter: @johnkelly
 for previous columns, visit
washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.
passed a law in 2016 that required
police to submit all rape kits to
the state lab within 60 days, but
with the volume of testing done
in a variety of crimes, the lab is
able only to test within about 129
days, DfS Director Linda Jackson
said. That means about six
months will elapse between a test
and a result.
Still, Herring said he was
pleased with the elimination of
the backlog, which he said made
Virginia only the seventh state
without a rape kit backlog. “This
was a mammoth undertaking to
identify the location of every un-
tested kit in the state and develop
a plan to get each one tested,” he
said.
He noted that the grant money
also created a secure electronic
tracking system that will allow
sexual assault survivors, the DfS,
law enforcement and hospitals to
know the status and location of
each kit. A law that went into
effect July 1 requires all agencies
handling the kits to update the
status of kits and allows survivors
to check the location and status at
any time.
Kristi VanAudenhove, execu-
tive director of the Virginia Sexu-
al and Domestic Violence Action
Alliance, said in a statement, “We
are grateful that Attorney Gener-
al Herring’s work to eliminate the
backlog has been swift and coor-
dinated. This work has helped to
ensure that our responses are as
trauma informed as possible —
increasing the likelihood that
survivors will report violence and
making it easier for survivors to
make informed decisions regard-
ing pathways towards their heal-
ing and justice.”
tom.jackman@washpost.com
*with approved credit.
Offer expires 8/3/20
B4
New admissions
at nursing homes
shine light on risk
nuRsIng HOMes from B1
staff and protective gear.
In maryland, as it is across the
country, such decisions are often
left to the facility. State and local
health departments sometimes
impose admission bans, but not
consistently.
The Washington Post contacted
103 maryland facilities with at
least 30 known coronavirus infec-
tions. of the 46 that responded, 20
said they had stopped external
admissions at some point since
the pandemic started. The re-
maining 26 said they did not.
According to documents ob-
tained by The Post, Potomac Valley
continued to admit patients who
did not have the virus from April
to may, a span in which 92 resi-
dents and 52 staffers tested posi-
tive for it. over nine days in may,
five new patients arrived, all
short-term residents like Shep-
pard, records show.
Potomac Valley and its parent
company, Vita Healthcare Group,
declined to say how many short-
term residents have been admit-
ted since the pandemic started or
how many of them contracted
covid-19, the disease caused by the
virus.
Administrator Kathryn A. Hef-
lin said the 175-bed facility abides
by federal guidance and takes
pride in “help[ing] patients with
complex needs.” She added that
the facility is now “covid-free” and
has not reported new infections
for several weeks.
Two Potomac Valley employees,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to avoid retribution,
said nurses and nursing assistants
asked administrators repeatedly
in April and may to stop admis-
sions, to no avail.
“We have covid everywhere,
and yet we are accepting patients,”
said one employee in early may.
“right now, I’d chop off my right
leg before I’d send my parents
here.”
Sheppard’s daughter, Tina Bell,
said Sheppard died as Bell and her
brother were trying to pull her out
of Potomac Valley. They were
alarmed by a Post article in which
employees described the facility as
dangerously short-staffed and un-
able to isolate virus-positive pa-
tients.
The discharge process was un-
derway, Bell said, when she got the
call saying Sheppard had covid-19.
“I wish they hadn’t admitted
her,” Bell said. “Here’s where the
system failed.”
The business of empty beds
While nursing homes are
known for treating elderly pa-
tients with medical conditions,
they also serve as a pit stop for
short-term patients, such as those
in need of physical therapy or
those recovering from surgery.
When elective surgeries were
canceled in mid-march, nursing
homes lost many of those patients
and, like hospitals, took a massive
financial hit.
The daily reimbursement rate
for medicaid recipients, who gen-
erally are the long-term residents
who fill the vast majority of a
nursing home’s beds, is $271.45 in
maryland, said Joseph Demattos
Jr., chief executive of the Health
facilities Association of mary-
land. That is about 60 percent of
what medicare or private insur-
ance pays for short-term-stay pa-
tients. Demattos said that because
medicaid is underfunded, nursing
homes have to take in different
types of patients to finance quality
care.
richard feifer, chief medical of-
ficer at Genesis HealthCare, which
operates 25 facilities in maryland,
said admission bans are consid-
ered a routine part of infection
control. Closing the doors of many
facilities was among the first steps
the organization took when the
pandemic took hold.
But Demattos said nursing
homes should not be blamed for
trying to stay afloat financially by
taking in new residents — espe-
cially if they can isolate coronavi-
rus patients and have enough em-
ployees, gloves and masks to pro-
vide appropriate care.
“our advice has consistently
been, though, that you have to
have the physical layout to have an
observation space and the person-
al protective equipment and staff-
ing to do it safely,” Demattos said.
Erickson Living, a national
chain that operates the rider-
wood Senior Living Community in
Calverton, opted to stop all exter-
nal admissions on march 20,
spokesman Dan Dunne said.
Genesis stopped admissions at
215 of its 361 facilities nationwide
when signs of the coronavirus ap-
peared and it did not resume until
all residents and staff were cleared
of the virus, feifer said. According
to an earnings report from the
publicly traded company, the drop
in admissions contributed to
$14 million in losses in its first
quarter, though most of that was
offset by medicaid reimburse-
ments and changes in payer mix.
“Any time any nursing home is
not taking in admissions, and
there are empty beds, there’s natu-
rally likely to be a negative finan-
cial impact,” feifer said. “But dur-
ing a pandemic, you put patient
safety first, and it is that simple.”
The Arden Courts of Towson,
near Baltimore, stopped admis-
sions in April. Allowing new pa-
tients during an active outbreak
places them at risk of getting the
virus, said Julie Beckert, a spokes-
woman for the facility, especially
because some residents have a
tendency to wander. “These deci-
sions are not financial,” Beckert
said. “They are made because it is
the right thing to do.”
Not all providers made the
same choice.
Collingswood rehabilitation
and Healthcare Center in mont-
gomery County, which as of July 1
had the second-highest nursing
home death toll in the state, con-
tinued to admit both covid-19 and
non-covid-19 patients from march
to June, said administrator Leah
Whetzel.
Asymptomatic patients are iso-
lated from symptomatic and
covid-19 patients, Whetzel said,
and the facility has not struggled
with shortages of staffing or pro-
tective gear. As of July 2, 41 resi-
dents and staff members at the
facility had died of covid-19.
CommuniCare, another large
operator in maryland, chose to
continue admissions at 16 of its 18
facilities, pausing at two facilities
only after being ordered to by
health officials in Allegany and
Carroll counties, spokesman fred
Stratmann said.
The company’s Clinton Nursing
eZ re
Potomac Valley Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Rockville. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, the facility
continued to admit patients who did not have the virus from April to May, a span in which 92 residents and 52 staffers tested positive.
Potomac Valley’s communication was dismal, said Christopher
Corone, whose lost his mother, Dorothy Piel, in April.
and rehabilitation Center in
Southern maryland, where 196
staff members and residents test-
ed positive for the virus, has not
ceased admissions at any point.
“Pandemic or no,” Stratmann
said, “there are still people in need
of skilled nursing care.”
Inconsistent regulation
In maryland, local health de-
partments can order facilities to
halt admissions, Demattos said.
The same is true in Virginia,
where local officials make recom-
mendations for temporary admis-
sion bans “to ensure the facility
can safely care for their current
residents before accepting new
resident admissions,” said Sarah
Lineberger, a program manager in
the health-care-associated infec-
tions program of the Virginia
Health Department.
Lineberger said her agency
does not track how many local
admission bans have been put in
place in Virginia, where nursing
homes and long-term care facili-
ties have reported 889 covid-19
deaths — 55 percent of all fatalities
in the state — as of last week.
The D.C. Health Department
has not implemented admission
bans at any of the city’s 19 nursing
homes, but most voluntarily
stopped taking new patients at the
peak of the crisis in April and may,
said Veronica Sharpe, president of
the D.C. Health Care Association.
As of June 28, there were 978
ChristoPher Cofone
nursing home residents in the Dis-
trict who had tested positive for
the coronavirus and 157 who had
died.
In Southern maryland, St.
mary’s County ordered all facili-
ties to stop new admissions once
there was a single coronavirus
case, county Health officer meena
Brewster said.
“Right now, I’d chop off
my right leg before I’d
send my parents here.”
Potomac Valley employee who said
nurses and nursing assistants asked
administrators repeatedly
in April and May to stop admissions
montgomery County, which
leads the state in nursing home
outbreaks, did not have a blanket
rule barring admissions but in-
structed some facilities to do so
case by case, health department
spokeswoman mary Anderson
said. She declined to say whether
Potomac Valley was among them,
adding that the state office of
Health Care Quality “asked that
counties not share specific infor-
mation on facilities.”
maryland Health Department
spokesman Charlie Gischlar said
the only facility the state has
Complete Kitchen Remodeling
STRICTLY
FOLLOWING
CDC
GUIDELINES
Buy Now
and Save
$2000 FREE Consultation | FREE Design | FREE Estimates
limited time offers 202-741-4431 DC | 703-382-8414 VA | 301-683-7920 MD
other restrictions may apply
the washington post
barred from taking new admis-
sions is Pleasant View Nursing
Home in Carroll County, the site of
maryland’s earliest major out-
break.
The state fined Pleasant View
$70,000 in may for lapses in infec-
tion-control measures.
Lorraine Sheppard’s son, mike
Sheppard, said the lack of consis-
tent state and county guidance on
admissions was a mistake. “Why
didn’t the state lock them all
down?” he asked. “It didn’t take a
rocket scientist to see that nursing
homes were vulnerable.”
Gischlar did not respond to
questions about whether the state
should have intervened earlier. As
of July 2, there have been 1,920
covid-19 deaths linked to mary-
land long-term-care facilities.
‘Overwhelmed’
When the coronavirus arrived
at Potomac Valley, the facility was
already grappling with major
changes in personnel. The family-
owned facility was sold last year to
Vita Healthcare Group, a private
company based in New Jersey. As
the virus arrived in April, there
was an exodus of senior staff mem-
bers, including the director of
nursing and the longtime admin-
istrator.
The crisis peaked the following
month. Nurses and nursing assis-
tants became so busy caring for
coronavirus patients that they
weren’t able to ensure that other
residents were being fed or pro-
tected from symptomatic pa-
tients, said two employees who
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity because they feared retaliation
at work.
Protective gear was limited, em-
ployees said. Isolating suspected
and confirmed coronavirus pa-
tients was not possible.
“We’re already overwhelmed,”
one employee said in may.
“They’re bringing people in to get
them sicker than they were.”
Lawrence Hartit, 74, was admit-
ted in early march to recover from
foot surgery and was discharged
in late April with a high fever. Less
than a day after returning home,
Hartit was taken by paramedics to
the hospital, where he tested posi-
tive for the virus.
It took him more than a month
to recover, said his wife, Daryll
Quality
Afford
Superior Service | Years of Experience
No Payment
No Interest
2021
‘til ! $
MHIC #125450 | DC #67004413 | VA #2705 108835A | WVA #036832
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
toni L. sAndys/the WAshington Post
franklin-Hartit. “He came out of
there worse than when he went in.
. . . What he went through — it was
awful.”
In addition to Sheppard, two
other new residents — ages 82 and
90, both admitted for short-term
rehab — contracted the virus and
died, their relatives said. The fami-
ly members asked that their
names, and the names of the indi-
viduals who died, be withheld for
privacy reasons.
Potomac Valley’s decision to
keep admitting patients during
the pandemic meant staff mem-
bers were further strained, em-
ployees said.
family members of seven resi-
dents said their loved ones suf-
fered from a lack of care in April
and may. one woman said a har-
ried nurse told her that her moth-
er hadn’t eaten in two days; anoth-
er man said he was not informed
that his mother had covid-19 until
after she was intubated in a hospi-
tal.
Christopher Cofone, whose
mother, Dorothy Piel, died in
April, said communication from
the facility was “dismal,” and he
has spent months trying to reach
administrators to learn more
about how his mother died.
When Kay Buck, 85, suffered a
stroke in may and needed to be
moved to a nursing home to recov-
er, staff at Howard County Hospi-
tal told her daughter, Suzanne
Strayhorn, that there were no fa-
cilities taking in new residents in
Ellicott City, where she lived.
Strayhorn said she was told Po-
tomac Valley was the “only op-
tion.”
Two weeks after Buck arrived,
Strayhorn began trying to transfer
her out of the facility. family mem-
bers were rarely able to get
through to the nurse’s station or
receive an update on Buck’s condi-
tion, she said.
In the “blips of time” when they
were able to reach Buck, she would
plead to leave Potomac Valley.
“I can’t sleep at night because
I’m so worried,” Strayhorn said. By
mid-June, Buck had been trans-
ferred to another facility.
“There was no way we could
stay,” her daughter said. “It was
just so dire.”
rebecca.tan@washpost.com
rachel.chason@washpost.com
You Can
Financing
149
As Low As
Per Month
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ re B5

O∞cials worry virus will hinder sta∞ng at Maryland polls

ELEcTIOn fROm B1
crowds by giving people multiple
avenues to cast a ballot. He said
he is recommending a “normal
election” operation to avoid the
long lines and other problems
that plagued the June primary.
“We’re very frustrated with the
way the election was handled in
the primary,” Hogan said during
an interview on WBAL radio’s
“The C4 Show” on Wednesday.
“mistakes were definitely made,
“It was unacceptable
and inexcusable that
they screwed up so
much with respect to
getting the ballots out
on time.”
gov. Larry hogan (r), addressing
problems with the June primary
and it was unacceptable and inex-
cusable that they screwed up so
much with respect to getting the
ballots out on time and getting
them out to everybody.”
States across the country have
struggled to strike a balance be-
tween a secure election that
doesn’t worsen the coronavirus
pandemic and one that provides
access to the ballot box. In mary-
land, thousands of mailed prima-
ry ballots went missing or were
delayed. Other people received
multiple ballots.
The number of polling places
open for the primary was signifi-
cantly lower than usual, and
there were strict cleaning regi-
mens between voters, leading to
waits that stretched to several
hours in some places and results
that were delayed by days or
more.
The problems prompted calls
for the resignation of Linda H.
Lamone, maryland’s longtime di-
rector of the State Board of Elec-
tions. Lamone remains on the
job.
The elections board — which
split along partisan lines last
week over whether to conduct a
mostly mail-in election or one
that encouraged people to apply
for absentee ballots — issued a
statement Wednesday saying it
would implement Hogan’s direc-
tive.
“The Board will move forward
with plans for a traditional gener-
al election on November 3rd and
will expand efforts to promote
voting by mail, early voting, and
voting at offpeak times,” the state-
ment said. “The Board will con-
tinue to work closely with local
boards of elections, stakeholders,
and the general public to conduct
a safe and accessible general elec-
tion.”
All five members of the board
had voted last week in favor of
limiting in-person voting, rather
than a traditional election. The
three Republican members
backed mailing applications for
absentee ballots to every voter,
while the two Democrats wanted
ballots mailed.
A report released by the board
last week expressed concern
about whether elections officials
could recruit enough poll work-
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, shown in May, said the state would provide all the equipment, sanitation
and other supplies necessary to meet federal centers for Disease control and Prevention guidelines.
ers and judges for full-fledged
in-person voting and locate
enough voting locations amid the
pandemic.
“The local boards are not confi-
dent they can staff all precinct
level locations,” the report said.
Local elections officials would
have a hard time preparing for a
normal election at the same time
as they process a surge in absen-
tee ballot requests, the report
said. And they doubt they can
secure enough personal protec-
tive equipment to serve an esti-
mated 20,000 poll workers at
1,700 locations across the state.
Hogan said the state would
provide all the equipment, sani-
tation and other supplies neces-
sary to meet federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
guidelines.
“We want to make sure that
they give everybody every single
possible chance to vote and not
JONaThaN NeWTON/The WashiNgTON POsT
overwhelm the system,” Hogan
said on the radio show Wednes-
day.
State Sen. Delores G. Kelley
(D-Baltimore County), chair of
the Senate finance Committee,
said Hogan’s decision not to mail
ballots to voters proactively could
lead to voter suppression.
She accused Hogan, who is
considering a 2024 presidential
run, of taking a more conserva-
tive stance on the issue to appeal
to Republicans, including Presi-
dent Trump, who have expressed
concern about voting by mail.
“This has nothing to do with
what’s good for maryland,” Kelley
said. “This is about talking to a
national audience of conservative
Republicans.”
michael R. Cogan, a Republi-
can who chairs the State Board of
Elections, said at a meeting June
30 that mailing ballots to every
voter could lead to “fraud.”
“It may be this will be an
election where voters need to
take responsibility for them-
selves,” Cogan said. “It’ll be our
job to make sure they have the
tools that they need.”
The Democrats who preside
over the maryland General As-
sembly issued a statement
Wednesday praising Hogan for
“finally” making a decision
about the November election.
But they raised concern that his
plan could not be executed if
local officials can’t find the staff
or volunteers.
“We hope the Governor will
maintain maximum flexibility so
that, should the pandemic wors-
en, or Election Judges are unable
to be found, we can pivot to
ensure that no maryland voter is
disenfranchised,” said House
Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (Balti-
more County) and Senate Presi-
dent Bill ferguson (Baltimore
City). “It is now incumbent upon
every election official and elected
leader to work together to make
this election a success. failure is
not an option.”
erin.cox@washpost.com
Ovetta Wiggins contributed to this
report.

In policing bill, D.C. Council moves to enfranchise incarcerated felons

vOTInG fROm B1
Advocates have cast voting by
inmates as a civil rights issue, not-
ing the history of voting restric-
tions as a tool of disenfranchising
African Americans, who are dis-
proportionately locked up for
crimes. Supporters of voting by
inmates say the fundamental right
to vote shouldn’t be taken away
with a criminal conviction.
“frankly, it is used to suppress
the black vote, and the District
isn’t going to stand for it,” said D.C.
Council member Charles Allen (D-
Ward 6), who included the inmate
voting provision in his policing
legislation.
The effort to let prisoners vote is
part of a broader movement to
restore voting rights for convicted
criminals. Several states, includ-
ing Virginia in 2017, restored vot-
ing rights to felons who had fin-
ished serving their sentences,
while others — including mary-
land in 2016 — expanded rights to
those on parole.
“The impact of disenfranchise-
ment leaves our incarcerated resi-
dents disconnected from society,
further alienating them from the
community to which they will
eventually return and jeopardiz-
ing the success of their reentry,”
council member Robert C. White
Jr. (D-At Large), who spearheaded
the idea, wrote in an op-ed last
year.
The District has allowed felons
to vote after leaving prison, and
also allows those convicted of mis-
demeanors to vote from jail. But
the city joined every state except
Vermont and maine last century
in barring felons from voting
while incarcerated.
No state has since restored
those voting rights.
The issue of voting by inmates
briefly flared up in the Democratic
presidential primary race when
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) favored
it during a town hall, prompting
an outcry from Republicans and
conservative media.
White’s proposal to let D.C. pris-
oners vote caught the attention of
“fox & friends,” and the council
member appeared last year on fox
News host Tucker Carlson’s prime-
time show on the network to de-
fend his bill.
The District has no prisons, but
some felons are housed at the D.C.
jail before they are transferred to
federal facilities. The legislation
requires the D.C. Board of Elec-
tions — which already works with
the jail to facilitate voting for
those awaiting trial who have not
been convicted, or are serving
time on misdemeanor charges —
to distribute absentee ballots for
felons being held at the jail.
The Bureau of Prisons says it
has 2,600 D.C. residents in its cus-
tody — though the local Criminal
Justice Coordinating Council pegs
the number closer to 4,500. The
difference appears to be a matter
of counting residents locked up
for felonies under D.C. law vs. fed-
Inmates convicted of felonies who are held at the D.c. jail, above,
would be extended the right to vote under emergency legislation.
eral law.
The emergency legislation di-
rects the elections board in 2021 to
reach out to the federal Bureau of
Prisons to obtain the contact in-
formation of D.C. resident in-
JONaThaN NeWTON/The WashiNgTON POsT
mates and to send them ballots.
The prisoners would be registered
at their last address before incar-
ceration.
A spokesman for the Bureau of
Prisons declined to comment on
the D.C. legislation but noted its
policies allow for inmates to re-
ceive absentee ballots with pre-
paid return envelopes.
michael Bennett, the chairman
of the D.C. Board of Elections, said
officials must still work out logis-
tics of distributing ballots. Ahead
of the June 2 primary election,
elections officials struggled to
mail absentee ballots to voters liv-
ing in the city, contributing to long
wait times at the polls.
Advocates acknowledge help-
ing imprisoned D.C. residents to
vote is no easy feat.
“It will be incredibly challeng-
ing to make sure people know they
have the right to vote and get them
their absentee ballots,” said Nicole
Porter, advocacy director for the
Sentencing Project, a group that
advocates inmate voting enfran-
chisement. “That said, it’s historic
and significant that a city council
would enfranchise this popula-
tion.”
fenit.nirappil@washpost.com

Theresa Vargas

Setting the record straight: Washington football team should change its name
varGaS fROm B1
as a columnist who cares deeply
about the issue. The afternoon I
clicked on that piece, I figured
I’d read through it, see some
familiar arguments and move
on.
But that piece was different
from others. It didn’t just push
against the effort to change the
team’s name — it used my words
to do so.
my name appears in the third
paragraph and my words
occupy four of the 12
paragraphs.
The author takes aim at the
pressure companies such as
Nike and fedEx have applied on
the team to change its name and
argues that “the left’s campaign
against the Redskins” is
“empowering corporations to
change a name that does not
offend most Native Americans
and actually gives many of them
pride.”
To support that argument, the
author selectively pulled quotes
from a column I wrote last year
about an online survey that
aimed to understand how
Native Americans felt about the
team’s name. “Proud” was
among the responses, but so,
too, were “annoyed,”
“disappointed,” “angry,”
“disturbed,” “embarrassed,”
“hopeless” and “exhausted.”
my reason for writing that
column was to show that the
name-change issue was more
complicated than surveys and
polls could capture, and that the
fight for that change should not
die or thrive based on their
findings. It’s simply about doing
the right thing.
“Numbers are neat and easy
to understand,” I wrote in that
column. “Identity and racism okay with fans painting their
are messy and complicated.” faces red and putting on feather
In retrospect, I made that headdresses. Real people have
point in too subtle of a way. I been trying to get them, and the
made it a whisper that could too rest of us, to see that their
easily be missed by those who children face more burdens
wanted to hear it, and ignored than many of their peers
by those who wanted only to because of historic wrongs and
focus on the parts of the survey need help, not more to
that seemed to support the overcome.
team’s assertion that it was Of course, not all Native
honoring Native Americans, not Americans feel that way. Just as
hurting them. not all black people cared
I regret that. whether the image of Aunt
I regret not making it clear Jemima was taken off a syrup
that many indigenous activists bottle. many Latinos I know see
don’t believe that survey or a the brown faces of immigrant
poll The Washington Post children in cages and think of
conducted are valid reflections their own family members.
of the community because they Others see those faces and start
are based on self-identified talking about how the country
Native Americans. needs to be even harsher in its
I regret not addressing more crackdown on immigration.
directly my own feelings about People in any minority group
the team’s name, answering in won’t all agree on many issues.
that column the questions They shouldn’t be expected
people have been sending me in to, just as those in the majority
recent days, through emails and are not.
messages, aimed at getting me When it comes to the team’s
to explain my thoughts on the KaTheriNe Frey/The WashiNgTON POsT name, two questions that merit
issue. Some even assumed that more focus than who raised
because I wrote about The Post’s TOP: FedEx Field, home to their hand are: What is the
poll that I had a role in Washington’s football team, is potential human cost of not
commissioning it, as if any seen Tuesday in Landover, Md. changing it, and are we as a
reporter carries that kind of On Friday, the team announced society okay with that?
power. plans to conduct a “thorough When the team’s leadership
So, to be clear and not subtle, review” of its name, a decision finally decides on a new name,
this is what I believe: that has predictably faced a lot that moment will mark a
The team’s name is racist. of pushback. LEFT: The team’s historic shift in the Washington
The team’s name is harmful. logo, which for decades has region and the country. But
The team’s name should have been a source of controversy, those who have been closely
been changed long ago — not lawsuits and protest, is seen on following the fight to bring
because of or despite any polls a shirt for sale at a store in about that change will also
— but because real people were San Francisco in 2014. recognize another significance
standing up to say that it was in it: It will mark the team’s
offensive and that they were willingness to finally stop
tired of being used as mascots. clinging to numbers to justify
Real people have long been hurting people.
telling the National football That’s what I should have
League and the team’s said more clearly before.
management that they are not david Paul mOrris/blOOmberg NeWs theresa.vargas@washpost.com
B6
THE DISTRICT
Suit: D.C. police helped clear Lafayette Square by force
BY S PENCER S . H SU
AND P ETER H ERMANN
Civil rights groups on Wednes-
day accused D.C. police of assist-
ing federal authorities who forci-
bly cleared Lafayette Square on
June 1 ahead of President Trump’s
visit to a nearby church for a
photo op.
“MPD engaged in the
same type of wanton
violence as the federal
forces.”
Scott Michelman,
legal director for the ACLU
of the District of Columbia
In a federal lawsuit that added
the District government and offi-
cers as defendants, the groups
suing on behalf of protesters ac-
cuse the Trump administration of
violating demonstrators’ consti-
tutional rights in an “unprovoked
and frankly criminal attack.”
The groups and Black Lives
Matter of D.C. sued last month,
and their new allegations chal-
lenge Police Chief Peter News-
ham's statements that D.C. police
were not involved in clearing pro-
testers from the park before
Trump was photographed hold-
IDa HaEnDEl, 96
Polish-born musician was the ‘grande dame of the violin’
BY H ARRISON S MITH
Ida Haendel, a Polish-born vio-
lin prodigy who became a sought-
after soloist after moving to Brit-
ain, where she drew acclaim for
her interpretations of concertos
by Jean Sibelius and William
Walton, died July 1 at an assisted-
living center in Pembroke Park,
Fla. She was 96.
Her nephew Richard Grunberg
said she had been hospitalized in
March with respiratory prob-
lems, though he did not believe
she had tested positive for the
novel coronavirus. She was later
treated for kidney cancer.
In Ms. Haendel’s telling, she
was just 3 when she began per-
forming, picking up her older
sister’s violin and amazing her
mother by reproducing a song
that she had just heard. She went
on to perform professionally for
some eight decades, playing mo-
rale-boosting concerts in London
during World War II before tour-
ing the world and acquiring a
reputation as “the grand dame of
the violin.”
“When she plays the
Beethoven concerto, you can
imagine Beethoven wanted it
that way,” Zubin Mehta, the for-
mer conductor of the New York
and Los Angeles philharmonics,
told the Associated Press in 2010.
“She has been a violinist for
violinists.”
Ms. Haendel epitomized what
Washington Post arts critic Philip
Kennicott once called “a gracious
yet wild style of playing,” popular
in the early 20th century but now
“extremely rare.” Trained by Ro-
manian musician George Enescu
and Hungarian violinist Carl
Flesch, she stood completely still
during recitals while dazzling au-
diences with works by Beethoven,
Brahms, Walton and Sibelius,
whose Violin Concerto became a
signature piece.
After performing the concerto
in Helsinki in 1949, she received a
letter from the composer. “You
played it masterfully in every
respect,” Sibelius wrote, adding:
“I congratulate myself that my
concerto has found an interpreter
of your rare standard.”
Another admirer of her inter-
pretation, Telegraph music critic
Geoffrey Norris, wrote that she
played the Sibelius concerto with
“ice and fire,” resulting in a 1993
recording, later released by Testa-
ment Records, that was “simply
mind-blowing.”
Critics sometimes noted that
Ms. Haendel’s exuberant perfor-
mance style was matched by the
flamboyant outfits she wore to
recitals, including an electric-ma-
genta sheath dress, turquoise
pantaloons and snakeskin vest
that complemented her snake-
skin purse and five-inch snake-
ing a Bible near St. John’s Episco-
pal Church.
The groups have alleged that
police and military forces de-
ployed horses, batons, shields
and riot control agents — includ-
ing pepper spray, smoke canisters
and rubber or plastic projectiles
— against largely peaceful pro-
testers without justification.
Newsham has said that D.C.
police did not take part in the
operation to clear the square, and
that officers on the scene learned
only a few minutes in advance
that force and chemical agents
would be used against demon-
strators earlier than a planned
7 p.m. citywide curfew.
Shortly before the U.S. Park
Police initiated the operation,
D.C. police instructed officers to
hold their positions on streets
around the square, officials said.
“We were not involved in the
movement of the president — the
unplanned movement of the
president,” Newsham said the fol-
lowing day.
Court filings on Wednesday ac-
cuse D.C. police of deploying tear
gas against demonstrators trying
to leave the area and forcing them
to turn back. They cited the expe-
riences of a Virginia man, Dustin
Foley, and his 15-year-old daugh-
ter, who joined the case.
The lawsuit said Foley and his
daughter came downtown to pro-
test and deliver water and sand-
wiches to peaceful demonstrators
gathered after the police killing of
Ida Haendel, seen in Prague in 1958, left, and at her home in 2010 in Miami Beach, Fla., right, was a rare female fiddler when she started out, and for much of her career
remained one of the few women playing marquee concert halls. She credited her natural talent to reincarnation, saying that she must have played the violin in an earlier life.
skin heels. “As long as you are
onstage, you still have to present
a nice view,” she once told the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Ms. Haendel was a rare female
fiddler when she started out, and
for much of her career remained
one of the few women playing
marquee concert halls. She per-
formed at Prince Charles’s
40th birthday celebration, pre-
miered a violin concerto by Allan
Pettersson, was among the first
soloists to play with the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel
Aviv and maintained a long asso-
ciation with the Proms, an annual
summer concert series that has
become one of London’s most
beloved musical institutions.
After making her Proms debut
in 1937, she appeared another 67
times at the festival, notably play-
ing Brahms’s Violin Concerto in
1938 under conductor Henry
Wood.
“I was using pure instinct, and
that is exactly what you need to
play his works,” she later told the
Strad, a British music magazine.
eZ re
Authorities attempt to clear demonstrators near Lafayette Square and St. John’s Episcopal Church in
Washington on June 1, before President Trump was to make his way to the church for a photo op.
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
When the Foleys fled Lafayette
Square, they were confronted by
D.C. police with chemical agents
one block west at 17th and H
streets NW and forced to turn
back, the suit asserted.
“The video footage we ob-
tained and the experience of Mr.
obituaries
“It’s something you are born with.
If you don’t feel it in your soul, on
an emotional and intellectual lev-
el, then it can’t be taught. You
can’t tell anyone how to do it if
they don’t have the right capacity
and instinct.”
Ms. Haendel credited her natu-
ral talent to reincarnation, saying
that she must have played the
violin in an earlier life. But her
upbringing in a musical house-
hold surely helped as well: Her
portrait-painter father played the
cello and violin, while her sister
played the piano and her mother
sang.
The family was living in Chelm,
a city in eastern Poland, when Ida
was born on Dec. 15. According to
Ms. Haendel’s older sister — and a
birth certificate that her father
presented to satisfy an age re-
quirement for an early perfor-
mance in London — she was born
in 1923. Ms. Haendel later dis-
played a certificate giving 1928 as
her birth year.
“She once showed me three
different birth certificates,” her
Foley and his daughter directly
contradict Chief Newsham's as-
sertions that D.C. police officers
were not involved in the brutal
assault on protesters the evening
[of ] June 1,” said Scott Michel-
man, legal director for the ACLU
of the District of Columbia. Other
entities representing the protest-
Leos neBor/AssoCiAteD Press
friend Norman Lebrecht, creator
of the classical music blog
Slipped Disc, wrote in an obituary
on Wednesday. “They were not
very accurate in Poland, she said.”
“When she plays the
Beethoven concerto, you
can imagine Beethoven
wanted it that way.”
Zubin Mehta, the former
conductor of the new York and
Los Angeles philharmonics, to the
Associated Press in 2010
Ms. Haendel was born with the
last name Hendel but later em-
bellished the spelling as a tribute
to the composer George Frideric
Handel (sometimes spelled
Haendel), whom she claimed was
a relative. The family was Jewish,
and because of Ms. Haendel’s
the washington post
ALex BrAnDon/AssoCiAteD Press
ers include the Washington Law-
yers’ Committee for Civil Rights
and Urban Affairs, Lawyers’ Com-
mittee for Civil Rights Under Law,
and the Arnold & Porter law firm.
Michelman said D.C. officials
have tried to distance themselves
from the “brazen assault.” But, he
said, “MPD engaged in the same
musical training, they moved to
England on the eve of World War
II, escaping the Holocaust.
She later traveled to the
Auschwitz concentration camp
complex to perform Handel’s
“Dettingen Te Deum” for Pope
Benedict XVI, during his 2006
tour through Poland. “Imagine a
Jewish woman playing where it
all happened,” she told the AP,
“playing in front of the Holy
Father.”
After playing London concerts
organized by pianist Myra Hess
during the war, Ms. Haendel
made her American debut at New
York’s Carnegie Hall in 1946. She
moved to Canada six years later
and, beginning in the late 1970s,
split her time between Montreal
and Miami, where her father
moved to be near his friend Isaac
Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize-
winning novelist.
Ms. Haendel performed with
leading conductors including
Mehta, Sergiu Celibidache (her
preference for Brahms) and Otto
Klemperer (her preference for
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
type of wanton violence as the
federal forces.”
In a statement Wednesday, D.C.
police reiterated that the agency
“was not involved in the unsched-
uled movement of the President
from Lafayette Square to St.
John’s church,” but did not ad-
dress the allegation that its offi-
cers deployed tear gas.
D.C. police have said they were
not in Lafayette Square, which is
federal property, but did have
officers on nearby city streets who
confronted fleeing protesters.
That included a D.C. police line
along I Street NW between 15th
and 17th streets NW, where ar-
rests were made.
The White House, the Defense
Department and Park Police said
tear gas was not used but ac-
knowledged the deployment of
pepper spray — a similar agent
with the same chemical effect of
incapacitating people through ex-
treme irritation of the eyes,
mouth, nose, lungs and skin, and
temporary blindness.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified
damages and a court order de-
claring that Trump, Attorney
General William P. Barr and other
administration officials con-
spired to and did violate protest-
ers’ constitutional rights. It also
seeks a court order barring offi-
cials from repeating what the
plaintiffs say are unlawful activi-
ties.
spencer.hsu@washpost.com
peter.hermann@washpost.com
WiLfreDo Lee/AssoCiAteD Press
Beethoven), once explaining,
“You cannot play with inspiration
when the conductor is an imbe-
cile.”
She recorded for labels includ-
ing Decca, which she used as the
name for several of her dogs, and
also led master classes and pri-
vate lessons, including for Ger-
man violinist David Garrett. She
never married — “it was all about
the music,” her nephew said —
and has no immediate surviving
family.
Ms. Haendel was named a
commander in the Order of the
British Empire in 1991 and con-
tinued performing until just a
few years ago. She said that she
was still honing her interpreta-
tions of the concertos she had
played for decades, trying to
reach “that sublime quality” in-
tended by Beethoven, Brahms or
whoever else was on the program.
“I am not there to please the
audience,” she told Lebrecht in
2000. “I am not an entertainer. I
am there to serve the composer.”
harrison.smith@washpost.com
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
o f No t e
Obituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern Vir-
ginia.
John Simon MacNeil,
analyst
John Simon MacNeil, 45, an an-
alyst in the office of the D.C. audi-
tor and earlier in the D.C. Council
budget office, died May 9 at his
home in Washington. The cause
was lung cancer, said a sister, Lau-
ra MacNeil.
Mr. MacNeil was born in Atlan-
ta and grew up in the Washington
area. He was a journalist and sci-
ence writer in New York before
returning to Washington in 2007
as a program examiner for the
federal Office of Management and
Budget. He joined the D.C. govern-
ment in 2015.
Ciriaco Gonzales,
substance abuse officer
Ciriaco Gonzales, 86, who re-
tired in 1999 from the Department
of Health and Human Services’
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration,
died May 1 at his home in Rock-
ville, Md. The cause was cancer,
said a daughter, Monica Gonzales.
Dr. Gonzales was born in Luis
Lopez, N.M. He was a professor of
biology at the College of Santa Fe
before moving to the Washington
area in 1972.
He was director of the Minority
Biomedical Research Support
Program at the National Institutes
of Health from 1972 until 1995 and
then joined HHS.
Margery Bernbaum,
programs manager
Margery Bernbaum, 76, the
manager of international student
programs for the Council for
Christian Colleges and Universi-
ties for 30 years before retiring in
2005, died May 22 at her home in
Rockville, Md. The cause was pan-
creatic cancer, said her husband,
John Bernbaum.
Mrs. Bernbaum was born Mar-
gery Taylor in Paterson, N.J., and
had lived in the Washington area
since 1965. She was the mother of
three children and a surrogate
mother to six children she raised
after the death of her sister and
brother-in-law in 1976. She orga-
nized sandwich-making for Mar-
tha’s Table, a charitable organiza-
tion that assists homeless people.
Preston Hay,
scientist
Preston Hay, 86, a scientist who
designed orbital satellite data col-
lection for the Mitre Corp. and
then the Analytic Sciences Corp.
before retiring in 2010, died May
10 at his home in Ashburn, Va. The
cause was cancer, said Donna
Goldsteen, a daughter-in-law.
Mr. Hay was born in Beaufort,
S.C. He helped design communi-
cations beacon radar for NASA
contractors and an advanced ra-
dar system for NATO in Europe
before settling in the Washington
area in 1969.
James Chmelik,
Marine Corps officer
James Chmelik, 89, a Marine
Corps major who retired in 1975
and a former director of museum
shops at the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, died May 24 at a hospital in
Silver Spring, Md. The cause was
pneumonia, said a daughter, Rose-
marie Kinney.
Maj. Chmelik, a resident of
Ijamsville, Md., was born in Oak
Park, Ill. His 20 years in the mili-
tary included combat duty in the
Vietnam War and work as a data
systems automation officer. He
was a recipient of the Navy Com-
mendation Medal. He worked at
the Smithsonian from 1975 to
1992.
John Morgan,
CWA officer
John Morgan, 91, a retired gov-
ernment relations officer and as-
sistant to the president of the
Communications Workers of
America, died May 26 at his home
in Annapolis. The cause was con-
gestive heart failure, said a son,
Thomas Morgan.
Mr. Morgan was born in Mil-
waukee and came to Washington
in 1963 on an American Political
Science fellowship. Later he was
executive director of the Demo-
cratic Study Group, an organiza-
tion of House Democrats. He
joined CWA in 1973 and retired in
1998.
James ‘Ray’ Reid,
construction engineer
James “Ray” Reid, 79, a con-
struction engineer and cost esti-
mator on building projects in the
Washington area and elsewhere,
died May 6 at a hospital in Branson,
Mo. The cause was heart disease,
said a daughter, Joanna Wauhop.
Mr. Reid was born in Washing-
ton and was an engineer/estima-
tor with the city of Rockville, Md.,
and with construction companies.
His work included malls, hotels
and hospitals. He moved to Virgin-
ia Beach from Centreville, Va.,
about 20 years ago and later
moved to Blue Eye, Mo.
— From staff reports
IN MEMORIAM
WATSON
JACK WATSON
July 6, 1943 - July 9, 1996
.......because you loved me.
Carolyn
DEATH NOTICE
BROWN
ROBERT R. BROWN
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020,
ROBERT R. BROWN of Silver
Spring MD. Loving husband of
Shirley Brown. Devoted father
of Loren (Moran Eizenberger)
Brown, and David (Lesli King)
Brown. Dear brother of Bonny Billig. Cher-
ished grandfather of, Elle, Jemma, Alexis,
and Seth Brown. Graveside funeral services
will be held on Friday, July 10, 2020 at 11
a.m. at Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney
MD. Memorial contributions may be made
to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society:
nationalmssociety.org or to the American
Glaucoma Society: Americanglaucoma.org.
Arrangements entrusted to: TORCHINSKY
HEBREW FUNERAL HOME: 202-541-1001
CHEEK
GLADYS ALBERTA CHEEK (Age 89)
Of Alexandria, VA, on Monday, July 6, 2020.
Beloved wife of Arthur Elliot Cheek; loving
mother of Larry Fitton, Garry Fitton, Barry
Fitton, Donna Green and Diane Stumpf;
mother-in-law of Tom Green, Connie Fitton
and Tom Stumpf; sister of Durke Rorie; and
sister-in-law of Margaret Rorie. Survived by
numerous grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren, nieces and nephews. Services will be
private at the Jefferson Funeral Home in
Alexandria, VA, with interment to follow at
the Mount Comfort Cemetery in Alexandria,
VA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to the Hospice of Charles County.
CIOCCI
ROBERT CIOCCI
On Monday, June 22, 2020, Robert “Bob” Ciocci
passed away in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the
age of 91.
Bob was born on May 23, 1929, in Queens,
New York, where he was raised. In 1949,
he moved to Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.
After serving in the Army, he returned to New
Jersey. With his father CW, brother Richard,
and nephew Stephen, he owned and operated
Apex Gear and Machine Company. Upon his
retirement, he moved to The Villages in Florida
where he resided for well over 20 years. For
the past six years, he has lived at Riderwood
Village in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Bob was an avid woodworker creating beauti-
ful furniture, clocks, toys, and decorative items.
He was one of the founding members of the
woodworking club in The Villages. He was a
walking encyclopedia on the battles of the
Civil War and enjoyed visiting battlefields as
he traveled North America in his travel trailer.
He often recalled with great fondness his trips
which stretched from Mexico to Alaska. Bob
loved technology and lamented the fact that
he was born 50 years too soon.
He is survived by his sister, Joan Galiardi; his
nephews and nieces, Richard Ciocci (Cathy),
Laura Ciocci (Patrick), Christina Sutter (Evan),
Lisa Johnson (Richard), Greg Galiardi (Jacque-
lyn), Sue Gordian (Gil); and their children.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, he was buried at the
Maryland Veterans’ Cemetery in Crownsville,
Maryland.
Donations in his memory can be made to the
Kiwanis Club of which he was a long time
member.
HAMILTON
TAMARA SMILEY HAMILTON
(Age 68)
Of Reston, VA died at her residence on
June 29, 2020. Tamara is survived by her
husband of 42 years, Robert Hamilton;
their three adult sons, Mossi Tau Hamilton
(Catherine Hamilton), Maso Toussaint
Hamilton, and Mikhail Teo Hamilton; grand-
children, Khailin Tau Hamilton, Khari Marcia
Hamilton; two brothers, Oris “Dino” Smiley
(Stephanie Smiley) and William “Butch”
Smiley: numerous nieces and nephews and
extended family. Funeral Services will be
private. A full obituary may be seen at
www.adamsgreen.com
HOWARD
NANCY L. HOWARD
On Sunday, June 28, 2020
Beloved wife of Lloyd W.
Howard, Sr.; loving mother
of Lloyd W. Howard, Jr. and
LaTaunya D. Howard; dear
grandmother of Jazmine J.
Howard; and sister to Andrew W. Copeland,
James R. Copeland (Sarah) and Gloria C. Hill
(Booker T.). Public visitation will be on Monday,
July 13 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Pridgen
Funeral Home, 9455 Lanham Severn Rd., Lan-
ham, MD 20706. Invitation only Funeral service
at 11 a.m. Interment private on Wednesday,
July 22. Maryland Veterans Cemetery Chel-
tenham, MD. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be sent to https://www.nationalbreast-
cancer.org.
JOHNSON
GLORIA JEAN JOHNSON
Entered into eternal rest on Sunday, June 28,
2020. She is survived by her stepson, Marcus
Johnson; five grandchildren, Broadus Johnson,
Willie Johnson, Ebony Johnson, Ashley Johnson
and Cherelle Johnson; niece, Lisa Holland and
a host of other relatives and friends. Mrs.
Johnson may be view at Stewart Funeral Home,
4001 Benning Rd., NE on Saturday, July 11 from
9 a.m. until service at 11 a.m. Interment at
Heritage Memorial Cemetery.
JONES
RICHARD W. JONES (Age 65)
It is with regret that we notify the
members of Steamfitters Local
602 of the death of Retired Brother
Richard W Jones. Private services
were held by the family. Notice
#1765.
Daniel W Loveless
F.S.T.
When the
need arises,
let families
find you in the
Funeral Services
Directory.
To be seen in the
Funeral Services
Directory, please call
paid Death Notices at
202-334-4122.
DEATH NOTICE
KASTANIS
MARIA KASTANIS (Age 88)
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, of Kens-
ington, MD. Beloved wife of the
late Leonidas Kastanis; mother of
Lexis Sinclair Kastanis and Anas-
tasios Leonidas Kastanis; sister of
Eve Constantinou, the late Vaso
Constantinou and the late
Gostakis Lukas. A private memorial service
will be scheduled at a later date.
www.collinsfuneralhome.com
KEMP
RAYE MARCELL KEMP
Raye Marcell Kemp passed on June 17, 2020.
She is survived by her husband Charles Kemp;
loving daughters, Robbyn (Robert), Aprill,
Tammi, Toni, and a host of other relatives
and friends. Family will receive friends Today
Thursday, July 9, 2020 at the Not About Me
Ministries 3106 Branch Ave. Temple Hills, Mary-
land from 10 a.m. until time of Service at
11 a.m. Interment at Resurrection Cemetery.
Arrangements by Robinson Funeral Home.
LEWIS
DOROTHY MAE LEWIS
Dorothy Mae, Usher from Enon Baptist Church,
transitioned on Saturday, June 27, 2020.
Leaves to cherish her son, Byron Lewis, Sr
(Ingra); sister Barbara Bryant. Service at Tem-
ple of Praise Church, 700 Southern Ave, SE, on
July 10, at 11 a.m.
MARCOLIN
Dr. LORENZO MARCOLIN
Dearly beloved husband, father, and grand-
father, Lorenzo Marcolin, M.D, passed away
peacefully on July 4, 2020. He will be sadly
missed by his family; his wife of 60 years,
Carol; his children and their spouses, Tony,
Carla, John (Kirsten), Joseph, Lorenzo (Mary),
Anna (Tim), Maria (Andy) and Paula; and his 24
grandchildren.
Visitation will be held at 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville, MD
on Friday, July 10, 2020. The funeral service will
follow at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to the Parkinson Research Foun-
dation at parkinsonhope.org
MCCORMICK
MARGARET M. MCCORMICK
Margaret Mary McCormick, 54 of Lorton, VA.,
passed away on July 5, 2020 peacefully. She
is preceded in death by her parents Matthew
McCormick Jr. and Joyce McCormick (Bryant),
one sister and one nephew. Margaret is sur-
vived by her beloved daughters, Jacqueline
McCormick (grandson Alex), Danielle
McCormick (granddaughters, Jayla, and
Aaliyah), and her son, Jeffery Freeman. She
is also survived by her five sisters, one brother
and two brothers-in-law along with a host
of nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grand-
nephews. Family and friends will be received
at Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home, 13318
Occoquan Road, Woodbridge, VA 22191 on
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 from 6 to 8 p.m. A life
celebration service will be celebrated at the
funeral home on Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 at
11 a.m. Interment will follow at Mount Comfort
Cemetery, 6600 S. Kings Highway, Alexandria
VA 22306.
PINCKNEY
ALAN E. PINCKNEY, SR.
On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, Alan E. Pinckney,
Sr. of Washington, DC entered God’s Kingdom.
He was the beloved son of Steady and Victoria
Pinckney. He is survived by his wife of 59
years, Barbara Pinckney, three children: Alan
Jr., David Sr., and Gina, eleven grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren; and beloved
sisters Frances Boyd and Berta Pinckney. On
Saturday, July 11, 2020, visitation will be held
at 10 a.m. followed by Service at 11 a.m. at St.
Francis de Sales, Washington, DC.
HALL
GEORGE ROBERT HALL
On June 18, 2020, George Robert Hall died
peacefully at home from complications of
Parkinson’s disease. Born in Pasadena, Cali-
fornia on September 30, 1930 to Anna (Turn-
bull) and George Jay Hall, he has lived since
1973 in McLean, Virginia, the past five years
at Vinson Hall Retirement Community.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years,
Florence Fray Hall; daughters Elizabeth Kujan
(Steve) of Morristown, NJ, Margaret Hall of
Columbus, OH; sons Andrew F. Hall (Ellie)
of Glendale, CA, George J. Hall (Martha) of
Wellesley, MA; and grandchildren, Layston,
Eleanor, Charles, Ian, Miles, and Lucas. His
sisters Elizabeth Rogers and Melinda Robert-
son survive him as well as brothers-in-law
Robert Fray (Mickey) and Mike Fray.
George was valedictorian of the first gradu-
ating class of Claremont Men’s College (now
POST YOUR
CONDOLENCES
Now death notices on
washingtonpost.com/obituaries allow you
to express your sympathy with greater ease.
Visit today.
GHI
Because your loved one served proudly...
Military emblems are available with death notices and in-memoriams
To place a notice call 202-334-4122 or 800-627-1150, ext. 44122
EZ RE
DEATH NOTICE
STOLL
DANIEL IAN STOLL
Daniel Ian Stoll, age 53, passed away on
July 6, 2020. The cause of death was
Glioblastoma.
Dan was born on December 16, 1966 in
Silver Spring, Maryland to Jane Stoll and the
late Edward S. Stoll. Besides his mother, he
is survived by his brother Adam (Anita), and
his three young children, Ethan, Jason and
Margaret Ann, plus his nieces and nephews
and his cousins. He is also survived by Mary
Nguyen who he married toward the end of
his life, and by his first wife Theresa Stattel.
Dan graduated from the University of Texas,
and was a proud longhorn. In Austin he
became a music enthusiast, a passion that
stayed with him for life.
Dan worked for the federal government in
multiple capacities in a career spanning
nearly three decades. Most recently, he
worked at USAID as an Ethicist, where
he cherished his friendships with many
colleagues.
Dan travelled extensively and loved to plan
trips for he and his family. Without doubt,
Dan's greatest pleasure was the time he
spent with his three children. He rarely
missed any of their events or activities.
Those who knew Dan well appreciated his
sense of humor, his enthusiasm for doing
whatever he took on, and the joy that he
brought to their lives. In the time he was
with us, he lived a very full life.
Private graveside services are being held at
Judean Gardens Cemetery in Olney Mary-
land in a manner that complies with COVID-
19 restrictions.
Contributions may be made in Dan’s name
to the American Brain Tumor Association,
8550 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Suite 550, Chicago,
Illinois 60631-3225, or to Cure Glioblas-
toma, 578 Washington Blvd. #639, Marina
Del Ray, CA 90292.
THOMAS
GEORGE L. THOMAS
On June 30, 2020. Born as the youngest child
of Barbara Ann Thompson Thomas and George
Lee Thomas in Washington, DC, at Walter Reed
Hospital. Baptized at Nativity Catholic Church
and formerly educated at Nativity School, Arch-
bishop Carroll High School and Morgan State
University before joining the U.S. Air Force.
George Lawrence Thomas was a good person
who kept it real. George's sister Natalie, his
mother Barbara, and father George preceded
him in the the Upper Room. George leaves to
cherish his fond memories and sound advice
his siblings; Rhonda, Gary (Kim), Glen (Shirisa),
Gerald (Johanna), and Gordan (Tina); he also
leaves his stepdaughter, Jannique (Doreen);
aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends. A
viewing will be held at McGuire Funeral Home,
7400 Georgia Avenue, NW, on Saturday, July 11,
2020 from 12 Noon to 2 p.m. The interment
will be Friday, July 17 at Quantico National
Cemetery at 1 p.m.
www.mcguire-services.com
Claremont McKenna College), with a B.A. in
economics in 1951. He went on to earn a
Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
His graduate studies were interrupted by a
three-year commission as a Supply Corps
officer in the U.S. Navy during the Korean
War.
After completing his doctorate, he joined
the economics faculty at The University of
Virginia, where he met and married Florence.
In 1963, he left academia to work for the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System. Subsequently, he moved back to
California to work on defense procurement
policy at the RAND Corporation in Santa
Monica. In the 1970s, he returned to govern-
ment service as an economic advisor at
the Atomic Energy Commission. Thereafter,
he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense in the Office of Program Analysis
and Evaluation. In 1977, he joined the Carter
White House in the Office of Energy Policy
and Planning, which drafted the legislation to
create the Department of Energy. Later, he
was appointed Commissioner on the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission. After leav-
ing the government in the early 1980s, he had
a successful career in economic consulting
from which he retired in 2003.
In retirement he volunteered at and served
on the Board of N Street Village, a shelter
and care center for homeless women in
Washington, DC. He also enjoyed working
with the children in the after-school program
at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in
McLean where he was a long-time member.
He and Florence traveled and hiked exten-
sively, yet his greatest joy was spending time
with his children and grandchildren.
A memorial service to celebrate his life will
be held at a later date.
C0979 2x3
DEATH NOTICE
WENTZEL
FRED ROBERT WENTZEL (Age 83)
Fred Robert Wentzel passed away June 27,
2020. Fred was born January 6, 1937 in Har-
risburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mar-
vin and Frances Wentzel. Following graduation
from Franklin and Marshall College and the
University of Pennsylvania, Fred began his
career in Philadelphia. A staunch Democrat,
Fred ran the 1960 Students for Kennedy cam-
paign in Philadelphia. He then joined the John-
son administration in Washington, DC, running
the President’s Youth Council. Fred continued
to work in Washington, DC where he integrated
his love of political science and his business
acumen as a Senior Vice President of both the
National Alliance of Business, and the National
Council for Advanced Manufacturing.
Fred was married to Dorothy Wentzel
(deceased) for 55 years. Fred was a devoted
father to six sons, Steven, John (deceased),
Marvin, Garth, Theodore and Matthew; the
cherished grandfather of 12 grandchildren,
Eric, Marvin III, Ashley, Emily, Sandra, Michael,
Elliot, Theodore, Bennett, Ethan, Marcus and
Emma. Fred was a true patriarch, the most
solid father anyone could ask for, as he was
selfless, thoughtful, empathic and strong. He
will be dearly missed.
The Wentzel family has established a scholar-
ship fund in the name and spirit of our Father.
A private ceremony will be held by family
members. In lieu of flowers, please donate
to the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria. In the
Special Instructions box, please write in, “Fred
R. Wentzel STEM Scholarship.”
https://www.alexscholarshipfund.org/donate/
WILLIAMS
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
March 7, 1925 - July 4, 2020
Peacefully at home in Aldie, VA viewing Friday,
July 10, 2020; 6 to 8 p.m. Royston Funeral
Home, Middleburg, VA. Graveside service Sat-
urday, July 11, 2020; 11 a.m. Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church Memorial Park, Aldie, VA.
DEATH NOTICE
ASCHENBACH
AUDREY W. ASCHENBACH
April, 29, 1961 - June 30, 2020
Audrey W. Aschenbach, 59, passed away Tues-
day, June 30, 2020 at her home in Gaithersburg,
MD. Audrey was born in Dundee, Scotland to
Charles and Gina W. Roman in April, 1961.
She was very proud of her family's Scottish
heritage. Audrey's joy in life came from raising
her four sons with their father, Larry Aschen-
bach. From supporting and cheering them on
at their sporting events to hosting make your
own pizza nights, she loved being part of a
large family. She had a passion for exercise
and was known for her love of tennis as
well as her Pilates practice. Audrey loved
gardening and animals - and could often be
found tending to her flower beds or sharing
stories and photos of her beloved dogs. She
enjoyed listening to Fleetwood Mac, reading
James Patterson books, and spending vacation
time with family and friends. She is survived
by her four sons, Jason Aschenbach and his
wife Alex, Shaun Aschenbach and his wife
Morgan, Ryan Aschenbach and his wife Tracy,
and Brandon Aschenbach; eight grandchildren,
Gavin, Annie, Blake, Reese, Jack, Graham,
Natalie and Hayden. Her sister, Janette Slagle;
brother, Kevin Roman and numerous nieces
and nephews. Graveside services and inter-
ment are private and will be held at Mt. Olivet
Cemetery, Frederick Maryland. In compliance
with COVID19 restrictions those attending
must wear a mask and observe social distance.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may
be made in Audrey's name to Adventist Health-
Care Shady Grove Labor & Delivery. Online
condolences may be made on our website to
www.molesworthwilliams.com
HENDERSON
EUGENIA PATRICIA HENDERSON "Pat"
December 4, 1950 - June 22, 2020
Departed this life peacefully at her home on
June 22, 2020. "Pat", as she was affectionately
known, was predeceased by her parents, Paul
E. and Bertha T. Henderson and sister, Paula
E. Fiagome. She leaves her children, Bertina
Henderson, Maria Henderson, Ismail (Tanya)
Gibson and Sade Ross; one niece, Rochelle
Henderson (Rah), two nephews, George (Tracy)
Young and Derrick Young; seven grandchil-
dren, D'Aundre, Darius, Alex, Lauren, Tiara,
Tamara and London Ross; one brother, Paul E.
Henderson, Jr.; a loving aunt, Joan Washington
and three cousins. Services will be held on
Thursday, July 9, 20020 from 1 to 2 p.m. at
Stewart Funeral Home, 4001 Benning Rd, NE,
Washington, DC 20019.
JOYNER
JAMES N. JOYNER
Made his transition on Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Beloved husband of Patricia Hudgen Joyner.
Loving father of Darryl (Debborah) and Eric
(Maureen) Joyner. Grandfather of Charlotte,
Darrin and Aeva Joyner. Brother of Beverly (Wil-
liam) Johnson and Brenda Dantzler. Visitation
9:30 a.m. until time of funeral service at
11 a.m. on Saturday, July 11 at The First
Baptist Church of Deanwood, 1008 45th St.
NE, Washington, DC 2019. Interment National
Memorial Harmony Park. Services by Henry S.
Washington & Sons. SOCIAL DISTANCING IN
EFFECT. MASKS REQUIRED
B7
DEATH NOTICE
NELSON
JAMES ROBERT NELSON
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, passed away at
the age of 96. Survived by children, Patricia,
Joyce, Janice, James Jr., TaJuana, and Justina;
godson, Arnold; four grandchildren, 15 great-
grandchildren; three great-great-great-grand-
children; and a host of other relatives and
friends. Preceded in death by wife, Anniebelle;
daughter, Katherine; and grandson, Christo-
pher. Viewing 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m., Mass 11
a.m. on July 10, 2020 at St. Luke's Catholic
Church, 4925 East Capitol St. SE, Washington,
DC 20019. A virtual funeral service will also be
held on Friday, July 10, 2020 at 11 a.m. via the
St. Luke's Catholic Church DC Facebook page.
Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. In lieu
of flowers, contributions may be made to the
Alzheimer's Association, www.alz.org.
STOUFFER
CATHERINE STOUFFER
Catherine Stouffer, age 72, of Viewtown, VA
passed away at home after a long battle
with breast cancer on July 2, 2020 with her
husband of 49 years, Richard, by her bedside.
Catherine was predeceased by her parents,
Gus and Catherine Figest, by her aunt, Julia
Lansu, by whom she was raised following
the death of her parents, and by her niece,
Jennifer Misero. Catherine is survived by her
husband, Richard, by her sister, Julia Misero
and her husband Joseph Misero, Jr. of Ennis,
MT and by her nephews, Joseph Misero, III
of Churchton, MD and Christopher Misero
of Wilmington, DE. Catherine graduated from
Holy Cross School in Dover, DE and went on
to study English and French at the University
of Delaware, earning a BA degree in 1970.
Following graduation, Catherine taught English
in High School and then worked for the Fairfax
County Government until she retired in 1999.
Catherine was an avid horsewoman, success-
fully campaigning horses in the Hunter/Jumper
ranks at the highest level of the amateur
sport including showing horses in such venues
as the Washington International, Devon Horse
Show, Upperville, Middleburg and Warrenton
Horse Shows and the National Horse Show
at Madison Square Garden. Catherine also
taught riding, was a horse show judge and
was the longtime barn manager and friend of
Virginia Horse Show Hall of Fame inductee Jane
Marshall Dillon. Most important to Catherine
was her Catholic faith, which included being
an active member of St. John the Evangelist
Catholic Church in Warrenton, VA. The family
will receive friends on Friday, July 10 from 6 to
8 p.m. at Moser Funeral Home in Warrenton,
VA. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. John the
Evangelist Catholic Church in Warrenton, VA
on Saturday, July 11 at 1 p.m. Burial will take
place on Monday, July 13 at 11 a.m. at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Dover, Delaware.
moserfuneralhome.com
DEATH NOTICES
MONDAY- FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
To place a notice, call:
202-334-4122
800-627-1150 ext 4-4122
FAX:
202-334-7188
EMAIL:
deathnotices@washpost.com
Email and faxes MUST include
name, home address & home phone #
of the responsible billing party.
Fax & email deadline - 3 p.m. daily
Phone-In deadline
4 p.m. M-F
3 p.m. Sa-Su
CURRENT 2020 RATES:
( PER DAY)
MONDAY-SATURDAY
Black & White
1" - $150 (text only)
2" - $340 (text only)
3" - $490
4" - $535
5" - $678
------
SUNDAY
Black & White
1"- $179 (text only)
2" - $376(text only)
3" - $543
4" - $572
5" - $738
6"+ for ALL Black & White notices
$150 each additional inch wkday
$179 each additional inch Sunday
--------------------
MONDAY-SATURDAY
Color
3" - $628
4" - $676
5" - $826
------
SUNDAY
Color
3" - $665
4" - $760
5" - $926
6"+ for ALL color notices
$249 each additional inch wkday
$277 each additional inch Sunday
Notices with photos begin at 3"
(All photos add 2" to your notice.)
ALL NOTICES MUST BE PREPAID
MEMORIAL PLAQUES:
All notices over 2" include
complimentary memorial plaque
Additional plaques start at $26 each
and may be ordered.
All Paid Death Notices
appear on our website through
www.legacy.com
LEGACY.COM
Included in all death notices
Optional for In Memoriams
PLEASE NOTE:
Notices must be placed via phone, fax or
email. Photos must be emailed. You can
no longer place notices, drop off photos
and make payment in person.
Payment must be made via phone with
debit/credit card.
B8 EZ RE The washingTon posT . Thursday, july 9 , 2020

The Weather
washingTonposT.com/weaTher . TwiTTer: @capiTalweaTher . facebook.com/capiTalweaTher

Hot and humid — again Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday OFFICIAL REC ORD
Partly sunny T‑storm T‑storm Mostly sunny T‑storm Partly sunny
We keep playing the same record Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

over and over. As that might suggest,

the skies are rather sunny and the
humidity is obnoxious. Highs will hit
about 90 degrees. A few showers or a
storm could develop in the afternoon. Expect
winds from the east and southeast at about
5 to 10 mph. 91° 75 ° 87° 74 ° 92° 75 ° 92° 74 ° 92° 74 ° 91° 73 °

FEELS*: 99° FEELS: 94° FEELS: 99° FEELS: 97° FEELS: 97° FEELS: 94°
CHNCE PRECIP: 10% P: 70% P: 60% P: 10% P: 40% P: 20%
WIND: E 7–14 mph W: NE 8–16 mph W: W 7–14 mph W: NW 7–14 mph W: WSW 7–14 mph W: NW 7–14 mph
HUMIDITY: High H: High H: High H: High H: High H: High
Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa

Reagan Dulles BWI through 5 p.m.

yesterday

REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today. High 92° 2:59 p.m. 91° 4:00 p.m. 90° 3:11 p.m.
Low 76° 6:00 a.m. 73° 6:00 a.m. 75° 6:00 a.m.
Philadelphia Normal 89°/71° 88°/65° 87°/67°
Harrisburg
92/73 Record high 102° 2012 101° 2012 100° 2012
92/73
Record low 54° 1891 48° 1983 53° 2000
Hagerstown
Baltimore Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +4.2° yr. to date: +2.7°
92/71
89/74 Dover
86/71 Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST
Davis Washington Cape May
84/63 Annapolis 82/72
91/75 87/75 OCEAN: 75°

Charlottesville Ocean City

91/73 81/74
OCEAN: 72°
Lexington
91/68
Richmond
86/72 Virginia Beach Reagan Dulles BWI
81/75
Norfolk OCEAN: 78° Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
83/76 Total this month 2.59" 1.30" 1.65"
Kitty Hawk Normal 0.99" 0.96" 0.97"
81/74 Total this year 23.20" 23.03" 24.02"
OCEAN: 78° Normal 20.82" 21.85" 21.56"

Pollen: Low Air Quality: Good

Grass Low Dominant cause: Particulates
Trees Low
Weeds Low UV: Very High
Mold Low 10 out of 11+
Blue Ridge: Today, partly sunny. High 75–81. Wind
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries
northeast 6–12 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 61–65.
Wind north 4–8 mph. Friday, partly sunny, afternoon t–
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s
storm. High 77–83. Wind northwest 6–12 mph. Saturday,
partly sunny, afternoon t–storm.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, shower, t–storm.
High 80–84. Wind east 6–12 mph. Tonight, rain, a t–storm. Albany, NY 96/71/pc 86/72/pc
Low 71–76. Wind east 8–16 mph. Friday, mostly cloudy, very Albuquerque 98/69/s 100/73/s
humid, heavy rain, a t–storm. High 83–90. Wind southeast Anchorage 66/56/c 66/55/sh
10–20 mph. Atlanta 87/73/t 90/73/t
Austin 99/77/s 100/76/s
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, partly sunny, stray shower. Baltimore 89/74/pc 84/71/t
Wind east 5–10 knots. Waves around a foot. Visibility generally Billings, MT 86/57/pc 85/57/s
clear. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, a Birmingham 89/75/t 91/74/t
shower. Wind east 8–16 knots. Waves around a foot on the lower Bismarck, ND 83/55/s 84/59/t
Boise 91/61/s 89/62/s
Potomac and 1–2 feet on Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage
Boston 85/69/pc 77/69/t
at Little Falls today will be around 3.0 feet, holding nearly steady Buffalo 94/75/pc 91/72/t
into Friday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 94/73/s 93/72/pc
Charleston, SC 89/75/t 90/76/pc
Charleston, WV 94/70/pc 91/68/pc
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 90/72/pc 93/72/s
Washington 6:28 a.m. 11:51 a.m. 7:03 p.m. none Cheyenne, WY 84/54/pc 94/55/s
Chicago 92/72/t 85/68/pc
Annapolis 2:31 a.m. 9:05 a.m. 3:38 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
Cincinnati 93/72/pc 87/66/t
Ocean City 5:27 a.m. 11:19 a.m. 5:24 p.m. 11:41 p.m.
Cleveland 92/74/t 89/70/t
Norfolk 1:04 a.m. 7:18 a.m. 1:25 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dallas 96/78/s 98/79/s
Point Lookout 5:01 a.m. 11:56 a.m. 5:35 p.m. 11:21 p.m. Denver 91/62/s 100/59/s
Ice Cold Front Warm Front
50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
Des Moines 82/68/t 89/69/s
Detroit 93/73/pc 88/68/t
El Paso 107/80/pc 107/79/s
Fairbanks, AK 65/51/sh 66/47/c
Fargo, ND 83/59/s 84/62/pc
Hartford, CT 91/70/pc 82/71/r
Honolulu 87/74/sh 89/76/pc
Houston 97/78/s 98/79/s
Indianapolis 91/71/pc 84/66/t
Jackson, MS 90/76/t 93/76/t
Jacksonville, FL 91/75/t 91/75/t
Kansas City, MO 83/67/t 90/71/pc
Las Vegas 107/82/s 110/87/s
Little Rock 91/74/pc 93/76/t
Los Angeles 85/63/pc 88/66/s
Louisville 94/75/pc 90/70/t
Memphis 91/76/t 92/75/t
Miami 96/80/pc 96/79/t
Milwaukee 90/71/t 83/68/pc
Minneapolis 84/66/t 85/67/s
Nashville 91/75/pc 90/70/t
New Orleans 94/76/c 94/79/s
New York City 90/73/s 79/71/r
Norfolk 83/76/t 90/76/t
Stationary Front
Yesterday's National
High: Blythe, CA 110°
100s 110+ Low: Bodie State Park, CA 27°
for the 48 contiguous states
Oklahoma City 98/73/pc 99/75/s
Omaha 84/67/pc 90/72/s
Orlando 92/76/t 91/77/t
Philadelphia 92/73/pc 81/72/r
Phoenix 110/87/s 112/89/pc
Pittsburgh 92/69/t 90/66/s
Portland, ME 81/65/c 77/66/c
Portland, OR 73/58/sh 79/57/pc
Providence, RI 85/70/pc 79/71/t
Raleigh, NC 88/71/t 93/73/pc
Reno, NV 92/57/s 96/60/pc
Richmond 86/72/t 90/72/t
Sacramento 98/61/s 99/58/pc
St. Louis 93/71/t 90/71/t
St. Thomas, VI 91/81/s 90/81/pc
Salt Lake City 95/71/s 96/72/s
San Diego 75/66/pc 78/68/s
San Francisco 74/54/s 73/53/pc
San Juan, PR 90/79/s 90/79/pc
Seattle 70/56/c 75/56/pc
Spokane, WA 79/55/pc 78/55/s
Syracuse 96/73/s 91/71/pc
Tampa 91/79/t 90/79/t
Wichita 94/73/pc 95/77/s
World
High: Basrah, Iraq 121°
Low: Oruro, Bolivia 11°
excludes Antarctica
WORLD Today Tomorrow
Addis Ababa 68/56/sh 72/56/sh
Amsterdam 66/58/r 63/50/r
Athens 88/72/s 88/72/s
Auckland 56/40/pc 58/45/pc
Baghdad 118/89/pc 118/87/pc
Bangkok 96/80/c 96/80/t
Beijing 77/67/t 82/70/c
Berlin 67/57/r 77/54/r
Bogota 67/47/t 65/47/t
Brussels 72/60/r 66/49/r
Buenos Aires 57/47/pc 60/43/pc
Cairo 92/77/s 96/76/s
Caracas 75/65/t 74/66/pc
Copenhagen 64/53/pc 65/54/r
Dakar 88/80/c 88/81/pc
Dublin 61/46/c 61/46/pc
Edinburgh 63/50/sh 62/47/sh
Frankfurt 82/61/pc 79/52/t
Geneva 87/62/t 83/63/t
Ham., Bermuda 82/76/pc 83/77/pc
Helsinki 62/47/sh 65/48/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 91/77/t 91/77/t
Moon Phases
July 12 July 20 July 27 Aug 3
Last New First Full
Quarter Quarter
Hong Kong 91/84/t 91/83/sh
Islamabad 97/77/pc 97/81/pc
Istanbul 83/71/s 83/73/s
Jerusalem 82/65/s 84/66/s
Johannesburg 61/42/pc 65/44/s
Kabul 90/63/pc 94/62/pc
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/t 90/80/pc
Kolkata 92/83/t 93/82/t
Lagos 83/75/t 83/76/c
Lima 65/60/pc 65/59/pc
Lisbon 83/64/s 85/64/s
London 69/54/r 67/51/pc
Madrid 94/65/pc 94/70/s
Manila 94/80/t 93/79/t
Mexico City 74/54/t 79/55/t
Montreal 93/71/s 94/73/s
Moscow 70/52/r 72/59/pc
Mumbai 89/80/t 89/79/t
Nairobi 74/57/pc 73/52/r
New Delhi 92/83/t 98/83/pc
Oslo 65/48/pc 64/48/pc
Ottawa 94/69/s 93/71/c
Paris 88/62/pc 75/54/pc
Prague 74/58/sh 86/55/t
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun 5:51 a.m. 8:35 p.m.
Moon 11:47 p.m. 10:10 a.m.
Venus 3:26 a.m. 5:29 p.m.
Mars 12:25 a.m. 12:28 p.m.
Jupiter 8:49 p.m. 6:25 a.m.
Saturn 9:11 p.m. 6:58 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro 77/69/pc 72/66/pc
Riyadh 112/84/pc 113/86/pc
Rome 86/65/s 88/66/s
San Salvador 87/68/t 81/68/t
Santiago 62/40/pc 61/42/pc
Sarajevo 83/53/s 88/58/s
Seoul 91/71/pc 83/69/t
Shanghai 81/75/t 87/75/c
Singapore 83/78/t 87/78/c
Stockholm 65/48/s 65/51/c
Sydney 65/51/pc 66/53/c
Taipei City 91/82/c 94/81/c
Tehran 100/77/pc 98/77/pc
Tokyo 80/75/sh 83/75/c
Toronto 92/73/pc 91/72/t
Vienna 83/62/c 91/68/pc
Warsaw 70/60/pc 80/65/t
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
sn-snow, i-ice
Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
quality data); National Weather Service
* AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

LIMITED TIME ONLY ARCHITECTURAL SCALLOPED

SHINGLES EDGE

FREE GUTTERS OR
GUTTER GUARDS! *

S
ASPHALT SYNTHETIC
PECIAL
$
1,000 Value SHAKES SLATE

UMMER !
AVINGS
DESIGNER
LUXURY
PREMIUM

NEW! STANDING
SEAM METAL ROOFING

• Best warranties in the industry NEW! METAL SHAKES

• High performance asphalt
shingles, metal & flat roofing
• Awarded Triple Crown Champion,
Governor’s Award and SELECT
ShingleMaster Certification
WINDOWS
FREE Estimates! NEW! METAL SLATE
Financing Available! Call Now!
877-445-LONG | LongRoofing.com
Licensed, Bonded, Insured. MHIC 51346, VA 2705048183A, DC 67006785 NEW! METAL TILE
* with Long Roofing purchase. Expires 8/25/20. Valid initial visit only. Min. purchase required.
g DOORS g BATHS Cannot be combined with other offers. Financing subject to credit approval.
 Nationals get comfortable behind their masks. Sports, C9-12
KLMNO

Style
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . washingtonpost.com/style eZ Re C

For mothers,
the labor of
navigating
the pandemic
“We work with the willing, not the An old cartoon from
1976 has been
coerced. If you are just trying to hire circulating on social
media recently, titled
us because you need it for your PR “My Wife Doesn’t
Work.” In 20 panels, it
statement, no.” Monica
follows the daily routine
Hesse of a stay-at-home mom:
Matthew Kincaid, founder of Overcoming Racism, a
group that does anti-racism training At 7 a.m., she’s packing
lunches; at 11 a.m., she’s running
errands; at 2 and 3 and 5 p.m., she’s
sweeping, ironing and dishwashing
while a toddler tugs on her skirt. The
titular panel comes at 1 p.m. when we
drop in on her husband chatting with
a colleague. “My wife doesn’t work,” he
explains. The joke has one of two
interpretations: either he has no idea
how much work it takes to run a house
because he’s not around to see this
labor, or he’s aware of it but doesn’t
count it as “work.” Maybe both.
It’s not surprising that in 2020, this
cartoon is being shared with a covid-
19 twist. “Now you can’t even schedule
the 4 p.m. playdate,” I saw one mom
lament; another joked about
performing every task in the comic
while additionally spending 40 hours
a week in Zoom meetings. Last week
in Britain, two different female
television guests were interrupted on
air when their children breached their
home offices. Some commenters
compared it to when a dad on the BBC
was interrupted by his own toddler a
few years ago; others noted that
unlike that video, in which the man’s
wife immediately skidded into the
Red BuLL AmApHiKO
room to retrieve the kid, no spouse or
nanny attempted to rescue these
women. “Yes, you can have two

The power of pointed workshops

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing,
the demand for anti-racism seminars rises
BY M AURA J UDKIS
Robette Ann Dias has been training people how not to be
racist for nearly 20 years, but her organization’s services
recently reached a new level of demand. In a typical month,
Crossroads Antiracism organizing & Training, of which she
is the executive director, would get nine requests for
training. Within two weeks after George Floyd was killed in
May, it had received 110.
“We’ve been here all along, but now people are
recognizing that we have something to offer,” Dias says.
Which is affirming, on the one hand, but at the same time
it’s given her and her staff an uncomfortable feeling. A voice
in the background saying something like, “oh, now you
think white supremacy is a problem.”
It’s a good time to be in the anti-racism training business,
but, um, let’s just unpack that statement a little bit.
Business is booming because of racism. Because of some
white people’s newfound awareness of racism. Because the
most recent wave of police brutality was too much to
ignore, even though it’s been happening for a long time.
People and institutions are realizing that they need to
SEE AntI-rACISM oN C2
biscuits,” one mom told her son,
flushed and embarrassed as she
returned to discussing U.K. politics.
The pandemic exposed a lot of fault
lines in modern society, including one
that runs through the work-from-
homeplace: The lopsided division of
off-the-clock labor among working
spouses has never been more obvious,
and it’s made two things clear: 1) We
can lobby for equal wages, promoting
women, and harassment-free
workplaces, but progress toward true
equality hinges on chores — the
diapers and the dishes and the
hundreds of other essential tasks that
must be performed, even if we pretend
they don’t exist; and 2) unless we want
to deal a blow to women’s careers and
mental health, we shouldn’t try to
return to business-as-usual until we
address that “usual” has been pretty
sucky for working parents.
Consider the version of usual that
we’re looking at in the coming
months. School districts nationwide
SEE HESSE oN C2
cHAndRA mccORmicK And KeitH cALHOun
Plays: “And So We come Forth” and “Les
Attendees at a People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond workshop. Anti-racism Blancs” are among the best online. C2
trainings are programs aimed at teaching people and groups to recognize the
ways that white supremacy and implicit bias are a part of their behavior. Book World: courtroom drama over a
painting is told with detailed strokes. C3
Carolyn Hax: A reader wants change but
instead is stuck in a rut. C7

Carlson’s shameful insults to

TV REVIEW

Detailing the belly laughs of Amy Schumer senator are sadly predictable
BY H ANK S TUEVER Most of the
footage for For those who haven’t whether or not I love America?”
Amy Schumer rose to fame telling “Expecting Amy,” completely lost their Why would Carlson stoop so low?
jokes that made hilarious, self-deprecat- a documentary ability to be appalled, on one level, that’s no puzzle.
ing light of lackluster sex, bad boy- streaming on Tucker Carlson’s smears It captivates his audience — and
friends and other foibles of young adult- HBO Max, was this week of Illinois that audience is growing. He now has
hood that she ingeniously flipped into recorded by senator Tammy the most popular show on the most
more serious observations on sexism, Schumer and her Margaret Duckworth can fairly be watched cable news network, pulling
modern feminism and a culture ob- husband, Chris Sullivan described as shocking. ahead of Fox’s usual ratings winner,
sessed with body image. Fischer, during He called a Purple Trump whisperer Sean Hannity.
She’s one of those comedians for her pregnancy Heart recipient a “moron” for And it’s thoroughly in keeping with
whom a stretch of personal satisfaction, and a comedy suggesting that it was worth Carlson’s recent on-air comments in
including marriage to an incredibly nice tour. discussing the idea of removing which he called Black Lives Matter
man, might be seen as a threat to the monuments of George Washington, protesters “criminal mobs.”
brand — like the old joke about playing a the United States’ first president and a Nor is it very far afield from his past
country song backward, in which the slave owner. remarks. Just last summer, Carlson
singer gets his wife back, his dog back, Carlson, who has never served in the absurdly was referring to the whole
his job back and his trailer back. Is military, called this veteran, who lost notion of white supremacy in America
Schumer still as sharply funny in the both of her legs fighting in the Iraq as “a hoax.” (“I’ve never met anybody,
midst of her own happy ending? “Maybe War, a fraud, a vandal and — maybe not one person who ascribes to white
I’ll document it or something,” Schumer most remarkably — a coward. supremacy,” he offered as dubious
says, tearfully talking to the video cam- Jabbing away with his trademark proof. “I don’t know a single person
era on her phone, in 2018, as a way of combination of outrage and glee, he who thinks that’s a good idea.”)
spontaneously marking her own reac- described her as “a deeply silly and But, over a long career, Carlson —
tion to the news that she and her unimpressive person,” grouping her who doesn’t lack intelligence or talent
husband, Chris Fischer, are expecting a among those who “actually hate — has had his moments of
baby. America.” enlightenment.
Thus begins a revealing and engag- Duckworth, a potential Democratic He had the good sense in late winter
ingly cathartic three-hour documentary vice presidential nominee, delivered a to break with most of the Fox News
series, “Expecting Amy” (streaming memorable comeback on Twitter pack and fully recognize the deadly
Thursday on HBo Max), which follows without matching him insult for threat of the novel coronavirus. He
several concurrent gestation processes insult: “Does @TuckerCarlson want to even made a trip to visit the president
SEE tv rEvIEw oN C3 HBO walk a mile in my legs and then tell me SEE SullIvAn oN C3
c2
Nation is built on ‘imposition of the ideology of race itself’
aNTI-raCISM from C1
think and talk about race, and
many feel unprepared. for the
professionals who have been
thinking and talking about race
for a while, it’s a bittersweet
moment.
Speaking requests for Ijeoma
oluo, the author of “So You Want
to Talk About race,” had all but
dried up at the beginning of the
pandemic. “And now all of a
sudden, people have the capacity
for these conversations,” she says.
“It was a reminder of what it
takes to get people to pay atten-
tion. There’s something that un-
dervalues your humanity in that
— that there has to be bodies in
the street.”
The call for change in Ameri-
ca’s streets has extended to its
offices, where high-profile shake-
ups have occurred in recent
weeks. The CEo of Crossfit re-
signed after making racist re-
marks about floyd, and the edi-
tor in chief of Bon Appétit maga-
zine was forced out after employ-
ees spoke out about a workplace
that was hostile toward people of
color. reality shows, co-working
spaces and media organizations
(including The Post) have also
grappled with issues including
microaggression and a lack of
representation in leadership.
food companies are phasing out
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and
mrs. Butterworth logos.
“Part of what happened was
corporations started putting out
all these statements of support,
right? ‘Black Lives matter. This is
awful,’ ” says oluo. “And all the
black employees were like, ‘oh,
since when did black lives matter
to you?’ You know, I think the
hypocrisy of it made it really,
really just unbearable.”
Anti-racism books, including
oluo’s “So You Want to Talk
About race,” Ibram X. Kendi’s
“How to Be an Antiracist” and
“Stamped from the Beginning,”
robin DiAngelo’s “White fragili-
Monica Hesse
Hard lessons of pandemic parenting
heSSe from C1
have presented patchwork plans
of reopening — students will
attend every other week, every
third week, every Tuesday when
the moon is full — with no
regard to the parents who will
have to stitch together these
patches while working jobs that
expect full-time commitment.
florida State University
announced last week that
employees would no longer be
allowed to care for children
while teleworking — an
exemption it had allowed with
the onset of the pandemic.
Beginning in August, workers
would have to — well, it wasn’t
clear what they would have to
do. Send their kids to schools
that might not be open yet, I
guess, or shove their 4-year-olds
in the laundry room for nine
hours with a Lunchable and a
boxed set of “Paw Patrol.”
one pictured a dean
somewhere, chatting with a
colleague, oblivious to the labor
he couldn’t see: “my employees
don’t parent.” (After public
backlash, the university
appeared to walk back the
dictum.)
Employees are always
parenting now. moms are always
working now. Paid labor, unpaid
labor, on-hours, after-hours.
Deprived of school, they became
teachers; deprived of summer
camps, they’ve become
counselors. Dads, too.
researchers at the Council on
Contemporary families found
that the number of heterosexual
couples who reported sharing
housework had grown by 58
percent during the pandemic,
from 26 to 41 percent.
The bad news is that still
leaves 59 percent of couples who
aren’t sharing responsibilities
equally. Boston Consulting
Group found women performing
15 more hours of domestic labor
per week than their spouses; a
United Nations policy brief on
the impact of covid-19 on women
warned that “even the limited
gains made in the past decades
are at risk of being rolled back.”
These are the sorts of balances
that aren’t legislated, just
negotiated, between bosses and
employees or spouses at home.
Back in may, the New York
Times published a headline so
The Movie Directory has gone dark.
ty” and Layla f. Saad’s “me and
White Supremacy” have climbed
the bestseller lists. Companies
are racing to hire diversity man-
agers. Employees at some corpo-
rations were offered Juneteenth
as a paid holiday.
And human resources manag-
ers filled the inboxes of people
who run anti-racism training
programs.
Which are what, exactly?
A
nti-racism trainings are
programs aimed at teach-
ing people and groups to
recognize the ways that white
supremacy and implicit bias are
a part of their behavior and how
they shape nearly every institu-
tion in the United States. De-
pending on the organization,
they can be a day-long training or
several sessions spread out over
days, weeks or months. Central
tenets of anti-racism education
include confronting one’s own
privilege and complicity, and tak-
ing individual and collective ac-
tions to counteract systemic rac-
ism. for white people, that might
include actions such as educat-
ing oneself and other white peo-
ple about racism, and making
donations to groups working to
incendiary it almost sounded
like trolling, except it was based
on a real study: “Nearly half of
men say they do most of the
home schooling. Three percent
of women agree.”
A brief scan of my facebook
feed this week revealed every
possible variation of maternal
misery: one mom said she was
desperate for schools to reopen
so she could do more than 17
minutes of work at a stretch,
while another prayed schools
wouldn’t reopen for public
health reasons, even though the
thought of another semester of
home schooling made her hair
fall out. one mom said schools
should reopen only if all children
wore face masks, while another
panicked that her severely
asthmatic son couldn’t safely
keep one on all day. A chorus of
parents pointed out that
children seem less vulnerable to
covid-19, while a chorus of
teachers pointed out that schools
aren’t populated only by
children, as thousands of
janitors, cafeteria workers,
speech therapists and
administrators would like to
remind you.
This isn’t tenable. This has
never been tenable. The U.S.
strategy of treating child care
like a combination of a lottery
and a blood sport has never been
a solution. It’s just been a secret.
It’s been something that parents
are expected to magick together,
uncomplaining, and then
flawlessly enact behind the
scenes.
If there’s a silver lining in any
eZ re
MIcHaeL LoccISaNo/geTTy IMageS
end discrimination.
“Like fighting an addiction,
being an antiracist requires per-
sistent self-awareness, constant
self-criticism, and regular self-ex-
amination,” wrote Kendi in his
book on anti-racism, which is
part how-to, part memoir.
It also requires hard conversa-
tions and actual commitment.
for anti-racism experts, one of
the challenges of this moment is
gauging which organizations are
taking it seriously and which are
just trying to feel good about
themselves. Before accepting a
speaking engagement, oluo says,
she asks a lot of questions about
specific issues that people of
color at the organization have
been experiencing. racial justice
organization race forward does
an assessment of how willing the
potential client is to center the
voices of employees of color and
invest money in making changes
based on what those voices are
saying.
“for transformation to really
occur, we need for folks to be
ready to go beyond moral nice-
ties,” says Key Jackson, the senior
director of movement and capac-
ity building at race forward.
overcoming racism, a group
ISTock
of this, it’s that the novel
coronavirus has put sticks of
dynamite into the cracks of our
society, turning them into the
canyons that must be navigated.
It’s made the suffering visible.
Instead of an office dad trying to
settle a squabble over the phone
while pretending he’s talking to
a client, the squabble plays out
on his conference call for all co-
workers to hear. Instead of a
nursing mom slinking into a
bathroom stall to pump, she
might be doing it on a Zoom call.
This moment in history has
made visible how accustomed
we are to choosing between
physical well-being and mental
health, to Scotch-taping our lives
together while perpetually on
the brink of exhaustion.
opening schools is the red
herring. The real issue is the
absolute lack of safety net or
social structure that has led
Americans to think that opening
schools is the only salvation. We
can’t ignore this anymore, so we
might as well put it all on the
table: universal child care,
mandatory paid parental leave.
All the solutions we’ve dismissed
as Scandinavian luxuries instead
of universal necessities.
“my wife doesn’t work” has
never been a true statement. But,
“This doesn’t work for my wife”
has always been a true
statement, and now we can
finally do something about it.
monica.hesse@washpost.com
Monica Hesse is a columnist writing
about gender and its impact on
society. For more visit wapo.st/hesse.
JIM SPeLLMaN/geTTy IMageS
Ibram X. Kendi, left, and
Ijeoma Oluo have written books
that delve into anti-racism.
that does trainings for educators
and corporations, isn’t afraid to
turn down clients that do not
meet its standards. “If you come
to us saying, ‘my CEo was wear-
ing blackface, can you come in?’
No,” says founder matthew Kin-
caid. “We work with the willing,
not the coerced. If you are just
trying to hire us because you
need it for your Pr statement,
no.”
Gavin Goodall, 36, is the senior
program manager of school rede-
sign for Denver Public Schools,
and he participated in Kincaid’s
training over the course of two
years through the Broad resi-
dency, a midcareer fellowship for
professionals in public educa-
tion. As a Jamaican-Chinese im-
migrant to the United States,
talking bluntly about racism gave
him “a sense of catharsis,” says
Goodall, “that relief of being
recognized.”
It was different for one of his
white colleagues in the fellow-
ship, Jerre maynor, 36, the senior
director of career pathways for
the Tennessee Department of
Education.
“It brought up huge feelings of
shame and guilt,” says maynor.
“It’s like pulling back the veil on
critic’s notebook
Two online plays shine very di≠erently
BY P ETER M ARKS
The question hangs in the vir-
tual air of “And So We Come
forth,” richard Nelson’s wistfully
stirring new Apple family play.
“What have we done to our-
selves?” asks Jane Apple, as her
siblings and boyfriend-partner,
Tim, peer out of their Zoom
cubes. In this time of existential
threat and social upheaval,
they’re as ill-equipped to come up
with an answer as she is.
This second Zoom play — and
sixth in the Apple family series by
its author-director — finds the
Apples in early July 2020, in frag-
ile states. The isolation created by
the pandemic and introspection
prompted by the Black Lives mat-
ter movement have rattled Jane
(Sally murphy) and sisters mari-
an (Laila robins) and Barbara
(maryann Plunkett) and brother
richard (Jay o. Sanders). A
certain vague dread now domi-
nates their dinnertime musings-
by-laptop in their rhinebeck,
N.Y., homes. Despite the mutual
family support, everything feels
as if it is unraveling.
“I have never felt more lost,”
marian reads from a friend’s
email to the others, who also
include Tim (Stephen Kunken),
logging on from Brooklyn, where
he is visiting his daughter. All
thinking people like the Apples
are at this moment adrift, it
seems, even as they are anchored
in place. This fugue state is a
function of the eddy of anxieties
and terrors and injustices aswirl
in our consciousness day after day
now — and all with an election on
the horizon whose outcome feels
wrenchingly pivotal to the coun-
try’s survival.
The hour-long “And So We
Come forth,” available free this
month and next at theapplefami-
lyplays.com, is an excellent exam-
ple of the nourishment cooked up
by theater minds while theater
spaces remain shuttered. The first
four Apple plays premiered at the
Public Theater, and, unlike some
stories, moving theirs online
proves to be seamless. The char-
acters, professionals with compli-
cated histories, expounding on
politics and art, have always been
there for one another; separating
them via digital quarantine in no
way loosens that bond. Watching
them all in close-up, you get a
potent sense of the ineluctable
We will raise the curtain again
as soon as events warrant.
the washington post
things that have been present
and you have just not been able
to see before.”
Those feelings led maynor to
address the group, confessing to
actions in his past that had
perpetuated racism, many un-
knowingly. It was met warmly by
the tightknit group, which Good-
all estimates was about one-third
white, a third black and the rest
people of other races.
“It was this mix of emotions,”
says Goodall. “Like, ‘We love you,
Jerre. Thank you for saying that.
Let’s work on it together.’ ”
maynor has been working on
it. The course gave him the
vocabulary to challenge his col-
leagues “on any policy or any sort
of practice or assumptions that
can be racist and might have a
racist impact, even though that’s
clearly not the intent.”
A
nti-racism training differs
significantly from the
workplace diversity-and-
inclusion training that employ-
ees might have participated in
before. (Though those courses,
too, are benefiting from a surge
of interest that “makes the boom
spurred by Harvey Weinstein’s
exposure seem small in compari-
son,” says Andrew rawson, co-
founder of Traliant, a company
that makes interactive video
training courses for the work-
place.) Confronting the entirety
of white supremacy is more in-
tense than talking about how to
hire and support people from a
wide range of backgrounds.
“What our workshop does is
help us look at how we have all
been socialized, conditioned and
programmed in a race-based so-
ciety,” says Kimberley richards,
interim executive director of the
40-year-old People’s Institute for
Survival and Beyond. “We are a
nation that is built on the imposi-
tion of the ideology of race itself.”
race forward’s sessions in-
volve honest and raw discussions
of white supremacy and implicit
JoHaN PerSSoN/NaTIoNaL THeaTre
Danny Sapani plays Tshembe
Matoseh in the National
Theatre’s “Les Blancs.”
“Les Blancs” is as lavish
a spectacle as “And So
We Come Forth” is
devoid of it.
effect they have on one another.
The impact, and the perspec-
tive, are strikingly different with
another production being
streamed free: the National The-
atre in London, offering on NT
Live a film of its 2016 revival of
Lorraine Hansberry’s “Les
Blancs.” The author of “A raisin in
the Sun” did not live to see her
epic portrait of the ravages of
white hegemony in an African
colony; it ran for a month on
Broadway in 1970 — five years
after her death at age 34 — with a
cast headed by James Earl Jones.
Hansberry and her slightly old-
er contemporary, Alice Childress,
are getting a bit more of the
attention equal to their achieve-
ments: Childress’s 1955 “Trouble
in mind,” about the casual racism
backstage in a cast of white and
black actors, is slated for a long
overdue Broadway debut, at
roundabout Theatre Company,
after theaters reopen. “Les
Blancs” was on the agenda of
Shakespeare Theatre Company
for the 2020-2021 season before
covid-19 made a shambles of the-
ater calendars. Its director was to
be Yael farber, who directed
“mies Julie” and the world pre-
. thursday, july 9 , 2020
bias and an analysis of racial
hegemony “in terms of the inter-
nalized, the interpersonal, the
institutional and the structural,”
Jackson says.
And presenters recognize that
they offer a potentially rare
chance for employees of color to
speak up.
Each time she does a corporate
gig, there are “employees in that
room who have felt excluded and
beaten down and harmed, and
need to be heard,” oluo says.
“They need to have someone who
the corporation listens to. And
the truth is, they listen to me
more. If this does something for
one black person in that space,
it’s a victory.”
The pandemic has made this
work especially challenging. An-
ti-racist trainers are learning
that it’s hard to have sensitive
conversations over Zoom, where
people can’t look one another in
the eye. When Crossroads hosts
sessions online, there are multi-
ple facilitators, one of whom is
responsible for watching people’s
reactions.
Despite the awkward medium,
the demand persists. And anti-
racism trainers say they have
reason to believe they can use
this unusual historical moment
to facilitate real change.
“It’s demanding repair, and
demanding racial justice in ways
that we haven’t actually collec-
tively experienced before,” Jack-
son says. “And you know, I think
this time is going to translate
into lasting change because it has
to.”
“Some people are going to get
it quicker than others,” says rich-
ards. “Yet we don’t throw those
people away who didn’t get it as
fast as we got it. And we can’t
allow that to frustrate us to the
point that we are out of touch
with our humanity.”
maura.judkis@washpost.com
kyle Swenson contributed to this
report.
miere of “Salome” for the Wash-
ington company.
farber also staged the National
Theatre’s version of “Les Blancs,”
creating a galvanizing platform
for dissecting white paternalism
in the fade-out of 20th-century
colonialism. The gallery of Afri-
can, American and European
characters, converging at a mis-
sionary hospital in the outback of
the unnamed African colony,
gives Hansberry a broad canvas to
lay out a multiplicity of view-
points. Central among them: a
black African (Danny Sapani) re-
turning home from Europe,
where he has a white wife and
mixed-race child, and a white
journalist (Elliot Cowan) seeking
a story about the reality on the
ground at this remote outpost.
“Les Blancs” somewhat lan-
guidly embraces the task of bal-
ancing a spectrum of outlooks,
from a virulently racist British
army major (Clive francis) to a
conflicted young African (Tunji
Kasim) being recruited for an
uprising. (on hand, too, is the
splendid Siân Phillips, as the Nor-
wegian wife of the mission patri-
arch.) But once the volatile dy-
namics are set in motion, in this
adaptation by robert Nemiroff,
the clarity of Hansberry’s percep-
tions take passionate hold. The
degree to which the events corre-
spond to racial conflicts occur-
ring in this country now will
deepen your appreciation of this
dramatist’s visionary art.
“Les Blancs” is as lavish a spec-
tacle as “And So We Come forth”
is devoid of it. I’ve had my quar-
rels with plays on film. But the
manner in which farber’s visual
inspirations are ably recorded —
depicting some hallucinogenic
sequences of chanting African
women and a haunting solitary
figure (Sheila Atim) betokening
silent suffering — redeems the
static results of other such en-
deavors.
Nelson’s efforts, though, suc-
ceed by eschewing theatricality,
perhaps because the difficult mo-
ment in which his play is set
requires no imaginative filter. At
the end of “And So We Come
forth,” the great Plunkett de-
clares — and, heck, her castmates
are all great — that she has never
felt so old. We instantly under-
stand the subtext, without any
directorial intervention at all.
peter.marks@washpost.com
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
BOOk WORLd
A legal drama over a painting’s authenticity, and a work of book scholarship
BY M ICHAEL D IRDA
richard E. Spear is one of the
most respected authorities in the
world on Italian baroque paint-
ing, especially the work of Cara-
vaggio. G. Thomas Tanselle is the
most influential bibliographical
scholar of his generation. In their
latest books, “Caravaggio’s ‘Card-
sharps’ on Trial” and “Descriptive
Bibliography,” each has produced
a masterwork of Tacitus-like force,
clarity and precision. There’s no
guff or fluff in their prose: When
Spear or Tanselle declares some-
thing to be so, it is so, period.
In “Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on
Trial,” Spear provides a detailed,
insider’s account of a major suit
brought in London against Sothe-
by’s auction house. for anyone
interested in art connoisseurship
or courtroom drama, his book will
be nearly as riveting as John Ber-
endt’s “midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil.”
In 2006, Lancelot Thwaytes
needed money for his children’s
school tuition, so he decided to sell
some objects he had inherited
from an uncle. Among the pieces
he consigned to Sotheby’s was a
picture of a naive young gentle-
man being swindled at cards. To
all appearances, it was just an
early copy of Caravaggio’s “Card-
sharps,” a masterpiece now owned
Comedian Schumer and husband document the ups and downs of procreation
tv rEviEw from C1
— the birth of a child, the birth of
an hour-long comedy special and
a breakthrough in her marriage.
filmed largely on phone cameras
by Schumer and fischer (and
some of Schumer’s closest confi-
dantes, including her sister, Kim),
“Expecting Amy” lets as much as
possible hang out there for all to
see. Having joked so long about
her vagina, she’s now inviting us
to see what else it can do.
Schumer’s pregnancy becomes
something of a waking night-
mare, after what she thought of as
the “cute” phase of morning sick-
ness extends itself into full-on
hyperemesis gravidarum, which
means sustained vomiting and
dehydration for the next nine-
plus months, many of which
Schumer spends on a 60-city
comedy tour.
Her sense of humor remains
very much intact through it all. At
an early ultrasound appointment,
when she and fischer learn that
their baby has grown to the size of
a pea, Schumer cautions against
body-shaming the fetus once it
becomes the size of a lima bean.
“There’s going to be a whole
new set of material that’s going to
be more relevant to her,” one of
Schumer’s collaborators, Kevin
Kane, observes. We watch as
Schumer publicly reveals her
pregnancy and begins to incorpo-
rate impending motherhood into
MARGARET SuLLIVAN
Once a talented reporter, Carlson now deals in hate
SullivAn from C1
in mar-a-Lago to try to break
through President Trump’s
apparent denial about its
seriousness.
And going further back in
history, Carlson earned the
respect of other journalists with
his reporting and writing chops.
“If you ask his former editors,
they’ll say they’re wistful when
they think about the old Tucker
Carlson,” wrote Lyz Lenz in a
2018 Columbia Journalism
review profile. She quoted Policy
review’s Adam myerson: “Tucker
was an enterprising, hard-
Live from 8th & I:
Marine Band
Anniversary
CARAVAGGIO’S dESCRIPTIVE
CARdSHARPS BIBLIOGRAPHY
ON TRIAL By G. Thomas
By Richard E. Tanselle
Spear The
The Burlington Bibliographical
Press/University Society of the
of Chicago. University of
384 pp. $45 Virginia/Oak
Knoll. 609 pp.
$60
by Texas’s Kimbell Art museum.
After carefully examining Thway-
tes’s painting, Sotheby’s in-house
experts agreed that it lacked the
vibrancy characteristic of this
great artist and wasn’t much bet-
ter than the 31 other copies of
“Cardsharps” that had surfaced
since 1985.
Generously catalogued as being
by a “follower of Caravaggio,” the
painting realized £42,000. That
would have been that, except that
the buyer turned out to be Sir
“Expecting Amy” follows Amy Schumer and her husband, not pictured, during the birth of a child as well as the birth of a comedy special.
her act. Trying not to throw up on
stage, she jokes about those mov-
ies where a pregnant lady darts
off to the women’s room once, and
is next seen in baggy overalls
while she joyfully paints the nurs-
working shoe-leather reporter.”
Legendary editor Tina Brown,
who worked with him at Talk
magazine, called him “a
tremendously good writer.”
But he’s been heading steadily
downward for years, especially
since his arrival at fox News: a
transformation feeding endless
fascination among journalists
and commenters, as John Harris
documented in a Politico piece
titled, “Why are writers and
editors so obsessed with Tucker
Carlson?”
They’re obsessed in part
because it’s bizarre watching
someone so promising fall so far,
Thursday, July 9
at 7:30 p.m.
-(@ 06&B@ 8Q 8(@ O&5@"/ ;<8: HPP@H<:$ 7 .6RBH/ &R ;<8: # .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ -6@:IK EC RQQR 7 NQRBH/ &R .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ 2<&BH/K EC RQQR
7 -6@:BH/ &R .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ NQRIK EC RQQR 7 ,@BR@:BH/ &R .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ -6@:IK EC RQQR 7 -(6<:BH/ &R .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ ,@BIK EC RQQR
7 -(6<:BH/ &R 41P<@::I B@HB"&R@$ ,@BIK EC RQQR 7 2<&BH/ &R ,@@%@RBI B@HB"&R@$ -6@:IK EC RQQR 7 .H86<BH/ &R .8/"@I B@HB"&R@$ 2<&BH/K EC RQQR
2Q< &R>Q<!H8&QR HFQ68 HB5@<8&:&R*K DH""$ LH/!QRB 9Q/@< CGCJAA?J?E'? Q< M&DQ"@ 0&BB@R: CGCJAA?J?A+E
Denis mahon, the then-quite-
elderly dean of Caravaggio schol-
ars. After having his new acquisi-
tion cleaned, mahon declared it to
be an original work by the Italian
master, a replica from his own
hand of the “Cardsharps” in the
Kimbell. This attribution was fur-
ther supported by other experts,
conservators and dealers. Natu-
rally, Thwaytes felt cheated and
sued Sotheby’s for negligence and
for “the difference between the
auction price and the painting’s
alleged fair-market value of £11
million.”
The trial in 2012 raised numer-
ous tricky issues. Was the freshly
cleaned “Cardsharps,” in fact, an
authentic Caravaggio? What pre-
cisely was its relationship to the
painting owned by the Kimbell?
Did Sotheby’s exercise proper dili-
gence, or should the auction house
have conducted a battery of scien-
tific tests and called in an outside
consultant? more broadly, is an art
historian’s perception of “quality”
merely subjective? And in the case
of disagreement among special-
ists, how can one determine who is
right? What, finally, is the true
worth of the Thwaytes/mahon
“Cardsharps”?
To answer these and other ques-
tions, Spear offers a short history
of modern Caravaggiomania,
comments on representative ex-
ery walls.
There may, in fact, be too much
of this kind of thing to sustain
“Expecting Amy” through a full
three hours. Seen one documen-
tary about a stand-up comedy
and seeing talent spent on such
ugliness.
Having co-founded and edited
the conservative website the
Daily Caller, he was pretty far
along this partisan trajectory by
the time he started hosting
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” in 2016.
And, after moving into Bill
o’reilly’s coveted 8 p.m. slot after
o’reilly’s show was canceled in
2017, Carlson really dug in. He
was fully on board with fox
News’s politically expedient
coverage and commentary of the
dreaded “caravan” in the weeks
leading up to the 2018 midterm
elections.
MUSIC - CONCERTS
This week “The President’s Own” United States Marine
Band celebrates its 222nd birthday! Established by an
Act of Congress in 1798, the Marine Band is America’s
oldest continuously active professional musical
organization. Enjoy a program which will highlight the
band’s storied history through music.
-Q <@HD( H <@P<@:@R8H8&5@K DH""$ CGCJAA?J'GG) | *6&B@8QH<8:=3H:(PQ:8IDQ!
EZ RE
amples of the painter’s 60 or so
known works, and takes us step by
step through the legal case, in
which he participated as an expert
witness. from the beginning,
Spear believed the Thwaytes/ma-
hon “Cardsharps” to be a decora-
tive, second-rate copy. To his eye, it
looked flat while X-rays reinforced
his impression that it was “too
tidy, lacking the messiness of cre-
ativity.”
more than half of “Caravaggio’s
‘Cardsharps’ on Trial” is devoted
to the courtroom battle, and it is a
humdinger. Top-flight lawyers —
queen’s counsels — faced off and,
though eminently polite, neither
gave nor expected any quarter.
Some witnesses weren’t just
grilled; they were burned to a
crisp. During his own cross-exam-
ination, Spear quickly realized
that Thwaytes’s legal team had
read virtually everything he had
ever written about art. Through-
out the 16-day proceedings, the
judge, Vivien rose, earned Spear’s
unfeigned admiration for her in-
telligence, fair-mindedness and
quick grasp of detail.
And the verdict? I won’t say.
However, Spear’s enthralling book
makes it even more regrettable
that, sometime last year, Washing-
ton’s National Gallery decided to
abandon its rumored plan for a
once-in-a-lifetime Caravaggio ex-
tour, seen them all. far more
interesting is the deep dive on
Schumer and fischer’s relation-
ship and the story of how some-
one who touted herself onstage as
an unlovable disaster (even ti-
Undocumented immigration
has made the United States “a
fallen country,” he claimed at one
point.
Speaking about the migration
of people, presumably including
some asylum seekers, through
mexico to the United States, he
wielded fearmongering: “This is
an invasion, and it’s terrifying.”
(This alarmist coverage, not so
curiously, dwindled after
Election Day passed.)
All of this is why advertisers,
such as the Walt Disney Co.,
T-mobile and others, have fled
Carlson’s show, not wanting
association with his escalating,
Stream the concert live at:
www.youtube.com/usmarineband
Learn more about
“Live from 8th & I”
www.marineband.marines.mil
hibition.
more technical than Spear’s
narrative case-study, G. Thomas
Tanselle’s “Descriptive Bibliogra-
phy” is a “comprehensive guide to
. . . the activity of describing books
as physical objects.” In essence, a
bibliographical description anato-
mizes a book’s structure and sup-
plies a schematic overview of its
printing history. Such data thus
creates what one might call a high-
ly condensed biography of the
book, starting with the vital statis-
tics of its initial publication and
then following its fortunes over
time.
Hitherto, the standard intro-
duction to this somewhat arcane
branch of humanistic study – one
that draws on the passion of the
completist book collector, a lepi-
dopterist’s attention to minutiae,
and the deductive skills of Sher-
lock Holmes – has been fredson
Bowers’s “Principles of Biblio-
graphical Description.” But that
classic, first published in 1949, has
long needed updating. To that end,
Tanselle has gathered his own
fact-rich essays from a lifetime’s
worth of reflection on the physical
nature of books. The result is a
true summa of bibliographical in-
sight, information and guidance.
There are, for example, chap-
ters about paper, typography and
layout, typesetting and presswork,
HBO
tling her semi-autobiograpical
2015 comedy film “Trainwreck”)
found such a genial and consider-
ate partner — albeit one who is
sometimes too laid back or emo-
tionally guarded. Schumer en-
often hateful rhetoric.
Nearly 40 percent of Carlson’s
advertising these days comes
from his stalwart friends at
myPillow, headed by mike
Lindell, a Trump supporter who
likes to use the expression “all
lives matter” — a well-
understood swipe at the reform-
oriented message of the Black
Lives matter movement.
So, perhaps, the criticism of
Duckworth should be no huge
surprise. Yet it may well be the
worst example yet of how far
Carlson has fallen.
That this incendiary swill is so
well-received by his audience —
C3
bindings, endpapers and dust
jackets. Throughout, Tanselle em-
phasizes the bibliographer’s para-
mount obligation to study and
compare multiple copies of any
book before drawing conclusions
about its makeup or publication
history. Each chapter also con-
tains an essential postscript cover-
ing the latest scholarship on its
particular topic. Not least, Tan-
selle closes by presenting and
commenting on a sample biblio-
graphical description, using Her-
man melville’s novel “redburn” as
a test case. An appendix then sur-
veys the major contributions to
the “literature of descriptive bibli-
ography.”
Appropriately enough, Tan-
selle’s masterwork is distributed
by oak Knoll Press, now the lead-
ing source for author and subject
bibliographies. A stellar recent ex-
ample is “Theodore roosevelt: A
Descriptive Bibliography,” by
Heather G. Cole and r.W.G. Vail,
which chronicles the writing ca-
reer and many books — from “The
Naval War of 1812” to “A Book-Lov-
er’s Holidays in the open” — au-
thored by this most intellectually
wide-ranging of 20th-century
presidents.
bookworld@washpost.com
Michael dirda reviews books each
Thursday in Style.
courages him to see a specialist,
who diagnoses him as mildly au-
tistic, which also becomes part of
her evolving material for the com-
edy special, called “Amy Schum-
er: Growing,” which was released
on Netflix last spring.
By the time “Expecting Amy’s”
real star at last arrives — Gene
fischer, all eight pounds and
whatever ounces of him — view-
ers will find themselves fully in-
vested in the delivery, a visceral
experience that won’t come as a
surprise to anyone who has al-
ready appreciated Schumer’s
frankness about her body. Indeed,
the series works best as an au-
thentic look at what it’s like to be
two humans engaged in the com-
plicated, messy business of mak-
ing a new human. You wind up
feeling like a good friend who’s
been invited along to Lenox Hill
Hospital for a first look at the
newborn.
of course, we’ll have to get in
line behind oscar winner Jenni-
fer Lawrence, who has also come
by to hold the baby, which sort of
snaps us back into the celebrity
sphere. And Schumer, still in the
delirium of it all, makes certain to
tell the camera that we’re in a
sacred space — the same suite in
which Beyoncé gave birth to her
first child.
hank.stuever@washpost.com
Expecting Amy (three episodes)
available for streaming on HBO Max.
if not by skittish or principled
advertisers — makes me wonder:
Do 4 million Americans really
approve? or are they just
watching to get their nightly
outrage on?
Either way, the show’s
popularity is likely to encourage
him and keep his network bosses
from reining him in.
We’re about to find out
whether there really is a floor of
decency that even Carlson won’t
sink below. I’m not betting on it.
margaret.sullivan@washpost.com
For more by Margaret Sullivan visit
wapo.st/sullivan
Free Facebook & Twitter:
concerts @marineband
streamed
online Instagram:
weekly! @usmarineband
16-2898
c4 EZ RE the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

Television
tV highlightS BROADCAST CHANNELS
7/9/20
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30
4.1 WRC (NBC) u News Inequality u Blindspot u Blindspot u Law & Order: SVU News u Tonight Show

4.2 WRC (IND) FailArmy LX Presents.. LX News - PM LX News - PM LX News - PM LX News - PM

5.1 WTTG (Fox) Fox 5 u TMZ u Celebrity Watch Party u Labor of Love Fox 5 News at 10 News The Final
7.1 WJLA (ABC) u Wheel u Jeopardy! u Holey Moley u Don’t u To Tell the Truth News u Kimmel

9.1 WUSA (CBS) Q&A u ET u Sheldon u The Unicorn (9:01) u Mom u Mom u NCIS: Los Angeles 9 News u Late-Colbert

14.1 WFDC (UNI) La Rosa de Guadalupe Te doy la vida Amor eterno Como tú no hay dos Noticias Noticiero
20.1 WDCA (MNTV) u Family Feud u Family Feud Fox 5 News u Family Feud Fox 5 News u Extra Big Bang Big Bang u Law & Order: Criminal Intent

22.1 WMPT (PBS) BBC News Greek Table Father Brown Last Tango in Halifax Death in Paradise Farm-Harvest Connection
26.1 WETA (PBS) u PBS NewsHour Lewis (9:45) Lewis Amanpour
32.1 WHUT (PBS) DW News Rick Steves Independent Lens On Story Democracy Now! World News Whole Truth
50.1 WDCW (CW) u black-ish u black-ish u Burden of Truth u In the Dark u Seinfeld Seinfeld Two Men Two Men
66.1 WPXW (ION) Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D. Chicago P.D.
CABLE CHANNELS
HBO Max A&E The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48
close Enough (HBO Max) an animated series about a couple, voiced by AMC (6:22) Better Call Saul (7:48) Better Call Saul (9:15) Movie: Point Break HHH (1991)
J.G. Quintel and Gabrielle Walsh, facing challenges as they enter their 30s Animal Planet Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch
while taking care of their daughter and living with their divorced friends. BET (6:00) Movie: Beyond the Lights HHH (2014) Movie: Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself HH (2009)
Bravo Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Watch Movie: Legally Blonde HH (2001)
Doom patrol (DC Universe) off in water sports competitions. Cartoon Network Gumball We Bare Burgers Burgers Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Rick, Morty Rick, Morty Family Guy Family Guy
Dorothy finds a friend in Baby Doll, CNN Erin Burnett OutFront Coronavirus: Facts and Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight
Flipping across america Comedy Central The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office
while Vic looks to win Roni back.
(HGTV at 9) Teams of flipping Discovery Naked and Afraid Treasure Island with Bear Naked and Afraid: Foreign Exchange Naked and Afraid XL
With Rita’s help, Larry finally tries
experts each renovate a similarly Disney Movie: Descendants 2 (2017) Movie: Descendants 3 (2019) Raven Raven Raven
to break the ice with his family.
priced house with similar E! Couples Ret. Movie: Couples Retreat HH (2009) Celebrity Game Face Nightly
Burden of truth (CW at 8) Joanna renovation budgets in separate ESPN SportsCenter (Live) Boxing: Carlos Takam vs. Jerry Forrest (Live) SportsCenter (Live)
and Billy head to trial against cities to find out which place ESPN2 UFC 251 Countdown UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington UFC UFC
ClearDawn labs while trying to provides more bang for your buck. Food Network Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Restaurant: Impossible Undercover Chef Beat Bobby Beat Bobby
expose the fraudulent science Fox News The Story With Martha Tucker Carlson Tonight Hannity (Live) The Ingraham Angle Fox News at Night
used to wrongfully apprehend MiniSEriES Freeform Miss Cong Movie: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous HH (2005) The Bold Type The 700 Club
children. Expecting amy (HBO Max) This FX Kingsman-Gold Movie: Jurassic World HH (2015) Movie: Spider-Man: Homecoming HHH
three-part docuseries follows Hallmark (6:00) Movie: Finding Santa Movie: Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019) Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
Blindspot (NBC at 8) Madeline
comedian amy Schumer during her Hallmark M&M Movie: Romance at Reindeer Lodge (2017) Movie: Our Christmas Love Song (2019) Murder, She Wrote
and Ivy are in the final stages of (6:00) Mr. & Mrs. Smith HH Perry Mason (9:05) Perry Mason (10:10) Movie: What’s Your Number? HH (2011)
recent pregnancy. HBO
their plan, with the surviving Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip Flip.-America Hunters Hunters Design Design-Door
HGTV
members of the team held in FBI History Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men (10:03) Alone Mnt. Men
SpEcialS
custody. Lifetime Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Married at First Sight (11:03) Married at First Sight
World’s Smallest Woman: Meet
the real housewives of new MASN ESPNEWS (Live) Fight Sports WCK Fight Sports Fight Sports Presents: MMA Bensinger Heartland Poker Tour
Jyoti (TLC at 10) This series follows
York city (Bravo at 9) Sonja MSNBC Decision 2020 All In With Chris Hayes Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour
26-year-old Jyoti amge, the world’s
confronts Luann about paying her MTV Jersey Shore Double Shot at Love Revenge Revenge Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
smallest woman, on adventures in
less than she deserves to perform Nat’l Geographic World’s Deadliest Snakes World’s Deadliest World’s Deadliest (10:03) World’s Deadliest (11:03) World’s Deadliest
the United States, where she hopes
in her cabaret show. NBC SportsNet WA (6:00) Trackside Live! Olympic Classics Wizards Greatest Hits Redskins Return to Rio
to further her acting career and SpongeBob SpongeBob Henry Danger Danger Force Movie: Ice Age: Continental Drift HH (2012) Friends Friends
Nickelodeon
labor of love (Fox at 9) Kristy find relief for a persistent health Two Men Two Men Movie: GoodFellas HHHH (1990) Movie: GoodFellas HHHH
PARMT
travels to the hometowns of the issue. (5:30) G.I. Joe: Retaliation Movie: Spider-Man 3 HH (2007) Debate The Watch
Syfy
final three men to get a closer look TBS Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Misery Conan Misery Index
at what her future could be like latE night
TCM The Falcon’s Adventure Movie: Hannah and Her Sisters HHHH (1986) Movie: The Seventh Seal HHHH (1956)
with each of them. conan (TBS at 11) Jameela Jamil. TLC Dr. Pimple Popper Dr. Pimple Popper Dr. Pimple Popper Smallest Woman The Man: 200lb Tumor
Jimmy Kimmel live (aBC at 11:35) TNT Bones Inside the NBA (Live) Movie: Limitless HH (2011) Movie: Disturbia HH (2007)
in the Dark (CW at 9) Betrayal
Travel Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures The Dead Files The Dead Files
runs deep, with devastating Billy Porter, Kim Petras, guest host
TruTV Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers
consequences. Billy Eichner.
— Nina Zafar TV Land Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King
TV One Fam. Matters Fam. Matters For My Man For My Man For My Man Good Times Good Times
prEMiErES
More at washingtonpost.com/ USA Network Chrisley Chrisley Cannonball Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Cannonball
cannonball (USa at 8) a VH1 Movie: Bad Boys II HH (2003) Movie: Bad Boys HH (1995)
entertainment/tv
competition series hosted by WNC8 America This Full Measure Govt. Matters Trust SportsTalk ABC News WJLA 24/7 News at 10 Govt. Matters Trust
WWE’s Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, WGN How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met
which features contestants facing LEGEND: Bold indicates new or live programs u High Definition Movie Ratings (from TMS) HHHH Excellent HHH Good HH Fair H Poor No stars: not rated

The Immigrant Experience:

A Conversation with the Executive
Producers of “Little America”

For video highlights from this event,

visit: washingtonpostlive.com

Lee Eisenberg Emily V. Gordon Kumail Nanjiani

Moderated by Jonathan Capehart

I N PA RT N E R S H I P W I T H

Did you hear The Post today? wpost.com/podcasts

S0108 6x1

Washington Post podcasts go with you everywhere Politics • History • Culture • More
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post EZ RE C5

CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ J54
♥ K85
♦ QJ52
♣ A84
WEST EAST
♠ AKQ8 ♠ 10 9 3 2
♥ 62 ♥ 743
♦ K 10 9 6 3 ♦ 87 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ Q5 ♣ J 10 9 3
SOUTH (D)
♠ 76
♥ A Q J 10 9
♦ A4
♣ K762

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♥ Dbl Redbl 1♠
2 ♣ 2 ♠ 3 ♥ Pass
4 ♥ All Pass
Opening lead — ♠ K CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

“I had a tough problem as

declarer yesterday,” one
of my club’s better players
told me.
“Congratulations,” I said.
“You had a chance to shine.”
“But this was a really
tough problem.”
“Then double
congratulations.”
At four hearts, my friend
ruffed West’s third high RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
spade, drew trumps — West
threw a diamond — and led
the ace and a low diamond.
West ducked, and dummy
won. South next played a low
club from both hands. He
ruffed the spade return and
took the A-K of clubs but lost
the 13th trick to East’s jack
of clubs. Down one.
“Too tough for me,” South
said.
How would you play four LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
hearts?
At Trick Four, South
should lead his low diamond
through West, whose double
marks him with the king.
If West wins, South has 10
winners: five trumps, three
diamonds and two clubs.
If instead West plays low,
dummy wins, and South
continues with the ace of
diamonds, A-K of clubs and a CHRIS BROWNE
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
third club conceded. He can
ruff his fourth club in dummy
for his 10th trick.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AKQ8♥62
♦ K 10 9 6 3 ♣ Q 5
The dealer, at your right,
opens one heart. You double,
and your partner bids two
clubs. What do you say?
ANSWER: Your double
risked an unwelcome club BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
response. Take your medi-
cine and pass. A further call
would show great strength.
Some pairs use “equal-level
conversion” here and could
bid two diamonds without
promising extras. Still, it’s
unclear that two diamonds
would be a better contract.
— Frank Stewart
©2020, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY

SUDOKU

CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY

BREWSTER ROCKIT: SPACE GUY! TIM RICKARD

C6 EZ RE the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JULY 9
Curious and inventive,
you are filled with
wonder at the world.
When you focus you
mustn’t get discouraged if
success is not immediate. You
do brilliantly the second half
of this year. If single, you very
much want a partner, and it
is best to find someone who
is very realistic. If attached,
you are as happy as a clam,
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY and children are especially
precious to you. Taurus builds
a contented family with you.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Others find it hard to relate
to your inner fantasy life.
Communicate about important
issues, but don’t try to convert
others to your way of thinking.
You create your own bliss
or misery with the power of
thought.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
A vision of the future comes
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL through dreams or meditation.
It is easier to make the right
choices. Communication with
those you care for improves.
Kind friends from the past are
in touch.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Your ambitions and
expectations about work
are high, and a competitive
spirit builds. Be patient and
thoughtful. Eventually your
value will be more widely
recognized. Background
research and testing of
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK techniques lead to success.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Your enthusiasm and energy
are high. Studies, travel
and conversation generate
agreeable ideas and
experiences. Your zest for the
novel and intriguing is fulfilled.
You might feel restless.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
An old problem is solved, and
you gain deep understanding
of a new subject or task.
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK Concentrate -- you will discover
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN new mental potentials. You will
be changed by external events.
It is a time of adjustments;
identify newly developing
conditions.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
As the zodiac’s best analyst,
you offer constructive criticism
to those you love. Be sure to
balance this with words of
praise and encouragement
today. A working or learning
environment can generate
romance.

SCOTT STANTIS DAVE BLAZEK LIBRA

PRICKLY CITY LOOSE PARTS (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Your sign has a special
association with the kidneys.
Strengthen your lower back
with stretching -- it’s another
vulnerable area. Your health
might have been affected by
the demands of someone
close to you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
The reputation for passion
linked to your sign will be in
evidence today. Your yearning
for depth and intimacy with
your nearest and dearest may
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT manifest. For an even more
intense bond, try exploring
early childhood memories and
dreams with your beloved.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Put responsibility first,
play by the rules and act
conservatively. All unusual for
your sign, but it will help today.
Try to be tolerant of the failings
others show and like them
nevertheless.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Listen to ideas proposed by
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
others, but do not be coerced
against your better judgement
by aggressive types. Keep
good company. Befriend
a neighbor or two. Short,
impromptu journeys lead
to unexpected delights and
opportunities.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Your cash flow is on the way to
increasing and your standard
of living will improve. All will be
well if you aren’t extravagant.
Resist the temptation to
overextend though. Welcome
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS extra work, and pursue
opportunities.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Today finds the planets
giving you a renewed sense
of confidence and support.
Suddenly, harmony returns.
Your cherished beliefs are
supported, and you create
success around your most
important goals. Bravo.
— Madalyn Aslan
© 2020, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

PREVIOUS SUDOKU SOLUTION SPEED BUMP DAVE COVERLY DENNIS THE MENACE H. KETCHAM FAMILY CIRCUS BIL KEANE REPLY ALL LITE DONNA A. LEWIS

PREVIOUS SCRABBLEGRAMS SOLUTION

More online: washingtonpost.com/comics. Feedback: 1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20071; comics@washpost.com; 202-334-4775.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post eZ re K c7

kidspost
chip says today kidspost.com
On this day in 2006, Italy defeated france in the The day is partly sunny and mostly we need your summer
International federation of Association football dry, with light winds and high artwork to go with our daily
(fIfA) world cup final. This was Italy’s fourth men’s temperatures in the upper 80s. forecast. find out online
world cup championship and its first since 1982. ILLuSTrATION By KNOx KeLLy, 6, ArLINGTON how to get it to us.

Good news: Washington team considers changing hurtful name tod ay’s N ews

It looks as if the
The Score Washington Redskins
Fred Bowen are going to change
their name. Finally.
Last week, the team
announced that it will conduct a
“thorough review” of the name. Most
observers think this will lead to the
team changing it.
I have written several times, first in
2005, that the team should change its
name. The term “Redskin,” after all, is ISHArA S. KODIKArA/AfP/GeTTy ImAGeS

a hurtful name for Native Americans. Schools reopened Monday in Sri

As any kid knows, it’s not nice to call
people mean names.
Daniel Snyder, who has owned the
team since 1999, opposed changing the
name. He claims the name honors
Native Americans. In 2013, he said,
“We’ll never change the name. It’s that
simple. NEVER — you can use all caps.”
The world, however, has changed.
Recent events have made people
more sensitive about symbols of
racism, such as statues honoring
Confederate generals who fought
against the United States in the Civil
War (1861 to 1865) to preserve slavery
in their states.
And sensitive to professional sports
team names that are thoughtless labels
for a group of people.
So, if fans in Washington will soon
be rooting for a football team with a
new name, what will it be?
I looked at the names for all 32
teams in the National Football League
(NFL). Fourteen teams have animal
names, such as Bears, Lions or
Dolphins. Five of the animal names are
bird names, such as Ravens or Eagles.
Seventeen more teams have names
that describe a kind of person, such as
Patriots, Cowboys or Packers.
My research also revealed that NFL
teams do not change their names
often. I found only a few times when a
team changed its name after it settled
in a city.
One of the original 14 NFL teams in
1920 was called the Decatur (Illinois)
Staleys. They were named after the
sponsor of the team, the Staley starch
JONATHAN NewTON/THe wASHINGTON POST
TOP: Native Americans attend a group
protest over the Washington Redskins’
team name and logo in 2014. Daniel
Snyder, who has owned the team since
1999, has finally agreed to “review”
changing the racially insensitive name.
company. The team moved to Chicago
in 1921 and played one season as the
Chicago Staleys. They changed their
name to the Bears in 1922.
The Pittsburgh team started in 1933
as the Pirates. In 1940, the owner
wanted a fresh start for the team,
which hadn’t had a winning season.
They became the Steelers. The New
York Jets were first called the New
York Titans. They changed their name
before the 1963 season because their
owner thought “Jets” sounded more
modern.
The Dallas team was almost called
the “Steers” or the “Rangers” before it
started playing as the Cowboys in 1960.
TONI L. SANDyS/THe wASHINGTON POST
We may get a say in naming the
Washington team. I found that 11 NFL
teams conducted votes among their
fans before they selected the team
name.
I think Redhawks would be a cool
name. It’s shorthand for a red-tailed
hawk, a bird found in nearly all parts
of North America.
But change the name. Anything is
better than Redskins.
kidspost@washpost.com
Bowen writes the sports opinion column for
KidsPost. He is the author of 24 sports
books for kids. His latest football book is
called “Speed Demon.”
Lanka after closing in March to
cope with the coronavirus crisis.
Trump says schools
should open in fall
President Trump on Wednesday
threatened to withhold federal
money if schools don’t reopen in the
fall, and he criticized federal health
officials over school reopening
guidelines that he says are
impractical and expensive.
Taking to Twitter, Trump claimed
that countries including Germany,
Denmark and Norway have reopened
schools “with no problems.” He also
repeated his claim that Democrats
want to keep schools closed for
political reasons, not because of risks
associated with the coronavirus.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention recommends that
students and teachers wear masks
when feasible, spread out desks,
stagger schedules, eat meals in
classrooms and add barriers between
bathroom sinks. Trump did not say
which guidelines he opposed.
Health experts say making the
issue political makes it harder to
reopen schools. “It really distracts
from what I think we need, which is
real solutions and a plan in order to
make this happen,” said Jennifer
Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins University’s
Covid-19 Testing Insights Initiative.
— Associated Press

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Stella Zawistowski

ACROSS
1 Number system
in Programming
101?
7 Tyler, the
Creator work
that won the
2019 Grammy
for Best Rap
Album
11 NYSE news
14 Gets around
15 __ colada
16 Golf scorecard
word
17 Best Actress
between Halle
and Charlize
18 Late-day
religious service NIcK GALIfIANAKIS fOr THe wASHINGTON POST
20 *49ers Hall of
Famer who was
MVP of Super
Bowl XXIII
22 Envelope-
A resolution to help keep your resolve
pushing Adapted from an If what you actually want to going to be for a short time, but I
23 Produit de la tête online discussion. do is sit on the couch with wine, liked it so much I’ve kept it there
24 Maze rodent dog and TV, then you will find so far. I may not always do all
25 Writer Deighton Dear Carolyn: ways to do that, and resolve the things I planned, but I do
26 *Inactive sort Can you give me doesn’t stand a chance. have more space to think about
31 Bit of verbal © 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 7/9/20 some direction on If your health (physical, how I want to spend my time
Carolyn how to better mental, emotional) indicates a without having to engage in
derision Hax
35 Like some the ends of the 27 Acid found in 34 Thick-skinned 47 Become 9-Down keep my resolve? departure from the couch, or if massive willpower to avoid just
patches answers to the vegetable oil yellow fruit 48 Slot car, for one I’m single, 40-ish you just want more balance, crashing on the couch with TV to
starred clues 28 Longstocking 37 Invite to a 49 Urban and, I swear, daily I wake up then make the couch time your numb out. And if I do want to
36 Student, to saying, “I’m going to read for an reward for . . . let’s say 10 watch TV, it’s a more conscious
a counselor 63 Not so tough of kiddie lit balcony portmanteau
41 Refuse to hour tonight,” or “I’m going to minutes of X, with X being decision, and if I fall asleep to it,
37 Not empirically 29 __ Bora: 50 Greek goddess make a healthy lunch for stretches or reading or food at least I’m already in bed!
derived DOWN Afghan cave participate of marriage tomorrow,” or “I’m going to do prep: Pick one and focus on it. — Anonymous
38 Sequel title 1 Scruffy film dog complex 42 Words from a 52 Wait for those stretches tonight.” And I That’s it. Ten minutes, then
words 2 Like some 30 “I’ll get this balcony 53 Zone get home and end up having a couch. Anonymous: It’s a great point,
39 Shows college walls done” 45 Ones looking 55 ’60s atty. glass of wine with the dog in Or five minutes, even. Every and one worth expanding on: I
contempt for 3 Mussel shell 31 Baseball hats down general front of the TV and that’s that. day. With couch bliss as your think we tend to underestimate
40 *One hard to lining 32 Cain raiser 46 Molokai 56 Cheer for I’m in a rut carved out over reward. how much place affects life
fool 4 Absolutely 33 Nielsen concern neighbor un gol years — so how do I change it? When it becomes habit, hike choices. Or at least the physical
flip for How do I follow through on my the time by five minutes. Just space of home or work or
43 __ tee promise to read or cook or five. neighborhood. What we see is
44 Newark-based 5 Bank (on)
WEDNESDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION stretch? I’d like to eventually Try for a few weeks, and write what we tend to do. How much
insurer, on the 6 River of Flanders expand to engaging in broader back. we exercise, eat, read, socialize,
NYSE 7 Poison remedy social activities, but I need to I see the dog as a shiraz kind etc., all can be significantly
45 Musical note 8 Donates, start with just being more active of guy. Good guess? affected by a seemingly low-
connector biblically in a positive way in my own significance change — like
49 Leg bone 9 Unseparated home first. Doing these things Re: Resolved: I had this same rearranging furniture. Cool stuff.
51 *Head honcho 10 Bled or fled before work is a non-starter. I problem, which also often Thanks.
54 Rest stop facility 11 Music players am a night person through and included falling asleep on the
discontinued in through. couch with the TV on for most or write to carolyn Hax at
57 Like much — Resolved all of the night; I had a rough tellme@washpost.com. Get her
humor 2017
12 Hunger twinge transition to living alone again column delivered to your inbox each
58 Assn. Resolved: There’s resolve, and after a breakup. I decided to morning at wapo.st/haxpost.
59 Sooty passage 13 Wild indulgence there’s what you actually want to change my environment to break
60 It has its pros 19 “Get this done” do. The latter is so much more the habit and moved my TV into  Join the discussion live at noon
and cons 21 “Who’s better effective. the bedroom. It was initially fridays at live.washingtonpost.com
61 Grill fuel than me?!”
62 Diet that 25 “Five Minutes”
country singer

Retropolis
involves
eating fat, Morgan Stories of the past, rediscovered.
26 Small Spanish
S0129-3x.75

cutting carbs, washingtonpost.com/retropolis

and avoiding house

washingtonpost.com/classifieds
the local expert
on local jobs
washingtonpost.com/
recruit
For Recruitment advertisements, go to
washingtonpost.com/recruit or call
202-334-4100 (toll free 1-800-765-3675)
C JOBS
Newspaper Carriers
needed to deliver
The Washington Post
in
D.C., MD and VA area
Excellent part-time income
opportunity!
Transportation required.
To apply, go to
deliverthepost.com
1405 Cars
HONDA
Honda 2014 Odyssey EX
Loaded
Leave message $12,900.
703-780-1823
1447 Autos Wanted
DONATE AUTOS, TRUCKS, RVs.
Lutheran Mission Society of MD
Compassion Place ministries
help local families with food,
clothing, counseling. Tax deductible.
MVA licensed #W1044.
410-636-0123
www.CompassionPlace.org
Career Training - Emp Svcs
TRAIN ONLINE TO DO
MEDICAL BILLING!
Become a Medical Office
Professional online at CTI!
Get Trained, Certified &
ready to work in months!
Call 888-453-2456.
(M-F 8am-6pm ET)
I JOBS
FT Ironworkers
WMS Steel Co Inc
703-335-7800
815
Legal Notices
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2020 ADM 000321
MARVA ROBINSON
Carol Ann Brokaw, Esq.
1049 Field Avenue
Plainfield New Jersey 07060
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Ethel Boles, whose address is 1024
William Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07201
was appointed personal represen-
tative of the estate of Marva robin-
son, who died on November 10,
2019 without a will and will serve
without Court supervision.
unknown heirs and heirs whose
whereabouts are unknown shall
enter their appearance in this pro-
ceeding. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Wash-
ington, D.C. 20001, on or before
01/09/2021. Claims against the
decedent shall be presented to the
undersigned with a copy to the
Register of Wills or filed with the
Register of Wills with a copy to
the undersigned, on or before
01/09/2021, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or lega-
tees of the decedent who do not
receive a copy of this notice by mail
within 25 days of its first publication
shall so inform the Register of Wills,
including name, address and rela-
tionship.
Ethel M. Boles
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2020 ADM 000034
NICHOLAS FOG
Alan D. Rothenberg
401 N. Washington St. #500
Rockville, MD 20850
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Evangelos Kostaris, whose address
is 8800 Darnstown Rd. Rockville,
MD 20850 was appointed person-
al representative of the estate of
Nicholas Fog, who died on
11/27/2018 without a will and will
serve without Court supervision.
All unknown heirs and heirs whose
whereabouts are unknown shall
enter their appearance in this pro-
ceeding. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Wash-
ington, D.C. 20001, on or before
1/9/2021. Claims against the dece-
dent shall be presented to the
undersigned with a copy to the
Register of Wills or filed with the
Register of Wills with a copy to
the undersigned, on or before
1/9/2021, or be forever barred. Per-
sons believed to be heirs or lega-
tees of the decedent who do not
receive a copy of this notice by mail
within 25 days of its first publication
shall so inform the Register of Wills,
including name, address and rela-
tionship.
Evangelos Kostaris
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS
815
Legal Notices
Take The Post
on a hike.
wpost.com/podcasts
INSURANCE
SERVICES
DENTAL INSURANCE from Physicians
Mutual Insurance Company. Cover-
age for 350 procedures. Real dental
insurance – NOT just a discount
plan. Don’t wait! Call now! Get
your FREE Dental Information Kit
with all the details! 1-855-337-5228
dental50plus.com/MDDC#6258
EZ
homes for sale,
commercial real estate
washingtonpost.com/
realestate
C JOBS
815
Legal Notices
VIRGINIA:
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY
Young's Branch, LC
Plaintiff,
v.
Leon Sloper,
Defendant
CASE NO. CL20004310-00
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
THIS matter came before the Court
on Plaintiff's request for an Order
of Publication pursuant to Va. Code
Ann. §8.01-316; and IT APPEARING
that the objective of the underlying
suit is to obtain a confessed judg-
ment; and IT APPEARING by the
affidavit filed according to law that
Defendant Leon Sloper cannot be
served with court process and that
a return has been filed by the Sher-
iff's which show that the process
has been in his or her hands for
twenty-one (21) days and the Sher-
iff's has been unable to make ser-
vice; it is therefore ORDERED that
the Defendant Leon Sloper appear
on or before the 14th day of August,
2020, before this Court and do what
is necessary to protect his interests;
and it is further ORDERED that this
Order be published for four succes-
sive weeks in The Washington Post,
a newspaper of general circulation
in the County of Prince William; that
a copy of this order be posted at
the front door of the courthouse
wherein this court is held; and that
a copy of this order be mailed to
the Defendant at his last known
address as set forth in aforesaid
affidavit, to-wit: 5466 Lick River
Lane, Gainesville, Virginia 20155.
Entered this 25th day of June, 2020
Deputy Tammy E. Ramsey
Clerk
Circuit Court for
Prince William County
WE ASK FOR THIS:
Cameron E. Green, VSB#89205
ODIN, FELDMAN & PITTLEMAN, PC
1775 Wiehle Avenue, Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
Ph: 703-218-2139
Fax: 703-218-2160
Email:Cameron.Green@ofplaw.com
Counsel for Plaintiff
820
Official Notices
All
Maryland Department
of the Environment
Water and Science
Administration
The Maryland Department of
the Environment is following
the directives of the Governor
of Maryland in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic and
issued Executive Orders.
Please be advised that public
notice and hearing procedures
and meetings may be impact-
ed, including the possible re-
scheduling of hearings from
in-person hearings to being
held virtually.
Notice of Application for State
Wetland Licenses, Private Wet-
land Permits, Nontidal Wetlands
and Waterways Permits and/or
Water Quality Certification and
the Opportunity to Provide Writ-
ten Comment or Request an
Informational Hearing
The Water and Science Admin-
istration is reviewing the follow-
ing applications for State Wet-
land Licenses, Private Wetland
Permits, Nontidal Wetlands and
Waterways Permits and/or Water
Quality Certifications. The appli-
cations and related information
are on file at the Administration.
Arrangements may be made for
inspection and copying of file
materials. Interested parties may
provide written comment on the
application or request an infor-
mational hearing on any listed
application. A request for a hear-
ing must be in writing and pro-
vide the following information: 1)
Name, Address, and Telephone
Number of the person making
the request; 2) The identity of any
other person(s) the requestor is
representing; and 3) the specific
issues proposed to be consid-
ered at the hearing. Please refer
to the case number (i.e., 00-NT-
0000, 00-WQC-0000) which iden-
tifies each application. Address
correspondence to: Nontidal
Wetlands Division, Water and Sci-
ence Administration, 1800 Wash-
ington Boulevard Baltimore,
Maryland, 21230. Telephone
(410) 537-3456. Written com-
ments or requests for a hearing
must be received on or before
August 7, 2020 , unless other-
wise noted in the Public Notice.
Montgomery County
202060523/20-NT-3072: LAYHILL
PROPERTY, LLC, 11815 Piney Glen
Lane, Potomac, Maryland 20854,
has applied to construct a road
to service a new daycare facility.
The project will permanently
impact 2,253 square feet of 25-
foot nontidal wetland buffer. The
project proposes to impact an
unnamed tributary to Bel Pre
Creek (Use IV). The project is
located at 2020 Queensguard
Road, Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Maryland. Written com-
ments, requests for a public infor-
mational hearing and requests to
be included on the interested
persons list may be sent by
August 7, 2020, to the Maryland
Department of the Environment,
Attn: Paula Stonesifer, 1800
Washington Boulevard, Balti-
more, MD 21230 or at
Paula.Stonesifer@maryland.gov
or 410-537-3788. Any further
S0264 1cx1.5
notices concerning actions on
the application will be provided
only by mail to those persons
on the interested persons list.
Please refer to Subsection 5-907
of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land or the Code of Maryland
Regulations 26.23.02 for infor-
mation regarding the application
process.
Ask me about home delivery!
1-800-753-POST SF
Be inspired
wpost.com/news/inspired-life
S0332 1cx.25
820
Official Notices
Take The Post
shopping.
wpost.com/podcasts
S0264 1cx1
CLASSIFIED zone EZ | 2020-7-9 | C 8 | BLACK
EFGHI
CLASSIFIED
C8
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2020 EZ
merchandise, garage Trustee Sales
rentals sales, auctions, tickets dogs, cats, birds, fish 202-334-5782
mypublicnotices.com/
washingtonpost.com/ washingtonpost.com/
Apartmentshowcase.com washingtonpost/
merchandise pets
PublicNotice.asp
To place an ad, go to Legal Notices: 202-334-7007
washingtonpostads.com or call 202-334-6200 Auctions, Estate Sales, Furniture: 202-334-7029
Non-commercial advertisers can now place ads 24/7 by calling 202-334-6200 Biz Ops/Services: 202-334-5787
820
Official Notices 820
Official Notices 820
Official Notices 820
Official Notices 840
Trustees Sale - DC 840
Trustees Sale - DC 877
Spotsylvania County 877
Spotsylvania County
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE Notice Number 0941650190815 Notice Date: August 15. 2019 PARDO & DRAZIN, LLC TRUSTEE‘S SALE OF
6903 Tower of London Drive
ENVIRONMENT Russell S. Drazin, Attorney Fredericksburg, VA 22407
Subject Property: SSL 5083 0817; 4034 Clay Place NE
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED
Tax Sale Date: July 17, 2019 Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
Pursuant to the terms of a certain Deed of Trust, in the original principal
amount of $402,573.00 , dated September 19, 2017, and recorded in the
Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania, Virginia (the "Clerk's
Montgomery County If you do not pay all amounts due, the purchaser will have the right
to file a lawsuit to foreclose on the property and you may lose title. Office"), as Instrument Number 170016931, default having been made
Application for State Discharge Permit 18DP2542, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE in the payment of the note thereby secured, the undersigned Sole
NPDES Permit MD0025666: Acting Substitute Trustees, pursuant to the request of the holder of
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Man-
According to the Mayor’s tax roll, you own or may have an interest in OF REAL PROPERTY the Note thereby secured, will offer for sale at public auction outside
agement Agency, 5321 Riggs Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20882
the real property listed above. Please follow the below instructions to
of the Spotsylvania Circuit Court, located at 9107 Judicial Center Lane,
applied for renewal of the permit to discharge an average of
redeem your property from tax sale and prevent a foreclosure lawsuit.
To redeem your property from the tax sale, you must pay all taxes
1706 A Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 Spotsylvania, VA 22553 on July 23, 2020 at 09:30 AM, the property briefly
10,000 gallons per day of treated domestic wastewater from owed, as well as any legal fees and expenses that may become due. (Lot 0834 in Square 1096) described as 6903 Tower of London Drive, Fredericksburg, VA 22407, and
the Olney Federal Support Center Wastewater Treatment
more particularly described in said Deed of Trust as follows:
A tax bill is mailed to you during the month of August. You should pay Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust (“Deed
Plant located at 5321 Riggs Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882 to
an unnamed tributary of the Hawlings River.
the bill in full and on time.
of Trust”) dated November 30, 2018 and recorded on December
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LAND AND BEING IN
CHANCELLOR MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA
If a written request is received by July 16, 2020, an If you are receiving this notice after October 31, 2019, or if you have 11, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018123173 from 1706 A Street,
AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 117, SECTION 1B, "ROYAL OAKS" SUBDIVISION
AS SHOWN ON A PLAT OF GREENHORNE & O/MARA, INCORPORATED SAID
informational meeting can be held to discuss the application not already paid your bill in full, you should contact the Office of Tax
and permitting process. Requests should be forwarded to and Revenue (“OTR”) at (202)727-4TAX(4829) for a current bill and up- LLC, as grantor, to Daniel Huertas, as trustee, securing that PLAT BEING DULY RECORDED IN THE CLERK‘S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNT, VIRGINIA IN PLAT FILE 5 AT PAGES 85 THROUGH 89,
the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water to-date payoff amount. certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated November 30, with improvements thereon.
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd., 2018 in the principal amount of $750,802.49, default having TERMS OF SALE: Cash. A ten percent (10%) bidder's deposit in cash
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn: Mr. Yen-Der After you have paid your taxes, you should call OTR to confirm that you
have redeemed your property. Keep a copy of your proof of payment occurred under the terms thereof, and following the mailing or certified check payable to the Trustee(s) shall be required of the
Cheng, Chief, Municipal Permits Division. Hearing- in case there is a later dispute about the payment. successful bidder at the time of sale before the bidding will be closed;
impaired persons may request an interpreter at the informa- and recordation of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee settlement must be made within twenty (20) days from the date of sale
or property to be resold at cost of defaulting purchaser. All costs of
tional meeting by contacting Mr. Cheng at (410) 537-3363 If you have not paid all taxes within four months after the Tax Sale
Date Stated above, an additional $381.50 may be added to reimburse
removing Daniel Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. conveyancing, examination of title, recording charges, etc. will be at
or 1-800-633-6101, or at the above address, at least ten
working days prior to the scheduled meeting. the purchaser for some costs. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit cost of purchaser. Neither the Substitute Trustees, nor any other party
guarantees or covenants to deliver, or in any way, to obtain possession
of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of
Any person wishing to review the application should contact
Mr. Cheng at the above telephone number to schedule an
If you do not redeem the property within six months of the Tax Sale
Date stated above, the tax sale purchaser may file a lawsuit against Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the
of the premises for any third party purchaser. Additional terms may be
announced at the time of sale. Sale will also be subject to additional terms
appointment. Copies may be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per contained in the Memorandum of Sale to be executed by the successful
page.
you to obtain title to the property. request of the current noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell bidder upon purchase.
If the purchaser files a foreclosure lawsuit, you will be responsible for at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Commonwealth Asset Services, LLC
820 820 legal fees and expenses that may total thousands of dollars. You may
Official Notices Official Notices also lose title to the property. Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC Sole Acting Substitute Trustees
20015, (Please Note: In the event that the office building at This communication is from a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect
a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY For further information on how to redeem, please read our Real
5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington,
Property Owner’s Guide to the Tax Sale Redemption Process, available FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
COUNTY COUNCIL COUNTY COUNCIL on our website at www.taxpayerservicecenter.com by clicking on DC sales will take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy
Commonwealth Asset Services, LLC
NEW LAW PUBLIC HEARINGS “Real Property.” You may also request a copy by visiting or writing
to our Customer Service Center at 1101 4th Street, SW Suit 270W, Chase Pavilion)on 4429 Bonney Road, Suite 500, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Washington, DC 20024 www.sykesbourdon.com
Expedited Bill 25-19, July 21, 2020; 1:30 P.M. JULY 21, 2020 AT 2:40 PM (757) 965-5097 BETWEEN HOURS OF 9:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. ONLY
Contracts and Deadline to sign up to 840 840 Our Case No: CA18-190385-1
Procurement - Local speak is July 20 at 5pm Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS July 9, 16, 2020 12313528
Business Preference Expedited Bill 30-20, THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of Colum-
Program - Established, Administration - Executive PARDO & DRAZIN, LLC
bia, known as 1706 A Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 (Lot
877
Spotsylvania County Time Shares/
establishes a price or Branch - Chief Digital Russell S. Drazin, Attorney Rentals, Sales
scoring preference for a Officer, would transfer the
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2 0834 in Square 1096), and more fully described in the Deed of TRUSTEE SALE
local business in bidding on Chief Digital Officer from the
Washington, DC 20015 Trust. 11800 Timbermill Ln,
Timeshare Cancellation Experts
or responding to a Office of the County Fredericksburg, VA 22407
Wesley Financial Group, LLC
solicitation for a County Executive to the Department 202-223-7900 The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no Spotsylvania County
Over $50,000,000 in timeshare debt
contract; establishes a Local of Technology Services; and warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, In execution of a Deed of Trust and fees cancelled in 2019. Get
Business Preference generally amend the law SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE in the original principal amount of free informational package and
Program for certain County regarding non-merit OF REAL PROPERTY agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the $309,900.00, dated June 13, 2018 learn how to get rid of your time-
contracts; and generally positions in the Executive same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin- recorded in the Clerk's Office of
the Circuit Court of the Spotsyl-
share! Free consultations. Over 450
positive reviews. Call 888-984-2917
amends the law governing Branch. 1143 16th Street, NE guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the vania County, Virginia, in Docu-
County procurement. July 28, 2020; 1:30 P.M. Washington, DC 20002 225
Effective date: August 1, Deadline to sign up to
Lot 0214 in Square 4077
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. ment No. 180010650, default hav-
ing occurred in the payment of Collectibles
2020. speak is July 27 at 5pm Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water the Note thereby secured and at SMALL COLLECTOR PAYS CASH
(1) Bill 29-20, Taxation -
1145 16th Street, NE the request of the holder of said FOR COINS/COLLECTIONS.
INFORMATION: Copies Payments in Lieu of Taxes and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser Note, the undersigned Substitute Call Al, 301-807-3266.
available at - WMATA property - Washington, DC 20002 assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction at the entrance to the
Will Come to you!!!
www.montgomerycounty Established, would require Lot 0215 in Square 4077 date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
md.gov/council or from the the Director of Finance to
physical possession of the property.
Spotsylvania County Judicial Cen-
ter, 9107 Judicial Center Lane,
245
Electronics
Council Office (during negotiate a payment in lieu 1147 16th Street, NE Spotsylvania, on July 21, 2020 at
DISH Network. $59.99 for
COVID-19 state of of taxes for certain property Washington, DC 20002 TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 by cashier’s 9:00 AM the property described in
said deed, located at the above 190 Channels! Blazing Fast Internet,
emergency, call 240-777- leased from WMATA;
7900). establish the amount of the Lot 0216 in Square 4077 check will be required of purchaser at the time and place address and briefly described as: $19.99/mo. (where available.)
Switch & Get a FREE $100 Visa
payment in lieu of taxes; and Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. Lot 184, Section III, Smoketree
Subdivision, with any improve-
Gift Card. FREE Voice Remote. FREE
generally amend the law HD DVR. FREE Streaming on ALL
(“Deed of Trust”) dated February 26, 2019 and recorded on TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO ments thereon.
MONTGOMERY governing payments in lieu
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
Devices. Call today! 1-855-407-6870
COUNTY COUNCIL of taxes. June 5, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019058397, from 16th Subject to any and all covenants, 265
(2) Bill 28-20, Human Street NE Lofts LLC, as grantor, to Jared Fausnaught, as trustee, to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be conditions, restrictions, ease- Home & Garden
PUBLIC HEARINGS Rights and Civil Liberties
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
ments, and all other matters of
- Discrimination in Public for the benefit of DP Capital LLC, as beneficiary, securing record taking priority over the BATHROOM RENOVATIONS.
July 14, 2020; 1:30 P.M. Accommodations - LGBTQ that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated February date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the Deed of Trust, if any, affecting the
aforesaid property.
EASY, ONE DAY updates! We spe-
cialize in safe-bathing. Grab bars, no
Deadline to sign up to
Bill of Rights, would prohibit 26, 2019 in the principal amount of $733,600.00, default debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit slip flooring & seated showers. Call
speak is July 13 at 5pm discriminatory practices
(1) Special appropriation to against certain individuals in having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. of $20,000.00 or 10% of the sales for a free in-home consultation:
855-583-0510
price, whichever is lower, cash or
the County Government’s places of public mailing and recordation of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required 280
FY21 Operating Budget, accommodation, including Trustee removing Jared Fausnaught as trustee and appointing to post a deposit or to pay interest.
certified check will be required
at the time of sale, but no more Musical Instruments
DHHS - $371,761 for nursing homes and other than $10,000.00 of cash will be
Support Payment to facilities; require certain Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”) as successor trustee, an In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any accepted, with settlement within
GUITAR- Kremona classical guitar,
like new, paid $1000, asking
Organizations Directly notices to individuals; and Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
fifteen (15) days from the date of
sale. Sale is subject to post sale
$750.00 Call 202-333-9264
Serving Developmentally generally amend the laws
Disabled Persons. Source regarding prohibited
of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the confirmation that the borrower
thymes2@rcn.com
of Funds: General Fund discrimination in places of the request of the current noteholder, Substitute Trustee will did not file for protection under 610
Dogs for Sale
Reserves. public accommodation. sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to
the sale which affects the validity
(2) Resolution to authorize
Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and of the sale, as well as to post- ALASKAN MALAMUTE PUPS: AKC,
health guaranteed, excellent in
Montgomery County to Documents available at
20015, (Please Note: In the event that the office building at paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell sale confirmation of the status of
the loan with the loan servicer every way. Deposit holds. $1800
procure lines of credit for www.montgomerycountym
the purpose of providing d.gov/council. During the 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington, the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. including, but not limited to, each. Call or text 704-534-1967
funds for the payment of COVID-19 state of DC sales will take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus determination of whether the bor-
rower entered into any repay- Maltese-pups for sale, 3 males
operating expenses. emergency, public hearing
Chase Pavilion) on proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property. ment agreement, reinstated or ($1,700). 8 wks old. Raised with
(3) Special appropriation to testimony can be submitted love in our home, not breeders. Fun
the County Government’s using the online form at
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for paid off the loan prior to the
sale. In any such event, the sale puppies for quarantined kids. New
FY21 Operating Budget, https://www.montgomer
JULY 21, 2020 AT 2:10 PM legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection shall be null and void, and the Liter will be ready August 4th.
Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law Tammy 703-967-3240.
COVID-19 Human Services ycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/ ALL THOSE LOTS OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS with such default. or equity, shall be the return of
and Community Assistance PHSignUp.html; or emailed
NDA - $3,000,000 for to THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, his deposit without interest. Addi-
tional terms may be announced
SCHNAUZER (GIANT) PUPPIES,
8 WEEKS OLD, MALES AND FEMALE,
Assistance to Community County.Council@Montgo Columbia, known as 1143, 1145, and 1147 16th Street, NE, purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a at the time of sale. Pursuant to ALL SHOTS & WORMED DONE.
Clinics, Medical and
Dental Practices. Source of
meryCountyMD.gov; or Washington, DC 20002, and more fully described in the Deed of refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and the Federal Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, we advise you that
$750 301-752-9135
sent by mail to County
Funds: Federal Grant. Council, 100 Maryland Ave., Trust. void and of no effect whatsoever. this firm is a debt collector
attempting to collect the indebt-
(4) Special appropriation to Rockville, MD 20850; or The properties will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
the County Government’s residents may sign up to Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee's sole edness referred to herein and
FY21 Operating Budget, testify remotely by phone warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property any information we obtain will be
used for that purpose.
Department of Housing and (call 240-777-7803 for agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C.,
Community Affairs - information). To express an same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin- Substitute Trustee
$4,847,976 for Emergency opinion call 240-777-7900. time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, This is a communication from a
Solutions Grant COVID-19. guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the debt collector.
Source of Funds: Grant the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. Without limitation, the unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Fund. On July 2, 2020, Fox Television
properties will be sold subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated settlement. SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (74338)
Home
July 21, 2020; 1:30 P.M. Stations, LLC, filed an application
596 Lynnhaven Parkway Suite 200
Deadline to sign up to with the Federal Communica- February 26, 2019 and recorded on June 5, 2019 as Instrument
speak is July 20 at 5pm
tions Commission for a new
No. 2019058396 in the principal amount of $2,370,000.00. Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful Virginia Beach, VA 23452
757-457-1460 - Call Between
Special appropriation to the
County Government’s FY21
antenna structure registration,
File Number A1169821. The pro-
posed structure is located on top Purchaser will take title to the properties subject to all taxes,
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
or visit our website at
delivery
is
www.siwpc.net
Operating Budget - of a building at 7272 Wisconsin
Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814. The
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. of bidding. July 2,9, 2020 12312842
$1,500,000 for Conference
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the properties DC H NORTHWEST
convenient.
overall height of the antenna
Center Non-Departmental structure above mean sea level is from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
Account. Source of Funds:
General Fund Undesignated
695 feet, and will be illuminated
with red lights. Interested per- obtaining physical possession of the properties. Apartments
Reserves.
July 28, 2020; 1:30 P.M.
sons wishing to review this appli-
cation may do so by visiting TERMS OF SALE: Substitute Trustee reserves the right to Condos H Co-ops
www.fcc.gov/asr/applications
Deadline to sign up to
and enter the Form 854 File Num- offer the properties for sale separately or together, and then to Columbia Heights NW newly renov.
2bd apt. incl. hvac, W/D,
speak is July 27 at 5pm
(1) Special appropriation to ber. Interested persons may also sell the properties to the highest bidder or bidders, depending Vouchers-OK. 2026218487
raise environmental concerns
the Housing Opportunities about the proposed structure by upon whether the highest bid or bids received result from the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Commission’s FY21 Capital filing a Request for Environmen- properties sold separately or together. A deposit of $20,000.00 JULY 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 2020 12311902
Budget and amendment to tal Review with the Federal Com-
by cashier’s check will be required of purchaser at the time 872 872
Roommates
the FY21-26 Capital
Improvements Program (CIP)
munications Commission. Par-
ties are strongly encouraged to and place of sale for each property if sold separately. A Fairfax County Fairfax County NE- Nr Ft. Totten Metro. F pref. Bsmt
file such requests online and may TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
- $2,800,000 for Housing follow instructions for making deposit of $60,000.00 by cashier’s check will be required of 12783 OAK FARMS DR.,
w/ pvt entr & BA, Mstr BR, office sp,
W/D, WiFi, AC. NS. $1300 inc utils
Production Fund. Source of
Funds: General Fund
Requests for Environmental
Review at www.fcc.gov/asr/envi-
purchaser at the time and place of sale for all properties if HERNDON, VA 20171 & monthly maid svc. 202-494-3692
Reserves Designated for ronmentalrequest. For interest- sold together. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of MARYLAND
In execution of a Deed of Trust
Affordable Housing. ed parties that would prefer to
file a Request for Environmental
sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO in the original principal amount Roommates
(2) County Executive
Recommended FY21 Review by paper copy, please SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price of $736,000.00, with an annual
interest rate of 3.500000% dated
Savings Plan - Amendments mail to: FCC Requests for Envi- to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be November 21, 2007, recorded
to the FY21-26 CIP.
ronmental Review, Attn: Ramon
Williams, 9050 Junction Drive, paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the among the land records of the
ADELPHI - Recently renovated
condo. Large BR. Quiet, clean. 1-800-753-POST
Annapolis, MD 20701. Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF $700+1/2 utils. 301-807-6331
Documents available at date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the FAIRFAX as Deed Book 19674,
www.montgomerycountym 825
Bids & Proposals debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall Page 1538, the undersigned
appointed Substitute Trustee will
FORESTVILLE - $750 2130 Brooks
Take
Drive. Room avail now. Near many
d.gov/council. During the be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. offer for sale at public auction amenities. Call 240-593-0635.
COVID-19 state of DIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY all that property located in the
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
The Post
emergency, public hearing COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, on the cour- GERMANTOWN 1 BR in a house
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
testimony can be submitted including BR, kitchen, cable, wifi
Digital Pioneers Academy PCS is to post a deposit or to pay interest. thouse steps at the front of the
Circuit Court building for the & W/D . $550 / mo Email
for a
using the online form at seeking qualified bidders for Strate-
County of Fairfax located at 4110 nkansah1@Verizon.net or call SF
https://www.montgomer gic Communications. Proposals are
due no later than July 10, 2020.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Vir- 301-529-5472
ycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/ reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
workout.
For the full RFP or if you have ginia on August 11, 2020 at 10:00
PHSignUp.html; or emailed Germantown - Furn bedroom,
S0264 1cx2
AM, the property with improve-
to
any questions, please email opera-
tions@digitalpioneersacademy.org deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the ments to wit: Tax Map No. 035-
Rent includes utilities, wi-fi, cable.
Call 240-671-3783
County.Council@Montgo
872
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full 2-19-0002 THIS COMMUNICATION
wpost.com/podcasts Home delivery
meryCountyMD.gov;
sent by mail to County
or Fairfax County commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
HYATTSVILLE -Room for rent SFH $675
plus sec dep plus share utils non is convenient.
Council, 100 Maryland Ave., and paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may der's deposit of 10% of the sale smoker, non drinker. 240-481-4212
Rockville, MD 20850; or TRUSTEE’S SALE OF resell the property or properties at the risk and expense of price, will be required in cash,
residents may sign up to 20486 CHERRYSTONE PLACE,
the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
certified or cashier's check. Set- SILVER SPRING - Room in basement, 1-800-753-POST
ASHBURN, VA 20147 tlement within fifteen (15) days with BA, separate entrance, close
testify remotely by phone SF
(call 240-777-7803 for entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to Wheaton Metro. 240-264-7482
information). To express an In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
resale of the property or properties. Defaulting purchaser shall to be announced at sale. Loan
opinion call 240-777-7900. be liable to Substitute Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred type: Conventional. Reference
of $462,400.00, with an annual
interest rate of 4.000000% dated Number 15-248011.
October 30, 2006, recorded by Substitute Trustee in connection with such default. PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
Searing LOUDOUN as Deed Instrument purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
nocturnal Number 20061201-0099599, the
undersigned appointed Substi- refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
S0462 1cx.75
pain… tute Trustee will offer for sale void and of no effect whatsoever.
wapo.st/medicalmysteries at public auction all that property July 9, 16, 2020 12313480
located in the COUNTY OF Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
LOUDOUN, on the courthouse
steps in front of the Circuit Court discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the properties
820 building for the County of from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
Official Notices Loudoun located at 18 East Mar-
ket Street, Leesburg Virginia on time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
Did you
August 11, 2020 at 10:00 AM, the
property with improvements to
wit: Tax Map No. 116-48-2620-000 unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
settlement.
hear
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
The Post
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der's deposit of 10% of the sale
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
More arts &
price, will be required in cash, entertainment?
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
wpost.com/newsletters today?
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee wpost.com/podcasts
More about to be announced at sale. Loan
S0264 1cx3
type: Conventional. Reference
pets? Number 16-259075. N03031cx1.5
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
There’s a newsletter— CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
Be inspired
wpost.com/news/inspired-life
or several—for you. stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO & S0332 1cx.25
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
wpost.com/newsletters Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800. More sports? Take The Post for a run.
wpost.com/newsletters wpost.com/podcasts
N0303 1cx1.75 July 9, 16, 2020 12313481 JULY 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 2020 12311823 N0303 1cx.25 S0264 1cx.25
C 8 | EZ
 KLMNO

SPORTS
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . washingtonpost.Com/sports . page C9 sU

KaTheriNe Frey/The washiNgToN PosT

If the mask fits, wear it

BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
It looks like typical baseball — feet chopping
beneath pop flies, line drives finding grass, the
white chalk lines smeared by cleats — aside
from one noticeable difference: all these peo-
ple in masks.
The Washington Nationals played their first
intrasquad simulated game Wednesday, and
each coach and staff member had his face
covered. so did Raudy Read while he played
first base behind right-hander Max scherzer.
Manager Dave Martinez leaned against a rail
in the dugout and shouted directions through
a mask all afternoon.
And though this is a safety precaution, a way
to limit transmission of the novel coronavirus
in a workplace, players and coaches have seen
another use. Masks have already helped them
adjust to some wacky rules for 2020, including
bans on spitting, finger licking, face touching
and sunflower seeds. All four habits are part of
the sport, the same as throwing or catching a
ball. Players and coaches, many of whom were
once players themselves, have spent decades
spitting out spit, spitting out seeds or using
spit to slick their fingers before pitching.
But now, all of a sudden, they can’t. Their
second nature has to change.
“Wearing a mask, they’ve debated whether
it’s good or not, whatever it may be, but for me
it just makes me not want to touch my face,
which I think is a huge thing,” said Nationals
shortstop Trea Turner, who covered his face
for an entire workout Tuesday. “It keeps you
from spitting. I’ve caught myself a couple
Nationals adjust to protective face coverings to help set example times where I’ve wanted to spit.”
Turner laughed a bit before he continued.
and adhere to MLB’s extensive guidelines for a return to play But if he smiled, it was impossible to tell
through a Zoom call. He did the entire inter-
view through a light pink mask.
“I’m definitely going to miss the seeds this
year.”
outside baseball, a national debate on
masks rages on. Viral videos have shown
people refusing to wear them in public spaces.
supermarkets and department stores have
become regular battlegrounds. The argu-
ments are politicized, like so many arguments
in 2020, with some feeling that requirements
about facial coverings are a violation of civil
liberties. Conversely, scientific opinions, in-
cluding guidance from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, favor wearing a mask
to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
But inside baseball, a typically apolitical
sport, masks are part of a larger statement.
some players have suggested that if they can
run, hit and work out in masks, then people
should have no problem wearing them in their
everyday lives. Mike Trout, the sport’s best
player, was photographed wearing a mask
while he trained with the Los Angeles Angels.
His mother, Debbie, soon tweeted: “If Mike
Trout can wear a mask while running the
bases, you can wear a mask going out in
public.”
Cincinnati Reds reliever Amir Garrett
JoNaThaN NewToN/The washiNgToN PosT chimed in Tuesday, tweeting that he was
the nationals’ raudy read, top, and trea turner, above, wear face coverings during wearing a mask for himself and the safety of
training workouts at nationals Park. Players are not required to wear masks on the others. Buster Posey, a veteran catcher for the
field, but having them on can help serve as a reminder not to spit or touch their faces. sEE nationals oN C12

Redskins’ ‘thorough review’ of name is informal process guided by Snyder

Team isn’t expected
to keep native imagery
after making a change
BY L ES C ARPENTER
When the Washington Red-
skins announced Friday that the
organization is conducting a
“thorough review” of the team’s
name, the statement did not say
who would be doing the review,
how long the study would take or
what the franchise hoped to ac-
complish.
The only hints could be found in
an accompanying statement from
team owner Daniel snyder, who
said the process would consider
the “proud tradition and history of
the franchise,” adding the team
would get input from “our alumni,
the organization, sponsors, the
National Football League and the
local community.” People familiar
with this review and similar ones
conducted by the Redskins in the
past say it is a more informal
process, primarily led by snyder,
with the owner speaking to key
advisers and league officials.
one development in the pro-
cess is that the organization is not
expected to use Native American
imagery with its new name and
logo, according to a person famil-
iar with the deliberations of the
team and league, but the person
cautioned that plans are not final-
ized. EsPN also reported Wednes-
day the franchise is not planning
to use native imagery.
“In effect, [the review] buys
time [to study possibilities],” one
person familiar with the review
said, speaking on the condition of
anonymity to discuss a private
process.
The name change remains a
topic of national discussion, with
President Trump saying this week
that the Redskins and Cleveland
Indians of Major League Baseball
were cowing to political correct-
ness in considering changes. on
Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Larry
Hogan (R), who in 2014 expressed
support for the team keeping the
name, said that he “absolutely”
agrees that “Redskins” is a slur
and that he thinks the team should
change the name.
“The time is probably right,”
Hogan said in an interview with
NBC’s “Today” show. “I’m glad that
they’re having that discussion. I
believe that the name will be
changed. . . . I understand it’s a
hurtful name, and in today’s con-
text it probably should be
changed.”
In an interview saturday, Wash-
ington Coach Ron Rivera said he
has been talking with snyder
about the team’s name for more
than a month, adding that the two
have exchanged ideas on possible
replacements, including two that
Rivera “really liked.” Rivera also
said snyder had been working
with NFL executives on the issue
for more than two weeks.
Though multiple people with
knowledge of the situation say
snyder has sought advice on the
name issue from Jay Leveton, a
partner in the stagwell Group, a
Washington-based marketing
firm, the firm is not believed to be
running the review.
Rivera said he hoped the new
name would be in place by the
start of the season, though multi-
ple people with knowledge of the
situation said an announcement
could come sooner, with at least
one believing it could be revealed
within the next two weeks.
It is unclear whether snyder
already has settled on a name.
Rivera’s comments seemed to in-
dicate a small pool of likely con-
tenders, but he didn’t provide
more details.
Rivera said repeatedly that he
and snyder want the name to
“honor” Native Americans as well
as the military. (The Redskins
have long had a close relationship
with the military, based in part on
the franchise’s geographical con-
nection to military headquarters.)
The coach said he hopes the fran-
chise will reach out to Native
American leaders and military of-
ficials to be sure the name the
team picks will be respectful to
both.
It is unknown whether the Red-
skins have approached tribal lead-
ers or advocacy groups for
sEE redskins oN C10
C10 eZ M2 the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

For MLS, no escaping matters outside the bubble in return

BY S TEVEN G OFF
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The realities
of restarting sports during both a
pandemic and global protests
were unsealed Wednesday on a
quiet patch of former swampland
in central florida.
four months after the novel
coronavirus forced it to go dark,
mLS creaked back to activity with
a tournament that, for the group
stage, will double as the regular
season — and perhaps the soccer
league’s only competition of the
year.
It began with orlando City de-
feating Inter miami, 2-1, on a field
typically used by youth teams of
various sports and other festivi-
ties. There were no spectators —
only support staff, broadcast
crews, security, a dozen media
members and a few coaches and
officials unaffiliated with the
competing teams. All wore masks.
for TV purposes, the sidelines
were draped in blue screens and
cranes reached over the field at
ESPN Wide World of Sports Com-
plex. Substitutes and coaches kept
their distance from one another.
on the expansive Disney
grounds, technicians oblivious to
soccer’s rebirth continued setting
up for the restart of the NBA
season late this month at the adja-
cent arenas.
Intersecting with global pro-
tests, mLS also marked its return
with a pregame demonstration
involving players from around the
outbreak, however, prevented the
team from practicing for the past
week and forced a postponement.
D.C. United’s opener was
moved to Sunday morning from
friday night because its oppo-
nent, Toronto fC, had testing is-
sues and delayed its arrival. Nash-
ville’s exit, expected Thursday,
would force further schedule
changes.
more than 1,300 players and
staff are living in a so-called bub-
ble at a Disney resort three miles
from the sports complex. As of
Tuesday, only one player who isn’t
with Dallas or Nashville had test-
ed positive since the arrival in the
orlando area, the league said.
Delegations were tested regu-
larly for weeks leading to the tour-
nament and tested every other
day at the hotel, which is also
serving as a health clinic and
activity center for the sequestered
players.
Away from their homes and
families for up to six weeks, play-
ers say the pandemic is weighing
John RAoux/AssociATed PRess heavily. florida’s recent spike in
inter Miami’s Victor Ulloa (13) passes while under pressure from Orlando City’s Mauricio Pereyra (10). cases raised the anxiety level.
The players also said they are
league wearing T-shirts support- Utah. The setting was silent, ex- Tournament, which stumbled to excited to resume competition af-
ing Black Lives matter and other cept for the rumble of generators. the starting line after fC Dallas ter the season was suspended in
causes. Gloved fists were raised, a on the lower back of game withdrew monday because march following two weekends of
nod to John Carlos and Tommie jerseys, players were invited to 10 players and one staff member games. mLS is aiming to resume
Smith at the 1968 olympics in post names, such as “George tested positive for the coronavi- the regular season in home mar-
mexico City. The 22 starters took a floyd,” or messages, such as “free- rus. Nashville SC faces a similar kets later this summer.
knee on the center circle, an act dom” and “Amor.” fate with at least five infected With a tournament, the league
that has occurred on fields in When the ceremony ended, players. Nashville’s first match, saw an opportunity not only to
Europe and at the National Wom- there was polite applause. against Chicago, was supposed to resume play but to beat the NBA,
en’s Soccer League tournament in Then began the mLS is Back take place late Wednesday. The the NHL and major League Base-
ball to the punch. The NWSL re-
started June 27, and the WNBA is
conducting training camp in Bra-
denton, fla.
Without spectators, all leagues
are, in essence, performing in TV
studios. mLS’s broadcast partners
— namely ESPN, which is owned
by Disney — introduced innova-
tions to bring audiences closer to
the players.
on location, though, there was
no atmosphere. It had the look
and feel of a preseason friendly,
though merciless tackles were a
reminder of the seriousness.
orlando and first-year miami
are a rivalry in its infancy and,
given the tournament’s location,
the natural choice for the opening
match. The teams haven’t played
competitively in a long time, and
on Wednesday it showed. The
choppy opener took a turn less
than two minutes into the second
half when miami’s Juan Agudelo
put away Victor Ulloa’s cross.
Later, miami’s Andres reyes
appeared to have trouble breath-
ing after Dom Dwyer’s blow to his
neck. He was treated for several
minutes before being removed on
a stretcher.
orlando equalized in the
70th minute when Nani crossed to
Chris mueller for a sliding finish.
Nani scored the winning goal
seven minutes into stoppage time,
connecting from close range on a
ball that deflected to him for a
clear shot on goal.
steven.goff@washpost.com

Cowboys under pressure to get Prescott’s deal done D iges t

Auto rACiNg win over host Brighton in

Dak Prescott has
On won 62.5 percent
the NFL of his games as the
John
Dallas Cowboys’
Clayton starting
quarterback and
connected on 65.8 percent of his
passes. But his most effective
recent completion was signing
his one-year, $31.4 million
franchise tag.
That signature puts pressure
on the Cowboys to reach an
agreement with him on a
contract extension by
Wednesday’s deadline. If not,
Prescott has to play out his one-
year deal, and it would put Dallas
in a precarious position.
Even though contract talks
between Prescott, who wants a
four-year deal worth more than
$35 million per season, and
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who
wants Prescott to sign for five
years at slightly less than
$35 million per, have been slow,
deadlines often produce deals.
And because of the novel
coronavirus pandemic and its
impact on the NfL, there is
added urgency for Dallas to
figure something out.
The NfL Players Association is
projecting $3 billion to
$3.5 billion in revenue losses if
the NfL has to play games
without fans in the stands this
fall. That type of loss will lead to a
2021 salary cap that will stay at
the current $198.2 million or
drop below it.
If the Cowboys don’t reach an
agreement with Prescott before
the deadline, that would put
them in the position of having to
use a second franchise tag on
Prescott next offseason to keep
him from hitting free agency — at
the steep cost of $37.7 million.
That could force Dallas to cut
two key players from its core to
get under the salary cap. Wide
receiver Amari Cooper and pass
rusher Demarcus Lawrence each
will have $22 million cap
numbers in 2021. running back
Ezekiel Elliott will be at
$13.7 million. Guard Zack martin
will be at $15 million. Tackles
Tyron Smith and La’el Collins
will combine for $24.3 million.
Linebacker Jaylon Smith will be
at $9.8 million. That’s
$106.8 million. Add Prescott on a
second franchise tag, and the
Cowboys would have
$144.5 million tied up in eight
players.
That’s simply too much, and
something would have to give. To
protect themselves against the
likelihood the salary cap will stay
the same or go down, as opposed
to rising around $10 million as it
does most seasons, the Cowboys
need to get Prescott’s cap number
next year to $28 million to
$30 million — which is possible
considering recent deals for
quarterbacks russell Wilson,
Jared Goff and Carson Wentz.
Even the mega-extension that the
Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick
mahomes agreed to monday
carries just a $24.8 million cap
hit in 2021 — something that is
achievable because contract
extensions can include bonuses
that don’t count toward a team’s
salary cap, whereas the franchise
tag counts completely against the
cap.
Ideally, a quarterback will
account for no more than
15 percent of a team’s salary cap.
Placing a second franchise tag on
Prescott would eat up more than
18 percent. Putting the exclusive
tag on him, as the Cowboys did
this year to prevent other teams
from signing him away, would
put it over 19 percent.
While the Cowboys’ situation
is unusual, they aren’t the only
NfL team facing uncertainty
because of potential losses
stemming from the pandemic.
Hardly any teams are getting
deals done. only four members of
the 2017 draft class — including
mahomes and Carolina Panthers
running back Christian
mcCaffrey — have landed
contract extensions. Last year,
nine were done by early July.
Don’t be surprised if Prescott is
the only one of the 14 franchise-
tagged players to reach a long-
term extension by the deadline.
The Chiefs, for example, have had
a tough time reaching an
agreement with Chris Jones, who
is one of the five best defensive
tackles in the NfL, and Jones has
said he might sit out the season if
he doesn’t get a contract worth
$20 million per year. Kansas City
certainly would like to keep him,
but with mahomes at $45 million
per year, defensive end frank
Clark at $20.8 million, wide
receiver Tyreek Hill at
$18 million and safety Tyrann
mathieu at $14 million, they
might not have room for another
big, long-term salary.
other teams may face similar
quandaries if the cap stays the
same or goes down, so expect
more teams to franchise-tag their
top free agents next offseason.
The one team that shouldn’t
apply to is the Cowboys, who
have plenty of incentive to work
out a deal with Prescott before
next week. If they don’t, it could
make for an unpleasant offseason
in 2021.
sports@washpost.com
John clayton has covered the nFL for
more than 40 years. during the
season, he writes a weekly column for
The Washington Post that publishes
online Monday mornings.
Virus-free Johnson set
to return at Kentucky
Seven-time NASCAr
champion Jimmie Johnson
tested negative for the novel
coronavirus twice and will race
Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.
Johnson missed the first race
of his Cup career when he tested
positive on friday. He was tested
after his wife received a positive
result.
Hendrick motorsports said
Johnson tested negative on
monday and Tuesday and will
return to the No. 48 Chevrolet at
Kentucky. NASCAr confirmed
Wednesday that Johnson was
cleared to return.
“It’s been an emotional
journey and I’m so happy to be
back,” he tweeted.
Johnson’s streak of
663 consecutive starts — most
among active drivers — was
snapped when he didn’t race
Sunday at Indianapolis motor
Speedway. Justin Allgaier
replaced him at the Brickyard
400 and finished 37th after an
early multicar crash on pit road.
Johnson is the only NASCAr
driver to test positive for the
coronavirus since the series
resumed racing may 17. He is
scheduled to retire from full-
time NASCAr competition at the
end of this season. . . .
NASCAr will move its August
road course race from Watkins
Glen in Upstate New York
because of state health
restrictions, and the event will
shift instead to the road course at
Daytona International Speedway.
The move from Watkins Glen
for the race Aug. 16 was
necessary because NASCAr
cannot meet New York’s
quarantine requirements for out-
of-state visitors.
soCCer
Liverpool forward Mohamed
salah stepped up his bid to win
the Golden Boot for a third
straight season by scoring twice
for the champions in their 3-1
English Premier League play. . . .
West Ham missed the chance
to climb further away from
relegation trouble after Jay
rodriguez’s goal earned Burnley
a 1-0 victory at olympic Stadium
in London. . . .
John egan scored deep into
injury time to give host Sheffield
United a 1-0 win over fellow
Champions League hopeful
Wolverhampton Wanderers. . . .
Barcelona kept its title hopes
alive with a 1-0 win in the city
derby against Espanyol in the
Spanish league, sealing the rival’s
relegation for the first time in
nearly three decades. . . .
Bethany Balcer scored in
stoppage time, and oL reign
defeated the Utah royals, 1-0, in
the National Women’s Soccer
League’s Challenge Cup
tournament in Herriman, Utah.
goLF
The ryder Cup officially was
moved to Sept. 24-26, 2021,
because of the pandemic, the
second time in the past two
decades it was postponed. The
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led the
2001 matches to be postponed
two weeks before they were set to
be played.
As a result, the Presidents Cup
scheduled for 2021 at Quail
Hollow in Charlotte gets pushed
back a year. Quail Hollow instead
will host the Wells fargo
Championship next spring, and
that event will move to TPC
Potomac at Avenel farm in
maryland in 2022 during the
Presidents Cup year. . . .
Three players who tested
positive for the coronavirus —
nick Watney, dylan Frittelli
and denny McCarthy — but are
no longer symptomatic will play
together at the Workday Charity
open in ohio, the PGA Tour
announced in the latest revision
of its policies. All three players
continue to test positive but have
met the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention criteria
for returning to work, the tour
said.
— From news services

teLeVisioN AND rADio

soCCer
9 a.m. MLs is back tournament: New york City FC vs. philadelphia » esPn
12:55 p.m. english premier League: tottenham at bournemouth » nBc sports network
1:20 p.m. spanish La Liga: Leganés at eibar » bein sports
1:25 p.m. italian serie A: udinese at spAL » esPn2
3:10 p.m. english premier League: Manchester united at Aston Villa »
nBc sports network
3:50 p.m. spanish La Liga: sevilla at Athletic bilbao » bein sports

goLF
3 p.m. pgA tour: Workday Charity open, first round » golf channel
KATheRine FRey/The WAshingTon PosT
Auto rACiNg
The redskins announced last week they would review their name but did not offer any information about how that process would work. 8 p.m. NAsCAr Xfinity series: shady rays 200 » Fox sports 1

teNNis

Redskins not likely to keep Native American imagery

8 a.m. 2020 (re)open: eastern european Championship, round robin »
Tennis channel
noon 2020 (re)open: eastern european Championship, round robin »
Tennis channel

redskins from C9
guidance. Several Native Ameri-
can leaders said this week that
they have not heard from the team
or the NfL regarding the name
review and emphasized the im-
portance that they have a voice in
the discussion.
on Tuesday, oneida Indian Na-
tion representative ray Halbrit-
ter, who started the Change the
mascot campaign, said the team
had not reached out to him,
though he said the oneida Indian
Nation is “expecting to hear some-
thing at some point.”
When asked whether it was es-
sential for the team to seek input
from Native Americans, he said:
“It’s critically important.”
“It’s like having a discussion
about your family life and not
including your spouse,” he added.
“How can you have a discussion
about changing a team name that
is denigrating and dehumanizing
to the very people that you’re af-
fecting? It only makes reasonable
sense that you would have a dis-
cussion with those people.”
Crystal Echo Hawk, the founder
of IllumniNative, an organization
that brings together Native Ameri-
can story tellers and grass-roots
leaders and also opposes the red-
skins name, expressed concern
that talk of honoring both Native
Americans and the military with
the new name would mean the pro bAsKetbALL
team would continue to use native 2 p.m. the basketball tournament, round of 16: the Money team (tMt) vs.
imagery, something she believes Herd that » esPn
many Native Americans would op- 4 p.m. the basketball tournament, round of 16: Armored Athlete vs.
pose. overseas elite » esPn
“There is no good way to honor boXiNg
native people by making mascots 8 p.m. top rank: Carlos takam vs. Jerry Forrest (heavyweights) » esPn
around them,” she said.
les.carpenter@washpost.com KoreA bAsebALL orgANiZAtioN
5:25 a.m. Lg at Doosan » esPn2
Mark Maske, erin cox, Adam Kilgore rugby
and Roman stubbs contributed to this
5:30 a.m. Australian NrL: sydney at North Queensland » Fox sports 1
report.
thursday, july 9 , 2020 . the washington post
As major sports prepare to return, our anticipation has morphed into trepidation
Anticipation fuels
sports. You are
constantly
expecting
something to stir
your emotions: a
Jerry superb matchup,
Brewer a playoff run, the
chase of a record,
the dawn of a new season, the
debut of a potential superstar.
Depending on the teams you
root for, what’s next can inspire
some worry, but in general,
sports are a domain of abundant
hope. You can always conjure
reason to believe the wait will be
worth it.
So, of course, as 2020
continues its inexorable march
through misery, the novel
coronavirus has invaded that
happy place, too.
Now that more American
sports leagues are within weeks
of their scheduled returns, the
anticipation has encountered a
redoubtable foe, one that
muddles the comeback
experience: trepidation.
Unless you prefer to pretend
the virus is losing strength and
will vanish on its own, you have
a basic comprehension of the
inherent conflict. It makes the
usual “I can’t wait” expectation
of sports’ arrival collide with,
“Wait, what if this is a disaster?”
consternation. Seldom does the
craving of this joy come with so
much legitimate fear. The
current sporting conundrum, as
much as anything in society,
demonstrates the challenges of
pursuing any form of normalcy
during this unusual and
dangerous time.
In the United States, the
coronavirus pandemic is not
under control. It still rages. We
are still playing catch-up. In an
embarrassing politicization of
health and safety, we have folded
this crisis into our exhausting
American culture war, and it has
resulted in a troubling indicator
of escalation: surging numbers
of reported coronavirus cases.
And contrary to President
Trump’s truth-mangling
assertion that that is merely the
result of more testing, the
percentage of people testing
positive also has climbed, to its
highest rate since early May.
Life in WNBA’s bubble is a mixed bag
Some aired grievances,
but others are content
with accommodations
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
The WNBA moved into a bub-
blelike setting in Bradenton, Fla.,
this week in the buildup to its
abbreviated 22-game season
amid the novel coronavirus pan-
demic. While other leagues opted
for settings in Disney World near
Orlando, the WNBA decided on
IMG Academy, an elite boarding
school with a focus on sports.
The early reviews have been
decidedly mixed, and many of
them have been aired on social
media, much to the league’s em-
barrassment.
The issues appear to center on
lodging and food accommoda-
tions. There are three locales for
players to stay in, and players
were able to request staying alone
in a hotel room or with room-
mates in a villa. Some players are
housed in the Lodge at IMG,
where ESPN’s Kayla Johnson
posted pictures of an unappetiz-
ing-looking meal, bug traps in
between mattresses, rodent traps
in a shoddy-looking laundry
room and what appeared to be a
worm on the floor in one of the
rooms.
For Washington Mystics guard
Leilani Mitchell, who opted to
stay by herself in one of the hotels
the league has a contract with,
meals have been an issue. Mitch-
ell, quarantining in the hotel
since she arrived Monday, has
had her meals delivered. She is a
vegetarian, and none of the meals
sent to her included fruit. So she
had some groceries delivered
Wednesday — including fruit.
“I would say I’ve had better, for
sure,” Mitchell said.
It might seem like a small
thing, but these are finely tuned
athletes with particular dietary
needs. Though Mitchell hasn’t
been as upset with her situation,
she has heard the stories from the
Lodge.
“It’s a small amount, but it’s not
really acceptable in my opinion,”
Mitchell said.
Las Vegas Aces forward A’ja
Wilson confirmed the conditions
on Twitter after NBA star Damian
Lillard wondered whether the
photos were authentic.
The WNBA released a state-
ment saying it is looking into the
Red Sox outfielders Jackie Bradley Jr., left, and Andrew Benintendi wear their masks at Fenway Park as baseball continues its return.
Over the past two months we
have regressed, and in some
cities, the hospitalizations have
risen again to a concerning level.
Into this environment, more
sports leagues seek to return and
either start or finish their
seasons. Among them: the
WNBA, the NBA, Major League
Baseball, the NHL and MLS.
Training camps for the NFL and
college football seasons are
coming soon, too. While there is
no uniform approach, the
leagues have put some of their
best ideas into action — bubble
venues, compact seasons,
detailed protocols, spending
money for the most frequent
testing — yet their formulas still
seem to equal one big, bad idea.
The WNBA plans to hold its abbreviated season on the campus of IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
complaints.
“We have been working closely
with IMG and the Players Associ-
ation to address issues players
have expressed about one of the
housing locations on campus,”
the statement read. “IMG is ac-
commodating all player requests
regarding these issues, including
moving players to other accom-
modations. Additionally, in an
expedited manner IMG brought
in a third party exterminator to
inspect the areas where a few
issues were raised and they found
no bed bugs.”
None of the Mystics who spoke
with The Washington Post on
Wednesday had major issues with
their accommodations — beyond
the lack of fruit. Those in the
villas have full kitchens and the
option to cook for themselves.
Those getting meals provided
from the league have had them
dropped off at their doors in an
attempt to maintain the quaran-
tine before workouts begin
Thursday. Players are also al-
lowed to use delivery services
such as Uber Eats.
Dallas Wings forward Megan
Gustafson defended the accom-
modations at the Lodge on social
media, writing that the apart-
ment she is in is “HUGE and
super nice,” with its own in-unit
laundry. The Chicago Sky’s Alex-
andria Quigley recorded a tour of
a luxurious-looking villa while
Nearly four months have
passed since sports went dark
March 12. At the time, it was
considered a significant symbol
of the pandemic’s seriousness, a
tipping point in our
understanding that we are
facing a crisis and not being
duped by overreaction or hoax.
It had a fleeting impact,
however.
We aren’t built to persist with
collectivism, not even when the
opponent causes great suffering.
There is something broken about
a country that needs U.S.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams
to appeal to Americans by
saying, “If you want the return of
college football this year, wear a
face covering.” A six-figure death
praising the facilities and adding,
“We’re loving our place.” The
league sent out a survey to play-
ers, and those who requested a
change of location were able to
move.
Mystics Coach and General
Manager Mike Thibault said he
doesn’t think the food will contin-
ue to be an issue after regular
training table meals begin Friday.
“That’ll be fine once we get
through this quarantine part,”
Thibault said. “I’m from a differ-
ent generation. If something’s not
right the first time, I go and try to
fix it without writing it publicly.
. . . Clearly there were a couple
issues when people came, but I
think that things have been
solved from what I know. I’m sure
there will be something else. I
don’t think we could have walked
in here and expected everything
to be 100 percent.
“It’s hard when you’re trying to
feed 300 people between staff and
league people and security and all
that while you’re in a quarantine.
It’s not like you’re going to have a
menu to choose every single meal
from right now.”
Mystics forward Emma Mees-
seman added, “You can’t expect
everything to be right for every-
body.”
The primary focus of life in the
bubble has been safety. Everyone
was immediately tested upon ar-
rival, even before checking in,
eZ sU
total wasn’t convincing enough.
So now we’re resorting to
football bribery.
While most of us can’t relate
to the millions and billions at
stake, everyone is attempting to
salvage something. So the
mission to reclaim and stabilize
is familiar. But it’s fair to wonder
whether sports are confusing
their difficult time with a
desperate one.
New Orleans Pelicans guard JJ
Redick explained the players’
dilemma recently as he prepared
to go to Disney World to finish
the NBA season. Despite being in
favor of the effort, he was honest
about the inner conflict.
“To say that we have any sort
of comfort level would be a lie,”
IMG acadeMy
and has been tested daily since
then. Everyone received personal
thermometers connected to an
app and is required to test herself
daily for fevers and log the re-
sults. Masks, gloves, disinfecting
wipes, hand sanitizer and other
products are all provided.
Thibault said everyone was
tested at least three times before
boarding the flight to Florida.
“They’re doing the best they
can,” Mystics guard Ariel Atkins
said. “The crazy part about all of
this is, you know, it’s not only the
WNBA that isn’t 100 percent
knowing what this virus does and
different things. It’s a global prob-
lem. Everybody doesn’t know the
complications or the aftermath of
this virus. We have to take that
into account when we think
about, ‘Oh, what are they doing to
keep you all safe?’ I honestly
believe they’re doing everything
that they can to keep us safe.”
The first several days have been
uneventful as everyone quaran-
tines. There have been plenty of
teleconferences and TikTok vid-
eos produced by players with
time on their hands. There is not
much else to do before individual
workouts start Thursday and
team workouts Friday. Though an
official schedule has yet to be
released as TV details continue to
be ironed out, games are expected
to begin the weekend of July 25.
kareem.copeland@washpost.com
elIse aMendola/assocIated Press
Redick said. “There is no
comfort level. We’re not with our
families. We’re not at our homes.
We’re isolated in a bubble in the
middle of a hot spot in the
middle of Florida — while there’s
social unrest going on in the
country. And we’re three months
away from potentially the most
important election in our
lifetimes.”
In March, a few positive tests
shut down sports. Now teams
are redefining what qualifies as
risk. It’s nuanced. It’s also scary.
Even for leagues that opted to
play in bubble environments, it’s
unrealistic to expect zero cases.
But what qualifies as safe
enough to play? Or better yet,
what is deemed tolerable? With
Delle Donne and Charles
not at camp with Mystics
BY A VA W ALLACE
The Washington Mystics could
be without both of their MVPs
when the WNBA season tips off
later this summer in Florida. The
Mystics announced Wednesday
that Elena Delle Donne and Tina
Charles entered the WNBA play-
er medical evaluation protocol
and did not travel with the team
to the league’s bubble this week,
casting significant doubt that
they will play in the abbreviated
2020 season.
Delle Donne, 30, has chronic
Lyme disease, flare-ups of which
have caused her to miss signifi-
cant playing time throughout her
career. The reigning MVP also
had back surgery Jan. 24, and her
rehabilitation probably has been
interrupted during the novel cor-
onavirus pandemic. It is unclear
why Charles, the 2012 MVP, was
placed in the protocol.
“Many of you know about my
ongoing battle with Lyme Dis-
ease and a compromised immune
system,” Delle Donne tweeted
Wednesday night. “For now I’m
following protocol and waiting
for a risk assessment from the
league medical panel. Missing
my teammates but health and
safety are the priority.”
Delle Donne and Charles could
join starting guard Natasha
Cloud, who opted out to focus on
social justice work, and starting
center LaToya Sanders, who opt-
ed out for personal reasons.
None of the other 11 teams in
the WNBA are expected to be as
shorthanded as the Mystics when
the 22-game season begins. Las
Vegas Aces center Liz Cambage is
expected to miss the season, as is
Connecticut Sun center Jonquel
Jones. Los Angeles Sparks guard
Kristi Toliver, a starter for the
Mystics last season, and forward
Chiney Ogwumike also opted
out. If Delle Donne and Charles
receive medical exemptions from
the league, both will be paid for
the shortened season. Their con-
tracts will count against the Mys-
tics’ salary cap, and the team
won’t be able to sign replacement
players. Charles, 31, is not under
contract with Washington be-
yond 2020.
After Cloud and Sanders opted
out, Washington signed guard
and former Mystics staff member
Shay Peddy, center Alaina Coates
and swing player Essence Carson
as fill-ins for the season.
Forward Emma Meesseman,
C11
the money involved, risk is a
pliable term for many.
NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver was frank during an
interview this week with Fortune
Brainstorm Health and admitted
that a significant spread of the
virus could “shut down” the
league again. It was a glimpse
into one decision-maker’s mind.
“We won’t be surprised when
they first come down to Orlando
if we have some additional
players test positive,” Silver said.
“What would be most
concerning once players enter
this campus and then go through
our quarantine period, then if
they were to test positive or if we
were to have any positive tests,
we would know we would have
an issue.
“We would know that there’s,
in essence, a hole in our bubble
or that our quarantine or our
campus is not working in some
way. So that would be very
concerning.”
The various sports and their
leagues are so different, however.
In baseball, the Washington
Nationals are among several
teams upset about the lag in
receiving testing results, which
is critical to easing the minds of
players, coaches and staff, not to
mention sustaining the season.
In college athletics, the morality
of proceeding like professionals
with amateur athletes who have
no true representation is a
serious issue. Every league has
its own unique set of challenges,
which is similar to the diverse
issues of 50 states dealing with
this pandemic differently.
Some will succeed. Some will
just get by. Some figure to fail
miserably.
You should hope failure isn’t
as serious or grave as it can be
right now.
There is cognitive dissonance
in every crevice of this strange
sports experience, from the fan
craving to the dollar-seeking
teams and players. You know
this is, at best, risky. You want it
anyway.
So much anticipation. So
much trepidation.
jerry.brewer@washpost.com
For more by Jerry Brewer, visit
washingtonpost.com/brewer.
the 2019 Finals MVP who is also
playing under a one-year deal
with the Mystics, and guard Ariel
Atkins would be the team’s only
returning starters.
Forward Tianna Hawkins, who
saw significant time in nearly
every game last year, also trav-
eled with the team to IMG Acade-
my and would bolster the team’s
veteran presence.
Still, Delle Donne and Charles
would be nearly impossible to
replace — both on the court and
in terms of the buzz Washington
had entering the season. The
Mystics appeared poised for a
title repeat after Charles arrived
in a blockbuster three-team off-
season trade that saw Washing-
ton give up three draft picks and
guard Shatori Walker-Kim-
brough to acquire the seven-time
all-star. With Charles, Delle Don-
ne and Meesseman, most pegged
the Mystics as odds-on favorites
for a second consecutive title.
Delle Donne, a six-time all star,
averaged team highs of
19.5 points and 8.3 rebounds on
the way to winning her second
league MVP award. She also be-
came the first WNBA player to
shoot at least 50 percent from the
field (51.5), 40 percent from long
range (43 percent) and 90 per-
cent from the free throw line
(97.4 percent) in a regular season.
Delle Donne signed a four-year
max contract with the Mystics in
February.
Charles ranks 10th on the
league’s all-time scoring list with
5,982 points and fifth all-time in
rebounds (3,133).
Even without his full roster,
Coach and General Manager
Mike Thibault views the 2020
season as something of a proving
ground for the Mystics’ younger
players and those such as
29-year-old Hawkins, a Washing-
ton stalwart who will be a free
agent when the season ends.
“The pressure is off in many
ways because we’re not playing a
normal season. If we’re the de-
fending champs playing a normal
season and we have everybody, I
think we’d feel a little differently,”
Thibault said in a phone inter-
view last week.
“Right now, for some players
on our team, it’s an opportunity
to make a statement about the
future of their careers. . . . I think
there’s a lot of motivation for
players throughout the league.
Certainly ours.”
ava.wallace@washpost.com
c12 eZ M2 the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

Ivy League places fall sports on hold

Sc o R E bo A Rd bASEbALL NotES

So c c E R
Positives,
MLS
BY EMILY GIAMBALVO

The Ivy League announced

negatives
in delayed
mLS IS BaCK toUrnament
In KISSImmee, fLa. Wednesday that it will not hold
WedneSday’S reSULtS
sports during the fall semester,
becoming the first Division I con-

test results
Orlando City 2, Inter Miami FC 1
Chicago vs. Nashville, ppd. ference to suspend its football sea-
tHUrSday’S matCHeS son because of the novel coronavi-
Philadelphia vs. New York City FC, 9 a.m.
New England vs. Montreal, 8 rus pandemic.
Vancouver vs. FC Dallas, ppd. A decision regarding winter
frIday’S matCH and spring sports — and whether A SSOCIATED P RESS
San Jose vs. Seattle, 9
fall sports could be held in the
SatUrday’S matCHeS
New York vs. Atlanta United, 8
spring — will be determined at a As major League Baseball cau-
Columbus vs. FC Cincinnati, 10:30 later date. Athletes on these cam- tiously tiptoes closer toward be-
SUnday’S matCHeS puses will be allowed to practice ginning its delayed 2020 season,
D.C. United vs. Toronto FC, 9 a.m.
Minnesota vs. Sporting K.C., 8
during the fall as long as they several teams welcomed back
Colorado vs. Real Salt Lake, 10:30 adhere to their university’s health players who might have been
monday’S matCHeS and safety procedures, as well as exposed to the novel coronavirus,
Houston vs. Los Angeles FC, 8
Portland vs. L.A. Galaxy, 10:30
state regulations. and the San francisco Giants
tUeSday’S matCHeS
“With the information available resumed workouts Wednesday af-
Chicago vs. Inter Miami FC, 9 a.m. to us today regarding the contin- ter finally receiving the results of
Nashville vs. Philadelphia, 8
New York City FC vs. Orlando City, 10:30
ued spread of the virus, we simply tests administered over the week-
WedneSday’S matCHeS
do not believe we can create and end.
FC Dallas vs. Seattle, ppd. maintain an environment for in- The San Diego Padres, howev-
Toronto FC vs. Montreal, 8
San Jose vs. Vancouver, 10:30
tercollegiate athletic competition er, revealed that newly acquired
that meets our requirements for infielder Jorge mateo’s intake test
NOTE: FC Dallas has opted out of the tournament.
safety and acceptable levels of risk, for the coronavirus came back
consistent with the policies that arnold Gold/associated press positive and he has experienced
NWSL each of our schools is adopting as Harvard and Yale won’t renew their famed rivalry after the ivy league suspended the fall season. symptoms. mateo was acquired
CHaLLenge CUP toUrnament part of its reopening plans this last week from oakland for a
In HerrIman, UtaH fall,” the Ivy League Council of nounced Wednesday that it sus- pionships that afternoon. By the College athletic facilities across player to be named or cash in the
WedneSday, JULy 1
North Carolina 2, Washington 0
Presidents said in a statement. pended workouts after 37 of the end of the week, sports in the the country closed in mid-march first trade since the transaction
Portland 0, Chicago 0 “We are entrusted to create and 429 athletes and staffers who re- United States had ground to a halt. because of the pandemic. The freeze was lifted.
SatUrday’S reSULtS maintain an educational environ- turned to campus tested positive. Harvard and Princeton both an- NCAA voted to lift the suspension Padres manager Jayce Tingler
Utah 1, Sky Blue 0
Houston Dash 2, OL Reign 0
ment that is guided by health and Ivy League schools don’t com- nounced this week that they would of team activities beginning said mateo has not been to the
SUnday’S reSULtS
safety considerations,” the state- pete in the football Bowl Subdivi- bring a limited number of under- June 1. In the following weeks, ballpark and is self-isolating.
Portland 1, Washington 1 ment continued. “There can be no sion. The eight programs — graduate students to campus this many football players returned to San Diego announced last
North Carolina 1, Chicago 0 greater responsibility — and that Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dart- fall. Princeton plans to bring fresh- campus to begin voluntary work- week that outfielder Tommy
WedneSday’S reSULtS is the basis for this difficult deci- mouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, men and juniors to campus for the outs. Around the same time, the Pham tested positive for the coro-
OL Reign 1, Utah 0
Sky Blue vs. Houston, Late sion.” Princeton and Yale — typically fall term, then sophomores and number of coronavirus cases be- navirus and was asymptomatic.
SUnday’S matCHeS The Ivy League’s decision not to play 10 games each, and this sea- seniors in the spring. Harvard said gan to rise around the country. He has not yet rejoined the team.
Washington vs. Houston, 12:30 hold sports in the fall could set the son was set to begin Sept. 19. it will have up to 40 percent of The NCAA’s Division I Council In Boston, third baseman rafa-
Chicago vs. Utah, 10
path for other conferences mull- The Ivy League was the first to undergraduate students on cam- approved a plan for college foot- el Devers practiced at fenway
monday’S matCHeS
OL Reign vs. Portland, 12:30
ing over similar options. But the cancel its conference basketball pus in the fall. Yale announced a ball practice that starts July 13 for Park for the first time since the
Sky Blue vs. North Carolina, 10 financial stakes of not holding the tournament this spring. That deci- less restrictive plan with three of most teams. Beginning that week, red Sox opened summer camp.
QUarterfInaLS college football season as sched- sion march 10 was met with frus- four undergraduate classes on athletes may be required to par- Devers and an unspecified num-
frIday, JULy 17
TBD vs. TBD, 12:30
uled at Power five schools are tration from players who watched campus during each semester. ticipate in team activities, where- ber of other players were working
TBD vs. TBD, 10 massive compared with a confer- their seasons — and for some, their The Ivy League said Wednesday as programs currently are al- out at nearby Boston College and
SatUrday, JULy 18 ence such as the Ivy League. careers — abruptly end. At the that return-to-campus policies for lowed to hold only voluntary have since tested negative three
TBD vs. TBD, 12:30
TBD vs. TBD, 10
The Ivy League’s announce- time, Penn men’s basketball coach athletes would be the same as the workouts. times.
SemIfInaLS
ment comes as the coronavirus Steve Donahue called the cancella- general student body. outside Division I, other confer- When tests reveal “pending” or
WedneSday, JULy 22 continues to affect major college tion an “overreaction.” Players In April, robin Harris, execu- ences and schools have an- inconclusive results, the red Sox
TBD vs. TBD, 12:30
TBD vs. TBD, 10
football programs hoping to play started a petition to reschedule. tive director of the Ivy League, nounced changes for fall sports. have decided to keep those play-
this fall. With the number of cases Harvard point guard Bryce Aiken said: “If we don’t have students in The Division III Centennial Con- ers out of full-team workouts —
rising in the United States, multi- wrote on Twitter that it was a dorms, if we don’t have students ference said this week that it de- even if a player hasn’t had a
English Premier League ple schools have had outbreaks “horrible, horrible, horrible deci- on campus, I don’t see how we cided to suspend all competition positive test.
tUeSday'S reSULtS within their programs, and some sion.” The Ivy League, again ahead would ever have athletics competi- scheduled for the fall semester. “We have to be overly cautious,”
Chelsea 3, Crystal Palace 2
Watford 2, Norwich 1
have temporarily shut down work- of other conferences, announced tion. That, to me, seems the thresh- morehouse, Bowdoin, Williams manager ron roenicke said.
Arsenal 1, Leicester 1 outs. the next day it was canceling all old: When do students come College, Pratt Institute, the College The Giants, meanwhile, re-
WedneSday'S reSULtS ohio State announced Wednes- spring sports. back?” of New Jersey and massachusetts sumed workouts at oracle Park
Man City 5, Newcastle 0
Sheffield United 1, Wolverhampton 0
day the school paused workouts With the severity of the virus Universities around the country Boston also canceled their fall sea- after receiving test results from
Burnley 1, West Ham 0 for seven teams, including foot- becoming clear, other conferences have varying plans for the fall. sons. Saturday, all of which were nega-
Liverpool 3, Brighton 1
ball, following the results of recent followed suit by canceling their Some said they hope to hold in- emily.giambalvo@washpost.com tive for players and staff. A delay
tHUrSday'S matCHeS testing. (The school said it is not basketball tournaments march 12, person classes as usual, while oth- in receiving the outcome of those
Bournemouth vs. Tottenham, 1
Everton vs. Southampton, 1 releasing the number of positive and the NCAA canceled all re- ers announced plans for primarily adam Kilgore contributed to this tests forced the club to cancel
Aston Villa vs. Man United, 3:15
tests.) North Carolina also an- maining winter and spring cham- remote learning. report. practice Tuesday.
Devers wasn’t the only player
Spanish La Liga in the big leagues to get a late
start joining the team.

Facing pandemic crunch, Stanford axes 11 teams

tUeSday'S reSULtS
Valencia 2, Valladolid 1
Celta Vigo 1, Atlético 1
WedneSday'S reSULtS
Betis 3, Osasuna 0
Villarreal 3, Getafe 1,
Barcelona 1, Espanyol 0
tHUrSday'S matCHeS
Eibar vs. Leganes, 1:30
Mallorca vs. Levante, 1:30
Athletic Bilbao vs. Sevilla, 4
GoLF
World Golf Ranking
Through Sunday
1............................... Rory McIlroy
2.................................... Jon Rahm
3...........................Dustin Johnson
4............................Webb Simpson
5............................ Justin Thomas
6............................ Brooks Koepka
7.................. Bryson DeChambeau
8........................... Patrick Cantlay
9................................Patrick Reed
10...............................Adam Scott
11.................... Xander Schauffele
12....................Tommy Fleetwood
13............................... Justin Rose
14..............................Tiger Woods
15........................... Tyrrell Hatton
16......................... Marc Leishman
17................................ Tony Finau
18..............................Matt Kuchar
19......................... Gary Woodland
20.........................Abraham Ancer
21......................Louis Oosthuizen
22................................Sungjae Im
23................... Hideki Matsuyama
24.................................Paul Casey
25............................. Shane Lowry
26................ Matthew Fitzpatrick
27............................ Daniel Berger
28.....................Bernd Wiesberger
29........................Collin Morikawa
30................... Francesco Molinari
31............................ Rickie Fowler
32....................................Kevin Na
33..........................Lee Westwood
34......................... Henrik Stenson
35..............................Kevin Kisner
36........................... Danny Willett
37............................ Sergio Garcia
38............................Billy Horschel
39.............................. Chez Reavie
40.........................Cameron Smith
41........................ Erik van Rooyen
42..........................Viktor Hovland
43.............................. Victor Perez
44.............Jazz Janewattananond
45.......................... Shugo Imahira
Texas rangers first baseman
ronald Guzman was on the field
Wednesday after missing the first
five days of workouts. Although
BY E MILY G IAMBALVO discontinued sports have pro- year. In the wake of the coronavi- many cases, shaving just a frac- he was at the facility, he wasn’t
duced 20 national championships rus, the school said the “best-case tion of the budget devoted to foot- cleared for workouts while still
In the weeks after the novel and 27 olympic medals. scenario” was a $25 million defi- ball could single-handedly pre- going through intake testing.
coronavirus pandemic shut down After next year, 240 athletes cit. Stanford, the letter said, con- vent a program from being cut. The only Texas players still not
sports in the United States, col- will no longer be able to compete sidered alternatives but found The loss of nonrevenue pro- cleared to participate are right
lege athletic departments began for Stanford. The 22 coaches who they were insufficient. grams at Stanford and other uni- fielder Joey Gallo and left-hander
preparing for lost revenue. lead the cut programs will be “We’ve got to cut from the top versities threatens the pipeline of Brett martin, both of whom test-
As athletic directors across the forced to continue their careers before we cut from the bottom,” olympic talent in the United ed positive for the coronavirus.
country faced their departments’ elsewhere. Twenty support staff David ridpath, a professor of States. In 2016, the NCAA report- In Cleveland, outfielder fran-
NIR 8.89 unknown futures, they began cut- positions also will be eliminated. sports management at ohio Uni- ed that more than 400 members mil reyes was cleared by the
ESP
USA
8.07
7.63
ting teams. The stream of lost “It’s absolutely devastating, versity, said in a phone interview of the U.S. olympic team were team’s medical staff to return to
USA 7.23 sports started with wrestling at honestly, to hear that your storied in reference to the extravagant future, current or former college the field after being isolated for
USA 7.17
USA 7.05 old Dominion, and dozens of oth- program, a place that you cherish, spending of college football and athletes. attending a party over the July 4
USA 6.34 ers followed. The trouble finally is being cut,” former Stanford vol- men’s basketball programs. “And Twenty-nine current or former weekend. The Indians kept reyes
USA 5.88
USA 5.87 reached the Power five confer- leyball player Kawika Shoji, who what we’re doing now is we’re Stanford athletes competed for away from Progressive field after
AUS
USA
5.78
5.44
ences Wednesday when Stanford led the team to a national title in cutting from the bottom and cut- the United States at the 2016 he attended a holiday gathering
ENG 5.22 announced it would discontinue 2010 and won a bronze medal at ting nothing from the top.” olympics, the most of any school, without wearing a mask. The In-
ENG 4.99
USA 4.98 11 programs following the 2020-21 the 2016 olympics, said in a phone members of Stanford’s athletic and that group combined to win dians learned of reyes’s off-field
ENG 4.86 academic year. interview. “obviously that hurts, department’s executive team, as 27 medals in rio de Janeiro. four actions on a social media posting.
AUS 4.64
USA 4.36 The school will cut men’s vol- but then to think about the cur- well as some Cardinal head coach- of those came from athletes who Also, Indians outfielder Delino
USA
USA
4.28
4.21
leyball, wrestling, field hockey rent student-athletes and coach- es, took voluntary pay cuts, and played sports that were cut DeShields Jr., who tested positive
MEX 4.04 and men’s and women’s fencing, ing staff and how that affects the university is planning for bud- Wednesday. for the coronavirus, is traveling to
SAF 4.03
KOR 4.02 as well as six programs that are them as well is something really get cuts of up to 10 percent be- Before the cuts, Stanford had Cleveland after he had one nega-
JPN
ENG
3.94
3.91
not NCAA-sponsored champion- hard to swallow.” cause of the pandemic. 36 varsity programs, a model that tive test. He will be tested again
IRL 3.84 ship sports — lightweight rowing, Stanford, which has an endow- But across the country, college the school said it determined “is when he arrives.
ENG
USA
3.73
3.66
men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s ment valued at about $27 billion, football budgets have continued not sustainable,” while noting In oakland, right-hander mike
AUT 3.57 sailing, squash and synchronized announced its decision in a joint to rise, with salaries of head that the average Division I pro- fiers returned to the field for
USA 3.44
ITA 3.24 swimming. letter from university president coaches and their staffs escalat- gram sponsors 18 sports. workouts after being delayed by
USA
USA
3.20
3.15
Stanford has been known for its marc Tessier-Lavigne, provost ing, as well as expenses such as The school said it will honor what manager Bob melvin re-
ENG 3.00 diverse array of varsity teams and Persis Drell and athletic director staying at hotels the night before scholarships for athletes who ferred to as a “pending issue,”
SWE 2.98
USA 2.93 its success in many nonrevenue Bernard muir. The school said home games and large recruiting choose to stay at Stanford and the which wasn’t injury-related. fiers
ENG 2.89 sports. Stanford has won the Di- that before the pandemic, the ath- budgets. The revenue generated affected sports will be able to tran- pitched his second career no-hit-
ESP 2.76
USA 2.56 rectors’ Cup, given to the best letic department was projected to by football at Power five schools sition to club status after next ter last season and was the whis-
USA
AUS
2.54
2.53
overall athletic department in Di- operate at a deficit of at least often funds the rest of the athletic year. tleblower in the Houston Astros’
SAF 2.50 vision I, for 25 straight years. The $12 million during the 2021 fiscal department’s programs. But in emily.giambalvo@washpost.com sign-stealing scandal last fall.
NOR 2.49
FRA 2.47 The Astros were without in-
THA
JPN
2.44
2.42
fielder Alex Bregman on Wednes-
day because his test results were

Baseball players adjust to their masked new normal

46............................ Matt Wallace ENG 2.39
47..........Christiaan Bezuidenhout
48....................Rafa Cabrera Bello
SAF
ESP
2.37
2.34
delayed.
49.................... Graeme McDowell NIR 2.28 “He’s probably frustrated be-
50....................... Kevin Streelman USA 2.28
cause I know how hard Alex
works and how dedicated he is to
Auto R Ac i N G nationals from C9 game. touching. bullpen catchers, is considered getting off to a good start,” man-
But having masks on in train- “It will definitely help. You got a non-playing personnel and will ager Dusty Baker said. “There’s
NAScAR cup Series San francisco Giants, drew atten- ing — and around the dugout and lot of guys who have had these have to wear a mask while working nothing that we can do about it.”
PoIntS LeaderS tion for wearing a protective clubhouse — could help curb old habits for a lot of years,” martinez with pitchers. After Wednesday’s l oRiolEs: Baltimore held
Through Sunday mask with his catcher’s gear dur- habits. Under major League Base- said of whether wearing a mask workout, he ran stadium steps and an intrasquad game under the
1. Kevin Harvick, 637.
2. Chase Elliott, 552. ing a recent workout. After Na- ball’s health and safety guidelines, could police and shift behavior. stretched with a mask on, getting lights at Camden Yards without
3. Brad Keselowski, 549.
4. Ryan Blaney, 534.
tionals closer Sean Doolittle fin- spitting, sunflower seeds and “The chewing of seeds. A lot of used to his new normal. shortstop José Iglesias, who has a
5. Denny Hamlin, 528. ished a long interview Sunday, a chewing tobacco are all off limits, guys put seeds in their mouth to Carter Kieboom, the club’s sore back.
6. Joey Logano, 527.
7. Martin Truex Jr, 501.
team public relations staffer though gum is still permitted. The calm their nerves. Now you can’t rookie third baseman, wore a l CUBs: first baseman Antho-
8. Alex Bowman, 471. tweeted, “If Sean Doolittle can most detailed rule is for face have seeds in your mouth. mask during Tuesday’s workout. ny rizzo is day-to-day with lower
9. Aric Almirola, 465.
10. Kyle Busch, 461. wear a mask during a 27:00 min- touching, with the operations “That’s going to be tough for His immediate takeaway was how back tightness, a recurring prob-
11. Kurt Busch, 457.
12. Matt DiBenedetto, 413.
ute press conference after work- manual stating, “Players and all some guys when they are so used hot it made his face in the July lem throughout his career.
13. Clint Bowyer, 410. ing out, you can wear a mask in other on-field personnel must to it or . . . not being able to just, as heat. He figures that moving for- l REDs: Cincinnati manager
14. William Byron, 392.
15. Jimmie Johnson, 390. public.” The post was widely make every effort to avoid touch- we all know, spit.” ward he will need a few masks to David Bell chose Sonny Gray to
16. Austin Dillon, 360. shared. ing their face with their hand.” At the start of summer training, cycle through given how much he start the 60-game season and lead
17. Erik Jones, 354.
18. Tyler Reddick, 344. “We need help from the general That includes no wiping sweat martinez took a few sips of water, sweats. And as for his personal a rotation that he joined only last
19. Bubba Wallace, 318.
20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 312.
public,” Doolittle said. “If they with hands, licking fingers or went to spit it out, then realized he quirks, he is not much of a seeds year.
21. Chris Buescher, 304. want to watch baseball, please whistling with fingers. Coaches had a mask on. Scherzer, the Na- guy. He should be able to avoid Gray was an all-star in his first
22. John H. Nemechek, 291.
23. Michael McDowell, 285. wear a mask. Social distance. Keep are not allowed to give signs by tionals’ 35-year-old ace, had start- touching his face. season with the reds, going 11-8
24. Christopher Bell, 279. washing your hands.” touching their faces, which is the ed to lick his fingers more in the Spitting is what he has to kick. with a 2.87 ErA.
25. Cole Custer, 273.
26. Ryan Newman, 256. mask requirements vary based most common way to do so. on past few seasons. He liked to rub He feels his mask will help. l WHitE soX: Chicago is giv-
27. Ty Dillon, 232.
28. Matt Kenseth, 222.
on personnel. Everyone has to Wednesday, Nationals third base spit into the bottom of his right “I’ve had to catch myself a cou- ing fans the opportunity to pur-
29. Corey Lajoie, 213. wear them while inside team facil- coach Chip Hale wore batting palm. He used the bit of moisture ple times trying not to spit out chase cardboard cutouts of them-
30. Ryan Preece, 188.
31. Daniel Suarez, 159. ities. Coaches and staff have to at gloves and a mask that stretched to improve his grip on pitches. there,” Kieboom said Wednesday selves that will be displayed at
32. Kyle Larson, 121.
33. Brennan Poole, 113.
all times, even when on or around well above his nose. With a hel- Now, though, Scherzer has to while answering questions Guaranteed rate field during the
34. Quin Houff, 83. the field. Players have an option met on, only his eyes were visible. replace spit with sweat from the through a black mask. “It’s just a team’s season-opening home-
35. Brendan Gaughan, 46.
36. David Ragan, 33. when in the dugout, bullpen or on When he put his hands against his back of his hair. Turner is learning habit. It’s something baseball play- stand. The cutouts cost $49, and
37. Reed Sorenson, 27. the field, and few wore them while cheeks and yelled toward a batter, not to spit or crave seeds. octavio ers have done their entire lives.” proceeds will benefit the team’s
38. James Davison, 10.
playing in Wednesday’s simulated catcher Tres Barrera, no skin was martinez, one of the Nationals’ jesse.dougherty@washpost.com charitable arm.
thE WashINGtON POst tHe district editiOn thursday, july 9, 2020

Local Living

Casting
around for
new hobbies?
Fly-fishing and roller skating
are making pandemic
comebacks. PAGes 8-10

Home Lots of people are adopting Gardening With novel tree On Parenting When summer camps Home sales L2
pets during the virus outbreak. choices, Washington’s urban forest are closed but parents still have Crime report L4
Here’s what you need to do first. 4 is turning into an arboretum. 7 to work, there are no easy answers. 11 Health code violations L2
 2
Dc Home
How to
How to deal with stubborn mildew and rust stains in toilets
BY J EANNE H UBER
Q: My three American Standard
high-rise toilets installed in 2016
are “behaving” unlike any toilet
I have ever had. The low-flush
toilets get dirty about once a
week, up inside around the rim
and above the water line. I
constantly have to clean them. I
ran a home cleaning company
for seven years and have cleaned
thousands of toilets, and I lived
in a group house of seven people
and never had this issue. I have
asked plumbers and tried
contacting American Standard,
to no avail. I really, really dislike
having to stay so on top of this
problem. There is also a rust-like
stain at the very bottom. How do
I get that out?
A: It sounds like you have
mildew growing around the
water line. It may have nothing
to do with the toilet design, but
may actually be a tip that
someone in your house may
have undiagnosed diabetes or
diabetes that is not under good
control. People with diabetes
cannot process glucose properly,
causing urine to have excess
sugar — an ideal food for
mildew. Diabetes has serious
health consequences, which get
worse the longer the disease
lo c al l iv i n g
editor:
kendra Nichols
deputy editors:
Elizabeth chang, Amy Joyce,
Mari-Jane Williams
art director:
Victoria Adams Fogg
designer:
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
J.c. Reed
Photo editor:
Jennifer Beeson Gregory
staff writers:
Helen carefoot, Jura koncius
columnists:
Adrian Higgins, Meghan Leahy
email: localliving@washpost.com
telephone: 202-334-4409
Mail:
local living section,
the Washington Post, 1301 k St.
NW, Washington, D.c. 20071
advertising
Doug coffelt, 202-334-4440
on tHe cover
iStock photo of fly-fishing in a
Montana river.
remains untreated. So your first
step might be a call to your
doctor’s office.
If blood tests rule out the
disease, the need for frequent
cleaning could be caused by
mineral buildup along the water
line or in the holes where water
enters the bowl. The rust-like
stains at the bottom of the toilet
bowl are almost certainly caused
by mineral deposits, said
Rachelle Fidler, a consumer
adviser for American Standard
toilets and faucets. Mineral
deposits create an uneven
surface with lots of crevices for
grime to accumulate, and they
can clog up the holes where
water enters. Once the minerals
build up, the deposits are too
tenacious to come loose with
typical toilet-cleaning tools.
Rubbing with a stick of
pumice — a lightweight volcanic
“Away from the
noise and bustle”
Discover great area neighborhoods
in “Where We Live,” Saturdays in Real Estate.
rock that resembles a stiff
sponge because of all its air
pockets — gets rid of stubborn
mineral deposits around the
water line and at the bottom of
the bowl, and a wire can poke
through clogged holes.
But pumice should never be
used in American Standard
toilets made relatively recently,
Fidler said. Virtually all of the
company’s toilets now have a
clear coating, which the
company calls EverClean, to
make the surface smoother and
therefore less likely to become
soiled. The coating is fired into
the porcelain, which, according
to the company, means it can’t
rub off. But it can be scratched
off with pumice, Fidler said. She
wasn’t sure when this coating
was introduced, but she said a
toilet made in 2016 “most likely
has it.”
iStock
Instead, the company
recommends using chemicals
that dissolve mineral deposits.
The gentlest approach is to pour
in some white vinegar and then
add baking soda. The two
interact and cause a lot of
bubbling that knocks the
minerals loose. “It’s kind of like
a bomb,” Fidler said, “like when
you were in elementary school
and made a volcano” by
combining baking soda and
vinegar in a science project.
If that doesn’t work,
American Standard suggests
CLR Calcium, Lime & Rust
Remover ($5.88 for a 28-ounce
bottle at Lowe’s). Never mix this
with other cleaners, and pay
attention to the instructions on
the label about diluting it with
an equal amount of warm water
before adding it to the toilet
bowl. Let it sit for just two
minutes — no longer — then
rinse.
Fidler said American
Standard also recommends
muriatic acid to remove mineral
stains and deposits from toilets
and suggested looking for it in a
store that sells swimming pool
supplies. But she hasn’t used it
herself, and she did not have
specific instructions other than
to suggest using no more than
half a cup. Various websites offer
suggestions, but a search for
detailed advice from
manufacturers of muriatic acid
turned up nothing specific about
how to use it as a toilet cleaner.
A customer service
representative for W.M. Barr &
Company, which makes the
Klean-Strip brand of muriatic
acid, said that’s not an oversight.
Although the product works
great as a way to etch and
brighten concrete, she said, “it’s
not designed to be used in a
toilet.”
Muriatic acid is a variant of
hydrochloric acid — not
something you want to use
without utmost care. The fumes
are dangerous to breathe, and
the acid burns skin and eyes,
which is why goggles, rubber
gloves and clothes that cover
your skin, as well as excellent
ventilation, are absolutely
required when working with it.
It’s also important to neutralize
the acid with baking soda before
flushing it down into plumbing
pipes.
Given the lack of specifics
about how to use muriatic acid,
it’s safer to stick to the other
options or use toilet bowl
cleaners with instructions that
manufacturers have vetted.
 Have a problem in your home?
Send questions to
localliving@washpost.com. Put “How
to” in the subject line, tell us where
you live and try to include a photo.
 the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
DC
3

7/12/20
 4
DC Home
What you need to do before bringing home a new pet
BY E LIZABETH M AYHEW
In the past couple of months,
pretty much everyone I know has
chosen to foster or adopt a pet.
Most were prompted by a gut
need for unconditional love and
companionship. So, it’s no won-
der that dog and cat fostering
and adoption levels are at an
all-time high. Kelly DiCicco,
manager of adoption promotions
at the ASPCA Adoption Center,
says “there’s no doubt that the
response from people across the
country willing to open their
homes to animals in need during
this challenging time has been
enormous and unprecedented.”
But as tempting as it may
sound to have a furry friend to
comfort you these days, there is
much to consider before you
bring an animal into your home,
not the least of which is the fact
that animals will forever be de-
pendent on you; unlike kids, who
will eventually (you hope!) fend
for themselves, you will always
need to feed, discipline and clean
up after your pet.
Pat Miller, a certified profes-
sional dog trainer and behavior
consultant and the director of
Peaceable Paws Academies in
Fairplay, Md., says she sees too
many people getting pets without
thinking through all that it en-
tails — a phenomenon not
unique to the pandemic. “Hap-
pens all the time. We are just
seeing more of it now because so
many people who are sitting at
home with nothing to do are
deciding it’s a good time to get a
pet.”
Miller says that before you get
a pet, you must make sure every-
one in your home is on board.
That doesn’t mean everyone in
the house needs to be responsible
for taking care of the pet, but
there needs to be some level of
universal agreement around hav-
ing the pet.
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
“Animals do not need to come
into an environment where there
is conflict over their presence,”
she says. She suggests setting
clear guidelines and rules of what
the pet is allowed to do — and not
do — in advance. Questions to
consider: Is the animal allowed
on the furniture? Where will the
animal sleep? Who is going to
clean up, walk and feed the
animal? Who is the primary
trainer? What happens when ev-
eryone goes back to school and
back to work? “The more you
think through ahead of time, the
less conflict and confusion there
is for the animal.”
Miller also suggests finding a
vet, groomer, pet sitter (you’ll
need one someday!) and trainer
before bringing an animal home.
Interview them about their
methods, and determine whether
they are on the same philosophi-
cal page as you. For example,
Miller is a force-free trainer; she
is adamant about not using pain
coercion in training, but there
are others, she says, who are not.
Other prep work to do: Pur-
chase supplies in advance, and
set everything up before the pet’s
arrival. DiCicco’s must-have list
for cats: a collar, litter and litter
box (make sure you have a spot to
put them), food, toys and bowls.
For dogs: a leash, collar and
harness, bed, food, toys, bowls
and crate.
DiCicco says you also need to
make that your home safe before
and after you bring your pet
home. Remove all items from the
floor that could be eaten or
chewed, and keep electrical wires
out of reach. Also, check that
your house plants are safe. The
ASPCA has compiled a list of
plants that are toxic to animals
that should be removed from
your home or put out of reach
(aspca.org). Other potential pet
hazards: vertical blinds, curtains
that pool on the floor, tassels and
long cords.
If you are adopting or purchas-
ing a cat, install high-quality
metal screens on all windows.
And keep in mind that cats are
KonG Company
excellent climbers, so pet-proof-
But as tempting as it ing for a cat means more than
just keeping the floor area safe;
may sound to have a move plants and fragile objects to
a protected area. For kittens,
furry friend to comfort DiCicco says to block any small
hideouts where the kitten could
you these days, there is escape or get stuck, including
around and underneath appli-
much to consider before ances.
Because scratching is a natural
you bring an animal behavior for cats, DiCicco recom-
mends investing in a scratching
into your home, not the post to prevent destruction of
other objects. And just as cats
least of which is the fact need to be able to scratch,
dogs need to be able to chew.
that animals will Provide appropriate chew toys;
Miller suggests Kong dog toys
forever be dependent (kongcompany.com), which
come in a variety of sizes and
on you. firmness, or Dog Tuff toys
(dogtuff.com).
If you are getting a puppy or
dog who is not yet house-trained,
create a special area for the dog
using baby gates or a collapsible
pen, so any accidents don’t dam-
age carpets. (You should roll up
and store decorative rugs until
your new dog is fully house-
trained.) Miller prefers baby
gates that are pressure-mounted
(no need to screw them into door
frames). And she suggests using a
crate to help train your dog.
“When properly used, a crate is
the easiest way to house-train
and manage a puppy, because
dogs come with a natural inhibi-
tion against soiling their own
den.” For the house-training pro-
cess, Miller says to use a smaller
crate, so the dog can’t soil one
side and lie comfortably on the
other. Once a dog is fully house-
trained, you can switch to a more
spacious crate.
When you bring your pet
home, DiCicco says to give it
some space to get acquainted
with the sights, sounds and
scents of its new home while
keeping an eye on it as it settles
in. “And remember to take things
at their pace and follow their
lead.”
Some cats are more sensitive
than others, so they may settle in
better if initially confined to one
room, DiCicco says. Gradually
give them more space to explore
over time. This helps them adjust
to their environment without
feeling too overwhelmed.
If you already have pets, pro-
vide the new pet with a quiet area
away from the other animals
while it gets acclimated, poten-
tially for the first few days or
weeks, and take initial introduc-
tions very slowly. DiCicco sug-
gests trying scent swapping —
giving one animal something
that smells like the other —
before introducing them. This
improves your chances of having
a successful first introduction.
Miller is not a fan of animal
doors; she says it’s best that you
control when your dog goes in
and out. “It’s your responsibility
to make sure that your dog gets
out as often as he needs to, not
only to go to the bathroom, but
also to exercise.” She adds: “If
your animal has an accident in-
doors, it’s your fault.”
Lastly, Miller says to opt for a
physical fence and not an invisi-
ble underground shock fence
(which she thinks should be ille-
gal). “Invisible dog fences don’t
keep things out, so they don’t
protect your dog from something
coming in and getting them, and
they contribute to unwanted ag-
gressive behavior.”
localliving@washpost.com
mayhew, a “Today” show style expert
and former magazine editor, is the
author of “Flip! for Decorating.”
 Chat Thursday at 11 a.m.
British artist, color and paint expert
and author annie Sloan joins staff
writer Jura Koncius for our weekly
online Q&a on decorating and
household advice. Submit questions
at live.washingtonpost.com.
 At Home newsletter Go to the
Home & Garden page to subscribe to
our email newsletter, delivered every
Thursday.

Home
Yes, you can keep up your green practices during the pandemic
BY H ELEN C AREFOOT
As the novel coronavirus pan-
demic rages across the United
States, some states have tempo-
rarily reversed eco-friendly mea-
sures, such as plastic bag bans, to
protect both workers and custom-
ers, and some consumers have
turned to disposable products,
such as plastic gloves and utensils,
to reduce the sharing of common
surfaces. But it’s still possible to
practice green habits without
compromising your health, ex-
perts say.
It’s hard to measure how the
pandemic has affected the envi-
ronment in real time, but a press-
ing issue for environmental
groups is the potential waste be-
ing produced by more people us-
ing single-use items, such as disin-
fecting wipes and paper towels. In
addition to bleach and alcohol,
soap and water works on surfaces,
said Ellie Murray, assistant pro-
fessor of epidemiology at the Bos-
ton University School of Public
Health; for a reusable option,
launder towels and rags used for
cleaning in warm water with soap.
Cloth face coverings should be
laundered regularly, too.
Darby Hoover, a senior re-
source specialist at the Natural
Resources Defense Council who
focuses on food waste initiatives,
said the challenges of balancing
safety and sustainability will con-
tinue as more businesses reopen.
“The business sector has pro-
duced much less waste, but we
need to make sure we don’t lose
momentum,” she said, noting that
most waste is created by business-
es, not consumers. She supports
measures recommended by pub-
lic health experts, and she
said overall that the lifestyle
changes prompted by stay-at-
home orders, such as cooking at
home, have brought about posi-
tive changes in how people are
consuming and acquiring goods.
“People are cooking from scratch
and contributing to their overall
health and producing less waste,”
she said. Composting, cooking at
home and buying ingredients in
bulk are all sustainable practices
that she recommends.
John Mills, an associate hospi-
tal epidemiologist at the Universi-
ty of Michigan’s academic medical
center who has been treating cor-
onavirus patients, is frustrated by
some of the waste he has seen,
such as increased use of plastic
utensils (he says proper hand-
washing will do more to prevent
virus spread than using dispos-
ables), but he supports and en-
courages measures that minimize
touch points between people and
that protect workers. He said
measures such as banning reus-
able bags in stores are good for
now, because they provide extra
protection for workers who bag
groceries. He likes his local gro-
cery’s policy of having customers
bag their own groceries, which
allows them to use reusable totes
instead of plastic bags. “That way,
the store employee doesn’t need
to worry that you’ve done the
cleaning,” he said.
On a larger scale, though, Tom
Szaky, founder of TerraCycle, a
private recycling business that
specializes in hard-to-recycle
products, worries about a global
drop in recycling. Falling oil pric-
es and restrictions on what mate-
rials can be recycled, he said,
could affect recycling companies’
bottom line. (Many companies
have limited what they accept to
protect workers in the short term,
which Szaky supports.) “It’s not
going to make recycling go away,
but it’s going to make it way less
capable.” Companies that have
made commitments to pivot to
recycled packing will have a
tougher time meeting those goals
with these conditions, he said.
Recycling personal protective
equipment, such as the disposable
masks and gloves that have ended
up on streets and in landfills, is
another challenge going forward,
Szaky and Hoover said. “We need
to figure out how to recycle them
in a way that keeps people safe,”
Hoover said.
Despite these obstacles, Szaky
has seen sustained interest from
both companies and individuals
in keeping commitments to the
environment. “As we come out of
this, I think people are going to be
looking to bring their own person-
al solution, and maybe some of the
behaviors they got out of covid,”
such as gardening or cooking at
home, he said. He encourages con-
sumers to look for products that
can be recycled locally or that
have some form of take-back pro-
gram, and to look for products
that can be reused.
Lauren Singer, author of the
blog Trash is for Tossers and
founder of Package Free, a compa-
ny that sells sustainably made
home and body products, is
known for living a “zero-waste
lifestyle.” Despite growing a fol-
lowing by forgoing packaged
goods as much as possible, Singer
said falling ill before New York
enacted its stay-at-home order
(and living in the city during Hur-
ricane Sandy) informed her deci-
sion to stock up on products she
normally wouldn’t, such as
5
Dc
iStock
canned goods and freezable items,
to minimize trips to the store. She
encourages consumers to do what
they can to reduce waste but to
put their safety first. “First and
foremost, your basic needs have to
be met,” she said. She still keeps up
with other habits, such as using
reusable glass containers, com-
posting food scraps and making
her own toothpaste and deodor-
ant using baking soda.
Both Murray and Lona Mody, a
professor of internal medicine
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
and epidemiology at the Universi-
ty of Michigan, say good public
health practice and policy go
hand in hand with environmen-
talism. The pandemic and the
conditions that may have exacer-
bated it, Murray said, are a chance
to reimagine infrastructure and
systems that create conditions for
viruses to thrive, such as crowded
public transportation. Disease
changes habits, and some cities
have already adopted measures,
such as cutting streets off to cars
to allow more space for walking,
biking or eating outdoors, that are
also environmentally beneficial.
“It’s a good time for us to be
conscious. Doing the right thing
for public health is usually the
right thing for the earth,” Mody
said.
helen.carefoot@washpost.com
 6
DC Home
Live Q&A
Los Angeles maker Latifah Saafir gives tips on sewing and quilting
Los Angeles
quilter Latifah
Saafir joined
staff writer
Jura Koncius
last week for
our Home
Front online
Latifah Saafir chat. Here is
an edited
excerpt.
Q: I love the freedom many of
your quilts demonstrate in terms
of appearing free-flowing and
improvisational. What specific
advice can you offer to quilters
who want to break out of
“Pattern World” and embrace a
more improvisational approach?
A: There are a few people who
teach improvisational quilting
really well. Sherri Lynn Wood
has an excellent book called “The
Improv Handbook for Modern
Quilters” that is brilliant. Also,
Denyse Schmidt has wonderful
workshops if you ever get a
chance to take a class from her.
My advice is learn to listen to
your heart. I don’t do a ton of
improv, but I do design my own
quilts. I respect rules, but I’m not
afraid to challenge them. I quilt
with my heart first and trust my
own voice. If you can learn to do
this, you will be on the right
path. Also, if you want to use a
pattern to start, then many of my
patterns are written so you can
find your own voice in them with
plenty of room to explore within
the confines of a pattern.
Q: Do you have
recommendations for how to
display quilts and textiles in the
home besides on the bed? How
do you hang them on walls or
other places?
A: Hanging sleeves are brilliant.
I put a rod through the sleeve,
and then there are a number of
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
ways you can hang it. I’ve known
people to use a curtain rod and
clips that attach to curtains. I’ve
recently thought about making
quilt “tops” and stretching them
on frames. If you have a lot of
quilts, quilt ladders are a fun
way to display several quilts at a
time.
Q: I make crazy quilts and have
enjoyed playing with textures
and contrasts, but I think I need
to become a little more conscious
of the overall design. When you
make crazy quilts, how do you
think about the result before you
begin? What elements do you
consider for picking fabrics and
a plan for the quilt?
A: I have to be honest that I’ve
never made crazy quilts before,
but I’ve always thought it would
be fun to put a modern spin on
them. In general, when I quilt, I
start with how I want the quilt to
“feel” when I finish it and work
toward that goal. Do I want it to
be light and airy? Edgy?
Saturated with color? I also stack
up all of my fabrics and look at
how those make me feel. I snap
pictures with my phone so I can
see it from different
perspectives. Then I dive in and
let the quilt guide me.
Q: Can you recommend a simple
sewing machine without all the
computerized attachments and
features? Does such a thing
exist?
A: What kind of sewing do you
do? For garment sewing, you at
least want a machine that has an
automatic button hole and a
zipper foot. There are a lot of
smaller computerized machines
that are pretty simple and
straightforward. If you’re a
quilter, you might like a straight-
stitch-only machine. Most
importantly, go test drive the
machines, go home and do your
research, and I’m sure you’ll find
one you love.
Q: What advice would you give
for teaching kids how to sew?
A: Patience. And don’t get tied
into perfection. Don’t hover and
criticize. There is a balance of
teaching good, solid technique
and criticizing the joy out of
sewing. Let them pick their own
fabric and add crazy details. And
recognize if this is something
you don’t have the patience/
bandwidth/interest to do and
look for classes or clubs where
they can learn in other ways. The
biggest blessing my mom gave us
was to teach us the basics and
then give us the machine when
we got interested.
Q: I’ve gotten into sewing during
the pandemic. I’d received a
sewing machine for Christmas
and started in earnest by sewing
masks. What would be a good
next project to hone my skills
that could be really fun? Making
clothes seems appealing but
extremely challenging.
A: There are tons of simple
sewing projects. One is
pillowcases. As an experienced
sewist, I still love to make
pillowcases, and they are great
for gifts. If you want to try
quilting, quilted pillows are a
great way to dip your toe in the
water. If you want to try
garments, pajama pants are a
great first project. There are tons
of online tutorials and videos to
get you started. Also, don’t be
afraid of bigger projects if you
“Stairway to Heavan” by Latifah Saafir. When she’s quilting, she
says she respects the rules but isn’t afraid to challenge them.
have the motivation to make
them. Just take it one step at a
time. As a sewing teacher, I still
think classes are key to learning
quickly. Once our quilt stores
and fabric stores open up, be
sure to check out your
independent shops to find out
their class schedule. Plus, it’s
always fun to sew with other
people.
Q: How do you organize your
quilt projects? And do you
prewash fabrics?
A: I may not be the best person
to ask this. As a creative, I am all
over the place. Lately, I’ve been
forcing myself to finish a project
before I start a new one. I’ve
even thought that if I am to get
through the huge pile of UFOs
(unfinished objects in quilt
speak), then I may have to start
to finish two projects before I
start another. I only prewash if I
think my fabric may bleed or if
I’m making garments. I
personally love working with
fabric with the sizing still on it.
And I’m a bit of a lazy — ahem, I
mean efficient — quilter, too, so I
question steps and only do them
when absolutely necessary.
Q: I’m interested in starting to
Latifah Saafir
sew some of my own garments. I
have a sewing machine and am
not a sewing newbie, but I don’t
have any of the notions. What
would you recommend as
starting essential equipment?
A: Don’t get too far ahead of
yourself with buying stuff,
because there are a ton of
different notions and supplies.
My advice is to decide on a
pattern and then buy what you
need to make that garment. As
you gain experience, you will
have no problem at all building a
collection.
Q: Your quilt designs are so clean
and thoughtful. What inspires
you?
A: I’m inspired by the world
around me. I love beautiful
things, but I really love to find
beauty in things that aren’t
usually considered beautiful. I
also love “accidental” beauty,
such as when something is next
to another and it works so
perfectly together. Living in Los
Angeles, I have access to
amazingly beautiful things,
whether its views of the Pacific
or seeing art at the Getty. But I
almost always get more just out
of living in South Central L.A.
and searching for unexpected
beauty, whether it’s capturing
the artistry in a lowrider or the
accidental beauty of random
paint colors used to cover up a
tagged wall.
Q: What projects would you
recommend for kids ages 7-10?
A: Start simple, with items such
as pillowcases or bags. From the
Quilt Cadets line, Kid Cave
Pillows are a really easy sew
(shop.latifahsaafirstudios.com).
The pillowcase pattern is
especially easy; it has two pieces.
Moonbeam Pillows and
Enchanted Travel Pillows are
great beginner sewing patterns.
Just remember, when you are
teaching kids to sew, teach them
how to use the machine safely,
and then let them explore. It’s in
the playtime that we really learn
to create, and that’s when we fall
in love with creating. Also, don’t
impose your fears on them. We
include things such as zippers
and quilting in our projects so
they can learn, and kids knock
them out of the ballpark.
Q: The country is experiencing
so much right now, with the
negatives of the global pandemic
and the ensuing economic
hardship. Then there was the
killing of George Floyd, which, in
my view, has had the unexpected
positive consequence of raising
awareness in Americans to the
issue of the use of excessive force
by police disproportionately
against black men. What positive
and constructive role can the
quilting community (and their
respective guilds) play in this
social movement? How can we
change to step up to this
moment in history?
A: The first thing that comes to
mind is for us to not be afraid to
deal with it in our communities.
It’s not a political issue; it’s a
human rights issue. As a black
woman in this industry, I’m very
aware of the lack of inclusivity
and of the discrimination in it,
and I’ve been appalled (but not
surprised) by the pushback that
many in our industry have had
in dealing with these issues. The
conversations can be had in
groups, but the individuals have
to do the work within
themselves. It is deep and
ingrained in ways that many
don’t even realize. So start
anywhere. Be deliberate and
intentional.
localliving@washpost.com
 Also at washingtonpost.com
read the rest of this transcript and
submit questions to the next chat,
thursday at 11 a.m., at
live.washingtonpost.com.

Home
A walk in the city highlights the revitalization of the urban forest
If you are looking
for rays of hope in
dark times,
consider this: The
urban forest in
Washington is
Adrian lush and vital. It is
Higgins one part of our
gardening (green)
infrastructure
that is being
maintained proactively and, from
a plant lover’s perspective, has
never looked more interesting or
been more inspiring.
Those of us who have lived in
this town for a long time
remember when that wasn’t the
case, with an alarming decline in
the canopy of the urban forest
due to neglect and development,
a situation that led to the creation
of the nonprofit Casey Trees.
The condition of the urban
forest goes beyond pure
aesthetics. A leafy city is a cooler,
cleaner city; it’s simply a nicer
place to live, and it makes us
healthier in mind and body. The
tree, it turns out, is the one
hugging us.
Today, the city government has
an active program of replacing
dead trees and uses interactive
maps to encourage residents to
get involved in the care of newly
planted trees. Moreover, there is a
collective sense that in an age of
climate change and more
extreme weather, the need for a
healthy urban forest has never
been greater.
There is another aspect of this
revival that I find compelling.
Today, we have a mix of street tree
species and varieties that seemed
unimaginable just a few years
ago. This eclecticism is not some
passing fancy but reflects a
fundamental shift in what
constitutes a suitable city tree in
the 21st century. This change was
led in part by the late Frank
Santamour, a research geneticist
at the U.S. National Arboretum
who invented a formula for urban
forest biodiversity.
I am finding trees along
District streets that I had
previously thought of as choice
ornamental plants. These include
the serviceberry, sweetbay and
cucumber magnolias, Japanese
apricot, American hornbeam,
Persian parrotia and red buckeye.
A few weeks ago, I was stopped in
my tracks by a deciduous yellow
blooming magnolia hybrid
named Butterflies that previously
might have had gardeners
salivating at a rare plant sale.
One obvious reason for the
contemporary assortment of
trees that mature at half or a
third the size of maple trees is
they will fit on the side of the
street where the electricity lines
are strung up on poles. This
In the District and other cities, the urban forest is turning into an arboretum as novel tree choices are
installed. On Garfield Street NW, chokecherry trees should mature below the level of utility lines.
quaint old way of delivering
power to the people seems
unlikely to change, in my lifetime
anyway, so the trees must shrink
to avoid the gross mutilation you
find when big trees clash with
utility cables.
There is another reason the
urban avenue has changed. The
old model was of identical trees
lining both sides of the street, to
provide symmetric uniformity
that produced marvelous effects
— majestic American elms
coming together 60 feet above
the pavement to form pointed
arches. But such plantings are
risky, because the arrival of a new
pest or disease could devastate
them.
This is precisely what
happened with the elm, ruined by
the beetle that brought Dutch
elm disease. In the upper
Midwest, where green and white
ash trees defined whole
neighborhoods, the emerald ash
borer arrived 20 years ago to wipe
them out. (Some cities had half
their canopy given over to ash.)
On the West Coast, the disease
sudden oak death is a problem,
and, in the South, the ambrosia
beetle is a serious pest. In
Washington, we had come to rely
too heavily on red maples and
northern red oaks, with new
diseases beginning to threaten
the latter, at least.
The District Department of
Transportation’s Urban Forestry
Division plants more than
Urban Forestry Division
Japanese flowering cherries are
a proven street tree choice, and
new varieties are in the mix.
8,000 trees annually (removing
some 3,000 that are dead or
dying), but now relies on more
than 125 species and varieties.
This diversity flows from the
division’s strategic policy of
“right tree, right place,” said
associate director Earl Eutsler.
This means that small and
medium trees are used to
minimize conflict with utility
lines, but, equally important,
trees of tall stature are
purposefully chosen where they
have the space.
This mix has led to some really
enlightening choices. One is a
native Prunus named
chokecherry — Eutsler and his
arborists use a cultivar named
Canada Red, with deep maroon
leaves. Most purple-leafed trees
in the Mid-Atlantic have strong
aDrian higgins/the Washington Post
color in the spring but then wash
out in the heat of summer. The
chokecherry does the opposite,
starting green and coloring up
when it turns warm. Like the
chokecherry, the American
hornbeam matures to about 20
feet but, with its sinewy silver
bark, has the presence of a much
larger tree, Eutsler said.
Another great choice is the
Japanese flowering cherry hybrid
Snow Goose, nicely upright to
keep those branches out of the
way of cars and pedestrians.
The District is a leader in this
tree diversification movement,
but it is not alone. “The same
concept is going on all around the
country,” said Keith Warren, a
prominent tree breeder,
nurseryman and author. “It’s a
cumulative awareness of the
dangers of too narrow a selection
of genetics in the urban forest.”
The phenomenon has affected
the direction of tree breeding. A
generation ago, Warren said, the
black gum or tupelo was a native
tree little grown in urban
landscapes. Today, its use as a
street tree has generated varieties
that correct natural traits for
street use — a dominant trunk
and branches that don’t droop
down. Warren, now mostly
retired from a wholesale nursery
named J. Frank Schmidt & Son,
introduced Afterburner and a
seedless form, Firestarter. Eutsler
uses one named Wildfire.
In Portland, Ore., Warren said,
7
DC
Tip of the Week
Lawn grasses prefer occasional
long soakings over frequent
shallow ones so they can develop
deep roots better equipped to deal
with droughts. Monitor sprinklers
to make sure water is not running
off hard surfaces.
— Adrian Higgins
the paperbark maple — a plant
once just known by connoisseurs
— is used as a street tree. One of
the craziest adaptations to street
use is the bald cypress, a
deciduous conifer associated
with Southern wetlands, now
being used in the District. Not
only can it take inundation but,
once established, drought, too —
key traits for a street tree.
Another remarkable
development has been the
expansion in the choice of oak
species planted. Moving away
from red oak, Eutsler and his
team of arborists and tree crews
now routinely plant the overcup
oak, the swamp white oak, the
nuttall oak and the shingle oak.
All establish well in the stressful
environment of the tree box and
grow quickly. The overcup oak in
particular has become a firm
favorite in recent years, lush and
vigorous in the toughest
conditions while keeping its
branches out of the way. It makes
for a superb street tree, says
Warren, co-author of “The Tree
Book: Superior Selections for
Landscapes, Streetscapes, and
Gardens.”
Eutsler said some of his
choices turned out to be poor
performers — flowering
dogwoods, sourwoods, for
example — and some, such as the
Japanese apricot, are
experimental. Some require more
attention to formative pruning to
direct future growth. But it seems
the strategy is working — a walk
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
through the neighborhood
provides the delight of an
unlikely arboretum.
For the home gardener, there is
a positive and a negative aspect
to this. A tree that will grow in the
street is likely to work in the
more pampered setting of the
garden, though you must pick
your tree carefully in the small
urban lot — nothing too large or
too wide, at least.
The downside? That rare,
choice tree you paid gold for and
cosseted for 20 years is now
growing merrily outside on the
street.
adrian.higgins@washpost.com
@adrian_higgins on Twitter
 Also at washingtonpost.com
read past columns by higgins at
washingtonpost.com/home.
 8
Dc Wellness
Are you looking for a pandemic-friendly pastime? Try fly-fishing.
BY H EATHER B ALOGH
R OCHFORT
It’s not very often that anyone
compares a Brad Pitt movie to a
worldwide pandemic, but that’s
what’s happening in the world of
fly-fishing. While other business-
es try to dig themselves out from
the damaging effects of the novel
coronavirus and quarantine,
many fly-fishing shops across the
country are noticing a different
trend: Business is booming.
“We’ve been doing this for
160 years, and the last time we
saw a push this big was when
Brad Pitt made ‘A River Runs
Through It,’ ” says Simon Perkins,
the newly appointed president of
fly-fishing giant Orvis. The movie
was based on the book of the
same name by Norman Maclean.
Unlike spin (traditional) fish-
ing, which uses bait to catch a lot
of fish, fly-fishing uses artificial
flies and overhead casting to fool
a fish. Anglers can buy premade
flies or make their own at home;
fly-tying is a popular activity for
people when they aren’t on the
water.
Fishing in general is
on the rise. Minnesota, for exam-
ple, is reporting a 26 percent
increase in fishing licenses; Ver-
mont has seen a 50 percent in-
crease in resident fishing licens-
es. But for many anglers, fly-fish-
ing is appealing because of its
simplicity and the masterful in-
water casting techniques that
connect them with nature.
“We’ve wanted to learn for
years so that we could fly-fish
while backpacking into high al-
pine lakes,” says Katie Stapleton,
a California resident who recently
took up the activity.
Historically, this is a sport that
flies under the radar. Although
fly-fishing has seen an increased
number of participants over the
past decade, it’s still small pota-
toes when compared with wide-
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
spread outdoor activities, such as
hiking.
Fly-fishing saw record partici-
pation in 2018 when 6.9 million
people tackled it, according to
Take Me Fishing, a sister brand of
the nonprofit Recreational Boat-
ing & Fishing Foundation. But
those numbers pale in compari-
son to the 47.9 million hikers who
hit the trail during the same year,
as reported by the Outdoor Foun-
dation, the philanthropic arm of
Outdoor Industry Association.
When the coronavirus hit in
March, fishing shops found them-
selves questioning their futures
along with other businesses. But
thanks to the Internet, a resur-
gence in online sales offered a
much-needed glimmer of hope.
“It was like everyone realized
this was their opportunity to do
Hilary Hutcheson gets a higher vantage point on the Flathead River in Montana. “It was like everyone
realized this was their opportunity to do the things they always wanted to,” she says.
the things they always wanted to
but never previously had the
time,” says Hilary Hutcheson, fly-
fishing guide and owner of Lary’s
Fly & Supply in Columbia Falls,
Mont.
Although Hutcheson didn’t
originally have an online
shop, she quickly pivoted and
watched sales boom through digi-
tal fly-tying lessons. “It was like
arts and crafts for anglers,” she
jokes.
As the country reopened, out-
door recreation surged. Accord-
ing to Perkins, Orvis’s online sales
are raging, with its fish business
up 100 percent compared with
last year. Perkins also notes
that sales on the Clearwater and
Encounter entry-level rod kits
were up 100 percent in early June,
indicating that beginners are
jumping into the sport.
Tim West, owner of Brecken-
ridge Outfitters in Breckenridge,
Colo., has noticed the same thing.
“Our guided trips are insanely
busy,” he says. “We’ve seen a lot of
first-timers coming in because
they couldn’t travel or do other
things like backcountry skiing,
greg Koch
and that snowballed into guided
trips once we were allowed.”
Stapleton is one of those begin-
ners who opted for a guided les-
son. “After being shut inside
through quarantine, we were dy-
ing to get outside in a safe way,”
says Stapleton, who completed
a course at Alpine Angling in
Carbondale, Colo. “It’s like the
perfect pandemic activity.”
Here are eight reasons cited by
practitioners to back that up:
Social distancing is the norm
Crowds are frowned upon
when fly-fishing. Many anglers go
solo, and even those who fish with
friends opt to maintain their dis-
tance to avoid “cross-casting,” or
tangling one fishing line with
another. Anglers always stand at
least 75 to 100 feet away from each
other, far surpassing the minimal
social distancing requirement.
Water is everywhere
Traditionally, anglers prefer
scenic rivers and lakes to partake
in fly-fishing. However, when
quarantine restrictions prohibit-
ed travel, people got creative and
used whatever was accessible —
even if it was a suburban pond or
an urban river. “Fishing used to
be narrowly defined,” Perkins
says. “But now, if you have water
and a fly rod, you’re fly-fishing.”
It is relatively affordable
According to Orvis, an entry-
level Encounter box kit, including
the rod, reel and line, costs $200.
Flies are $2 to $3 each. Permits
are also needed. Prices vary from
state to state, but annual resident
permits cost roughly $50.
And, once you make the initial
investment, the costs dramatical-
ly subside.
You can consume your catch
Anglers are often fortunate
enough to routinely fish, so they
frequently practice “catch and
release” and throw the fish back.
However, when the pandemic led
to empty store shelves, Tracy
Nguyen-Chung in Portland, Ore.,
founder of Brown Folks Fishing,
noticed that some people were
fly-fishing to feed their families.
“The pandemic presented new
challenges in seeking fresh food,
so this provides a meaningful way
to supplement groceries,” she
says.
It can improve mental health
Chronic stress levels are up,
says the American Psychological
Association. Fortunately, time
outside is proven to decrease anx-
iety levels, and fly-fishing itself
has been shown to be both medi-
tative and calming. “You experi-
ence and understand nature on
an intimate level,” Perkins says.
“It’s a lifelong journey of discov-
ery, and I think that’s why it’s
becoming a safe way for people to
connect and give themselves. Peo-
ple are leaning into their health
right now, and this feeds their
emotional strength.”
It’s a bonding activity
Families are getting on the
water more than ever before.
Many families quarantined to-
gether, so they feel comfortable
taking fly-fishing lessons togeth-
er, too. According to West, Breck-
enridge Outfitters is seeing an

Fly-fishing hasn’t seen a rise in popularity like this since Brad Pitt’s movie “A River Runs Through It” swept the country in 1992.
Fly-fishing launches into the spotlight
increase in parents and kids
wanting to get on the water.
“Trout don’t live in ugly places,”
he says. “So why not enjoy the
beautiful scenery as a family?”
It’s a return to tradition
Hutcheson believes that many
people turned to fly-fishing in the
midst of the pandemic because it
was a return to traditional skills.
She notes that activities such as
bread-making and gardening
surged, too. “We may not out-
wardly realize it, but I think there
is this deep-seated feeling of anxi-
ety about what is happening in
the world,” Hutcheson says.
“So, we acquire this skill and
become part of the life cycle.
That’s how we know we are going
to be okay.”
Nguyen-Chung agrees, empha-
sizing that fly-fishing has always
been culturally significant for
many anglers of color. However,
she adds, “I’ve actually fished a lot
less during the pandemic as a
queer Asian American woman.”
Because of hate crimes against
the Asian community, she says, “it
hasn’t felt safe to go by myself.”
You’ve got more free time
Some people may be out of
work because of the pandemic,
while others simply have surplus
free time with the cancellations of
9
DC
iSToCK
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Sharing sketches
Visit washingtonpost.com/
events and travel. According to
wellness for the second
Nguyen-Chung, fly-fishing takes
column in illustrator Gayle
longer to learn because there is
more to it than spin fishing, so Kabaker’s series,
this summer could be prime time Sketching My Way
to pick up a new skill. “The longer Through Crisis, and to
learning curve in this sport is part submit sketches of your
of the joy of the process,” she says. own.
Stapleton, the new fly-fisher,
agrees. Without her daily work
commute (she now works remote-  Wellness newsletter
ly), she gained an additional two Go to
hours each day. “I’m not chasing washingtonpost.com/
traffic, so I can devote more to my wellness to subscribe to
hobbies,” Stapleton says. our email newsletter,
localliving@washpost.com delivered every
Wednesday.
rochfort is a writer based in
Carbondale, Colo. Gayle KabaKer
 10
Dc Wellness
How to get around, get exercise and get cool: Roller skating
BY I LANA K APLAN
In May, Pauline Maison-Des-
semme, a student and graduate
teaching assistant at the University
of Minnesota, found herself stuck
on campus for the summer, unable
to return to her native France.
Searching for something to do, she
stumbled upon YouTube videos
from Planet Roller Skate and sud-
denly wanted to try skating.
The sport has been a balm dur-
ing a challenging time. “To a cer-
tain degree, roller skating definite-
ly improved my mental health. I
find that it’s a great way to take my
mind off things and feel free from
the heavy atmosphere the pandem-
ic has created,” the 23-year-old said.
It has also made transportation
easier, she added. “The whole com-
muting system was heavily slowed
in Minneapolis, and I do not have a
car, so it was a good way to com-
mute as well.”
With the novel coronavirus put-
ting many jobs and activities on
hold, Americans have found them-
selves adopting new hobbies, such
as the oft-reported sourdough
bread-making and “Animal Cross-
ing: New Horizons” play-
ing. A surge of TikTok videos (the
#rollerskating page has more than
1.8 billion views) featuring sway-
ing, sun-drenched skaters and a
bevy of bold, retro skate brands
have helped generate a renewed
interest in roller skating, as well.
In mid-May, there was a spike in
the search for roller skates on
Google Trends that has since re-
mained fairly consistent. And
throughout the spring, retailers
such as Moxi Roller Skates and
Impala Rollerskates have seen
sales skyrocket. “We released our
new Pastel Fade skate during lock-
down, which sold out in the same
day,” Matt Hill, chief executive of
Impala Rollerskates, said in an
email.
Michelle Steilen, owner and
founder of Moxi Roller Skates and
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Moxi Shop, has had to open a sec-
ond factory to fulfill all of the back
orders the brand has accumulated.
(Moxi’s Lolly Completes are the
skates that have been selling the
most.) “Back in April, [we made]
12 times our regular sales. Now, it’s
a lot more than that,” Steilen
said. Even with the back orders,
they still have protective gear in
stock, which Steilen is thankful for:
“Pads, we have a pretty steady in-
ventory of, which is great, because
all of these new roller skaters need
protectors.”
Steilen attributes roller skating’s
newfound popularity partly to peo-
ple’s desire for an activity they can
do outside gyms and yoga studios,
which are operating at reduced ca-
pacity — if they are open — and
which some members are reluctant
to return to. “I believe people are
Coco Franklin is a professional roller skating and yoga instructor based in California.
interested in picking up skating as
a real hobby because they’re not
sure when it’s going to be, or if it’s
ever going to [go] back to normal,”
she said.
According to Tanya Dean, a cer-
tified personal trainer and the
founder of Skaterobics, fitness
classes that combine roller skating
and dance, the biggest physical
benefit of roller skating is that it’s a
cardio workout. “Roller skating in
an hour can burn up to 600 calories
per session,” Dean said.
Dean said skating’s pluses in-
clude oxygenation of the blood,
stronger thighs and hamstrings
(“because you are constantly push-
ing off”), balance, control, a healthy
heart and self-confidence. She also
thinks the activity keeps people
looking youthful. “If you ask the
average roller skater their age,
they’re going to look 10 to 15, even
20 years younger than their actual
age because of the benefits of roller
skating,” she said.
Since the pandemic started,
Dean has been teaching classes vir-
tually, which she says has helped
“those who were getting depressed,
those who were in the house by
themselves, those who really want-
ed to learn how to skate and were
scared to come out and move be-
cause they didn’t have the confi-
dence.”
In some cases, skaters are re-
turning to a beloved sport. Jenna
Mahale, an East London writer and
editor, started roller and ice skating
at about 10 years old, and recently
started roller skating again. “I
think people like me are just sort of
like looking into the pit of their
interests and pulling up lots of
things from their past,” said Ma-
hale, 23. “I’ve spoken to quite a lot
of people about how isolation has
felt quite teenager-y in that kind of
you’re trapped in your room, but
there’s not a lot for you to do.”
Courtneigh Summerrise, an ad-
ministrative assistant in the fi-
nance division for the New York
City Council, also began taking les-
sons at an early age, and she attend-
ed skate parties and visited the
local rink in Ohio as a child. “Roller
skating is really big in black com-
courtesy oF coco Franklin
munities, and [my dad] dance
skates and is really cool and fancy
with it,” she said.
But, until the pandemic, Sum-
merrise hadn’t picked up a pair of
skates since she was a teenager. “I
was like just working from home
and sitting down all day, and I was
like, ‘What can I do?’ ” the 26-year-
old said. Deciding it was time to
look for some skates, she fell down
a rabbit hole on Reddit. “I didn’t
even realize like roller skating was
cool again, and these Reddit people
were talking about how all these
TikTokers were roller skating and
how it was like becoming like a
trend,” she said.
Actress and dancer Ana Coto,
who has been skating for more than
three years, has recently become
one of the leaders of the hobby’s
revival. Coto, who joined TikTok in
February, garnered more than
1.5 million followers after a video of
her skating to Jennifer Lopez’s “Jen-
ny from the Block” went viral. She
has also charmed spectators with
videos of her gliding — often in
Riedell skates — throughout streets
and parks of Southern California to
songs from Donna Lewis to Bad
Bunny. “The reason why I started
sharing [videos] on TikTok was be-
cause I had amassed this history,
and I wanted to keep a sort of skate
journal,” Coto said.
But she also sought to have a
channel with purpose. “I want to
have a TikTok, a space online, a
presence online, that encourages
people to have conversations about
skating, about womanhood, about
Latin culture, about black culture,”
said Coto, who is from Puerto Rico.
She also wants to talk about its
history: “Skating is not really just a
white person’s sport,” she said.
Coto believes the reason roller
skating hasn’t always shown up in
modern media is due to the fact
that “it’s plenty of marginalized
people that are really keeping skat-
ing alive, and have popularized
skating. Skating venues are sup-
posed to be safe places for the LG-
BTQ+ communities, also for chil-
dren and black people.”
Roller skating has a history of
racism that has often been over-
looked. Black skaters created their
own communities in the 1960s,
when many rinks were segregated.
The rise of skate culture continued
into the 1970s and 1980s, becoming
an incubator for hip-hop — some-
thing documented in the 2019 doc-
umentary “United Skates.”
“Roller skating is what I do,
what I’m made of, and we were
around before this so-called resur-
gence,” Dean said. “It never went
anywhere with us. [The black com-
munity] really [is] the reason for
the resurgence.”
Some of the people who post on
and research social media plat-
forms say that racial biases found
in algorithms contribute to the
whitewashing of black content,
such as skating videos. “The algo-
rithm’s [goal], Facebook’s algo-
rithm, Instagram’s algorithm,”
Dean said, “is to promote white
anything, . . . because those who
created these platforms are mar-
keting to their kind.”
Coco Franklin, a professional
roller skating and yoga instructor
based in California, said that al-
though the combination of the cor-
onavirus shutdowns and TikTok
and Instagram has helped raise her
profile and bring in new students,
she, too, thinks black American
skate culture has been omitted in
the mainstream media.
However, she added: “With our
current climate, people are forced
to educate themselves, whether
they would like to or not. And . . . I
have a good feeling [that] things
will be changing, for the best.”
localliving@washpost.com
ilana kaplan is a freelance writer and
editor who lives in Brooklyn. Follow her
@lanikaps.
Family
What’s a working parent to do this summer?
BY M EGHAN L EAHY
Q: With closures of a lot of
in-person summer camps,
what are parents supposed
to do? I have to work from
home, and I am back in
school for my master’s
degree. I do not have a lot
of time to give my child. I’m
feeling a bit overwhelmed
and disappointed that I
can’t give him the playtime
and interaction that I
would like to give. Any
suggestions on how to
figure things out? I feel
bad, because he has been
on his tablet a lot, and now
that school is over, all he
wants to do is go on
YouTube and watch “Ryan’s
World.” The tablet has now
become a problem; I get
attitude when I ask him to
put it away. Because of this,
we have taken the tablet
away completely. I have
encouraged him to play
with his toys, but he does
not like to play by himself,
and he is the only child. Do
you have suggestions?
A: Based on the “Ryan’s World”
mention, I am guessing that
your child is between the ages of
3 and 6. Parents of children 7
and under (and children who
have any special needs) are
especially suffering right now,
and I don’t want to blow smoke:
There are no easy suggestions
for parenting during a
pandemic. So, let’s accept some
new truths.
There’s going to be more tech.
Period. And you will go through
periods of gratitude and guilt for
on parenting
the extra screen use, but I
cannot conceive of how else to
work and go to school — and not
lose it.
There will be good days and
bad days, no matter how well
you plan ahead. Young children
are the hardest to plan for, so
you will need to cut yourself a lot
of slack.
As you learn to accept that
you are embracing tech and that
some days will not go well, here
is my first idea: support. You
don’t mention a partner or
spouse, but if there is someone
else there, please work out a
schedule with them. A young
child needs to be run like a
puppy (and often), so if someone
else is there, create a schedule
that works for everyone. If you
are solo parenting, this is a time
to reach out to your network.
Nanny-shares, mothers’ helpers,
you name it. I even know teens
who will work free to simply
help parents who are drowning.
But you have to ask for the
support you need. If you have
family nearby (within driving
distance), consider getting
everyone tested for the novel
the Washington Post/Prisma filter/istock
coronavirus so that your family
can help you care for your son. It
is not ideal, but we need to find
ways to get the help we need;
this virus isn’t going anywhere.
I would also try to find, buy or
borrow whatever equipment you
need to tire your child. Indoor
trampolines, swings, obstacle
courses, bikes, scooters, chalk,
all the things! (I’m seeing a lot of
offers from neighborhood
parents, in Facebook groups, on
Craigslist and on mailing lists as
people clean house, so keep an
eye out for those.) Set up zones
in your house, sort of like a
classroom: “science zone,”
“reading nook” and “art zone.”
This will require some work up
front, but it will become helpful
as you create a schedule.
Also, there are resources
galore online; be sure to check
out what fun activities you can
share with your child. There is
no need to reinvent the wheel. I
love both Tinkergarten
(tinkergarten.com) and Common
Sense Media
(commonsensemedia.org).
Then, make a flexible routine.
Call a family meeting (no matter
11
Dc
the age or the people in your
family), and write down the
general plan for each weekday in
whatever way makes sense for
you. Taking your plans from your
head to paper will help you
immensely, even if you decide to
abandon the plan because your
son is young. You can revisit the
schedule frequently.
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Finally, gauge your own
energy, day-to-day. Whether
making dinner out of leftovers
every night, allowing lots of tech
and movies on a rainy day or
making a nest for your son next
to your desk with his tablet,
favorite toys and snacks, you are
allowed to do what you need to
do to get through this
challenging time.
Stay safe, and try to play as
much as you can. Laughter helps
everything. Good luck!
 also at washingtonpost.com
read the transcript of a recent live
Q&a with leahy at
washingtonpost.com/advice, where
you can also find past columns. her
next chat is scheduled for July 22.
 Send questions about parenting
to meghan@mlparentcoach.com.
 12
Dc Family

During this time, attention to kids near water is even more urgent
BY K AREN C OHN

As a parent of four kids, I re-

member how chaotic it felt when
everyone was out of school for the
summer and in search of things to
do and ways to keep cool.
Although my children are older
now, I feel for working parents
whose kids’ summer camps, pro-
grams, swim lessons and recre-
ational swimming have been can-
celed because of social distancing
guidelines or budget cuts.
These cancellations are a par-
ticular concern for me, especial-
ly when it comes to learn-
ing about water safety: My son
Zachary Archer Cohn drowned
at the age of 6. Since then, my
husband and I founded the Zac
Foundation in his honor, and this
is the first time in a decade we
can’t offer free swim lessons and
water safety education because of
coronavirus-related pool closures.
And I’m afraid the pandemic is
more reason than ever for lessons
in pool safety.
Although I sympathize and em-
pathize with parents trying to jug-
gle conference calls and Zoom
meetings while supervising
young children, their children
may be at a greater risk of drown-
ing during this time. Parents who
have rushed out to buy a baby pool
or an above-ground pool or who
have taken their kids to ponds,
rivers, lakes or the ocean to cool
off may not realize the dangers of iStock

multitasking and taking that

“quick call” while supervising
children in or around water. The
No. 1 cause of unintentional death
for children age 1 to 4 is drowning.
Where do these drownings most
often occur? Backyard pools. And
for the next age bracket, ages 5 to
14, drowning is the second leading
unintentional cause of death.
We have learned that drinking
and driving don’t mix and that
smoking increases one’s risk of
developing lung cancer, and we
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
ming lessons reduce the likeli-
hood of childhood drowning by
88 percent, according to another
study, this one in the journal
JAMA Pediatrics.
The rule of thumb: An adult
with swim skills should be within
one arm’s length, providing “con-
stant touch supervision,” because
it’s too easy for an accident to
happen when a water watcher’s
head is turned.
But in the coronavirus era,
Although I sympathize
and empathize with
parents trying to juggle
conference calls and
Zoom meetings while
supervising young
children, their children
must teach children what it feels
like to be in the water without a
personal flotation device. Until
you have access to a pool, beach or
lake this summer, there are some
basic safety tips to discuss with
your children, which we call the
ABCDs of water safety:
Adult: Always swim with an
adult supervising.
Barrier: Don’t open doors or
gates to pool areas without an
adult’s permission. (Parents
if you see someone in trouble,
reach or throw a safety object;
don’t go into the water. You can
help someone without putting
your own safety at risk.
Ideally, your children would
learn these skills in gym class, but
unfortunately, there’s no orga-
nized effort to make swim classes,
or even dryland water safety
training, available to all young
children in the United States.
To be sure, we’re not going to

understand the value of seat belts.
We must now recognize the im-
portance of basic water safety and
dryland water safety education.
Water safety begins the minute
an infant leaves the hospital.
From the bathtub to wading pools,
to spas and pools, and areas of
open water, such as ponds, lakes,
rivers and oceans, parents or care-
givers should never — not even for
a moment — leave young children
alone or in the care of another
child anywhere near water, even if
a lifeguard is present.
Most young children who have
drowned in pools had been out of
sight for five minutes or less and
were in the care of one or both
parents at the time, according to a
study by the Consumer Product
Safety Commission. Formal swim-
swim lessons have been hard to
come by as states and municipali-
ties nationwide have worked to
reduce the number of cases by
either closing pools and programs
altogether, or severely limiting ac-
cess to them. As a result, children’s
swim skills are underdeveloped
just as we hit peak summer weath-
er and pools and beaches begin
reopening.
For one thing: Many parents
may think they are keeping their
children safer by insisting they
swim with puddle jumpers or life
jackets. Those devices only work
when you’re there to be sure chil-
dren are wearing them. In reality,
the flotation devices don’t teach
children proper positioning in the
water or build muscle memory.
Time and time again, we learn of
may be at a greater risk
of drowning.
tragedies where children, accus-
tomed to swimming with a puddle
jumper, drown while swimming
unsupervised, because caregivers
are distracted by taking a confer-
ence call, cooking dinner or show-
ering and don’t realize their child
has slipped out the door, opened
the gate and fallen into the pool.
Given these sad stories, we
should ensure that pools are
fenced in on four sides, doors lead-
ing out to pool areas have alarms
and gates are self-latching.)
Classes: Take water safety
classes, such learn-to-swim and
CPR. (If you can’t access classes
this summer, talk to your children
about water safety. Much like you
teach them not to cross the street
without an adult or touch a hot
stove, now more than ever, you
need to teach them not to go near
water without an adult.)
Drains and devices: Stay away
from pool drains, and don’t rely on
flotation devices. However, al-
ways use a flotation device when
in, on or around areas of open
water.
Whether you are an adult or a
child, it’s important to remember
prevent every accident: My son
was an excellent swimmer. In fact,
he was advanced for his age. But
he died because we didn’t know
that our pool drain was installed
incorrectly and functioned im-
properly and unsafely.
We have to do everything we
can to keep our kids safe, and as
we are at home more this summer,
and maybe a little distracted with
the endless Zoom calls, it’s imper-
ative we remember to have our
eyes wide open when it comes to
our children and open water.
onparenting@washpost.com
karen cohn is co-founder of the Zac
Foundation, which has funded free
water safety camps for more than
20,000 children in at-risk
communities nationwide.
 L1
DC

Market Intelligence
the washington post . saturday, february 8, 2020 1

Real Estate
the washington post . saturday, february 22, 2020

Real Estate
THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY,  SEPTEMBER  15, 2019  

Real Estate
  eZ

What do condo
fees really cover?
That’s among the questions
to ask before buying. 12

the washington post

FALL HOME BUYERS GUIDE

First-time home buyers share

their success stories

. saturday,
bill o'LeAry/the wAshington Post
By saving, negotiating and getting help, they took the plunge. 14
Design and technology advances provide new options for efficiency, security and comfort. 6

february 22, 2020

A clearer view on choosing the right windows
DREW LYTLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

3.56%
A view of Washington from the roof of The Cairo condo building. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades For The Washington Post
WHERE WE LIVE: DUNLEIGH FALL HOME BUYERS GUIDE FALL HOME BUYERS GUIDE

3.45% loan rates fall. 3.49%

Where We Live: brentwood in northeast washinGton BuyinG new House of the week
This Fairfax County, Va., community is ideal 30 hot neighborhoods where 9 programs that offer Where We Live: Great falls chase in loudoun county house of the week
residents tout the community’s camaraderie. 2 loudoun houses for $690K. 5 d.C. mansion for $12m. 10 8
for young families and dog walkers. 2 you can get deals. 21 down payment help. 42 Mortgage rates rise. 4 this neighborly community is dominated by townhouses. 7 1914 dupont Circle rowhouse for $4.6m. 2 rates rise. 4

  THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,  OCTOBER  19, 2019  

the washington post . Sunday, march 29, 2020

Real Estate
the washington post . saturday, january 4, 2020

Real Estate Real Estate

Age-proofing a house for long-term living is an appealing
trend for some seniors, but it doesn’t come cheap. 8

How affordable
housing is getting
lost in the mix. 4
sPrinG hoMe Guide

The D.C. market was on

strong footing ... until a
pandemic hit. A look back at
2019 and what lies ahead. 10
Where We Live: Martin’s additions
the tree-lined village in Chevy Chase, md., offers
rural living in a close-in suburb. 2
house of the week
horse farm in the Plains,
va., for $8 million. 6
buyinG new
northwest d.C. condos
starting at $350,000. 3
3.72%
mortgage rates fall. 7
hAnnAh AgostA for the wAshington Post

Where We Live: Williamsburg/ashton place

3.5%
HANNAH AGOSTA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
illustrAtion by miChelle KondriCh
A road in this germantown, md., community inspired one of John denver’s biggest hits. 3 mortage rates fall. 6

Real Estate
Your weekly source for insight and analysis on the Washington-area housing market.

the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

The go-to guide on national housing trends for buyers, sellers, investors and dreamers.
Every Saturday in The Washington Post

Online at washingtonpost.com/realestate
N02805x12
 l2
DC Home Sales
dIS T RIC T OF COlU MBIA
These sales data recorded by the
D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue
were provided by Black Knight Inc.
For information about other
residential real estate
transactions, visit
washingtonpost.com/homesales.
nORTHEAST
C St., 1378-Matthew V. and Abigail
Y. Compton to Eric Konopka,
$618,000.
Central Ave., 3215-Dream0001
Corp. to Camille Marie Castro and
Gerad Hunter Teague, $682,000.
Chillum Pl., 5383-Diplomat
Property Manager Corp. to Abdul
Malek Babu and Nasrin Sultana,
$510,000.
Clinton St., 3065-Atmo
Development Corp. to Martin
Benjamin Cahill II and Smriti
Lakhey, $780,000.
downing St., 1336-Estate of Irene
H. Smith and Emanuel Smith to
John Ma, $302,400.
Eastern Ave., 468-Kiev A.
Johnston to Cherraine Victoria
Rich, $256,689.
Hansberry Ct., 3814-Yvette S. and
Ronald L. Jackson to Basile Njei,
$575,000.
l St., 1629, No. 102-David J. and
Gladys Dundua to Hoda Hafizi,
$275,000.
Perry St., 1218, No. 301-Theodore
C. Wade to Dina Abi-Rached and
Spencer Levy, $360,000.
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Randolph St., 1810-Estate of
Colleen V. Greene and Robert
Anthony Greene to Carisa Dawn
Stanley, $728,000.
Trinidad Ave., 1628, No. 1-
Fedorman Associates Corp. to
Andrea Lynn Aquilino and Kenneth
Joseph Dehaan, $595,000.
webster St., 126-Michael and
Dianne Desouza to Kingsley Uche
Achikeh, $460,000.
Fifth St., 116-Robert Troy Pomroy
and Sheila C. McMullan to James
A. and Susan E. Ramsey,
$1.7 million.
Sixth St., 2807-Lambros Bisbikis
to Brandy Kinlaw, $810,000.
Eighth St., 3206-Chartwell Inc. to
Allison M. Cordell, $647,000.
11th St., 415-Antonio Roberson to
Benjamin Hernandez-Stern,
$780,000.
12th St., 3211, No. 102-
Christopher Lyon Fisher to Sergio
Gonzales, $560,000.
14th Pl., 213-Joseph Paul and
Carina Marie Reichelt Rosado to
Allyce and Colin Moncton,
$681,000.
nORTHwEST
Allison St., 906-Jessica Martens
to Gillian Page and Kevin Douglas
Hoagland-Hanson, $800,000.
Belmont Rd., 2032, No. 420-Kat
Realty Corp. to Ivan A. Harris and
Alexis Barton, $380,000.
Center St., 3504-Barbara L. Levac
and Darrell T. Johnson to Ronald
Gallagher, $869,990.
Church St., 1749, No. 1-Saket
Kaushik and Shwetlena Sabarwal
to Sarah Dillard, $420,000.
Connecticut Ave., 2660, No. 4C-
Nash Wardman Tower Residential
Corp. to Daniel L. Glaser,
$2.9 million.
Connecticut Ave., 4740, No. 517-
Laura M. Gaunder to Stefaan Lust,
$311,150.
decatur Pl., 2230-Stuart J. Sweet
to John Aram Murad and Victoria
Thayer Cumings, $1.93 million.
dorsett Pl., 5305-Vre IV Corp. to
Robert Preston and Brittany
Warden, $2.79 million.
F St., 912, No. 301-Parapluie
Verde Corp. to Julija Simionenko
and William Lawrence Kovacs III,
$495,000.
Faraday Pl., 4420-Adam Pase and
Liat Rosen to Charles F. and Diane
H. Stuart, $1.01 million.
Gallatin St., 906, No. 302-Gallatin
Property Development Corp. to
Christopher Wright Durocher and
Jaysen Wright, $460,000.
Hall Pl., 2242-Katherine S. and
Neil E. Hare to Noel Arturo and
Allana Belfry Bejarano,
$1.5 million.
Harvard St., 767-Estate of Daisy
Mary Tillman and Patricia Tillman-
Hodge to Novinder Singh,
$470,000.
Huntington St., 3818-David J. and
Susan S. Lewis to Henry B. Liu and
Katherine Yang, $2.05 million.
Illinois Ave., 4821-Fame Homes
Corp. to Chase Kroll and Jennifer
Tong, $945,000.
Jefferson St., 617, No. 303-Nicole
Bryant to Michal Takle, $319,000.
K St., 2900, No. 605-Devon
Ciampa to Kamdin Shakoorzadeh
and Mahnaz Boloori, $1.3 million.
Kennedy St., 408, No. 302-
Marcus L. Scribner to Tamara L.
McNealy, $430,000.
Kenyon St., 1360, No. 3-Meagan J.
Keiser to David B. Wilbur,
$550,000.
M St., 55, No. 202-Allan M.
Birnbaum and estate of Mark S.
Birnbaum to Aaron Huertas and
Victoria Finkle, $462,500.
Madison St., 900-Ralph L. and
Jamie Block Lee to Vaughan C.
Mitchell, $621,991.
Massachusetts Ave., 4301, No.
3011-Nisha K. Nanda and Rainu
Kukreja to Maher M. Reefay and
Maha D. Spahi, $287,000.
Missouri Ave., 1320, No. 303-
Saul G. and Esteban R. Atencio to
Richard Allen Brooks, $240,000.
n St., 2101, No. 204-Michael W.
and Suzanne L. Hermus to Dorina
Georgieva, $416,000.
new Hampshire Ave., 1330, No.
806-Brittany Cambas to Jorge
Daniel Fanjul, $357,000.
newlands St., 2700-Derek
Headey and Darshana Venugopal
to Jessica and Justin Logan,
$915,000.
Oak St., 1443, No. 202-Vahid
Amirghassemi and Angela
HEAlTH COdE VIOlATIOnS
These food establishments were
closed because of health code
violations. The list, compiled from
health department reports, reflects
actions taken by the departments.
Although many food services are
limited to carryout, deliveries and
outdoor dining, complaint
inspections will continue during the
covid-19 crisis.
THE dISTRICT
Charcoal Town Hookah and
Shawarma
1027 31st St. NW
Closed June 30 because of
circumstances that may endanger
public health. Reopened the next
day.
MARYlAnd
Cabana Hookah lounge
8227 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring
Closed July 2 because the business
is not part of the county’s Phase 2
What’s for dinner?
S0115-2x1.5
Conneran to Mousson Estelle
Jamel Koussoube, $535,000.
Ontario Rd., 2426, No. 203-Rani
Sudha Vedurumudi to Samah
Torchani and Mo Salim Merie,
$645,000.
P St., 1721, No. A-Dennis Camlek
to Tanaka Jonathan Maswoswe
and Ashley M. Fitzgerald,
$875,000.
Q St., 710-Alvin Gross to Adnan
and Elizabeth Mithani, $906,000.
Quincy Pl., 43-Syga De Thomas to
Jason Heath and Ashley Keeling
Henderson, $750,000.
Reno Rd., 5023-Jeffrey Spector
and Victoria Williamson to Yasmin
Klaudia Bin Humam and Jean
Raynald Moreau Jr., $1.25 million.
S St., 1713, No. 2-Erin E. Wilhelm
to David C. Bethea and Michael
Barnes, $490,000.
Sherier Pl., 5533-Anthonetta M.
Graulich to Nicki L. Lehrer and
Mauricio Paredes Izaguirre,
$1.07 million.
Sutton Pl., 3235, No. B-Steven D.
and Maida Oringher Lerner to
Pouran Famili and Saman Danai,
$675,000.
T St., 1741, No. 302-Eliza K. and
Matthew C. Ward to Patrick J. and
Erin C. O’Toole, $580,000.
Tilden St., 3601-Matthias Frei and
Penny Quested to Jonathan H.
Becker, $1.53 million.
U St., 1722, No. A-Christopher R.
Butterfield to Adam Thomas and
see homes on 3
reopening.
El Sapo Cuban Social Club
8455 Fenton St., Silver Spring
Closed June 22 because of
adulterated food and unclean food
contact surfaces. Reopened the
next day.
Palisades lounge
8211 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring
Closed July 3 because of a failure
to maintain appropriate social
distancing and a liquor violation.
Vibes Hookah lounge
1 Dawson Ave., Rockville
Closed June 2 because the
business is not part of the county’s
Phase 2 reopening.
VIRGInIA
No new closures were reported.
— Compiled by Terence McArdle
Search our database of tested
recipes by ingredient or name.
washingtonpost.com/recipes
 L3
Home sales DC

homes from 2
Thomas Engelman, $539,500.
Utah ave., 6015-Jonathan J. and
Erin O. Sowanick to Adam J. Pan
and Jessica M. Brand,
$1.12 million.
Volta Pl., 3310-Joseph Findaro Jr.
to Christopher P. Holbert and Lo
Wen Tseng, $1.04 million.
Warner st., 409-Peter S. Corbett
to Sarah Rtel Bennani, $750,000.
Bay st., 1804-Estate of Brady T.
Casey and Lenetta Rechielle Kelly
to Aaron Fagan, $650,000.
C st., 1237, No. 3-Elise Sheppard
Bear to Luke Anthony Maier,
$410,000.
Capitol st. E., 1621, No. 4-
Mariama Bramble to Anastasia
Day, $375,000.
D st., 1604-Kilmurry Properties
Corp. to Paul D. Gallo and Lauren
E. Conroy, $845,000.
Hilltop Terr., 824-Mancini
Brothers Corp. to Noel Patrick
Benton, $479,000.
Pennsylvania ave., 1391, No.
508-James and Jeanne Sobel to
Cristian I. Balan, $585,000.
T st., 1720-Samantha J. Doyle to
Tinbite Mamo, $380,000.
Fourth st., 1300, No. 604-Parcel
O-1 Corp. to Ayanna Cooper,
$944,900.
14th st., 1906-Gbenga Owolabi to
Portia Quarles and Rosalynne
Wendt, $389,500.
30th st., 2237-Penelope J. Spain
to April D. Thompson Miller,
$485,000.
soUTHWEsT
G st., 77, No. 101-Andrea Ewart to
Ravi Goud, $656,250.
Fourth st., 1250, No. W408-
Samantha A. Smith to Kristine E.
Marsh, $305,000.

You Inspire Us
Winfield Lane, 3745-Steven
Menashi and Ilana Golant to
Thomas S. and Kimberly T.
Afferton, $1.64 million. We want to give back to the
Third st., 5113-Gabriela Gugiu
Herrera to Daniel Goshorn-
communities that have been
Maroney and Michelle Faye so supportive of us by donating
Bercovici, $799,000. 100% of all new CaseStudy® fees.
sixth st., 1613, No. 2-Christina L.
Murtaugh to Ashton David Imlay Inspiring Homeowners Since 1961.
and Elizabeth Noyes Bagley,
$690,000.
11th st., 2004, No. 137-Jennifer
Lee Pollio to Christopher Mullen
and Cecilia Diedrich, $585,000.
13th st., 3500, No. 303-Alison
Gold to Jeri A. Mintzer, $355,000.
14th st., 2125, No. 422-Bradley J.
and Kathryn E. Rozansky to Ted
Joong Kim and Kaori Iwai,
$584,000.
15th st., 1927-Gregg M. Wintering
to Leila Schochet and Michael
Cunningham, $1.28 million.
17th st., 2412, No. 401-David and
Leisa Brinton to Sara Elizabeth
Anrrich and Nicholas Svilar,
$549,000.
18th st., 1325, No. 1005-Henry
William A. Gillen to Lawrence
Elliott Blake II, $440,000.
19th st., 2019, No. 4-Jarrod A.
Rainey and Anastasia Caton to
Anne C. and Robert A. Baker,
$723,000.
31st st., 1512-Caesar A. Junker to
Joshua Winston, $1.05 million.
38th st., 3440, No. A409-Helaine
Zinaman to Jazmin N. Lopez,
$360,500.
45th st., 1820-William E. and Ann
H. Kaye to Maryann Powell Surrick Gratitude. Empathy.
and Scott James Popma,
$2.77 million. We have taken every step imaginable to ensure the
safety of our clients and of our team - but we want

the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

soUTHEasT
Bangor st., 3706-Ket Investments to do more. For the month of July we are donating
Corp. to Pamela L. Thornton,
$697,000.
100% of all CaseStudy® fees to the local charity or
organization of your choice.

Our CaseStudy® process is a comprehensive first

In with the good
Get the “Inspired Life” e-newsletter for
news of good deeds, humor, advice
and inspiration. Delivered Saturdays.
post.com/news/inspired-life
step to help you make smart decisions about your
home. We’ll virtually collaborate on ideas, develop
three unique design options - with your dream design CaseDesign.com | 202.873.2020
virtually rendered in 3D - and include budgeting
information and timelines.
Visit our website to set a virtual appointment or to
learn more.

S0331 1x2.25
 l4
DC Crime Report
DIS T RICT OF C OlUMBIA
These were among incidents
reported by D.C. police. For
information, call 202-727-9099.
NORTHEAST
ASSAUlTS
Benning Rd., 1800 block,
2:24 a.m. June 28.
Bladensburg Rd., 2800-
3200 blocks, 10:56 p.m. June 25.
With gun.
Blaine St., 4200 block, 8:06 p.m.
June 26. With gun.
Central Ave., 4500 block,
9:57 p.m. June 21. With knife.
Dix St., 3800-3999 blocks,
12:25 a.m. June 29.
Dix St., 3800-3999 blocks,
7:02 p.m. June 29. With gun.
Edgewood St., 500 block,
12:25 p.m. June 29. With knife.
Mills Ave., 2900 block, 9:05 a.m.
June 23. With knife.
Montello Ave., 1200 block,
12:05 a.m. June 27. With gun.
Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave.,
4200-4399 blocks, 11:20 p.m.
June 27.
Rhode Island Ave., 900 block,
11:46 p.m. June 25.
Staples St., 1200 block, 1:05 a.m.
June 25. With gun.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 3:51 p.m.
June 25. With knife.
Ninth St., 1900 block, 7:40 p.m.
June 27.
12th St., 2900 block, 1:51 a.m.
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
June 25. With gun.
48th St., 800 block, 11 a.m.
June 27. With gun.
55th St., 100 block, 1:42 a.m.
June 29. With gun.
ROBBERIES
Benning Rd., 3000-3399 blocks,
1:53 a.m. June 24.
Brentwood Rd., 900 block,
2:39 a.m. June 25. With gun.
H St., 400 block, 3:52 p.m.
June 27. With gun.
Hayes St., 4400 block, 5:09 a.m.
June 23. With gun.
Minnesota Ave., 3700 block,
5:49 a.m. June 28. With gun.
Minnesota Ave., 3800 block,
5:16 p.m. June 24. With gun.
Minnesota Ave., 3800 block,
6:45 p.m. June 29. With gun.
Morse St., 1400 block, 2:14 p.m.
June 26. With gun.
Oklahoma Ave., 500 block,
7:36 p.m. June 29. With gun.
Ponds St., 4300-4499 blocks,
4:44 p.m. June 29. With gun.
V St., 2300-3099 blocks, 1:19 a.m.
June 23.
West Virginia Ave., 800 block,
4:16 a.m. June 25.
Fourth St., 2300 block, 3:49 a.m.
June 27. With knife.
Seventh St., 5100 block, 1:53 a.m.
June 25.
13th St., 800 block, 12:51 p.m.
June 26. With gun.
15th St., 2200-2399 blocks,
4:36 a.m. June 27.
50th St., 300-409 blocks, 4 a.m.
June 23. With gun.
BREAK-INS
Crittenden St., 1000-1199 blocks,
11:25 a.m. June 27.
Eastern Ave., 900 block, 4:11 a.m.
June 28.
Kenilworth Ave., 700-899 blocks,
8:08 a.m. June 25.
l St., 1700 block, 10:44 a.m.
June 29.
First St., 1100 block, 4:55 p.m.
June 23.
16th St., 1000 block, 1:06 p.m.
June 25.
51st St., 200 block, 1:08 a.m.
June 21.
THEFTS
Ames St., 3900 block, 1:19 p.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
Benning Rd., 1500-1699 blocks,
2:03 a.m. June 26.
Benning Rd., 4400 block,
4:14 p.m. June 24.
Benning Rd., 4400 block,
10:50 a.m. June 25.
Benning Rd., 4500 block,
8:11 a.m. June 25.
Benning Rd., 4500 block,
10:49 a.m. June 28.
Bladensburg Rd., 800 block,
2:34 a.m. June 23.
Bladensburg Rd., 2700 block,
5:06 p.m. June 25.
Blaine St., 4400 block, 9:14 a.m.
June 26. From vehicle.
Blaine St., 5300 block, 10:05 a.m.
June 24.
Brentwood Rd., 1000-
1249 blocks, 5:45 p.m. June 23.
Bryant St., 1300 block, 10:46 p.m.
June 28.
Commodore Joshua Barney Dr.,
3600-3799 blocks, 11:22 a.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
Constitution Ave., 800 block,
3 p.m. June 20.
Division Ave., 200 block,
9:30 p.m. June 24.
E St., 300 block, 3:06 p.m. June 7.
From vehicle.
Eads St., 6000 block, 7:15 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Edson Pl., 4200-4399 blocks,
6:28 a.m. June 24.
Faraday Pl., 1200 block, 5:55 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Fenwick St., 2000 block,
11:30 a.m. June 23.
Florida Ave., 300 block, 6:52 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Fort Totten Dr., 4800-
4999 blocks, 3:53 p.m. June 23.
From vehicle.
G St., 300 block, 11:57 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
Gault Pl., 4000-4199 blocks,
6:41 p.m. June 27. From vehicle.
Gault Pl., 4600 block, 3:44 p.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
Girard St., 1700 block, 3:26 p.m.
June 24.
H St., 1100 block, 7:58 p.m.
June 28.
Holbrook Terr., 1200 block,
2:39 p.m. June 28.
Holbrook Terr., 1200 block,
6:26 p.m. June 28.
Jefferson St., 900 block,
5:06 p.m. June 29. From vehicle.
K St., 200 block, 8:42 p.m.
June 25.
lawrence St., 1800-1999 blocks,
1:39 p.m. June 28. From vehicle.
lexington Pl., 600 block,
2:59 p.m. June 24.
M St., Unit block, 11:30 a.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Massachusetts Ave., 600 block,
7:21 p.m. June 28.
Mount Olivet Rd., 900-
1020 blocks, 9:53 a.m. June 24.
Mount Olivet Rd., 1300-
1499 blocks, 5:21 a.m. June 25.
From vehicle.
N St., 300 block, 4:21 p.m.
June 25.
Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave.,
4200-4399 blocks, 11:40 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
New York Ave., 1200-1399 blocks,
10:39 p.m. June 28.
Oklahoma Ave., 300 block,
10:06 p.m. June 24. From vehicle.
Owen Pl., 1200 block, 2:10 p.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
Patterson St., Unit block,
2:55 a.m. June 27. From vehicle.
Pierce St., Unit block, 10:24 p.m.
June 25.
Q St., 100-299 blocks, 5:11 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
Q St., 100-299 blocks, 8:34 a.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Rhode Island Ave., 1600 block,
2:32 p.m. June 28.
Riggs Rd., Unit block, 5:25 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
Rosedale St., 1900 block,
10:35 a.m. June 23. From vehicle.
Washington Pl., 2300-
2499 blocks, 5:40 p.m. June 29.
Fourth St., 600 block, 1:38 p.m.
June 27.
Fourth St., 1000 block, 10:11 a.m.
June 20.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 10:41 p.m.
June 23.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 6:55 a.m.
June 28.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 1:14 p.m.
June 28.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 7:27 a.m.
June 29.
Fourth St., 1200 block, 5:56 p.m.
June 29.
Seventh St., 500 block, 9:23 p.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
Seventh St., 800 block, 3:23 p.m.
June 24.
10th St., 2500-2610 blocks,
11:53 a.m. June 26.
12th St., 3600 block, 12:44 p.m.
June 24.
12th St., 3600 block, 6:26 p.m.
June 24.
15th St., 3200 block, 3:55 a.m.
June 27.
16th St., 4900 block, 3:12 p.m.
June 26.
17th St., 2800 block, 11:43 a.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
18th St., 600 block, 3:46 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
18th St., 700 block, 6:24 p.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
21st St., 200 block, 6:48 a.m.
June 26.
47th Pl., 1100 block, 8 p.m.
June 27.
MOTOR VEHIClE THEFTS
C St., 1200 block, 8:48 p.m.
June 29.
Clay St., 4200 block, 2:01 p.m.
June 26.
Duncan Pl., 1200 block,
11:13 p.m. June 29.
Fort Totten Dr., 4700 block,
7:13 a.m. June 25.
Gales St., 1500 block, 2:51 p.m.
June 28.
Jay St., 3500-3899 blocks,
8:13 p.m. June 26.
M St., Unit block, 9:52 p.m.
June 29.
Maryland Ave., 1900-
2099 blocks, 8:52 p.m. June 28.
Minnesota Ave., 3800 block,
6:59 p.m. June 29.
Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave.,
4200-4399 blocks, 12:03 p.m.
June 27.
New York Ave., 1500 block,
11:51 a.m. June 29.
New York Ave., 2300-
3699 blocks, 11:13 p.m. June 27.
Quarles St., 4600 block,
11:57 a.m. June 23.
West Virginia Ave., 1700 block,
4:23 a.m. June 23.
West Virginia Ave., 2000 block,
12:45 p.m. June 23.
see crime on 5

Crime report
crime from 4
First st., 1200 block, 11:42 p.m.
June 26.
12th st., 2700 block, 5:39 a.m.
June 18.
NOrthWest
hOMICIDe
New York Ave., Unit block,
June 26. With gun.
AssAULts
Columbia rd., 1300 block,
10:39 p.m. June 27. With knife.
Connecticut Ave., 2900 block,
11:42 a.m. June 29.
Farragut st., 800 block, 5:50 a.m.
June 29. With knife.
Georgia Ave., 4000 block,
2:59 a.m. June 27. With knife.
K st., Unit block, 8:02 p.m.
June 29. With gun.
rittenhouse st., 300 block,
3:08 a.m. June 25. With gun.
14th st., 4000 block, 12:25 p.m.
June 26.
16th st., 3400 block, 6:06 a.m.
June 25. With gun.
ArsON
I st., 1300 block, 5:41 a.m.
June 24.
rOBBerIes
Georgia Ave., 5500 block,
5:39 p.m. June 23.
Longfellow st., 100 block,
9:57 p.m. June 25. With gun.
Longfellow st., 900 block,
1:34 a.m. June 24.
New hampshire Ave.,
5400 block, 10:19 p.m. June 25.
Ontario rd., 2100-2323 blocks,
1:19 a.m. June 29.
sheridan st., 1200 block,
5:03 p.m. June 27.
t st., 1700 block, 1:11 a.m.
June 28. With gun.
Van Buren st., 200 block,
3:34 a.m. June 24.
First st., 1800 block, 12:30 p.m.
June 28. With gun.
Fourth st., 800 block, 2:02 a.m.
June 29. With gun.
14th st., 1300 block, 9:43 a.m.
June 27. With knife.
16th st., 1500 block, 2:07 a.m.
June 24.
19th st., 2200 block, 6:36 a.m.
June 29. With gun.
BreAK-INs
M st., 3200 block, 4:57 p.m.
June 1.
N st., 3200 block, 10:13 a.m.
June 27.
saint Marys Pl., 3600 block,
4:37 p.m. June 27.
Wisconsin Ave., 1600 block,
9:35 a.m. June 29.
Wisconsin Ave., 4700 block,
4:16 a.m. June 24.
seventh st., 7400 block,
9:50 p.m. June 24.
Ninth st., 1900 block, 4:56 p.m.
June 29.
11th st., 500 block, 1:14 p.m.
June 24.
11th st., 2800 block, 9:30 a.m.
June 29.
L5
DC
16th st., 900 block, 3:35 a.m. June 24. June 29. From vehicle. June 20.
June 24. holmead Pl., 3400 block, K st., 3100 block, 5 p.m. June 24. Longfellow st., 1400-1599 blocks,
31st st., 1500 block, 10:03 a.m. 11:54 a.m. June 27. From vehicle. From vehicle. 3:38 p.m. June 24.
June 24. howard Pl., 400-599 blocks, Kalorama rd., 1600 block, M st., 3200 block, 6:04 p.m.
theFts 3:12 p.m. June 23. From vehicle. 1:01 a.m. June 29. June 29. From vehicle.
Adams Mill rd., 2600 block, I st., 300 block, 5:18 p.m. June 29. Kalorama rd., 1900 block, Marion st., 1500 block, 4:45 p.m.
3:52 p.m. June 25. From vehicle. 4:46 p.m. June 24. June 24.
Albemarle st., 2900 block, Illinois Ave., 4100 block, Kennedy st., 100 block, 7:50 p.m. Marlboro Pl., 4000 block,
8:39 p.m. June 25. From vehicle. 2:42 p.m. June 25. From vehicle. June 28. 3:12 a.m. June 23.
Allison st., 1400 block, 10:43 p.m. Illinois Ave., 4800 block, Kenyon st., 700-999 blocks, Massachusetts Ave., 300 block,
June 23. 9:26 a.m. June 28. 2:06 p.m. June 23. 8:39 a.m. June 28.
Illinois Ave., 4800 block, L st., 400 block, 7:22 p.m. Massachusetts Ave., 2500 block,
Ashmead Pl., 2300 block,
2:21 p.m. June 29. June 24. 8:59 p.m. June 25.
3:14 p.m. June 27.
Ingleside terr., 1800-1999 blocks, L st., 400 block, 7:42 p.m. Milmarson Pl., Unit block,
California st., 1800 block,
1:58 a.m. June 23. June 24. 9:42 p.m. June 23. From vehicle.
10:53 p.m. June 24.
Ingraham st., 1300 block, L st., 400 block, 3:20 p.m. Monroe st., 1800 block,
Calvert st., 2300 block, 5:08 p.m.
9:59 a.m. June 23. June 29. 12:31 a.m. June 30. From vehicle.
June 24. From vehicle.
Irving st., 1000 block, 5:43 p.m. L st., 1000 block, 4:37 p.m. Mount Pleasant st., 3100 block,
Chain Bridge rd., 2600-
June 14. June 23. 2:15 a.m. June 28.
3199 blocks, 8:54 p.m. June 24.
Irving st., 1600 block, 11:31 p.m. Lamont st., 600 block, 5:02 p.m. N st., 100 block, 2:05 p.m.
From vehicle.
June 28. June 28. From vehicle. June 26. From vehicle.
Clifton st., 1400 block, 1:21 a.m.
K st., 1400 block, 12:44 p.m. Langley Ct., 3900 block, 6:46 p.m. N st., 3100 block, 1:07 a.m.
June 25.
June 23. June 25. June 26.
Clydesdale Pl., 1800 block,
K st., 1900 block, 4:35 p.m. Linnean Ave., 4400 block, New hampshire Ave., 800 block,
4:05 p.m. June 23.
June 25. 11:02 a.m. June 23. From vehicle. 12:44 a.m. June 3.
Columbia rd., 1300 block,
K st., 1900 block, 10:18 p.m. Locust rd., 1300 block, New hampshire Ave., 900 block,
1:14 a.m. June 23.
June 29. 12:40 p.m. June 27. From vehicle. 6:09 a.m. June 25.
Columbia rd., 1700 block,
K st., 3000 block, 9:50 p.m. Logan Cir., Unit block, 9:52 p.m.
7:23 p.m. June 23. see crime on 6
Columbia rd., 1700 block,
4:55 a.m. June 24.
Columbia rd., 1700 block,
8:02 a.m. June 24.
Columbia rd., 1800 block, NO MESS, FULL TEAR-OUT
TUB & SHOWER
10:28 p.m. June 23.
Connecticut Ave., 1100 block,
3:25 p.m. June 23. THE LEADER IN ANTIMICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY.
Connecticut Ave., 2900 block, REMODELING OR CONVERSIONS KILLS GERMS, BACTERIA, AND MOLD.
9:51 p.m. June 25. EXCLUSIVE TO
Connecticut Ave., 3600 block,
4:34 p.m. June 23.
IN AS LITTLE AS ONE DAY! LUXURY BATH TECHNOLOGIES
TUB & SHOWER SYSTEMS
Cortland Pl., 2700 block,
1:19 p.m. June 24.
Decatur st., 800 block, 3:54 a.m.
June 29.
Delafield Pl., 800 block, 9:05 a.m.
June 23.
Dupont Cir., Unit block, 1:43 a.m.
June 28.
euclid st., 1400 block, 11:49 a.m. EXTENDED OFFER!
June 10.
euclid st., 1400 block, 9:01 a.m.
$
1,000 OFF
June 23. From vehicle.
Fairmont st., 1400 block,
7:35 p.m. June 23.
Floral st., 1300 block, 1:18 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
NEW BATH OR SHOWER SYSTEM!
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Florida Ave., 1300 block,
11:13 a.m. June 23. From vehicle. Offer valid until 8/1/2020.
Fordham rd., 4200 block,
5:03 a.m. June 27. From vehicle.
Gallatin st., 800 block, 9:13 p.m. BRINGING NEW TECHNOLOGY TO YOUR BATHROOM... OVER 25 YEARS SPECIALIZING IN...
June 23. High Density Polymer Tile Impressions Bath & Shower Remodeling Walk-In Tubs
Garrison st., 4300 block,
Mold & Mildew Resistant Easy Cleaning Tub-to-Shower Conversions Full Tear-Outs
8:19 p.m. June 28. From vehicle.
Georgia Ave., 3500-3610 blocks,
5:04 p.m. June 26. From vehicle. Sold, furnished and installed by an independent Luxury Bath Technologies dealer. Not valid with any other offer. Luxury bath
dealers are neither brokers or lenders. Different lending institutions have different programs and rates. Lifetime Warranty applies to
Georgia Ave., 3600 block, manufacturing defects. Discount available during initial consultation. Offer available for a limited time as determined by the dealer.
2:16 a.m. June 27. From vehicle. Ask your representative for details. Other restrictions may apply. Personal Hygiene Systems, Aging in Place, Mobility and Accessibility.
MHIC136343, VA2705170348, WV058033
Georgia Ave., 3800 block,
10:27 a.m. June 26. From vehicle.
Georgia Ave., 6200 block,
2:14 p.m. June 29.
VIRGINIA MARYLAND
Georgia Ave., 6400 block,
9:46 a.m. June 25. From vehicle.
REMODELING 703-643-9254 240-751-4915
Not Available in DC
Georgia Ave., 7300 block,
5:16 a.m. June 28. From vehicle.
Find us on Facebook MADE IN THE USA.
h st., Unit block, 10:19 p.m. CHECK OUT OUR BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS! We work with the VA on behalf of Veterans.
 L6
DC Crime Report
crime from 5
New York ave., 400 block,
7:11 p.m. June 26.
North Capitol st., 800-
999 blocks, 4:52 p.m. June 27.
From vehicle.
North Capitol st., 1100 block,
1:46 p.m. June 24.
North Capitol st., 1800-
2199 blocks, 11:56 a.m. June 26.
From vehicle.
o st., 700 block, 9:45 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
oneida Pl., 500-699 blocks,
7:44 a.m. June 28.
P st., 300 block, 3 p.m. June 26.
P st., 3400 block, 4:26 p.m.
June 24.
Palmer aly., 1000 block, 1:21 p.m.
June 26.
Park Rd., 1300 block, 7:43 p.m.
June 28.
Park Rd., 1400 block, 12:10 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Phelps Pl., 2100 block, 10:54 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Piney Branch Rd., 6500 block,
3:04 p.m. June 26.
Q st., 1500 block, 1:59 p.m.
June 29.
Q st., 2000 block, 4:04 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Quincy st., 700 block, 4:49 p.m.
June 24.
R st., 1000 block, 4:39 p.m.
June 25.
Rhode Island ave., 400 block,
12:06 p.m. June 25.
Rhode Island ave., 1600 block,
3:36 p.m. June 23.
Roxboro Pl., 500-699 blocks,
9:46 p.m. June 28. From vehicle.
south st., 3100 block, 2:19 a.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
spring Rd., 1400-1599 blocks,
1:37 a.m. June 23.
spring Rd., 1400-1599 blocks,
6:30 p.m. June 29.
thomas st., 100 block, 9:02 a.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
V st., 800 block, 10 p.m. June 28.
From vehicle.
Vermont ave., 1300 block,
10:50 p.m. June 25. From vehicle.
W st., Unit block, 8:48 p.m.
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
June 28. From vehicle.
Warren Pl., 5100 block,
12:55 p.m. June 21. From vehicle.
Windom Pl., 4700 block, 1:18 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
Wisconsin ave., 1300 block,
11:38 a.m. June 27.
Wisconsin ave., 2000-
2112 blocks, 1:17 p.m. June 26.
From vehicle.
Wisconsin ave., 4200 block,
7:13 a.m. June 29. From vehicle.
Wisconsin ave., 5100 block,
3:27 a.m. June 28. From vehicle.
Woodley Pl., 2600 block,
10:41 p.m. June 23. From vehicle.
Yorktown Rd., 2000-2114 blocks,
12:52 p.m. June 23. From vehicle.
Yuma st., 3700 block, 11:46 a.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
First Pl., 5400 block, 7:27 p.m.
June 28.
second st., 6200 block, 2:37 p.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
third st., 1600 block, 3:47 p.m.
June 29.
third st., 4100 block, 2:28 a.m.
June 23.
Fourth st., 1000 block, 11:16 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Fourth st., 1000 block, 2:07 p.m.
June 28.
Fourth st., 3800 block, 6 p.m.
June 24.
Fourth st., 4300 block, 10:33 a.m.
June 28.
sixth st., 6800 block, 1:20 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
seventh st., 700 block, 7:07 p.m.
June 24.
seventh st., 1600 block, 7:56 p.m.
June 22.
eighth st., 1900 block, 3:57 p.m.
June 28.
eighth st., 7400 block, 8:47 p.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
10th st., 1100 block, 1:26 p.m.
June 23.
11th st., 1100 block, 6:50 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
13th st., 600 block, 2:43 a.m.
June 23.
13th st., 7700 block, 5:30 p.m.
June 28.
14th st., 1900 block, 12:17 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
16th st., 1200-1399 blocks,
3:57 a.m. June 27. From vehicle.
16th st., 3500-3648 blocks,
9:02 p.m. June 24. From vehicle.
16th st., 3500-3648 blocks,
7:06 p.m. June 28.
16th st., 3700-3899 blocks,
2:13 p.m. June 26.
17th st., 1900 block, 3:37 p.m.
June 24.
18th st., 2300 block, 8:12 a.m.
June 26.
21st st., 1600 block, 3:07 p.m.
June 23.
24th st., 1200 block, 3:59 p.m.
June 23.
30th Pl., 4900 block, 7:23 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
30th st., 4500 block, 12:51 p.m.
June 9. From vehicle.
30th st., 6200 block, 8:01 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
35th st., 1600 block, 9:27 p.m.
June 28.
43rd st., 5300 block, 2:58 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
47th Pl., 1800 block, 12:32 p.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
47th st., 1900 block, 7:34 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
47th st., 4700 block, 4:14 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
MotoR VehICLe theFts
Cathedral ave., 3800 block,
12:51 p.m. June 27.
Georgia ave., 3400 block,
1:06 p.m. June 29.
Georgia ave., 4100 block,
6:04 a.m. June 26.
Georgia ave., 5700-5899 blocks,
6:13 p.m. June 28.
Georgia ave., 6400 block,
1:28 a.m. June 24.
Greenwich Pkwy., 4400 block,
12:04 a.m. June 30.
Irving st., 500-699 blocks,
11:58 p.m. June 24.
Irving st., 1100-1299 blocks,
10:53 p.m. June 24.
Klingle Rd., 3100 block, 1:05 a.m.
June 28.
M st., 900 block, 9:04 p.m.
June 29.
M st., 1100 block, 12:37 p.m.
June 25.
Massachusetts ave., 1300-
1499 blocks, 10:22 p.m. June 26.
Massachusetts ave., 5100 block,
11:43 a.m. June 26.
Missouri ave., 1300 block,
8:51 p.m. June 28.
North Capitol st., 2500 block,
12:49 a.m. June 25.
oak st., 1600 block, 7:40 p.m.
June 23.
Q st., 2300-2699 blocks,
4:44 a.m. June 26.
Reno Rd., 5000-5199 blocks,
9:25 a.m. June 28.
Rhode Island ave., 400 block,
11:28 p.m. June 23.
Roxboro Pl., 500-699 blocks,
2:13 p.m. June 26.
spring Rd., 1300 block, 10:37 p.m.
June 25.
u st., 1700 block, 8:33 p.m.
June 28.
university Pl., 2600 block,
9:43 p.m. June 26.
Van Buren st., Unit block,
8:54 p.m. June 28.
Woodley Rd., 3500 block,
12:37 p.m. June 23.
seventh Pl., 5000 block, 8:07 p.m.
June 28.
11th st., 2800 block, 11:27 a.m.
June 25.
11th st., 3600 block, 2:36 p.m.
June 24.
14th st., 1600 block, 5:39 p.m.
June 24.
14th st., 3100-3299 blocks,
2:11 p.m. June 27.
14th st., 3500 block, 3:02 a.m.
June 23.
18th st., 1800 block, 1:16 a.m.
June 28.
25th st., 1200 block, 11:07 p.m.
June 26.
29th st., 5300 block, 1:43 p.m.
June 26.
32nd st., 1600 block, 2:23 p.m.
June 28.
32nd st., 6000 block, 9:19 p.m.
June 28.
southeast
hoMICIDes
Birney Pl., 2600 block, June 28.
With gun.
Mellon st., 400 block, June 27.
With gun.
assauLts
a st., 3400 block, 10:28 a.m.
June 26.
Benning Rd., 4600 block,
3:01 a.m. June 28. With gun.
Cedar st., 1400 block, 2:33 p.m.
June 29. With gun.
Condon terr., 400-799 blocks,
2:30 a.m. June 29. With gun.
elvans Rd., 2400-2599 blocks,
4:08 a.m. June 25. With gun.
Good hope Rd., 1200 block,
11:15 p.m. June 24.
halley Pl., 1-101 blocks, 3:30 p.m.
June 24. With knife.
Martin Luther King Jr. ave.,
2600-2701 blocks, 8:27 a.m.
June 23.
Mellon st., 500-699 blocks,
12:24 a.m. June 25. With gun.
Pennsylvania ave., 3900 block,
6:42 a.m. June 29. With knife.
savannah terr., 2200 block,
1:04 a.m. June 26. With gun.
stanton Rd., 3000 block,
3:11 a.m. June 28. With knife.
W st., 3800 block, 9:05 p.m.
June 26. With gun.
15th st., 1000 block, 1:33 p.m.
June 26. With knife.
RoBBeRIes
alabama ave., 2200 block,
2:57 p.m. June 29. With gun.
alabama ave., 2600-2799 blocks,
8:29 p.m. June 29.
Benning Rd., 4500-4612 blocks,
2:35 a.m. June 23. With gun.
Brothers Pl., 3300 block,
4:20 p.m. June 25. With gun.
easy Pl., 4600 block, 6:50 p.m.
June 23. With gun.
Fort Dupont terr., 4200 block,
12:18 a.m. June 25. With knife.
Martin Luther King Jr. ave., 1900-
2007 blocks, 6:34 p.m. June 24.
Martin Luther King Jr. ave.,
2600 block, 10:48 p.m. June 26.
With gun.
Minnesota ave., 2400 block,
9:58 p.m. June 25. With gun.
Minnesota ave., 3400 block,
9:55 p.m. June 27. With gun.
Pennsylvania ave., 700 block,
2:14 a.m. June 25.
Prout st., 2200 block, 2:13 a.m.
June 27. With gun.
Raynolds Pl., 2300 block,
5:32 p.m. June 25.
sumner Rd., 1200 block,
9:08 p.m. June 23. With gun.
Wheeler Rd., 3300 block, 11 a.m.
June 29.
Ninth st., 4000-4299 blocks,
4:48 a.m. June 25. With gun.
BReaK-INs
Jasper Rd., 2800 block, 9 a.m.
June 25.
eighth st., 500-699 blocks,
5:03 p.m. June 28.
theFts
a st., 300 block, 6:16 a.m.
June 26.
a st., 4400 block, 11:42 a.m.
June 26. From vehicle.
alabama ave., 2300-2435 blocks,
10:46 a.m. June 25. From vehicle.
alabama ave., 2400 block,
3:53 a.m. June 25. From vehicle.
astor Pl., 5000 block, 4:24 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
Barnaby st., 800 block, 4:23 a.m.
June 27.
Bass Cir., Unit block, 10:46 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
C st., 800 block, 2:37 p.m.
June 29.
C st., 4700-4899 blocks,
11:45 a.m. June 24.
Carpenter st., 3300 block,
1:14 p.m. June 26. From vehicle.
Chaplin st., 400 block, 7:42 a.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
Chester st., 2300 block, 1:30 p.m.
June 28. From vehicle.
Condon terr., 400 block,
2:21 p.m. June 24.
Congress st., 700 block,
11:19 a.m. June 26.
D st., 200 block, 5:29 a.m.
June 24.
D st., 200 block, 12:08 a.m.
June 26.
e st., 4400 block, 2:39 a.m.
June 29. From vehicle.
Fendall st., 1900 block,
11:25 a.m. June 27. From vehicle.
Fort Davis st., 2000-2199 blocks,
4:43 p.m. June 25.
hanna Pl., 4600 block, 2:06 p.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
hartford st., 2300-2499 blocks,
5:18 a.m. June 23.
hartford st., 2300-2499 blocks,
9:20 a.m. June 24. From vehicle.
highwood Dr., 3600 block,
9:56 p.m. June 26. From vehicle.
hillside Rd., 4600 block,
8:32 a.m. June 25.
I st., 1-101 blocks, 12:16 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Independence ave., 800 block,
6:55 p.m. June 19.
Independence ave., 1500 block,
2:54 a.m. June 28.
Interstate 295 Northbound and
ramp to Malcolm X ave.,
1:18 p.m. June 25. From vehicle.
Irving st., 2300 block, 10:51 a.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
L st., 800 block, 12:52 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
Langston Pl., 2700-2899 blocks,
3:12 p.m. June 25. From vehicle.
M st., 400 block, 2:51 p.m.
June 28.
Maple View Pl., 1300 block,
5:17 a.m. June 25. From vehicle.
Martin Luther King Jr. ave.,
3400 block, 5:36 p.m. June 25.
From vehicle.
Massachusetts ave., 1600 block,
4:56 p.m. June 23.
Minnesota ave., 1700 block,
4:37 p.m. June 28.
Morris Rd., 1600 block, 6:17 p.m.
June 24.
Nash Pl., 2900 block, 1:16 a.m.
June 29.
Naylor Rd., 3000-3199 blocks,
6:20 a.m. June 28.
North Carolina ave., 600 block,
5:15 p.m. June 27.
Pennsylvania ave., 600 block,
12:40 p.m. June 25.
Pennsylvania ave., 3900 block,
5:03 p.m. June 23.
Potomac ave., 1300 block,
8:35 p.m. June 23.
Potomac ave., 1300 block,
5:23 p.m. June 29.
Potomac ave., Unit block,
12:46 a.m. June 28.
Prout st., 2200 block, 11:26 p.m.
see crime on 7
 L7
Crime Report DC

crime from 6
June 24.
Q st., 1800 block, 12:57 p.m.
June 26. From vehicle.
s st., 2200 block, 1:57 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
s st., 2200 block, 2:15 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
savannah terr., 1900-
2199 blocks, 9:36 a.m. June 25.
From vehicle.
skyland Pl., 2300 block, 9:25 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
skyland terr., 2300 block,
8:41 p.m. June 23.
southern Ave., 700-855 blocks,
8:20 p.m. June 23. From vehicle.
southern Ave., 4400 block,
2:40 a.m. June 29. From vehicle.
southern Ave., 5800-
5998 blocks, 8:30 a.m. June 24.
From vehicle.
southern Ave., 5800-
5998 blocks, 1:09 p.m. June 27.
From vehicle.
tanner st., 1500 block, 8:40 a.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
Valley Pl., 1300 block, 3:57 p.m.
June 25. From vehicle.
W st., 2900 block, 7:37 p.m.
June 26. From vehicle.
Fourth st., 1200 block, 1:55 a.m.
June 28.
Fifth st., 3400 block, 9:54 p.m.
June 28.
eighth st., 500-699 blocks,
8:47 p.m. June 25.
Ninth st., 3700-3851 blocks,
8:19 a.m. June 24. From vehicle.
12th st., 500 block, 2:50 p.m.
June 29.
13th st., 3300 block, 7:29 p.m.
June 25.
14th st., 500 block, 4:05 p.m.
June 25.
15th st., 200 block, 1:45 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
19th st., 1500 block, 1:21 p.m.
June 28.
25th st., 2300 block, 8:55 p.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
25th st., 2400-2501 blocks,
1:37 a.m. June 24. From vehicle.
25th st., 2400-2501 blocks,
2:56 a.m. June 24. From vehicle.
28th st., 1600 block, 11:04 a.m.
June 29.
33rd st., 400 block, 4:07 p.m.
June 23. From vehicle.
45th Pl., 1300 block, 6:48 a.m.
June 24. From vehicle.
MotoR VehICLe theFts
Bangor st., 1400 block, 4:05 p.m.
June 20.
Call Pl., 5100-5299 blocks,
10:45 a.m. June 29.
Douglass Rd., 2600 block,
12:51 p.m. June 27.
halley terr., 3800 block, 9:18 p.m.
June 29.
Interstate 295 southbound and
ramp to suitland Parkway se
southbound, 8:43 a.m. June 25.
Massachusetts Ave., 1400 block,
10:48 p.m. June 25.
Pennsylvania Ave., 2200-
2305 blocks, 2:29 a.m. June 25.
savannah st., 2300 block,
1:58 p.m. June 25.
tingey st., 300 block, 2:19 a.m.
June 24.
First st., 3900 block, 6:59 a.m.
June 27.
First st., 3900 block, 7:16 p.m.
June 27.
Fourth st., 3300 block, 5:05 p.m.
June 27.
15th st., 500 block, 10:32 p.m.
June 25.
17th st., 1700 block, 2:42 p.m.
June 26.
18th st., 3300 block, 1:14 p.m.
June 27.
soUthWest
AssAULts
I st., 200 block, 5:08 a.m. June 28.
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.,
3900 block, 10:41 p.m. June 29.
south Capitol st., 3800-
3999 blocks, 2:52 p.m. June 23.
With knife.
theFts
Delaware Ave., 1200-1399 blocks,
9:14 p.m. June 24. From vehicle.
L’enfant Plaza, 400-999 blocks,
1:52 p.m. June 29. From vehicle.
Maine Ave., 700-899 blocks,
11:18 a.m. June 23.
Maine Ave., 1100-1299 blocks,
1:21 p.m. June 27. From vehicle.
Maine Ave., 1100-1299 blocks,
12:27 p.m. June 29. From vehicle.
south Capitol st., 1000-
1299 blocks, 11:56 p.m. June 23.
From vehicle.
south Capitol st., 1300 block,
1:12 p.m. June 23. From vehicle.
First st., 4000 block, 11:05 p.m.
June 27. From vehicle.
third st., 700-899 blocks,
3:31 p.m. June 28. From vehicle.
MotoR VehICLe theFt
Joliet st., 100 block, 3:31 p.m.
June 28.

WE
THERE’S GET IT
SOMETHING DONE:
FOR EVERYONE
DECKS
PORCHES
DOORS
FENCES
Washington Post
T-Shirt  SIDING
ROOFING
PORTICOS
AVAILABLE & MORE
NOW! Visit ScheduleFRED.com today
to schedule a virtual consultation.

the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020

HEALTH & SAFETY
IS TOP PRIORITY
We are following the latest
 Washington Post Pen CDC guidelines and
have implemented our
own enhanced protective
 Washington Post measures.
Learn more at schedulefred.com:
Fleece Jacket “Our Response to the Coronavirus”

MD 301.388.5959

AT THE POST STORE

VA 571.341.6202
DC 202.770.3131

store.washingtonpost.com
$500 OFF YOUR NEXT PROJECT* *Schedule by 7/31/20. Contract minimum: $2,500

ScheduleFRED.com A DIVISION OF

M0176 3x7 MD MHIC #1176 | VA #2701039723 | DC #2242

 L8
DC
Arlington County (Virginia) Government
Government and Public Services–Arlington County
is a distinctive urban/metropolitan 25-square-mile
community, adjacent to Washington, D.C., which
offers cultural diversity, a high quality of life and a
family-oriented living environment. Arlington's loca-
tion in the center of the Washington Metropolitan
region, just five minutes away from Washington by
car or Metro subway, has made the County a highly
desirable business and residential location. Arling-
ton County Government employs a staff and a work-
force of approximately 3,000.
Housing Development Multi-skilled
Section Supervisor– Wastewater Plant
Arlington Operator–Arlington
Arlington County's De- Arlington County's De-
partment of Community partment of Environ-
Planning, Housing and mental Services (DES) is
Development (CPHD) seeking a qualified can-
is seeking a dedicated, didate who is interested
motivated Housing in a career as a Multi-
Development Section Skilled Wastewater Op-
Supervisor to join the erator. This on-the-job
Housing Division and to training/work program
support the County’s… offers both entry-level…
Dewberry
Engineering–Dewberry is a leading, market-facing
professional services firm with more than 50 loca-
tions and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets
us apart from our competitors are our people. At
Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive
to deliver the highest quality of services to our cli-
ents. Whether you’re an experienced professional
or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collab-
orate with the best and brightest and work on inno-
vative and complex projects at the forefront of the
industry. Our commitment to excellence stems…
Communications Internal
Coordinator–Fairfax Communications
Dewberry is a leading, Coordinator–Fairfax
market-facing profes- Dewberry is a leading,
sional services firm with market-facing profes-
more than 50 locations sional services firm with
and 2,000 professionals more than 50 locations
nationwide. What sets and 2,000 professionals
us apart from our com- nationwide. What sets
petitors are our people. us apart from our com-
At Dewberry, we seek petitors are our people.
out exceptional talent At Dewberry, we seek
and strive to deliver… out exceptional talent…
the washington post . thursday, july 9 , 2020
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Defense / Aerospace–The Airports Authority oper-
ates a two-airport system that provides domestic
and international air service for the mid-Atlantic re-
gion. The organization consists of more than 1,000
employees in a structure that includes central ad-
ministration, airports management and operations,
and police and fire departments. In addition to op-
erating Ronald Reagan National and Dulles Interna-
tional Airports, the Airports Authority is responsible
for capital improvements at both airports.
Risk and Safety Electronics Technician
Specialist– (Shift Work - $1,500
Washington D.C. Sign-on Bonus)–
As a Risk and Safety Washington D.C.
Specialist you will pro- As an Electronics Tech-
vide technical guid- nician, you will install,
ance, interpretations, test, maintain, trouble-
and training to reduce shoot, repair, and modify
and mitigate Airports electrical and electronic
Authority risk exposure. equipment and systems.
Risk and Safety Special- Electronics Technician
ist Serves in the Risk Serves in the Electrical
Management… Division of the…
Visit washingtonpost.com/jobs to view complete details and to apply to these and thousands of other listings.
FEATURED EMPLOYERS SPOTLIGHT
  Washington Post This spotlight showcases a small
Featured Employers are DC’s larg- sample of our Featured Employ-
est and most prominent organi- ers, allowing you to learn about
zations. They include employers each company and some of the
across a range of industries, like thousands of jobs they are cur-
IT, accounting, healthcare, and rently hiring for. Check out the FE
government, and are hiring candi- Spotlight each Sunday to discover
dates today! new DC area companies.
George Mason University
Education–George Mason University is a university
with three campuses, each with a distinctive aca-
demic focus that plays a critical role in the economy
of its region. At each campus, students, faculty,
and staff have full access to all the university's re-
sources, while duplication of programs and support
services is minimized through the use of technol-
ogy. In addition to the main campus in Fairfax, the
university has campuses in Arlington and Prince
William Counties.
HIDTA Intelligence Assistant Director,
Analyst - ISC VA– Spatiotemporal
Fairfax Innovation Center–Fairfax
The George Mason The George Mason Uni-
University Center for versity, NSF Spatiotem-
Evidence-Based Crime poral Innovation Center
Policy (CEBCP), housed (STC) in the Department
within the Department of Geography and Geo
of Criminology, Law and Information Science
Society, invites applica- (GGS) invites applicants
tions for an Intelligence for our Assistant Direc-
Analyst to work in the tor position. George
Washington/Baltimore… Mason University has…
The Emmes Company, LLC
Science–The Emmes Company, LLC established in
1977, is a privately owned Clinical Research Orga-
nization (CRO). We are a public health focused com-
pany that is growing and adding staff regularly in
many areas including clinical operations, data man-
agement, bio statistics, project management, and
regulatory as well as corporate positions to support
our project needs. We are committed to ensuring
that our newly hired staff receive a positive virtual
on-boarding experience and the support they need
to effectively work remotely. Headquartered…
Director, Medical EDC Tester–Frederick
Writing–Rockville The EDC Tester is re-
The Director will be sponsible for indepen-
a strategic, hands-on dent validation and
medical writing expert acceptance testing for
with responsibility for electronic data capture
leading and managing a (EDC) software. The EDC
team of writers and for Tester identifies and
preparing high-quality helps resolve system
clinical regulatory docu- malfunctions to meet
ments. The Director will quality standard for
contribute both strate- EDC systems developed
gic and operational... to support clinical...
DCS Corp
Engineering–Specializing in military combat systems
technologies, DCS provides a comprehensive and
effective blend of core engineering support and pro-
gram management disciplines to solve the unique
and complex challenges associated with sensors,
platform electronics, weapons, C4ISR and knowl-
edge systems. DCS helps clients address unique
and complex engineering, management and vision
issues in defense systems acquisition and sustain-
ment in support of our National defense. DCS, a pri-
vately-held and employee-owned company with…
Senior Contracts S&T Adviser–Aberdeen
Administrator– DCS is looking for an
Lexington Park S&T Adviser to sup-
DCS Corporation, a mid- port maturation for the
size federal govern- Open Innovation Lab
ment services contrac- scheduled for Initial Op-
tor, seeks a seasoned erational Capability in
and accomplished Con- October 2020 and help
tracts Administrator to chair the newly created
support the company's Agile Rapid Capabili-
growth and strategic ties Integrated Project
plan objectives. The po- Team. Position is on-
sition reports to the… site at Aberdeen…
washingtonpost.com/jobs
  To view a com-
plete list of our Featured Employ-
ers’ job listings, visit www.wash-
ingtonpost.com/jobs. To register
online, create a job seeker profile
and upload your resume visit
washingtonpost.com/resume.
NRI Staffing
Staffing–NRI is a Washington, DC based regional
staffing services firm with offices in D.C., VA and
MD. For over 50 years, NRI has provided world-class
staffing services to a wide variety of commercial
and government clients. We provide our staffing
services not as generalists, but rather as distinct
teams of specialists. Our highly skilled recruiting
team offers career development and access to the
best professional opportunities in the nation’s capi-
tal and beyond. Each of our teams specialize in one
of five areas: NRI Accounting…
Audit and Delinquencies Content Writer–
Rep–Rockville Arlington
This is a 6-months temp- A non-profit, member-
to-hire assignment with owned association that
an eight hour work provides life insurance
day with a flexible ar- to members of the mili-
rival 7:30-8:30am to 4 tary and their families
or 5pm. Must be able to has an opportunity for
pass a 7 years criminal someone with a variety
background check and of content marketing ex-
drug test; have prior A&D perience to join the Mar-
experience with great at- keting Team. Create and
tention to detail… edit marketing and…
Sparks Group
Staffing–Bringing the Best People and the Best Com-
panies Together Since 1970. Sparks Group (formerly
SPARKS, Sparks IT Solutions, and Sparks Personnel)
is the Washington DC Area's leading temporary
staffing and full-time recruiting services provider.
Whether you are seeking your next opportunity or
looking to add talent, Sparks Group is the ideal part-
ner for you! Each of our four divisions (Sparks Office,
Sparks Accounting & Finance, Sparks IT, and Sparks
Creative) specializes in placing professionals in tem-
porary/contract, temporary-to-full-time…
Experienced Medical Warehouse/
Coder–Frederick Manufacturing
Do you have medical Support–Chantilly
coding experience? We Sparks Group is seeking
are seeking coding sup- Warehouse/ Manufac-
port for a fast paced turing professionals for
office in Frederick, MD. the Northern Virginia
If this is you, CALL for market. Looking for out-
next steps! This is not a going, reliable, and hard-
remote position. Excel- working professionals
lent flexible hours are who can look forward to
available! Work a full starting pays well above
shift as early as 6am… Virginia’s minimum…
4Staff
Staffing–Welcome to 4Staff, LLC, the most dynamic
staffing service in Washington, DC with the most
experience. We are owned by two individuals
with over 40 years of combined experience in the
Washington, DC staffing market. Please let us know
how we can assist you with your Temporary, Temp-
to-Hire and Direct Hire career goals. We hope that
you consider choosing 4Staff to help you with your
career move, and are confident that it will be an en-
joyable and rewarding experience with us. 4Staff is
a full service staffing firm that can offer you…
Recruiter - Full Life- Accounting Clerk - Bill-
Cycle Experience– ing & Accounts Payable–
Washington D.C. Washington D.C.
Do you have at least 2-5 Do you have a Bache-
years of full life cycle lor’s degree in account-
recruiting experience ing or business along
working within an as- with 2 years of account-
sociation or a higher ing experience? Our
education institution? client, a consulting firm
Our client, a Non-Profit located in downtown
organization on Dupont Washington, DC has an
Circle needs a Recruiter opening for a…
to manage the…
  Searching for talent? Washington Post Jobs’ Featured
Join some of DC’s top companies Employer packages offer a valu-
on the area’s #1 job board. Wash- able and unique way to source
ington Post Jobs has over 1.5 mil- qualified candidates. Become an
lion registered online jobseekers FE today and leverage the power
across a variety of industries, oc- of Washington Post media. Con-
cupations and career levels. tact your Jobs account rep and call
202-334-4101.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Freddie Mac
Delivery and Transportation–The Washington Metro- Financial Services and Banking–HOME TO MORE
politan Area Transit Authority operates the second Here, passion meets purpose. Talent meets oppor-
largest rail transit system and the fifth largest bus tunity. Ambition meets success. And if you’re look-
network in the United States. Safe, clean and reli- ing for meaning in your work, this is where you’ll
able, "America's Transit System" transports more find it. Every day, we’re making home possible for
than a third of the federal government to work and millions of families across the U.S. We call it being
millions of tourists to the landmarks in the Nation's home to more. We think you’ll agree. Home to In-
Capital. Metro has earned a worldwide reputation clusion At Freddie Mac, our inclusive and diverse
for security and architectural beauty. WMATA is culture is what powers our work. Collectively, what
clearly the employer of choice for over 10,000 area we share is a passion for more—for making a differ-
residents. The Authority was created in 1967 by… ence by making home possible for families across…
Equipment Operator D, Sr. Health & Welfare Senior PeopleSoft Senior PeopleSoft
PLNT–Washington D.C. Benefits Analyst– Developer–McLean Developer–McLean
This job opening is be- Washington D.C. This position is part This position is part
ing used to fill future MINIMUM QUALIFICA- of the Enterprise BTO of the Enterprise BTO
vacant positions in TIONS Education: Bach- team which is respon- team which is respon-
this classification at elor's Degree in Math- sible for supporting nu- sible for supporting nu-
various shifts, location ematics, Accounting, merous critical financial merous critical financial
and assigned days off. Business Administration, applications at Freddie applications at Freddie
Minimum Qualifications Human Resources or re- Mac helping to make Mac helping to make
Education High school lated fields. Experience: home possible. Apply home possible. Apply
diploma or possession 4 years of experience in now and become part now and become part
of a general… H&W benefits as a Bene- of this fast-paced and of this fast-paced and
fits Analyst or similar role. hardworking team… hardworking team…
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Fairfax County Government
Associations–The American Speech-Language- Government and Public Services–Fairfax County,
Hearing Association was founded in 1925. It is a Virginia is a diverse and thriving urban county. As
not-for-profit scientific and professional association the most populous jurisdiction in both Virginia and
for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and the Washington metropolitan area, the County’s
speech and hearing scientists. ASHA is committed population exceeds that of seven states. The me-
to the consumers of our services, the more than 42 dian household income of Fairfax County is one of
million Americans with communication disorders. the highest in the nation and over half of its adult
ASHA's mission is to ensure that all people with residents have four-year college degrees or more
speech-language, and hearing disorders receive educational attainment. Fairfax County also is home
quality services from well-educated professionals. to an extensive commercial office market and is a
The American Speech-Language-Hearing… major employment center.
Continuing Education Professional Assistant Division School Health/case
Accounts Manager– Development Director for Health Investigator (public
Rockville Program Specialist– Services–Fairfax Health Nurse Ii)–
The CE Accounts Man- Rockville The Fairfax County Fairfax
ager ensures data in- The purpose of this Health Department is The Health Department
tegrity, document man- position is to support looking for a visionary is currently seeking
agement and control, day-to-day business leader to join their Ex- skilled and passionate
and consistent business operations of the ASHA ecutive Management Public Health Nurses
rule application to all Professional Develop- team to help drive the (PHN) to lead epidemio-
members’ CE Registry ment (APD) team and transition from Public logical investigations
records and CE Provider to facilitate the prompt Health (PH) 2.0 to PH of COVID-19 cases and
records in the related… and accurate reporting 3.0. This organizational outbreaks in high risk or
of… shift in culture and... high priority settings...
Fairfax Water Fairfax Radiology Centers
Science–Fairfax County Water Authority (Fairfax Healthcare–Fairfax Radiological Consultants, LLC,
Water) is Virginia's largest water utility, serving one was established in 1965 and is currently the larg-
out of every five Virginians who obtain their water est private radiology practice in the D.C. Metro Area.
from public utilities. Nearly 1.5 million people in the We are looking for top-notch radiologic technolo-
Northern Virginia communities of Fairfax, Loudoun, gists and administrative staff to help us continue
Prince William and Alexandria depend on Fairfax our tradition of high-quality imaging services. In
Water for superior drinking water. That's 1.5 million return you will enjoy our competitive pay, generous
friends, neighbors and family members. We don't benefits package, professional, stable and pleasant
need any other reason to demand the highest in work environment. No positions have call duty. EOE
water quality standards! Chartered in 1957 by the
Virginia State Corporation Commission as…
Industrial Electrician Water Utility Worker MRI Technologist– Mammography
I/II - Lorton–Lorton I/II–Chantilly Lansdowne Technologist–Sterling
Under close supervision Fairfax Water is a re- Fairfax Radiology Cen- Fairfax Radiology Cen-
of a Supervisor, and/or spected leader in the ters, LLC is seeking an ters, LLC is seeking
Industrial Electrician II/ drinking water industry, experienced, MRI Tech- a Full Time, 40 hour,
III, provides assistance supplying drinking wa- nologist to work in Lans- Mammography Tech-
with the installation, ter to nearly two million downe. Full-Time, Mon nologist to conduct
maintenance and repair, people in the communi- - Fri, 10:30am - 7:00pm. mammograms in Ster-
electrical and heating, ties of Fairfax, Loudoun, The candidate must hold ling, VA. Below is the
ventilating and air con- Prince William, Herndon, current certification in schedule: Hours: Tues
ditioning systems (HVAC) Vienna, Alexandria, Falls Radiography through - Fri: 8:30am-5:00pm,
and controls used in Church, and Fairfax ARRT or ARMRIT with and Sat: Hours TBD. Re-
Fairfax Water facilities. City.&nbsp; We are… prior MRI... quires at least 1 year...
 UNLIMITED
STYLES & COLORS FREE GUTTERS
OR GUTTER GUARDS!
*

$
1,000 Value

S
PECIAL
ARCHITECTURAL UMMER !
AV I N G S

SCALLOPED EDGE

ASPHALT SHAKES

SYNTHETIC SLATE
TRIPLE CROWN
CHAMPION
CERTAINTEED

Long Roofing awarded the prestigious Triple Crown

Champion! One of only 13 companies in the country!

FREE Estimates!
DESIGNER PREMIUM
Financing Available!
844-384-LONG
LongRoofing.com
Raising the standards of
LUXURY
home improvement since 1945

844-384-LONG | LongRoofing.com WINDOWS DOORS BATHS SIDING

g g g
Trust the Roofing Experts! FREE Gutters
FREE ESTIMATES • FINANCING AVAILABLE or Gutter Guards!*

Raising the standards Ask about our NEW

of home improvement metal roofing!
since 1945 Many styles available!

TRIPLE CROWN
CHAMPION
CERTAINTEED

• 50 Year Full Replacement Value Warranty

• Awarded Select ShingleMaster
Certification (earned by only 1%
of the nation’s roofers), Triple Crown
Champion and Governor’s Awards

What are our We also install

customers saying? flat roofing!
“I have used Long Roofing twice. The • Up to 20 Year Warranty
first time was on my parents’ home and • Energy Star Color Available
the work was done with expedience
and professionalism. Employees were
courteous and helpful with all questions
we had. When I needed a new roof on
my own home, I knew just who to call.
Finding a company that provides such an
important service competently is a relief. I
recommend Long Roofing to anyone –
you will not regret it.” – J. Allen

844-384-LONG | LongRoofing.com
Licensed, Bonded, Insured. MHIC 51346, VA 2705048183A, DC 67006785 * With Long Roofing purchase.
Expires 8/20/20. Valid initial visit only. Min. purchase required. Cannot be combined with other offers. OAC thru Greensky.