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The Lunar New Year was one of the biggest holidays I celebrated back home in Singapore. I remember the thunder of drums and chimes as the lion dance made its way across our residential districts — I could hear them from my 12th floor apartment. As a student, we dressed in red to attend school, forgoing our usual uniform and always gave each of my teachers two oranges, never four.
Born in the year of the rabbit, I like to say it’s the reason why I have two large front teeth. Even though the Lunar New Year celebrations were not a part of my ethnic heritage, I was always excited to celebrate it as part of our collective diversity.
I illustrated this edition’s Lunar New Year cover to bring attention to the holiday week, which started on Jan. 22 and ends next month. And I hope everyone appreciates this wish of prosperity and wealth.
ROCHELLE WALKER
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It’s 2023, a whole new year. I wish each one of you decides to always help somebody when you can. We should also pray for the president of the United States and our country. I will pray for our police departments. I will pray for the end of Covid-19 and the vaccine that will finally end it. I will pray for the end of gun violence and for all the homeless to have something to eat. I will pray for the sick, the peacemakers and the givers and takers. Lord, please send your people out to the streets to meet, feed and clothe not only the homeless but anyone who needs it. Meet their needs, Lord. Together we can make a change for not only the world, but for ourselves too. Forgive us, Lord, for the things we didn’t do or say in 2022, and give us strength to change in 2023. Lord, extend your arms to protect our little children.
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The D.C. Council voted Jan. 17 to override Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a sweeping overhaul of the city’s century-old criminal code, with multiple lawmakers decrying what they called “fear-mongering” and “dangerous rhetoric” around the issue of public safety in the city.
The 12-1 vote to override her veto was not unexpected; the 450-page-bill, which was 16 years in the making, was unanimously approved by lawmakers late last year. But it again shows the significant distance that can exist between Bowser and the city’s legislature, even with lawmakers she is otherwise friendly with, and surfaces simmering frustrations over how the mayor approached the work that
went into rewriting the code.
The overhaul of the criminal code — which doesn’t take effect until Oct. 2025 — redefines offenses and adjusts penalties, in some cases decreasing maximum allowable sentences and in other cases adding new crimes and possible sanctions that do not exist in the current code, which dates back to 1901. It also expands the right to a jury trial
for people charged with misdemeanor offenses, eliminates mandatory minimum sentences for all offenses except firstdegree murder, and offers more people serving time in prison the opportunity to petition a judge for early release.
Proponents — including Attorney General Brian Schwalb — say the rewrite will make the code more consistent and proportionate, not to mention easier to understand and navigate for police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and juries. They also say that it will put D.C. alongside the many states that have modernized their own criminal codes. But Bowser repeatedly said that while she agreed with 95% of the overhaul, specific provisions decreasing maximum possible penalties for certain offenses during a period when D.C. has seen an uptick in gun violence and youth homicides “sends the wrong message.” She also said she worried that the provision expanding jury trial rights would swamp the courts.
But during a brief debate on Jan. 17, lawmakers argued that Bowser’s veto amounted to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
“There were pieces of the bill that I did not support, and I worked to amend. However the vast majority of the bill are common sense changes that even the mayor says she agrees with,” said Councilmember Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who led the charge to override Bowser’s veto. “Allowing the veto to stand would be a significant setback in our work, negating years of work and compromise. There is simply too much good to abandon all that work, without a backup plan from the mayor.”
Pinto, who recently became chair of the council’s judiciary committee, said the fact that the overhaul does not take effect until late 2025 means there is still time to review proposed sentences and amend them if necessary. After the vote, Pinto said she would work through the spring on specific provisions related to sentences for gun crimes. (Proponents of the overhaul say that it actually adds new gun-specific offenses that do not currently exist, and allows for significant sentences for violent crimes involving guns.)
Later in the afternoon, Bowser similarly said in a statement that within the next month her office will be sending the council legislation “that addresses the most concerning policies and weakened penalties included in the updated code.”
Other lawmakers expressed frustration with the timing and tenor of Bowser’s opposition, saying her team had skipped a majority of the work sessions where attorneys and advocates discussed the fine print of the revisions and that they later deployed aggressive rhetoric linking the overhaul to the city’s current public safety challenges.
“Because crime is front of mind it’s easier to misconstrue [the revised criminal code],” said Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), the former chairperson of the judiciary committee who shepherded the bill through the legislative process last year. “I’m frustrated. This veto should not have happened. It’s easy to take the easy way out and talk tough about holding people accountable. That’s how our criminal code got so bad.”
“This veto is a distraction. The mayor knows the council would override it. This is political theater. At a time we should be working together, we have politicians and the Post’s editorial board spreading lies. It is shameful,” said Councilmember Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1), referring to a weekend editorial from The Washington Post urging lawmakers to uphold Bowser’s veto.
“This bill does not go into effect until 2025,” said Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (I-At Large). “All the fear-mongering is totally unnecessary, hyperbolic, and counterproductive. I am not immune to the concerns that have been raised by the public. Will this law make our city less safe? I say no, emphatically, it will not make our city less safe. What we’re doing here is the work to make our city safer and
not engage in hyperbole.”
Councilmember Trayon White (D-Ward 8) was the sole holdout in voting to uphold Bowser’s veto, though he did not explain why during the council’s debate. After the vote, he said he both believed the revised code did not do enough to prevent crime and might make crime worse by decreasing certain penalties.
“I believe in a public health approach when addressing crime. I believe the former code or new codes will not deter violence in the city. This is an opportunity for me to create dialogue around real issues addressing mental health services, jobs, a real strong education system, [and] wrap-around services for families. That needs to be the real conversation. Laws are needed… but we need to add meat to the bones and that’s simply what’s missing. We have to put more emphasis on preventative measures,” he said.
“We don’t know if decreasing the penalties for certain crimes is going to increase public safety. I’m very cautious and wary,” he added.
In a letter published in The Washington Post on Jan. 17, Jinwoo Park, the director of the D.C. Criminal Code Reform Commission, addressed the concerns about how the overhaul would impact penalties.
“The penalties in the act were the product of a long, deliberative process that included input from the U.S. attorney’s office, the executive branch and other stakeholders in the criminal justice system. A decade of sentencing data was also used to ensure that the measure’s maximum sentences are as high or higher than nearly all sentences actually imposed under current law. The act would retain significant penalties for violent crimes, especially when committed with firearms,” he wrote.
In a statement, the chairman of the D.C. Police Union that the revised criminal code would “lead to violent crime rates exploding even more than they already have,” and called the council’s move “reprehensible.”
The bill’s long trip through the drafting and legislative process isn’t yet over. It goes next to Congress for a 60-day review period, where Republicans could attempt to overturn the bill in its entirety or otherwise make changes to it.
Speaking after the council’s vote, Chairman Phil Mendelson worried that Bowser’s unsuccessful veto of the overhaul would embolden Republicans to attack it.
“The mayor’s rhetoric around this, that this is actually endangering public safety, plays into the hands of our critics on the Hill,” he said. “I hate to predict trouble, but I think members of the Freedom Caucus are going to cause trouble on this. This just plays into the tough-on-crime rhetoric that presumably plays well with constituents. It’s nonsense. Sentencing is not what makes a difference in crime. It’s arresting people, it’s prosecuting them.”
This article was originally published by DCIst/WAMU
More than 100 radio stations were shut down by the Venezuelan government this past year, accentuating the collapse of the media and further undermining the already meager capacity of citizens to stay informed.
In Venezuela’s provinces, “radio stations had become the last or only window for citizens to stay informed, and now they are being rapidly lost,” said journalism professor Mariela Torrealba, co-founder of the media observatory Medianálisis.
The wave of closures carried out by the state-owned National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) comes at the end of what the journalists’ unions call an “information desert” — a long decade of measures that have reduced the space for the rights of expression and information, in a country governed since 1999 by a self-styled leftist government with a gradual authoritarian drift.
Most of the stations closed this year are small private or community enterprises that did not meet all the requirements set by Conatel to maintain their permits, and they were often stations with programming segments that were critical of the national or local authorities.
Venezuela, a country of 28.5 million people, most of whom live in the north near the Caribbean Sea, had more than 100 printed newspapers a decade ago. But over 70 closed down because during years of exchange controls and state monopoly of foreign currency, it became more and more difficult to import printing paper.
Several of the main national newspapers, as well as the private television news station, were sold to firms that changed their editorial line. Radio stations critical of the government, such as the pioneer Radio Caracas Radio, founded in 1930, were unable to renew their operating licenses.
A number of media outlets moved to the internet, without achieving the audiences or readership of the past, and hundreds of journalists and other media workers who lost their jobs in the cascade of downsizing of media outlets other than state-owned ones also migrated to other countries or occupations.
Venezuela has lived through a decade of crisis marked by a recession that reduced its gross domestic product by up to 75%, several years of hyperinflation and sharp depreciation of its currency, harsh political clashes and social crisis, which pushed more than seven million Venezuelans to leave the country.
Torrealba said her organization holds small events with the public in the interior of the country who are asked how they stay informed, and “very few say through the media. Most of them say they use the social networks, but in a patchy manner because of weak internet access or lack of electricity.”
For example, in Yaritagua, a city in the center-west of the country, with a population of about 100,000 and an agricultural environment, 40 people, mostly older adults, were surveyed by activists in a soup
kitchen in December.
Only three had email, and 14 said they had cell phones, but almost all of those devices actually belonged to a child, grandchild or neighbor.
“We have a populace that is not only impoverished, but deeply uninformed, with access mainly to the official media line, fertile ground for hoaxes or disinformation campaigns, and without the capacity to build public opinion references with other people,” Torrealba said.
Ricardo Tarazona, head of the National Union of Press Workers in Yaracuy, a small central-western state with some 700,000 inhabitants, said that in his state “the closure of radio stations continues, with at least five this year, after 14 stations were shut down in 2014.”
“Seven of the 14 recuperated their signals and reopened, but without the news, opinion and community reporting spaces that they had before, and they dedicate themselves now to playing music and to advertising,” said Tarazona.
The remaining stations “are constantly called upon to chain themselves to the signal of VTV,” the government television station, “and no longer give space to producers and communicators dedicated to reflecting the voices of the communities,” he added.
Carlos Correa, director of the NGO Espacio Público, a defender of freedom of expression and the right to information, said that many private radio stations “without needing to be told to do so by an official body, stick to the information provided by government TV.”
This is one of the explanations why the mandatory radio and television broadcasts that President Nicolás Maduro gave intensively, up to several times a week, during the first few years after he took office in 2013, have diminished. In practice, they are hardly necessary anymore.
Correa described this year’s shutdown of radio stations as part of a broader movement of groups aspiring to open radio stations and even networks of stations, and also blamed the influence of regional or municipal political leaders who wish to have their own media outlets or stations that are favorable to them.
Radio advertising, which plummeted in the second decade of this century along with the Venezuelan economy as a whole, has revived along with commercial activity, mainly in the context of a rebound in the Venezuelan economy of up to 12% this year, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The Venezuelan Chamber of the Broadcasting Industry issued a statement saying that “practically all of the radio stations closed by Conatel are clandestine,” and harm legally registered stations because they interfere with their signal.
One difficulty that dozens of radio stations have not been able to overcome, two radio broadcasters said anonymously, is that Conatel sets numerous requirements and delays the evaluation of the documents presented by those requesting to regularize the use of their radio frequency.
They said that owners of closed radio stations often refrain from publicly voicing their criticism and complaints, waiting for Conatel to lift the punishment.
Correa pointed out that the technical study that radio stations are required to produce is estimated to cost between $5,000 and $10,000, a figure that is easy to cover for a station with resources but too costly for a small provincial one.
Espacio Público and other NGOs, as well as the National Journalists Association and the Press Workers Union, have criticized the fact that administrative procedures outweigh the need to guarantee the right to pluralistic information in the official evaluation of radio stations.
With the closure of radio stations, several thousands of workers have been left unemployed. For example, when Sonora 107.7 FM, which had been broadcasting for 20 years in the city of Araure, in the west-central plains of the country, went off the air on Dec. 12, 25 people lost their jobs.
Estimating the size of lost audiences is more difficult, but for example in the oil-producing state of Zulia (in the northwest bordering Colombia), home to nearly five million inhabitants and with a regional governor who is in the opposition, 33 radio stations were closed this year.
Marianela Balbi, of the Press and Society Institute, warned in a recent university forum that “total and partial news deserts have formed in regions where nearly 14 million Venezuelans live.”
The United Nations and the Organization of American States’ rapporteurs for freedom of expression also issued a joint statement on Aug. 30 warning about the situation of the media and journalists in Venezuela.
“The government-ordered closure of media outlets and/or seizure of their equipment increasingly limit citizens’ access to reliable information from independent sources, while accentuating a general atmosphere of selfcensorship among the media,” they said in their statement.
“Radio stations had become the last or only window for citizens to stay informed, and now they are being rapidly lost.”
~ Mariela Torrealba, journalism professor and co-founder of Medianálisis.
Working on budgets and taxes is one of the main things in 2023 that I would love for people to learn. My mind is focused on financial literacy and also helping others to learn the same thing.
Tax season is coming up. A lot of people are overpaying their taxes. When you get a tax return, that’s your own money that you’re paying yourself back. That means you overpaid, and that’s not good, both on a personal level and also on a business level. People are filling out forms and they barely understand what they’re filing out. Learning the tax forms, and learning the secrets of those forms, is important. Rich people have
been doing this for years. A lot of times that people file taxes, they make mistakes. I want to inform people about that.
There are a lot of different tax forms for people who are disabled, or for people who have property. If you are a W-2 employee or a 1099 employee, you should know about that. Some of the tax professionals help clients, but sometimes don’t pay attention, or they take advantage to get more money from the individual. The broker is taking a cut.
When you don’t know finances, that puts you in a poor position. That contributes to people being homeless. When we don’t know about certain tax audits, it puts us in a hole that we can’t get out of. We dig the hole so far and it’s hard
As 2023 arrives, it has become complicated to discuss politics because too many people have been sucked into the two-party mindset: Democrats are communists and Republicans are racist.
I hear all the time that if I'm not proud of Kamala Harris for becoming our first Black female vice president I must have personally cut a deal with white supremacists and betrayed the Black race.
It's the same thing with Republicans. There's something about taking a victory lap and winning that Republicans are allergic to. These people are addicted to saying no, cutting deals and consider compromising as a form of selling out. Many of our leftist friends are still stuck in the days of Woodstock and Jim Crow, while the right still believes Ronald Reagan is president and communists are everywhere. Unfortunately with conservatives, they still see Russia as the “evil empire” and everyone who doesn't love America as they do is a communist.
I love America, but I hate Nashville and country music. I think BB King and Muddy Waters are just as American as Hank Williams. I resent thinking the only way to be patriotic is to wear cowboy boots, carry a revolver and drape yourself in the American flag.
In my opinion, conservatism is a prehistoric ideology
where people listen to AM radio and Rush Limbaugh, calling in about how they are losing their country. Unfortunately, some things are not coming back. I once owned over 100 reel-to-reel movies. Then VCRs and DVDs came, and all are now obsolete. I wish we could go back to the boom boxes and eight tracks, but they’re not coming back. It’s time to move on.
Conservatism is so backward that many self-proclaimed patriots still watch Fox News and believe it is the network of conservatism. Many right-wingers are so stuck on Fox News they fail to realize that conservatives have become the Never Trump, Pro-Ukraine channel for Neo-Cons, warmongers and defense contractors.
Fox News claims to be the voice of conservatives. They try to portray their political narrative as what a true patriot is. Our views on patriotism are clearly different. I feel sorry for anyone that watches that garbage and thinks they are getting a patriot outlook.
I don't know which group is worse, the conservative that assumes anyone that doesn't share their worldview is a communist. Or the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” crowd that thinks everyone that disagrees with them is a racist.
Democrats love parroting how Trump was a failed businessman and talking about his taxes as if they ever ran a business, hired anyone or managed a payroll. They always love to talk about taxes when I doubt any Trump-
for us to get out of that hole to be successful. We have a lack of knowledge on finances.
I tell people all the time, just because you see a person is outside and they’re homeless, that doesn’t mean you’re not homeless also. If you’re living paycheck to paycheck and you don’t understand certain things, we are all close to being homeless.
Each and every day, everybody should learn something. This is an important life skill, one of the main things you are supposed to have, to be able to teach your kids and family members and employees how to do the same.
Maurice Spears is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media
hating leftist ever paid taxes or held a job for that matter. It's comical they talk about Trump being a failed businessman when they couldn't run a lemonade stand or even sell a copy of Street Sense.
Most Trump haters have no original thoughts; they just recite, repeat and mimic. If their prescribed talking points don’t come from CNN or Morning Joe then they're spreading conspiracy theories. But you can't tell leftists anything because they spend so much time trying to reframe history rather than reading a history book.
Today's Democrats claim to be for the people but do the bidding for people like Amazon and big Pharma. Donald Trump behaves more like a Democrat than these vaccinated shills who wear masks doing the bidding for Jeff Bezos and big tech.
In the end, many people have become stuck while oblivious to the fact that the people they pledge allegiance to are robbing them blind.
Jeffery McNeil is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media
Clean up the streets by recycling. Don’t throw it down where you stand. Don’t be greedy and overload the cargo ships. It leads to spills. And the water is having trouble filtering out the oil and our trash. For all who live by the waters, walk around and see if there are any hooks, lines and sinkers laying around. Take some newspapers with you and pick up and wrap up these items and put them in the bins. The living, feeling creatures will thank you for your efforts in keeping them safe from harm.
The trees are crying out “Don’t cut me! Let me grow. I help you breathe. Help me to live so I can create oxygen for you!”
In the neighborhood, watch how you dispose of your light bulbs, laundry detergents, gasoline and chemicals that you clean your house and cars with. Also, what you use to spray your garden with and what you use to grow your garden. Because the life of living creatures matters and deserve to live pleasant on this earth too.
REDBOOK MANGO Artist/Vendor
It’s time to learn the real meaning behind the term germs, kills worms especially when they spike a perm, trying to destroy their sperm, while the climate may be warm. Take notes, while I warn the young and old. Scorns in the city where I was born, to insulate your body with new winter thermals, your college’s protest promos, your essay was a no-go.
What are you teaching us, Mango?
Your normal body temperature is 98.6 on a regular basis.
You are healthy when you experience homeostasis, your equilibrium stays in place, kid.
Now, when you go swimming, don’t forget the chlorine in there is a special temperature for your perm, so your hair stays wavy, regardless of the norm. These homonyms we recite may cause your overbite to stutter, because the words you utter slip out like Parkay Butter.
Go call your mother on the thermophone knowing you cheated with the encyclopedia she made you study on — when you established manic behaviors, that was normal, son.
Your life has been unquestionable to the eye, why panic about life? You’re the only one who has experienced Thermanesthesia of DYE.
The reason I wrote the terminology of their thermology with a background in sociology is to enlighten you with more homeopathy. Now, who is my prodigy?
Lord have mercy on me.
No one received the thermograph of their email, because your thermocode has caused a computer Covid virus. No one believes you shut D.C. down already, 9/11, Bin Laden, Desert Storm, mumps and measles, TMI. Must I go on?
You’re the reason I can’t move on. All lives matter.
God dong — I am trying to stop cussin’, you forget the goals I was working on. So long.
Artist/Vendor
Watching the television brought forth an avalanche of cinematic ideas as the camera crew expressed themselves through the art attached to their skills. The world is their canvas and their camera is the paint. Once uploaded, the computer becomes their brush. Using various and well-planned strokes to fine-tune details such as b-roll, time-lapse, lighting and angles. Letting the world see through their eyes, hear through their ears, smell through their nose and feel through their hands and heart.
Many years back home, I was struggling to move down to the city; I believe in my Africanicity.
When I decided to fly away, I really did mean away. Every day, all the way, I believe I’ll do it anyway.
Love rose up to turn my light up, my love will fly down, until I meet her downtown.
Say it louder, love is laughter.
My name is Daniel Ball, and I have been here at Street Sense for about 11 years. Here at Street Sense you can meet nice people like Thomas and Maria. My girlfriend is named Sybil Taylor. She has been here for at least 10 years, and she said she likes the class called “Writer’s Group” on Wednesdays. So, you should come to Street Sense and join our team!
1. Ala ____
6. Phone keypad letters by 0
10. Mama’s partner
14. Popular analgesic
15. Tailless cat
16. One who bears false witness against another
17. They’re typically not beauty pageant types (2 wds.) (5,5)
19. Top-of-the-line (1-3)
20. Times Sq. squad (abbr./acron.)
21. Popular game with reverse cards
22. Not burning yet, as a candle
23. Two-word phrase related to “comeuppance” and “karma” (6,7)
27. Lagoon surrounder
29. Aspirations
30. Polynesian paste treat
31. Word of gratitude on the Garden Isle
34. Word before “pain” or “pump”
37. “At ____ Quentin” (Johnny Cash’s 2nd recorded live album)
38. Mononymous Australian singer known for writing and singing hits while shunning publicity
39. Like Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (2 wds.) (2,1)
41. Fall mo. (abbr.)
42. D.C. summer setting (abbr./acron.)
43. Auditory deficit of one who “can’t carry a tune,” informally (2 wds.) (3,3)
45. Neighbor of Wash. (abbr.)
46. English philosopher John most closely associated with the so-called “social contract theory”
48. West Wing workers
50. Leap of faith that involves a ripcord (2 wds.) (9,4)
55. Modify
56. Full house sign (initialism)
57. Lion’s share
SOLUTION: An Anatomically Correct Exercise ____ Issue L 1 E 2 D 3 T 4 V 5 6 S 7 U 8 P 9 H 10 A 11 12 M 13 O 14 B E S E N 15 A S A O 16 G R E B 17 A C K G A 18 M M O N T 19 A U T O 20 N A A 21 N A S 22 M L E F 23 U 24 N N Y R 25 O 26 U 27 T N E S T 28 S A T 29 U N C A 30 C 31 A 32 B 33 E T T E C 34 F 35 O 36 J 37 A W L 38 N 39 E D 40 O G W 41 O O D A 42 B E T 43 E A M 44 O A 45 D O S A 46 S A N A 47 O 48 S W 49 I 50 S 51 H U P O N A 52 S T A R 53 A 54 N T I S N 55 T H A 56 C 57 E 58 S 59 T E S B 60 O 61 N 62 E H E A 63 D E D T 64 E T E O 65 K R A R 66 A N Y E 67 R S E T 68 S A R S 69 H O T S
60. It’s not “all that glitters...”
61. Fruit-based beverage thought to have laxative properties (2 wds.) (5,5)
64. New York’s ___ Canal
65. Actress Ryan who played Seven of Nine on “Star Trek: Voyager”
66. Invalidate, as a marriage
67. In-basket stamp (abbr.)
68. Apt word found in a C.U.’s assurance that it’s “good as a federally insured bank”
69. “Ya grok?” (2 wds.) (3,2)
Down
1. Crunch in the cereal aisle (elision)
2. Comrade in arms
3. Name to a position of responsibility again (PIE PATRON anagram)
4. Kirk Cameron or Neil Patrick Harris, once (2 wds.) (2,4) (incls. abbr.)
5. Velvet finish?
6. Muscat native
7. Sweet Mexican treat resembling peanut brittle
8. Austin to Boston compass dir. (abbr.)
9. Pharmacy pickups, briefly (abbr./acron.)
10. Milkweeds or moles
11. Garlicky mayonnaise
12. Lose your cool in a crisis
13. Knife edge-like mountain crest (EATER anagram)
18. Project (out)
22. Take advantage of (in two possible senses)
24. “Desire Under the ____” (well-known Eugene O’Neill play)
25. Actress, filmmaker and UN Special Envoy for Refugees Angelina
26. “When You Wish ____ Star” (Disney Company theme song (2 wds.) (4,1)
27. Religious setback?
28. Warty hopper
32. Letter after gee
33. Japanese verse with a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern
34. Part of a fine pen, or what a persuasive writer may make with it (2 wds.) (4,5)
35. Land measure
36. Fr. holy women (abbr.)
40. Munich Mrs.
44. Browse the web (2wds.) (3,4) (TEN FURS anagram)
46. Alit (upon)
47. Med. cond. with repetitive behavior, briefly (abbr./acron.)
49. “A belly laugh increases the ability of your ____ system to fight infections” - Eliz. Taylor
50. “Your table’s ready!” gizmo
51. “...like a big pizza pie, that’s ____” (lyric from Dean Martin classic)
52. Archeologist’s find
53. Bert’s Muppet buddy
54. Average ____ (mbr. of counterpart grp. to 17-Across)
58. ____ of the earth (nogoodniks)
59. Prefix with graph or phone
61. Bedwear, briefly...or a hint to the answers to 17-, 23-, 50- and 61-Across (abbr./acron.)
62. Stephen of “Michael Collins” and “The Crying Game”
63. Boozer’s binge
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Bread for the City - 1525 7th St., NW // 202-265-2400 - 1640 Good Hope Rd., SE // 202-561-8587 breadforthecity.org
Calvary Women’s Services // 202-678-2341 1217 Good Hope Rd., SE calvaryservices.org
Catholic Charities // 202-772-4300 catholiccharitiesdc.org/gethelp
Central Union Mission // 202-745-7118 65 Massachusetts Ave., NW missiondc.org
Charlie’s Place // 202-232-3066 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW charliesplacedc.org
Christ House // 202-328-1100 1717 Columbia Rd., NW christhouse.org
Church of the Pilgrims // 202-387-6612 2201 P St., NW food (1-1:30 on Sundays only) churchofthepilgrims.org/outreach
Community Family Life Services 202-347-0511 // 305 E St., NW cflsdc.org
Community of Hope // 202-232-7356 communityofhopedc.org
Covenant House Washington 202-610-9600 // 2001 Mississippi Ave., SE covenanthousedc.org
D.C. Coalition for the Homeless 202-347-8870 // 1234 Massachusetts Ave., NW dccfh.org
Father McKenna Center // 202-842-1112 19 Eye St., NW fathermckennacenter.org
Food and Friends // 202-269-2277 (home delivery for those suffering from HIV, cancer, etc)
219 Riggs Rd., NE foodandfriends.org
Foundry Methodist Church // 202-332-4010 1500 16th St., NW ID (Friday 9am–12pm only) foundryumc.org/ministry-opportunities
Friendship Place // 202-364-1419 4713 Wisconsin Ave., NW friendshipplace.org
Georgetown Ministry Center // 202-338-8301 1041 Wisconsin Ave., NW georgetownministrycenter.org
Jobs Have Priority // 202-544-9128 425 2nd St., NW jobshavepriority.org
Loaves & Fishes // 202-232-0900 1525 Newton St., NW loavesandfishesdc.org
Martha’s Table // 202-328-6608 marthastable.org 2375 Elvans Road SE
2204 Martin Luther King Ave. SE
Miriam’s Kitchen // 202-452-8926 2401 Virginia Ave., NW miriamskitchen.org
My Sister’s Place // 202-529-5991 (24-hr hotline) mysistersplacedc.org
N Street Village // 202-939-2060 1333 N St., NW nstreetvillage.org
New York Avenue Shelter // 202-832-2359 1355-57 New York Ave., NE
Patricia Handy Place for Women 202-733-5378 // 810 5th St., NW
Samaritan Inns // 202-667-8831 2523 14th St., NW samaritaninns.org
Samaritan Ministry
202-722-2280 // 1516 Hamilton St., NW 202-889-7702 // 1345 U St., SE samaritanministry.org
Sasha Bruce Youthwork // 202-675-9340 741 8th St., SE sashabruce.org
So Others Might Eat (SOME) // 202-797-8806 71 O St., NW some.org
St. Luke’s Mission Center // 202-333-4949 3655 Calvert St., NW stlukesmissioncenter.org
Thrive DC // 202-737-9311 1525 Newton St., NW thrivedc.org
Unity Health Care 3020 14th St., NW // unityhealthcare.org
- Healthcare for the Homeless Health Center: 202-508-0500
- Community Health Centers: 202-469-4699
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Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 1200 U St., NW // 202-328-5500 legalclinic.org
The Welcome Table // 202-347-2635 1317 G St., NW. epiphanydc.org/thewelcometable
Whitman-Walker Health 1701 14th St., NW // 202-745-7000 2301 MLK Jr. Ave., SE // 202-797-3567 whitman-walker.org
Food Runner
Levy Sector // 1500 S Capitol St SE
Part-time
Interact with and deliver food to customers. Keep stations and equipment clean.
REQUIRED: N/A
APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/levy-runner
Retail Merchandise Associate
TJ Maxx // 601 13th St NW
Full-time / Part-time
Operate cashier and process purchases and returns, prepare mechandise for display, keep sales floor clean.
REQUIRED: N/A
APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/tjmaxx-merch
Dishwasher
Wegmans // 41 Ridge Sq. NW
Part-time
Wash dishes and prep food, assist with receiving products and rotating stock. Ensure kitchen and equipment are clean.
REQUIRED: N/A
APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/wegmans-dish
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