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All eyes on affordable housing: Chamber forum hits on education, regional accessibility 09/01/2022 01:24pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Northern Virginia leaders want to make strides in affordable housing across the region. Housing w Montgomery Co. providing rental relief for retail businesses 09/01/2022 05:09am • Retail business owners in Montgomery County, Maryland, who are still financially struggling because of the pandemic, can receive extra help when paying rent. A new $2 million Small Business Rental Assistance grant program will provide business owners up to $10,000 or three months of rent based on Montgomery Co. requests 1,000 bivalent COVID-19 vaccines 08/31/2022 08:29pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich is hoping that the availability of the latest versions of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will encourage residents to get their boosters against the coronavirus. Since the Food and Drug Administration announced it has authorized the use of the bi Costs to Weigh Before Going Back to College as an Adult 08/30/2022 08:00pm • Completing a college degree is not an easy feat. It is especially challenging for adult learners, who often juggle family and work responsibilities on top of taking classes. While there's a "whole social apparatus" set up for students attending college straight out of high school -- including colleg Data: Most DC-area kids have already gotten COVID 08/30/2022 03:31pm • Kids are back in school this week, and while COVID-19 might still be on parents' minds, chances are their children already got it sometime over the past two years. New data from a CDC study show the vast majority of children -- just shy of 80% -- contracted the virus at some time over the past two Doctors, schools worry about the number of kids behind on immunizations 08/30/2022 10:51am • The COVID-19 pandemic has had many effects on children's health, and one of them is a lag in checkups and immunizations. Many parents put off routine checkups for their kids, choosing to avoid doctors' offices for anything except urgent and acute matters. Now those parents are being urged to get Prince George's County schools to end mask mandate next week 08/29/2022 08:05pm • Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland will end its indoor mask mandate next week, CEO Monica Goldson said in a note to the school community. In a newsletter highlighting moments from the first day of school across the county, Maryland's second-largest school system said it plans to im Will You Get a Bonus Tax Refund From the IRS? 08/29/2022 08:00pm • When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, it upended tax season for filers and tax professionals alike. To offset the often unavoidable errors, delays and missed deadlines many taxpayers have experienced in recent years, the Internal Revenue Service announced last week it would refund more than $1. Additional security measures, new curriculum resources coming to Arlington schools 08/29/2022 03:57am • Additional security measures, new curriculum resources and a division-wide dress code are among the changes students in Arlington, Virginia, will see when they return to class Monday. Superintendent Francisco Duran said the school system invested over $5 million in its last budget for projects su Layoffs, losses, plunging share prices: These pandemic winners are now struggling 08/28/2022 12:20pm • Few companies flourished more amid the pandemic's economic upheaval than Peloton. With people unable (or unwilling) to go to the gym, consumers rushed to buy its exercise equipment and, more importantly, sign up for its online classes. Peloton posted its first quarterly profits in calendar year 2 'This will change everything for me': Americans react to Biden's plan to forgive up to $20k in student loan debt 08/27/2022 04:04am • Americans across the country are sharing their mixed reactions to President Joe Biden's decision to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for millions of borrowers. Biden announced Wednesday that borrowers who hold loans with the Department of Education and make less than $125,000 annually a DC public schools push back student immunization deadlines 08/26/2022 04:20pm • D.C. public schools are pushing back enforcement deadlines for students who fail to receive their required vaccinations, including against COVID-19. According to the new attendance guidelines issued Friday, students age 12 or older will have until Jan. 3, 2023, to have received all the needed dos Judge strikes down COVID-19 vaccine mandate for DC employees 08/26/2022 10:35am • City government workers in the District can no longer be punished for choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a D.C. Superior Court judge who effectively threw out the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that applied to all D.C. employees. Judge Maurice Ross ruled Thursday that D.C. Mayor Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement involving COVID-19 vaccines 08/26/2022 09:10am • Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech "for infringing patents central to (its) mRNA technology platform," the company said in a news release Friday. "Moderna believes that Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 covering Moderna's foundat Voting rights of Howard Co. Board of Education's student member upheld by Md.'s highest court 08/25/2022 09:54am • An appeal to a lawsuit trying to limit the vote of the student member on the Howard County Board of Education has failed before Maryland's Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. On Wednesday, the court upheld the school board did not violate Maryland's state constitution by granting voting ri