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How the pandemic is contributing to your insomnia 10/27/2020 06:28am • Sleeping during the Covid-19 pandemic has become a nightmare for Aparna Aswani. Between cooling off from the stress of the workday and managing her anxiety from reading about the pandemic and politics, she's lucky to turn in before midnight. Once the 44-year-old marketing executive falls asl Poll shows deep partisan divide in Virginia early voting 10/27/2020 05:04am • Virginians have been able to vote early since mid-September, but a new poll suggests that the partisan divide has been significant when it comes to when state residents are choosing to cast their ballots. Sixty-nine percent of Virginian early voters queried in a recent Washington Post-Schar Schoo Coronavirus pandemic transforms holiday etiquette 10/27/2020 04:00am • Paper cups instead of your finest china? Elbow bumps instead of bear-hugs for your relatives? Or no relatives at all? The coronavirus pandemic is set to transform holiday gatherings as we know them, along with traditional rules of etiquette. That’s forcing many people to figure out the new p GALA Hispanic Theatre returns from pandemic with newly-renovated space 10/27/2020 12:19am • GALA Hispanic Theatre has constructed a set encased in plexiglass, which both protects audiences during the pandemic and doubles as a symbolic representation of the characters' emotional state. (Courtesy GALA Hispanic Theatre) It's one of the only Hispanic theaters in the entire region with Maryland teachers want more protections before returning to fully opened schools 10/26/2020 10:44pm • Teachers say they want to be back in school with their students, but a survey of members of Maryland's teachers union revealed 77% of those asked don't believe schools can be reopened safely in the next few months. According to a survey of 2,317 members of the Maryland State Education Association Fairfax County teachers union opposes new concurrent method for instruction 10/26/2020 10:20pm • A union representing teachers in Virginia's largest school system believes instructors and parents have been ambushed by a dual announcement from the Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent, demanding a decision about returning to classrooms that will begin deploying a new form of instruction. 25% of recent Alexandria COVID-19 cases possibly tied to workplace 10/26/2020 08:37pm • As the long-predicted fall surge of COVID-19 accelerates nationwide, the City of Alexandria in Virginia is detailing how over 400 of its recent cases possibly originated. The city's Health Department interviewed 422 infected residents from Sept. 21 to Oct. 19 and found that one-fourth of them had Staff member at Loudoun County school tests positive for coronavirus 10/26/2020 08:34pm • A staff member at a Loudoun County, Virginia, elementary school has tested positive for the coronavirus. The staff member was last at Steuart W. Weller Elementary School on Oct. 7, and the person is currently self-isolating, Superintendent Eric Williams said in a letter to the school community. Maryland urges residents to shop local for the holiday season 10/26/2020 07:19pm • Many Maryland retailers and restaurants have suffered significant economic loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And there's a simple way residents can give these small businesses a hand up this holiday season: Shop locally. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said people can support their communiti Maryland schools get green light for earlier start to winter sports 10/26/2020 04:37pm • The Maryland State Board of Education has given the green light to a plan that would move up the start of the winter sports season by nearly two months, the latest in a series of changes to the school sports calendar in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The move came as state education offici What to know about early voting in DC, holidays during pandemic 10/26/2020 02:21pm • Early voting in the District kicks off Tuesday, and D.C. offered guidance for those headed to the polls during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We want people to know that they should be wearing a mask when they go, and that they should have a plan," D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt said at a Monday American U. details plans to add more in-person instruction in spring semester 10/26/2020 12:21pm • American University said Monday that they will offer more in-person classes and other activities for the spring 2021 semester, along with other changes. Most classes will still be online, the university said in a statement, but the number of in-person classes will be double that of the fall semes Buying too much online? Reston firm says impulse buying never higher 10/26/2020 10:04am • Digital commerce has seen a major upswing during the pandemic. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/CarmenMurillo) Online shopping is nothing new, but the pandemic has ignited significant growth in e-commerce in the U.S. and it has changed consumer behavior. Reston, Virginia-based digital tracking and a At federal agencies, remote work may be here to stay 10/26/2020 08:56am • More than 280,000 people in the D.C. area work directly for the federal government, and like many other area professionals, where they are working has now changed. Most government agencies have shifted a good share of their workforces to remote work, and a new survey suggests that may be here to sta 'Rent erosion' hits DC’s apartment market 10/26/2020 08:52am • D.C. ranks seventh highest among big cities for rent — averaging just over $2,100 a month across all apartment sizes in September, according to Zillow. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/amedved) Apartment rents in the D.C. area remain some of the highest in the nation — but they're slowly coming dow