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Maryland Vaccine Hunters take control of appointment search 03/03/2021 01:49pm • Frustrated with the slow rollout, many residents are turning to a Facebook group for help in hunting down COVID-19 vaccine appointments. The Maryland Vaccine Hunters group has existed for just over a month but boasts, at publishing, nearly 55,000 members. Nancy Knuth, 75, lives in Parkton with Prince William supervisors approve advertising tax rate that would hike bills 03/03/2021 01:42pm • 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. Prince William County supervisors voted to advertise a potential 7% increase in real estate tax bills for county homeowners. The B Bill letting schools offer telehealth advances 03/03/2021 01:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An emergency measure, already approved in the Senate, to allow each of Maryland’s 86 school-based health centers to offer telehealth was Beltway Basketball Beat: Conference tournaments begin — and Girl Scout cookie rankings are in, too! 03/03/2021 01:22pm • The calendar flips long before the ball is tipped. And the final songs are sung for most of the Division I men's college basketball teams before CBS even starts to edit highlights onto the vocal track of the late Luther Vandross. When a victory exudes joy or most likely relief and a defeat brings CDC issues St. Patrick's Day warning amid pandemic 03/03/2021 12:50pm • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with a warning about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this month. The agency advises against gathering with a crowd of friends for green beer and good times. The CDC said gatherings to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day increase the risk of gett 2 Black activists on what changed in 2020 — and what didn't 03/03/2021 12:04pm • Last year saw the kind of attention, discussion and consciousness regarding race in America, and the D.C. area, that doesn’t come along very often. But how much momentum was there toward real change? And what can people do to maintain it? Two leaders in the D.C. Black community spoke with WT Virus prompts Naval Academy to move more midshipmen to hotel 03/03/2021 08:27am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A second wave of nearly 100 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy is going to move to a hotel because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the school. The Capital Gazette reported Tuesday that nearly 200 students are now being housed at the Graduate Hotel and the Hilton Garden Inn. Th Md. lawmakers to debate all-virtual school option; MCPS considers next academic calendar 03/03/2021 06:58am • While there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding education during the coronavirus pandemic, state and local leaders are planning for the future. One idea before the Maryland General Assembly would give students the option to enroll in full-time, virtual public school. It would allow the s Nearly 200 midshipmen moved to hotels as Naval Academy tries to curb COVID-19 spread 03/03/2021 05:45am • Nearly 200 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are now being housed in hotels as the academy tries to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 within the brigade at the academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The academy moved an additional 98 midshipmen to the Graduate Hotel on West Street in downtown Annapolis Tuesda Pepco says 'millions' in funding still available to help pay energy bills 03/03/2021 12:12am • Pepco is urging customers in need of financial assistance to apply for a wide array of programs it says has millions of dollars of funding still available, one year into the coronavirus pandemic. The utility company said it remains committed to helping District and Maryland customers who are str 5 Student Loan Traps for Nontraditional Students to Avoid 03/03/2021 12:00am • As the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues, people with unexpected changes in income might look to higher education to set themselves up for a successful career transition. Technical training and other educational programs are attractive to nontraditional students as a way to How Keeping Schools Open Helped French Women Return to the Workplace 03/03/2021 12:00am • PARIS -- After France emerged from eight long weeks in COVID-19 lockdown last May, with all "non-essential" shops closed and residents required to fill out travel certificates to leave home, it's hard to imagine that a second round of confinement could be more palatable. But the lockdown that began New report offers framework to address COVID-19 vaccine racial equity in DC 03/02/2021 07:32pm • The D.C. Council's Office of Racial Equity issued a report tackling the challenges that Black and brown communities are encountering as they try to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The report also provides a series of new suggestions to improve access, distribution and address policy barriers. The offi Doctors find way to treat lingering headaches in post-COVID patients 03/02/2021 05:50pm • Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 have reported getting headaches that can persist for months, but new findings are leading to COVID-19 specific treatments. According to a neurologist specializing in headache pain, "We have a treatment that not only controls the headache pain, but in a Baseball to return to Nationals Park — but without fans, for now 03/02/2021 04:46pm • Baseball fans that have eagerly waited to catch a Washington Nationals home game will likely have to wait a little longer. The D.C. government has approved the Nationals to play home games in their park this season, but there will be no fans in the stands because of the on going pandemic. In a