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Education reform plan among three dozen bills vetoed by Hogan 05/07/2020 10:44pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. is seen. (Courtesy Maryland Matters/Danielle E. Gaines) With a trio of unusual veto letters, Gov. Lawrence J. Home schooling your kids? Add personal finance to the curriculum 05/07/2020 12:33pm • Lots of parents are home schooling their kids during the coronavirus pandemic. And experts say adding personal finance to the curriculum is a great idea. They have some suggestions on how to get going, too: Have your kids start a business. For instance, help them make jewelry or slime and then, t Billion-dollar Md. education reform faces another hurdle — the pandemic 05/06/2020 11:12pm • Maryland's ambitious $4 billion per year education bill that passed the General Assembly early this year has another hurdle to overcome: the coronavirus public health emergency. As first reported by The Washington Post, Gov. Larry Hogan has until Thursday to decide whether to veto The Blueprint f Coronavirus update: DC tourism revenue nose-dives amid pandemic 05/06/2020 08:30pm • A man crosses a quiet street in Washington, Monday, April 13, 2020. D.C. is under a stay-home order for all residents in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Tourism revenue and visitor spending in the District has nose-dived since the coronavirus cris Fairfax Co. moves forward with budget altered by the pandemic; Alexandria OKs smaller budget 05/06/2020 05:10am • In Virginia, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is now one step away from approving a budget that has been drastically altered by the coronavirus pandemic. But, it is a budget that maintains the current property tax rate. During a meeting Tuesday, the board signed off on changes made to the Virginia town announces layoffs amid coronavirus outbreak 05/05/2020 03:11am • ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia town says it is laying off full-time and part-time workers because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The town of Abingdon announced in a statement that the town manager reduced spending in response to revenue projections that suggested losses from taxes on sales, meals a Why 'Ozark' is the best show on Netflix 05/05/2020 12:50am • Laura Linney and Jason Bateman appear in Netflix's binge-worthy crime drama series "Ozark." (Steve Deitl/Netflix) "Tiger King" may have provided the trashy shock value of a true-crime documentary, but the one scripted TV series that's gotten us all through quarantine is Season 3 of "Ozark." Wait for it: Hamilton's return to Kennedy Center postponed amid pandemic 05/04/2020 02:44pm • WTOP's Jason Fraley holds his "Hamilton" playbill awaiting the show at the Kennedy Center in 2018. (WTOP/Jason Fraley) The return of the popular musical "Hamilton" to the Kennedy Center this summer has been postponed. The Kennedy Center and the musical’s producers have pulled the entire 14- Arlington’s $1.3B budget reflects the coronavirus impact 05/01/2020 04:10am • Arlington County, Virginia is expected to lose $56 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Getty Images) The Arlington County board approved a $1.3 billion fiscal 2021 budget that maintains its current level of services, but reveals an estimated loss of $56 million in revenue from m DC Mayor Bowser: New hospitals part of an emphasis on equity 04/30/2020 03:06pm • Saying that the COVID-19 health crisis is "laying bare the inequities in our system," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser provided more details Thursday about two new hospitals and several other medical centers that will open in the coming years and said they will "transform our health care system by promoting Seeking health care equity, DC will build 2 new hospitals 04/29/2020 11:45pm • D.C. announced two new hospitals will be built in the city that would address issues of health care equity among its residents. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the hospitals will be in Wards 1 and 8. “While D.C. continues to battle this pandemic, our team has remained committed to delivering hope a Virginians stuck at home are fed up with noise from Amazon headquarters project 04/29/2020 04:32am • The coronavirus pandemic has shut down American life as we know it, but construction remains underway on Amazon's second headquarters in Northern Virginia and is producing noise that's frustrating many homebound residents nearby. The Seattle-based online retail giant is building twin 22-story bui DC town hall on business recovery focuses on equity 04/28/2020 07:17pm • At a telephone town hall Tuesday afternoon, a group of D.C. leaders spoke on plans to aid businesses and workers during the COVID-19 public health crisis, and to help them rebuild afterward — with an emphasis on equity. Ashley Emerson, the executive director of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office of Getting unemployment benefits? What the fed, DC and Maryland will want back 04/28/2020 09:42am • Unemployment benefits are taxed, although how much depends on where you live. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File) The $1,200 federal stimulus checks many Americans are getting are not subject to income tax, but unemployment benefits are. Depending on where the recipient lives, he could be subject to Considering a divorce? Closed courthouses don't have to stop you 04/27/2020 06:55pm • Courts are closed in the D.C. area during the coronavirus pandemic, but people planning to dissolve marriages don't necessarily have to put those plans on hold. "What we're seeing is an uptick in mediation, which is really a great thing to consider," said Dianne Nolin, managing partner of Argent