Lizzie Johnson in her book PARADISE (via NPR)

Starting today! DC workers are eligible for a lot more paid family & medical leave! Last year, Elissa Silverman required a reevaluation of the program’s finances. The result? Payroll tax for businesses is cut by more than half and workers can get 12 weeks of leave.

Come to the Rock Creek Gala on 10/15 if you can! You can also boost my neighborhood challenge to Mount Pleasant to outraise other neighborhoods by clicking below.

An extraordinary member from my old home district. ✊

"Please help spread the word about this survey for Carter Barron planning." popville.com/2022/10/rock-c…

Things you don’t see til you open a newspaper on Saturday.

Budget: $185 million Mayor Muriel Bowser

Jana Elementary is not the only affected! Testing needs to be done across the region and it should not stop because North County is literally CONTAMINATED..

It was not dumped directly in the creek, it was dumped at Lambert and runoff from rain leaked into the creek. They even noticed the problem and decided to get rid of the radioactive dirt and spread it ALL over the North Country area as the suburbs were building built

Hellooo lucky someone....

Today, Rock Creek Park announced their final decision to permanently open Upper Beach Drive for recreation. We celebrate this historic decision! Learn more: rockcreekconservancy.org/beach-drive

A bit emo. … this story as a story was hard to let go in reporting. The botanist at its heart is very inspiring, the new design is so intelligent, and our good friend Sahar shot it this spring.

The departure of Twitter's Chiefs of Privacy and Infosec, along with Elon's offer to grant full firehose access to investors holding more than $250Million, is a recipe for abuse by nation states eager to exploit Twitter's user data to arrest or kill dissidents. #StopToxicTwitter

It only looks as if the moon and the salesforce tower are in love.