Keep away from the fly-by-night crews, those tax "experts" that pop up online and along strip malls. They've got COVID-19 fever, too, and can't wait to get their hands on your Social Security number, bank account info, date of birth and other personal info.
2020, it seems, is the year of upsetting apple carts, by any means necessary, which is why it's time to take a leap. Redirect that energy, soothe the soul. Get in the kitchen, boil a pot of potatoes, peel them, add milk and butter, and whip away for you and your family. If that sounds too simple that's because it is, and that's why mashed potatoes is considered a "comfort food."
Money doesn't grow on trees, as most average Americans have learned during the era of COVID-19. And it doesn't matter whether the tree is growing in Brooklyn, burning in California or standing tall in a cul-de-sac in suburban Virginia or Maryland.
Teaching and learning are so inseparable that the men who crafted and wrote the Constitution dared not mention either. Hence, public education and schooling are not in America's founding document.
While such facts of life could challenge normal everyday living, COVID-19 and government shutdowns created a new "unnormal" by shuttering school buildings and child care services, and mandating virtual schooling.
The Republican nominees, Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and their Democratic counterparts, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, are preparing for their upcoming debates. So, as a note, in case you're looking for candor and civility, look to Mr. Pence, who likely will be the lone grownup at the debate podiums. Even on such gnawing issues as D.C. statehood and congressional voting rights.
Chinese corporations are legally obligated to serve the purposes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has used every collection method and form of technology at its disposal to collect or even steal government, corporate, and private data. The latest technological opportunity is small drones.
You would think that when a toddler, a Black toddler, is shot an all-hands-on-deck situation would grab the media's attention and the protesters' attention. But, no. They'd rather continue to go ape crazy over police tactics for enforcing the law.
Give Mayor Muriel Bowser big credit: She's underscoring the crucial importance of voting in the republic. Other city and state leaders should take a page from her Election 2020 handbook. Miss Bowser wants voters where they should be on Nov. 3. At the polls.
Congress is back to ponder another stimulus package, Sen. Kamala D. Harris is dialing up the coronavirus fear factor and nobody dares to ask tough questions, let alone questions that require little more than a yes-or-no answer.
There's one issue where it's unlikely that President Trump, Vice President Pence or any of the others who fill our screens in the coming days will be able to relay their insightful commentary -- and that issue is crime.
Sen. Rand Paul gets it. He understands that when it comes to the health, education and welfare of children, few things are more important to a family. Enter the SCHOOL Act, legislation Mr. Paul introduced in early August that encourages parents to opt their kids out of public schools and hands them the money to pay for tutoring, nonpublic schooling and education items, among other things.
As one of 503,000-plus registered D.C. voters, I crossed my fingers that surely city officials would get the mailers for absentee voting right.
Explain, please, why during the COVID-19 pandemic we can order in or hang out for cocktails or cold brews before, during or after happy hour, but can't go to the polls to vote?
If you're keeping even the mildest interest in disruptions these days, weeks and months since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, then you probably know that the Get Your Knee Off Our Necks Rally is scheduled for Aug. 28, the 57th anniversary of the peacefully successful March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Has the possibility that, come election night on Nov. 3, the results might not be immediate?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many U.S. vulnerabilities, from dependence on China for health and medical raw material to such major industries as movies, clothing and household items.
For decades, the playbook for K-12 public education has been titled "One Size Fits All," with academics and elected politicians on the East and West coasts and in the blue states in the Midwest making the calls to uphold the status quo. My, my how things are changing. Consider the COVID-19 pandemic as the game-changer.
According to the survey of 1,000-plus, self-identified American sports fans, about 66% feel it important for live sports to return before September.
Who would've thunk that it would be easier to pick a new name for owner Dan Snyder's beloved Washington Redskins than for parents and caretakers in the nation's capital to know when the first day of school for the 2020-21 academic year would be?
